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Hurricanes Affecting Spammers?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the show-me-the-proof dept.

Ant writes "According to BusinessWeek Online's article, Lots of folks think the hurricane hits in Florida, the Sunshine (and Spam!) State have taken slowed the volume of spam." I've not noticed any decrease.

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  1. FP Bitch! by Xenix · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Whateva!

    --
    You can't destroy the Earth, that's where I keep all my stuff!
  2. mod 3ow8 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    bombshell hit Too mIany rules and irc.secsup.org or bben sitting here

  3. What about linux distributions?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Many distributions ship with software such as XMMS, mplayer and the gimp. Should Mandrake, SuSE, Debian and the like be fined for carrying this software? fwt

  4. DRM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I'm no Microsoft fan but I personally don't see any reason to stop Microsoft bundling WMP with Windows, purely from a player perspective.

    After all, lots of people seem to use it and if there are better (commercial or OSS) alternatives, then it's up to Windows users themselves to go find them and decide.

    However, this is good from a perspective of slowing down DRM. No matter what anyone says, DRM is creeping "in through the back door" and WMP is one of those "Trojan Horses" transporting DRM to the desktop. By the time Longhorn comes out, DRM'ed codecs will be the norm (if MS has their way) and we can say goodbye to MP3s on our portable players and PCs.

    I would hope the EU goes a stage further and makes MS publish clear disclaimers and warnings that on downloading WMP, you will be subject to DRM restrictions on all the media that you play with it.

    In the meantime, it's a good opportunity for makers of "free" (="non-DRM") players to get ready to push their software in the hope that this sanction goes through. cgj

  5. Cool!!!! Three day old news! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There should be a TOPIC/STORY negative modifier for old news, or news that is blatantly obvious. Or just have "FARK" tags. If this "story" about how hotmail was down ran on Fark, it would have the "obvious" tag. qbl

  6. for comparison purposes: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Pluto is 2300 km diameter, ranges from 4.3 to 7.4 billion km from the sun.

    http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/pluto/stati stics.html oe

  7. This is so obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm sorry, but it took scientists to figure out that it was caused by the flow of the beer from the bubbles rising in the center? I mean, I figured that out a long time ago just by looking. No 750 frame per second camera required. I don't even think I was sober when I figured it out. And this is news? Sorry, but I'm a bit disappointed. tkx