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There are many squirrels in Nigeria.
(Thanks to Mike Pontillo)
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There are many squirrels in Nigeria.
(Thanks to Mike Pontillo)
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Posted by: ScottMGS | June 30, 2007 at 11:11 AM
Maybe it's for the best. Do we really need another 300 spammers telling us how we can get rich helping them move vast sums of money?
Posted by: fivver | June 30, 2007 at 11:13 AM
I've been following the OLPC program a bit. Originally, the idea was that the little computers (they don't look like your normal laptop) would have a little hand-crank or foot-pump-like generator so they wouldn't need wall power. They are also built to connect wirelessly to each other and to a network access point if one is available. Kinda cool.
Posted by: ScottMGS | June 30, 2007 at 11:15 AM
That is one possible downside, fiv. Of course, maybe with proper training and equiping (and
brainwashinginducements) we can bribe the OLPC users to take out the spammers. Yeah, that's the ticket!Posted by: ScottMGS | June 30, 2007 at 11:18 AM
Dunno about you, but for me the 419 spam scam emails don't appear anywhere near as often as the Chinese &$@!&# constantly pushing various medications. And at least the 419s seem to be different every time, so they're good for a bit of entertainment.
I like your idea, Scott, but we'd have to spring for some travel money. It looks like a goodly percentage of the criminals aren't in Nigeria any more...
Posted by: Richard the Weasel-Hearted | June 30, 2007 at 11:52 AM
Yep, the Nigerians just supply the names, ministry titles and rumors of corruption.
Posted by: ScottMGS | June 30, 2007 at 11:59 AM
OOoooooh, I so love it when you male types of the masculine gender talk all techie and stuff!
Posted by: casey | June 30, 2007 at 03:11 PM
Well, um... I've not wanted to bore people to tears (and probably failed). But as a sometime software developer and denizen of the internet a decade before Sir Tim's newfangled browser idea opened the floodgates, I am quite capable of blathering on like this indefinitely. Be careful what you wish for... :-,)
Posted by: Richard the Weasel-Hearted | June 30, 2007 at 03:50 PM
What annoys me is that there have got to be legitimate businesses that sell my e-mail address. I'm sure I got a lot more junk e-mail after I bought a computer from Dell. I wonder if they sold my address. I think it should be illegal to sell e-mail addresses to spammers.
Posted by: Kristina L. | June 30, 2007 at 09:20 PM