Forget the terrorist stuff for now. You won that one, OK.:) I used the word pretty loose. Virus-writers are losers. Scum of the earth. It's futile to try and convince me otherwise. I'm offended by any argument defending such cruel actions by such filth, so I refuse to dignify a response to this post by reading it. But go ahead if it makes you feel good.
> Well, this virus really does not do anything interesting.
They are *never* interesting. When I get the flu and feel miserable for a week, I don't think that's very "intersting". Virus writers are terrorists. They may not kill people, but peoples' lives have been seriously damaged by them. I think of the simple newspaper reporter who gets a virus just before an important deadline. The newspaper publishes a day later than the rival paper, and the reporter gets fired. Extreme example, but stuff like that happens.
I've been using computers for 15 years now, for fun, for work, etc. I have never understood why viruses are created. Maybe people hate microsoft, so maybe they write a virus to exploit windows computers. I don't know. Do any of you slashdot people know virus-writers personally? I would really love to know what their motivations are. I know several people, good people, whose lives have been devastated by a computer virus, and I think it's quite unfair.
Obviously no clue. I'll try to help. Neural networks are more properly known as artificial neural networks, and are a topic in the field of artificial intelligence. ANNs are sort of a theoretical model for a statistical process of learning sets of outputs for sets of inputs.
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Forget the terrorist stuff for now. You won that one, OK. :) I used the word pretty loose. Virus-writers are losers. Scum of the earth. It's futile to try and convince me otherwise. I'm offended by any argument defending such cruel actions by such filth, so I refuse to dignify a response to this post by reading it. But go ahead if it makes you feel good.
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Lousy word, so what? You sound like a lawyer. Yuck. Bottom line: Virus-writers are truly horrible people that don't deserve to use technology.
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You're right. I'm sick of hearing the word too. :)
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> Well, this virus really does not do anything interesting.
They are *never* interesting. When I get the flu and feel miserable for a week, I don't think that's very "intersting". Virus writers are terrorists. They may not kill people, but peoples' lives have been seriously damaged by them. I think of the simple newspaper reporter who gets a virus just before an important deadline. The newspaper publishes a day later than the rival paper, and the reporter gets fired. Extreme example, but stuff like that happens.
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I've been using computers for 15 years now, for fun, for work, etc. I have never understood why viruses are created. Maybe people hate microsoft, so maybe they write a virus to exploit windows computers. I don't know. Do any of you slashdot people know virus-writers personally? I would really love to know what their motivations are. I know several people, good people, whose lives have been devastated by a computer virus, and I think it's quite unfair.
Obviously no clue. I'll try to help. Neural networks are more properly known as artificial neural networks, and are a topic in the field of artificial intelligence. ANNs are sort of a theoretical model for a statistical process of learning sets of outputs for sets of inputs.
Expert systems are out of fashion. Too logistically expensive. They haven't been taught at my school for 5 years. Better are stochastic solutions.