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Submission + - Big Macs More Deadly than HIV from Unprotected Sex

Submitted by LeDopore on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @07:53PM

LeDopore writes: My blog has an article showing that, according to CDC data, eating a fast food meal is between 5 and 50 times more deadly to Americans than the risk of contracting HIV through unprotected sex with a randomly-chosen American.

Submission + - Verizons Math

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @07:39PM

An anonymous reader writes: Verizon charged the customer $0.002 after quoting 0.002 cents . This is a hilarious account of verizons response and its excellent customer service. Ofcourse the checkthe customer sent.

Submission + - Turner to pay Boston $2 Million over ATHF Scare

Submitted by DrEnter on Monday February 05, 2007 @01:22PM

DrEnter writes: After defeating the city of Boston and Homeland Security in a brief conflict last week involving small signs made from christmas tree lights, Turner Broadcasting has agreed to pay each of them $1 million. This is a far cry from the $500+ million Boston was claiming the Aqua Teen Hunger Force "war" had cost them. Maybe they realized that if this actually went to court, they would probably only end up with a bill for the court costs?

Spam is Back With A Vengence 510

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday January 21, 2007 @10:00AM from the bring-me-my-bazooka dept.

Ant writes "The Red Tape Chronicles reports that just last December (2006), the FTC published an optimistic state-of-spam report. It cites research indicating spam had leveled off or even dropped during the previous year. It now appears spammers had simply gone back to the drawing board. There's more spam now than ever before. In fact, there's twice as much spam now as opposed to this time last year. And the messages themselves are causing more trouble. About half of all spam sent now is "image spam," containing server-clogging pictures that are up to 10 times the size of traditional text spam. And most image spam is stock-related, pump-and-dump scams which can harm investors who don't even use e-mail. About one-third of all spam is stock spam now."

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