Word: spam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spend any time at all on the Internet, you probably get spam - unsolicited e-mail containing advertising and other unwanted dreck. According to a recent Gartner Group survey, 91% of people online are spammed at least once a week. Usually it's easier just to accept it, like bad weather or mosquitoes. But some people have chosen to make fighting spam their crusade, and this week they're launching a campaign against it, both on your hard drive, and in the courts...
...Monday a company called Bright Light Technologies launched Bright Mail, a free service that automatically keeps your inbox all but spam-free. Once you register with Bright Mail, you can allow your e-mail to pass through its special server, which maintains a list of known spammers and stops any mail originating from them. If you're comfortable having your mail pass through somebody else's computer, Bright Mail should stop 80 percent of your spam or more, free or charge.MORE...
...into each tune. He certainly is capable of variation, as he proves in his first album, where the soulful ballads are balanced by funky tracks and all-out rock grooves. His second effort, Wander this World, is an unsteady foray into the mainstream. Even that word mainstream connotes a Spam product which inevitably sullies the unique with the base. This shift in focus is what was displayed at the live show. Instead of savoring each sound as a true blues musician would, Lang merely paid lip service to whatever ditty was next. It was as if he couldn't wait...
...into each tune. He certainly is capable of variation, as he proves in his first album, where the soulful ballads are balanced by funky tracks and all-out rock grooves. His second effort, Wander this World, is an unsteady foray into the mainstream. Even that word mainstream connotes a Spam product which inevitably sullies the unique with the base. This shift in focus is what was displayed at the live show. Instead of savoring each sound as a true blues musician would, Lang merely paid lip service to whatever ditty was next. It was as if he couldn't wait...
...think you hate spam e-mail. Consider the Chinese authorities. On Wednesday, a Chinese court convicted a software entrepreneur of subversion -- and packed him off to jail for two years -- for giving the e-mail addresses of 30,000 Chinese computer users to a publication called VIP Reference. Chinese authorities felt the need to intervene because VIP Reference is a pro-democracy journal published on the Internet by Chinese dissidents in the U.S. "The Chinese response was not surprising" says TIME senior foreign correspondent Johanna McGeary. "The authorities have long realized that knowledge is power and dangerous for them...