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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.)
Yeah, just like last time. Fat lot of good that did.
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
Why do we give attention to someone as obviously ignorant as Gates? It's embarressing. A quick scan of the more sensible comments here on /. makes it clear his grand vision for stopping spam has more implementation holes in it than Swiss cheese stored in a particle accelerator.