The basic unit of communication will no longer be typed out in e-mails. It will be shot in pictures and shown on video.

通讯的基本单元将不再是打印出来的电子邮件，而是光鲜的图片和视频展示。

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If anyone has a legitimate shot at remaking Internet communication, and even eventually replacing E-mail, it's Facebook, analysts say.

分析师说如果任何人尝试合法改造互联网通讯，甚至最终取代电子邮件，那么它就是脸普网。

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However, it's become a common practice to do just the opposite. e-commerce sites have taken this "scatter shot" approach of trying to slap the potential buyer with as many options as possible.

然而使网页变得复杂已经是一种通用的惯例了，电子商务网站已经采取一种“散射”的方法旨在提供给所有潜在购买者尽可能多的选择。

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On 24 October, Marine Cpl David O'Connor, of 40 Commando, and Army medic Cpl Channing Day, of 3 Medical Regiment, were shot in Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province in a suspected insider attack by an off-duty Afghan policeman.

BBC: UK soldier killed in Afghanistan 'insider attack'

The 100th British soldier to die this year was shot in the Nad-e Ali area in the afternoon.

BBC: UK soldier becomes 100th to die in Afghanistan in 2009

Following the introduction of America's anti-spam CAN-SPAM Act in January 2004, junk e-mailing fell briefly but then shot up again (see chart).

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