Bill Gates Forecasts Victory Over Spam

nfk writes "BBC reports from the World Economic Forum at Davos, where Bill Gates said spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time, thanks to a three-pronged approach to the problem: filters, expensive computation for e-mail and the digital equivalent to stamps, paid if the receiver considers he is being spammed. He also expects to catch up with Google, although he praises the company and the IQ of its research team. Finally, he announces mind blowing developments for the next XBox generation and says that, in a decade from now, 'we will laugh at personal computing as we know it.' No need to wait, I do it every day." (We've mentioned Microsoft's sender's-option payment scheme before.)

Comments

Re:The headline could be "Bill Gates Cures Cancer"

[Unregistered]

Bill gates cures cancer by injecting patients with HIV. Since the program launched no patient has died of cancer.

Re:Typical Microsoft.

[rock_climbing_guy]

Seriously, what leaeds you to believe that easily nine out of ten spams you get come from infected Windows machines?

Re:Yeah, spam filters.

[Chess_the_cat]

Maybe I'm missing something, but what's stopping me from logging in with your UID and having /. mail your password to your Mailinator account where I could pick it up and lock you out?