spam
the "news" is that spam is back. whoop. like it ever really went away. spammers are using more pictures to get through the text filters. some technocrats are talking about how to parse the pictures to see if they're hiding spam. good luck with that. parsing pictures is a much more difficult problem than parsing text. they will have to install more computers. many more computers. the cost of fighting spam is going up. and the cost of sending spam is going down. hijacked computers are getting more powerful and more numerous. this isn't all bad though. we might be at the point were we can trash the current mail system and replace it with one that has a hope of working.