New Spam-Scanning Technology Finds Spam

Anjonika writes "Eridani Star System claims they've got a new technology that'll allow them to find where the highest spam concentrations are on Earth." If the photos are any indication, they really are on the right track with this one.

For once...

[PMJ2kx]

Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. FINALLY! Something that makes sense.

Re:For once...

[all your mwbassguy a]

no no no, this is all wrong. shouldnt there be a big dot over nigeria?

Someone fix the goddamned cron!

[Anonymous Crowhead]

it's */30 NOT */3

Anybody moving with me...

[nsasch]

to Alaska?

Quite logical

[AtariAmarok]

In fact, the Vulcan philosophy applied to this planet becomes IDIC (infinite dicontin-adverts in infinite (a)'ccounts).

Highest amount of spam?

[The Spoony]

Well, right now...

Lights

[bryan8m]

Looks awfully similar to that "Earth at Night" picture showing artificial human lights http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001127.html [nasa.gov]

Re:Lights

[sepluv]

No. You don't say?

Are you suggesting that this could be a common garden satellite image based on visible-spectrum photons as opposed to a genuine map of bogon emissions?

I would have never have even considered such an outlandish possibility. CmdrTaco would never be fooled by such a thing or wish to fool us, as he upholds such high standards of journalism and fact-checking especially on April Fool's Day.

OK, Kids. Own up! Who modded the parent `insightful'?

Re:Lights

[sepluv]

Also, while we are on this topic, please don't forget to do your bit to combat light pollution [wikipedia.org] by making sure your lighting fixtures shine below the horizontal were the light is needed, as opposed to into the sky.

So ...

[GNUALMAFUERTE]

/. is posting dups, and storys that doesn't make sense, are false, are badly written, and have lots of typos ... They forgot that today is Aprils 1st?, They should be doing something special ;-)

Enough

[the_sidewinder]

I think I will go listen to some Vogon poetry now, /. is boring at the moment as no one is here. The jokes are funny the first, maybe the second time, but to muuuuch

This is stupid

[NeonRonin]

It's amazing how slashdot can loose its creditability, if it ever had any, by posting all the bullshit april fools jokes in 1 day.

The Next Step

[AndroidCat]

this sequence [userfriendly.org]

It finds spam, eh?

[Wild Bill TX]

What a bummer. Everybody knows spam scanners should find Butterball.

/. on 04/01

[Cyclometh]

I'm just imagining the /. folks watching virtual heads asplode every time they post something, quaffing some more beer and pulling another one out...

[scene: impropmptu party in Taco's office. Several people are standing or sitting around, watching /. go apeshit over all the April Fools' stories.]

CmdrTaco: Wow, THAT got them riled up.
Rest of room: Huzzah!
CowboyNeal: How long you think we can keep doing this?
CmdrTaco: Hell, we run the site. *glick glick glick* As long as we want. It's funny to get all these people with their knickers in a knot.
CowboyNeal: What's next?
CmdrTaco: I think we've got something about dinosaur fossils found crucified...
Rest of room: Huzzah!
CowboyNeal: Post that bad boy!
Rest of room: Huzzah!

Nah.

[NotoriousQ]

It is clearly a hoax. Nigeria is way too dark.

Re:Nah.

[Altrag]

Read the article closely.. this is attempting to map where the _recipients_ are, not the senders.

Unsurprisingly enough, it matches fairly well with the areas that I'd think to be more densely net-connected. Except Australia. Thought more of that one would be lit up, but then I don't know Australian geography all that well so maybe its true that there's only a handful of smallish areas along the coastline with high concentrations of net users.

every user is a spammer until proven innocent

[krunk4ever]

I actually saw this at a google infosession. each dot represented where there was a search being done on google at that location at that given time. and they would move time and you could see when people in europe would goto sleep and when the americans would wake it as more and more dots appeared.

pretty neat. guess every internet user is inherently a spammer until provent innocent.

The picture can't be right...

[bergeron76]

NIGERIA, ISN'T BRIGHT ENOUGH my beloved DEAR FRIEND of late slashdot reader muhammed III with a sum of 96 Million us dollars