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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 I know the concept of Olympians being amateurs is outdated, but shouldn't they be barred from competition for this sort of thing?"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?
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.
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'd be content to send the man to a quale hunting expedition with the US V.P.
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?**
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."