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Well, you would think that Bill Gates gets a lot of spam and this confirms that.

INTERNET junkies, take heart: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates receives four million emails a day, and is probably the most “spammed” person in the world.

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By the way, it’s kind of funny to read that, as it is in Austrailia and it says that the time is November 18th, where, at the time of writing, though this is an automatic-delayed writing, it’s the 17th. (delayed it not to have too many posts today)

NEW YORK A possible new case of mad cow disease has been found in the United States, according to the Agriculture Department.

The agency said Thursday that the brain of a cow tested positive three times on a rapid test for the presence of prions, the misfolded proteins that cause the disease.

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It goes on to say that it’s inconclusive and they are doing more tests.

My question is, does anyone really care? Honestly, they shouldn’t publish it until they find a major problem (say 100 cows have it). Kind of like the anthrax scare and the SARS scare. They both disappeared after the media attempted to scare us to death. I really couldn’t care less about these, I have a much higher chance of catching cancer or catching the flu and dying from it.

Quite unlikely .

Well, now that we all know that Microsoft has a new beta search engine, here’s a little feature that Google doesn’t have. Google will probably add it before the beta goes public. Type in an algebra equation like “4x-6=0″.

MSN Beta Search