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New Spam-Scanning Technology Finds Spam

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the step-in-the-right-direction dept.

Anjonika writes "Eridani Star System claims they've got a new technology that'll allow them to find where the highest spam concentrations are on Earth." If the photos are any indication, they really are on the right track with this one.

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  1. For once... by PMJ2kx · · Score: 1

    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. FINALLY! Something that makes sense.

    1. Re:For once... by all+your+mwbassguy+a · · Score: 1

      no no no, this is all wrong. shouldnt there be a big dot over nigeria?

  2. Someone fix the goddamned cron! by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: 1

    it's */30 NOT */3

  3. Anybody moving with me... by nsasch · · Score: 1

    to Alaska?

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  4. Quite logical by AtariAmarok · · Score: 1

    In fact, the Vulcan philosophy applied to this planet becomes IDIC (infinite dicontin-adverts in infinite (a)'ccounts).

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  5. Highest amount of spam? by The+Spoony · · Score: 1

    Well, right now...

  6. Lights by bryan8m · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Looks awfully similar to that "Earth at Night" picture showing artificial human lights http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001127.html

    1. Re:Lights by sepluv · · Score: 2, Funny
      No. You don't say?

      Are you suggesting that this could be a common garden satellite image based on visible-spectrum photons as opposed to a genuine map of bogon emissions?

      I would have never have even considered such an outlandish possibility. CmdrTaco would never be fooled by such a thing or wish to fool us, as he upholds such high standards of journalism and fact-checking especially on April Fool's Day.

      OK, Kids. Own up! Who modded the parent `insightful'?

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    2. Re:Lights by sepluv · · Score: 1

      Also, while we are on this topic, please don't forget to do your bit to combat light pollution by making sure your lighting fixtures shine below the horizontal were the light is needed, as opposed to into the sky.

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  7. So ... by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 1

    /. is posting dups, and storys that doesn't make sense, are false, are badly written, and have lots of typos ... They forgot that today is Aprils 1st?, They should be doing something special ;-)

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  8. Enough by the_sidewinder · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I think I will go listen to some Vogon poetry now, /. is boring at the moment as no one is here. The jokes are funny the first, maybe the second time, but to muuuuch

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  9. This is stupid by NeonRonin · · Score: 1

    It's amazing how slashdot can loose its creditability, if it ever had any, by posting all the bullshit april fools jokes in 1 day.

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  10. The Next Step by AndroidCat · · Score: 3, Funny

    this sequence

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  11. It finds spam, eh? by Wild+Bill+TX · · Score: 1

    What a bummer. Everybody knows spam scanners should find Butterball.

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  12. /. on 04/01 by Cyclometh · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm just imagining the /. folks watching virtual heads asplode every time they post something, quaffing some more beer and pulling another one out...

    [scene: impropmptu party in Taco's office. Several people are standing or sitting around, watching /. go apeshit over all the April Fools' stories.]

    CmdrTaco: Wow, THAT got them riled up.
    Rest of room: Huzzah!
    CowboyNeal: How long you think we can keep doing this?
    CmdrTaco: Hell, we run the site. *glick glick glick* As long as we want. It's funny to get all these people with their knickers in a knot.
    CowboyNeal: What's next?
    CmdrTaco: I think we've got something about dinosaur fossils found crucified...
    Rest of room: Huzzah!
    CowboyNeal: Post that bad boy!
    Rest of room: Huzzah!

  13. Nah. by NotoriousQ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is clearly a hoax. Nigeria is way too dark.

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    1. Re:Nah. by Altrag · · Score: 2, Informative

      Read the article closely.. this is attempting to map where the _recipients_ are, not the senders.

      Unsurprisingly enough, it matches fairly well with the areas that I'd think to be more densely net-connected. Except Australia. Thought more of that one would be lit up, but then I don't know Australian geography all that well so maybe its true that there's only a handful of smallish areas along the coastline with high concentrations of net users.

  14. every user is a spammer until proven innocent by krunk4ever · · Score: 1

    I actually saw this at a google infosession. each dot represented where there was a search being done on google at that location at that given time. and they would move time and you could see when people in europe would goto sleep and when the americans would wake it as more and more dots appeared.

    pretty neat. guess every internet user is inherently a spammer until provent innocent.

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