A recent article over at New Scientist is helping renew discussion over the idea of a pay-per-email system, in particular CentMail from Yahoo! Research. The idea is that by donating 1c to charity each time you send an email, spamming will become uneconomic and thus fall out of favour if the service is used widely enough.
Tag Archives: internet
Do computers make us more human?
Now that the computer lies quite literally at the center of many of our lives we really do need to ask the big questions about how it affects us as humans, and how the technology will continue to change just what it means to be part of a human society.
Panic follows social networking DDoS
Over the last few days many of us may have realised just how reliant we are upon our social networks and online forms of communication such as Facebook and Twitter. Following a co-ordinated and sustained DDoS attack on some of the major social networking sites, many individuals were unable to log into their networks for up to 48 hours.