For more advice on fighting unsolicited email, see:
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pop-up FAQs at the
JRML User's Guide.
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GetNetWise,
a public service of the computing industry.
You could get a phantascopic system planted directly on your
retinas, just as Bud's sound system lived on his eardrums. You could
even get telaesthetics patched into your spinal column at various key
vertebrae. But this was said to have its drawbacks: some concerns
about long-term nerve damage, plus it was rumored that hackers for
big media companies had figured out a way to get through the
defenses that were built into such systems, and run junk
advertisements in your peripheral vision (or even spang in the
middle) all the time - even when your eyes were closed.
Bud knew a guy like that who'd somehow gotten infected with a
meme that ran advertisements for roach motels, in Hindi,
superimposed on the bottom right-hand corner of his visual field,
twenty-four hours a day, until the guy whacked himself.
-Neil Stephenson
The Diamond Age, or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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