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Virus Writers - The Enemy Within
Slob Nerd writes "An interesting read from todays Observer "He's 21, he's got dreadlocks, likes punk bands... and his hobby could wreck your computer in seconds. Clive Thompson infiltrates the secret world of the virus writers who see their work as art - while others fear that it is cyber-terrorism.""
Then you do not work at MS huh?
Think that's code for "From the >/dev/null dept."?
First time from wired... it's a story.
Second time on NYT... it's a dupe.
Third time on the observer... it's a trupe?
-Colin
How about this:
Every time an editor posts a duplicate story he gets a public beating with a razorwire bat. The beatings are recorded to Windows Media Player files and made available for download every Friday night.
Boy, I'd love to be the author of that article. He just keeps making money selling it over and over again. In addition the paper's owners must take note of his name when it draws a metric herd of slashdotters.
::Walks off to write an article about virii::
-Colin
Since when is Iron Maden considered punk? Geesh, pansy...
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Then come over and install your friendly little programs on my PC. You can do so for free! No more annoying "distribution" anymore, you just come here, install your friendly little program and leave*, that is all. Sounds like a deal? Tell me in advance, because I might need to buy some essentials** for your visit.
* Might or might not involve a hearse.
** Like a toe tag and body bag.
Hate me!
If that mutant strain of bacteria turned people into random primary colors, I'd be all for it for arts sake..
Not a dupe, but a tripe! Oh, wait...
Yep, same with murderers. If there weren't any murders people wouldn't be as prepared to defend themselves, and they'd be more vulnerable to any murderers that came along.
they meant "your friend's computer"
like I said, I spend my time running Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. You think I'd do that if I had friends?
When Mario is bored, he likes to sit at his laptop and create computer viruses and worms. Online, he goes by the name Second Part to Hell.
I suggest a new handle for Mario - Two Sandwiches Short of a Picnic
In this world nothing is certain but death, taxes and flawed car analogies.
Oh dear, this thread really exposes the state of the Slashdot community: Grand-grandparent can't use adverbs properly, grandparent makes a typo, while correcting someone's grammer and finally the parent:
:-)
I assume it's not a typographical error.
shows that he has little clue about the fact, that typography is about designing thing containg text in such a way, that makes them aesthetically pleasing.
The question now is, of course, what have I screwed up?
News stories are definitely like sausages and laws--never ever watch any of them being made.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
The question now is, of course, what have I screwed up? :-)
while correcting someone's grammer
That's "grammar."
> Slashdot editors won't even have to read
> slashdot anymore!
Cause, y'know, they did ?
> And just three days after that, it appeared here:
Maybe it's a viral story?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
The New York Times, like most large papers, offers its stories to other publications via the wire, which these days is just an FTP server. When I broke a big story, my byline appeared in papers all over the world.
How many more times does that article have to appear in newspapers before it's considered a virus? ;)
It should be 'great grandparent' rather than 'grand-grandparent'.
"This is crazy, you realise we could all go to jail for this?" - my manager, somewhere I used to work.
Reminds me of going to a computer store and editing autoexec.bat to do an ECHO "THIS COMPUTER SUCKS" loop when I was 10 years old. Would really confuse the people who worked there
/. ...
That was you ! I spent 10 hours trying to repair the machine at work and was finally fired for being incompetent. Then my wife left me and since this time I've been alone in this dark room reading
Damn kids !
This guy has no idea what he's talking about. Mainstream media reporters do great work. This man contradicts himself and generally brags about how he exploits ellipses to twist people's words around on Slashdot (though presumably, he does this in everyday conversation). He clearly has no credibility.
Sincerely,
FOX News. Fair and balanced.
True story.
You really do have an interesting point. If sending a virus to my computer can be called art or intelligence or cleverness, then can kicking in the virus writer's knees be considered art or cleverness? After all, the kicker is just exploiting a the weakness of the kickee, in the same manner that the virus writer is exploiting a weakness of someone else. It would be artistic because it would be sending a message, & it would displaying the human body in a way that isn't usually done. It would certainly get the kickee to think.
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