Carl Karsten wrote:
> My dream has come true:
>
> "Internet portal Lycos has made a screensaver that endlessly requests
> data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail."
>
> "The screensaver is due to be launched across Europe on 1 December and
> before now has only been trialled in Sweden."
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4051553.stm
>
> Guess what I install tomorrow?
Oh sheesh Carl, that's like launching nukes against Russia to save the
whales. Or torturing and murdering Iraqi civilians to fight terrorism.
(Does the solution fit the problem? Doesn't it make it worse by adding
yet even more waste traffic to the already bloated internet infrastructure?)
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