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Gates on Spam

Posted by michael on from the on-crack,-more-likely dept.

pvt_medic writes "Microsoft is proposing a new system that would require people to pay to send e-mails. Postage would be in the form of allowing others to use your computer to make calculations, similar to the SETi@home project. There are other systems being suggested that would include monetary stamps and people could decide on accepting an e-mail based off the value of the stamp. (story has great picture of Bill Gates as well)" Gates' proposed system will be Microsoft patent-encumbered, unsurprisingly.

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  1. Confirmed. by MoxCamel · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    story has great picture of Bill Gates as well

    I always knew he was smoking something!

  2. MS's alternate spellings by Njovich · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Has anyone else noticed the alternate spellings Microsoft uses on their site for their name? So many ways to spell Mircosoft to choose from...

    (yes sorry, slightly off topic, but I just noted this after NTK gave a similar link about the Guardian)

  3. Whoa. Uggggly by GPLDAN · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gates was always an ugly man, but as he gets old, with that bowl haircut, he looks like Billy Bob Thornton's cousin in Sling Blade.

    I guess Melissa dreams of the pool boy and all those zeros in her bank account.