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Olympic Medalist was Spyware King
Remy writes "Seems that Australian gold medal mogulist Dale Begg-Smith is also a spyware entrepreneur. According to a report at Spam Kings, Begg-Smith has supported himself in style as president of a company responsible for generating 20,000,000 pop-ups per day, thanks to drive-by installs of spyware. I know the concept of Olympians being amateurs is outdated, but shouldn't they be barred from competition for this sort of thing?"
Only if they had Spamming as one of the events in the Olympics.
As an Australian, let me be the first to disown him.
Fuck you canada! You can have him back - and take this trashy medal with you on your way out.
So does Anonymous Coward have good karma?
... shouldn't they be barred from competition for this sort of thing?
No. I don't think I want the Olympics in charge of non-sports morality. They should have their asses beat by people that meet them, though.
They could throw it into it's own category, like doping. "He was disqualified for spamming".
is stuck at 99% usage. Maybe he'll freeze mid-jump and crash like the rest of the poor bastards he's helped infect.
tend to do it in more areas than just one.... 20 mill annoyances a day is pretty good
Even if you win, you're still a scumbag.
Congrats.
shouldn't they be barred from competition for this sort of thing?
Only if he inhales, injects, or otherwise ingests the spyware. Despite banning it in the 90's, blood tests for spyware remain elusive.
It has also been rumored that spyware use is rampant amongst major-league baseball players.
No! THis would be a great sport in a biathlon.
Sport 1: Competitive spamming
Sport 2: Shooting. But we give the recievers the guns
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Twenty million popups a day?
That's it?
Pfft. That's like 100,000 infected machines, tops.
For security, the MD5 hash of this message and sig is 09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0.
it showed up in his urine sample. Man, these guys are getting really insidious.
Spyware...Australian for advertising.
.. he gave up his spyware business to focus on the olympics...
Well at least the olympics are good for reducing spam right ?
lounge around on the blue couch
I bet it has 'sponsored by C1Alis! and Vi4gra! By online too satsfy you're lady"
Someone should modify his Olympic medal so that it's got a flap on the front that "pops up" at random intervals and smacks him in the face, blocking his view.
Web 2.0 == Giant Blogspam Circle Jerk
At a slight disadvantage being the oldest biathalete on record, vice president Cheney nonetheless earned plenty of points for his target skills. "I tracked the target across my vision," he said. "When I pulled the trigger however, there was a spammer in my line of fire. I take full responsibility for what I did."
.22 wounds to the face and neck, where his condition was upgraded from "stable" to "beaten to death with computer mice."
The spammer was taken to a hospital with
A real Canadian would apologise.
Take away his medal and give him an X-10 camera instead.
I see him getting his just deserts when he's pressed on his past and gets irritated.
(not an actual interview, but how I'd love to see one go)
"Congratulations on making $40,000,000 on spy-ware and unethical business practices, Dale."
"Hey, I just won a gold medal, can we talk about that?"
"They give out gold medals now for hijacking browsers to porn sites?"
"No, it was for moguls!"
"Ah, yes, we see you're one of the top spy-ware people, so that does make you a mogul in the business."
"No, skiing moguls!"
"Oh, do you mean you have pop-up ads on the ski slopes?"
"Bwahhhh! I want me mum!"
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I'd be content to send the man to a quale hunting expedition with the US V.P.
"They aren't any worse than anyone else working in the ad industry." Wow, so they're pretty bad then?
He's a Canadian, living in Canada. Its controversial enough that he competed for Australia... this just puts more wood on the fire.
Nah... survival rate is too high for that... have Senator Kennedy give him a ride home from a party...
Nephilium
**Sniff sniff... is that burning karma I smell?**
I could understand +5: Funny, but Informative?!
If only the mods would give me some of their weed...
I hate spyware as much as the next nerd, but banning spammers from competition? Man, tough crowd! Whats next? "The athlete from France was stripped of his gold medal today, when it was discovered he had purchased W.O.W Gold from Ebay, and kill-stealed XP and phatz from a bunch of lowbie Anarchy Online n00b's" "When asked to comment, he said "oMGz !!11!11oneone!eleven!11"
We've already apologized for Bryan Adams on several occasions.
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
They're both funny, unless you're family of someone who's been drowned or shot by a politician.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."