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The Russian Mafia Doesn't Like Spam Either 451

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday October 11, 2007 @06:51PM from the think-twice-before-sending dept.

wattrlz writes "Apparently the current champion of v1*gr4 spamming solicited some of the wrong email boxes. Alexy Tolstokozhev was recently found murdered in his palatial spam-bought estate near Moscow. The implications of this hands on method of system administration are staggering." Update: 10/12 15:28 GMT by Z : Good story. Unfortunately, probably a fake.

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What Your Favorite Web Sites Say About You 163

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 10, 2007 @01:51PM from the funhouse-mirrors dept.

Jimmy writes to tell us that CNET is running an article on what your favorite Web sites say about you. One example takes a look at the possible origins of Facebook readers; "The typical Facebookers are what you'd get if YouTube and Flickr went halves on a baby. Yes, the site was created to help university students connect and have a good time, but connecting and having a good time generally involves unruly, drunken behavior, which is inevitably caught on film and posted for your entire friends list to see.'" The article also takes a look at eBay, Flickr, Slashdot, and several others.

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Treating the Dead 246

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @10:05PM from the pining-for-the-fjords dept.

FlyByPC writes "According to a NewsWeek article, oxygen deprivation doesn't kill patients as much as the resumption of oxygen does. This discovery could bring about new ways of resuscitating people whose hearts have stopped."

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Submission + - Err and Ignignot take over the USA

Submitted by claygate on Thursday February 01, 2007 @11:58AM

claygate writes: Err and Ignignot from Aqua Teen Hunger Force have begun their plan to rule the earth through discretely placed advertisements in 10 US cities. Adult Swim has posted an apology for the havoc in Boston yesterday where one sign was mistaken for a bomb and detonated.

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Submission + - Global warming idea needs critical evaluation

Submitted by

cwm9

on Thursday February 01, 2007 @11:57AM

cwm9 writes: "Could we possibly use the world's oceans as a medium by which to fight Global warming? It's a question that perhaps the Slashdot crowd might be able to provide some input on."

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Submission + - The Trouble with Vista

Submitted by jcatcw on Thursday February 01, 2007 @11:30AM

jcatcw writes: After hundreds of hours of testing Vista, Scot Finnie is supremely tired of it. And of Microsoft. Although 80% of the changes in Windows Vista are positive, there is nothing about Vista that is truly innovative or compelling; there's no transformational, gotta-have-it feature in Vista. But the real problem isn't with Vista. It's with Microsoft itself. Microsoft stopped focusing on end users. They "now seemingly makes many decisions based on these two things: 1. Avoiding negative publicity (especially about security and software quality) 2. Making sure the largest enterprise customers are happy."

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Beware the Apple iPhone iHandcuffs 406

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday January 14, 2007 @10:26AM from the future-of-gizmos dept.

Nrbelex writes "Randall Stross makes a fresh and surprisingly accurate review of one of the biggest "features" in the upcoming iPhone and the iPod in general, 'fairplay'. Stross writes, 'If "crippleware" seems an unduly harsh description, it balances the euphemistic names that the industry uses for copy protection. Apple officially calls its own standard "FairPlay," but fair it is not.... You are always going to have to buy Apple stuff. Forever and ever.' Can mainstream media coverage help the battle over DRM or will this warning, like those of the pas, continue to go unnoticed?"

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