{"id":11064,"date":"2014-03-18T23:59:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T06:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=11064"},"modified":"2015-10-31T21:14:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T01:14:08","slug":"the-state-of-open-hardware-and-alzheimers-w-bruces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/the-state-of-open-hardware-and-alzheimers-w-bruces\/","title":{"rendered":"the State of Open Hardware and Alzheimers | w @bruces"},"content":{"rendered":"

On February 8th legendary science fiction author Bruce Sterling<\/a> (I’m currently reading Globalhead<\/em><\/a>) published this rather stunning compilation of logos of awesome companies engaged with open hardware<\/a> in 2013 to his tumblr<\/a>; in addition to said awesome company logos you can see Apple’s Mail.app is prompting Bruce about Alzheimers:<\/p>\n

\"tumblr_n0o7lq9Oag1s2jikwo1_1280_detail\"<\/p>\n

After scouring about (aka typing some keywords in Google), this scam email’s brilliant lead-in is revealed: “Are you–or a loved one @ risk…for Alzheimers? Learn-more”<\/p>\n

I’m not sure which is my favorite, the irony of asking someone if they’re at risk for something which plagues their memory, or the hyphenated phrase “learn-more” – tough call.<\/p>\n

Proving how automated the spamnet can be these days, two days earlier, said email was logged on a blogspot called TRIRACER taglined “ironman challenge is about taking the weak and ordinary and creating the extraordinary” promoting Alaskan Cruises and how to Become a Better Cook posts. As if:<\/p>\n

\"open-hardware-alzheimers\"<\/p>\n

And the moral of this story is Apple’s Mail.app sucks at filtering spam.<\/p>\n

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