Thursday, May 6, 2004

IronPort, Microsoft team on antispam effort for Hotmail, MSN users. The program helps users differentiate between "qualified" commercial e-mail and spam and allows them to opt in to receive messages they actually want. [Computerworld News] Microsoft is always on the lookout for good ways to make money. And one of those ways is to provide an avenue for legitimate spammers to make a buck just like everyone else does. If you got the front money, for $20,000, Microsoft will let you use Hotmail or MSN as the firehouse to shoot your bulk email across the Internet. Microsoft is the only group of individuals who would EVER try to make money off of bulk email. They are just as bad as the spammers, and now they want to enable spammers. 7:57:31 PM    comment []

Bunker Holds a Mountain of Movies. A secret hideaway designed to protect American currency in the event of a nuclear attack is being transformed into an archive that will protect cultural treasures. Original music and films will be stored in the vault. By Katie Dean. [Wired News] This is an article about the old Nuclear Fallout Shelter for the Federal Reserve in Culpeper, VA. Mt. Pony held 3billion in currency and coin as pump primer for a post apocalyptic capitalist economy. Nice to know they were looking out for us. Now finally the place is being repurposed as a repository of materials the Library of Congress what's to archive and eventually digitze. Here's to the expanding Culpeper economy. This should be a real coup for them. 7:54:32 PM    comment []

New Study May Resolve Long-Standing Global Warming Debate [Scientific American] In the words of that ever popular philosopher, Chandler Bing,... OH MY GOD! The satellite measurements of global warming were off the whole time surface temps were going up. Now that they have corrected for the temperature differential, the satellite readings parallel completely the rise in temp. globally on the oceans surface. There's no doubt now things are warming up. 7:51:16 PM    comment []

Intel to debut Dothan on Monday. The 90nm Pentium M ready for launch at last By Tony Smith . [The Register] Before my laptop at work crapped out for the second time this past February, I was hoping to ride the Dothan bandwagon in November (the 3 year mark for old my Inspiron 4100). But now, it looks like I'll have to wait another three years. What I really wanted was something in the Low-Voltage class that was also 90nm. Instead, what I've got is a Centrino, running on an 855 chipset running at ~1.2Ghz I think. The battery lifespan isn't too bad. The bigger battery is over three hours. The little one is closer to two hours. Between the two I would get 5 hours total. Not too bad really. I'm probably not missing out as much as I think. Likely there will be teething pains as the 90nm era chips first roll out. I will not be on the bleeding edge of this era. 7:46:37 PM    comment []