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Friday, March 05, 2004
...BUT I ALREADY PAY FOR IT! Boy genius Bill Gates suggests that we actually pay for stamps in order to send e-mail. Details came last week as part of Microsoft's anti-spam strategy. Instead of paying a penny, the sender would "buy" postage by devoting maybe 10 seconds of computing time to solving a math puzzle.It'll probably be a Microsoft "math puzzle" [translation = a free aggregate supercomputer, all for Bill's use], take up a massive amount of memory, only be available to MS users, and routinely crash or get hijacked by hackers. Thursday, March 04, 2004
OH, GOODY Advance copies of Neal Stephenson's next book The Confusion are for sale on Ebay. Seeing as his last book was (rightly) panned by everyone I know that has read it--including myself--I doubt that there will be a stampede to Barnes & Nobles to buy it when it comes out on April 13th. I was one of the few that actually read the whole thing, which goes more to show exactly how stubborn I am than how good the book was. I paid hardcover price, dammit, so I was gonna read the book come Hell or high water! I might buy it. Later. Much later. In paperback. Maybe. |