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A Visual History of Spam
Cristiano writes "Microsoft employee Raymond Chen has saved every spam message and virus-laden e-mail he's received at work since 1997 and graphed the spams and viruses to create a cool visual representation of one man's malicious traffic."
Star Wars 500 : Jabba Fired First (into Jar Jar's mouth)
Gotta keep your c0mp4ny in the news somehow, right?
And if people are rejecting your c0mp4ny's ideas, why not have some friendly happy warm and fuzzy story about someone in the c0mp4ny? Makes all the bad stories seem like they're not so bad.
When the positive M$ news REALLy starts to dry up, I'm sure we'll have a Gill Bates reality show, or "look what employee #71281928 is eating for dinner"
useless bullshit IMO.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio--Master Distiller Booker T. Noe was found dead in his Bardstown, KY home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him--even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to the Art of Distilling Bourbon. Truly an American icon.
Is he stuffing the spam into the windows build, thus causing win-bloat.
Bacardi + slashdot = negative karma.
How did he manage to keep track of this on a M$ box without catching a few of those viruses? I have found the easiest way to avoid viruses is to delete or disable explorer and outlook, but as a M$ employee they might frown upon that. The comment about the 1.4 meg html email is th ereason I dont read html email, he eh, text only baby, because your not 1337 if you cant send a sub 150 byte email (including headers).
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MS employees stay aboard that long? Wow...
67 messages a day?! I get that a minute. I saved all my spam since 1982 on tape backups and I have about 3 terabytes of spam!! Not only that but I hand plotted it to show the subject and size of spam received in relation to the date on a 3d graph!! What a wuss!
Is there an over/under on how many more posts like these are made and get modded up??? I'd like to get in on the action.
Well, let me try to be more concise (since being circumspect does not apply), but Micro$oft has taken what open source developers created from the Arpanet and turned it into a playground where every icon on a desktop looks like a treat without consequences.
That is exactly what they've contributed to without giving enough attention to encouraging people to be responsible with the tools they use to communicate in an open environment where virtually everyone on the planet can review firsthand the behavior of all others. I stand behind my 99% estimate. Care to offer something different?
Also, take a look at the definition of circumspect before using the term. My argument has no impact on others. It implicates no one but myself since I'm merely offering an opinion. M$ has created software and an environment where 95% of the world is forced to use one tool to do the job of communicating in the Internet medium. I'd argue the term applies much more accurately to the proliferation of their software due to the way they've manipulated the market to ensure it was the only tool in place for most people.
Incidentally, Slashdot is the rebuttal. What are you doing here? >:)
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