This handy guide will help you properly structure your religion and help you gain legitimacy by copying what others have done.
By making it look like similar in structure to other more popular religions, you will simultaneously have demonstrated your core principle of copying stuff while making the concepts seem more familiar (and therefore more acceptable) to the reviewing board.
Isn't creating MD5 collisions (making your changed file match the original MD5 value) something that can be done on a PC nowadays with stuff like this: http://www.securiteam.com/tools/6O00E1FEKO.html
Sony shipped only a small number of units just to whet the appetite of the public. They are keeping the remaining stock to sell on eBay themselves for thousands of dollars each.
They finally figured out there's no point in selling the first runs at retail when they can get much more revenue with a small 'official' distribution, and then make the big money themselves instead of letting scalpers have all the profits.
Now, pass me my tinfoil hat and tell me I'm wrong...
When the MPAA and studio initially refused to comply, the ADLPotMA representative turned the MPAA lawyer into a newt - a change many felt was for the better.
...And of course: perfect and immutable and perfectly translated into all languages regardless of time and culture.
Of course.
That would help explain why we can go to Bible.com search for 24 different English versions, and 91 International versions with links to 140 different language editions.
Be sure to read #7 and #8here:
> Look - people thought barcodes were going to do the same thing and now you wouldn't do without 'em (everything from UPS to all the food in your kitchen).
You're missing key differences here:
1) Scope of Identification
Bar codes identify a type of product RFID identifies a unique item.
2) Size and Stealth
Bar codes are fairly large and obvious RFID chips have already shrunk down to the size of a grain of sand
3) Scanning Requirements
Bar codes must be visible with line-of-sight with the barcode reader RFID requires only proximity, no line-of-sight with the chip required
From what little I've read, RFID scanners are already sensitive enough to pick up tags from 30 feet away, and the technology is still in its infancy.
I don't have any problem with the use of it by informed choice, but I have no doubts that there will be abuse of the system (as there is with any system). I had to tell the cashier at Target the other day that she missed scanning an item, I have little doubt that disabling RFID tags will be overlooked as well.
And the information is easily correlated. Just driving through the Toll Booth on I-95 with your EZ-Pass RFID toll-paying-gizmo could trivially be linked with picking up the responding tags of all your RFID-enabled property in the car that can get a signal out and associating it with you personally.
The state could make all kinds of money selling off that information to marketers, and considering the cash-strapped condition of many states, I doubt "ethics" would interfere with anything that could increase revenues.
You can make all the crazy projections you want as to abuses, and they still probably will pale with what actually happens in real life.
Just don't walk into your sin-preventing RFID-scanning church door with those smokes, flask and that copy of Big 'uns under your jacket...:-)
It would be a good idea if they also dropped duplicate-looking characters, ie 1 and l, 0 and O, l and I, and so on, at least if they are going for visual usability.
Why My Religion is Right and Yours is Wrong
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Don't forget the great nod to the speeder bike chase scene in the forests of Endor scene they nailed in there too while Dash is running through the forest.
In a fit of electoral frustration from the fact that there is not a major candidate that I actually WANT to win, my brain snapped and I went on a political rant about the concept of INVESTING YOUR VOTE instead of "wasting" it by voting for someone you don't actually want to win.
The premise is simple: You get an accumulated return on investment if you vote for a party you actually WANT to win. It won't pay off today, but after a few elections and a slight change in voting 'spin' it could.
Here's the short version, click on the link for additional commentary and your can post all the reasons you think I'm wrong:
...To summarize the rest of this post, here aremy basic personal political beliefs:
(1) The Constitution is a great idea. We should try living by it sometime.
(2) The job of the government is to protect the people from outside forces, not to control them.
(3) Taking care of the people is the job of the people, not of the government.
(4) Any organization will attempt to increase it's power until it reaches "absolute power" and will resist all attempts to restrain it.
(5) Individuals should be free to choose their own actions, be responsible and accountable for their own actions, and accept the repercussions of those actions.
Put those together and you can probably project my opinion on pretty much any topic.
[Clarification: When I speak of "government" in the general sense, I am speaking of it at the Federal level]
That being said, I just took The World's Smallest Political Quiz, which tells you where you basically fall in the political question with just 10 questions. I ended pretty firmly in the Libertarian camp, though I am not affiliated with the party.
Fortunately, they seem to have the basic ideas that I support. Unfortunately, the very principles that make them attractive to me are the very qualities that prevent them from becoming a major political force. Sort of like Wicca in the religious arena, the very "decentralized power" structure it is based up is antithical to it obtaining sufficient power to make the changes you want to make.
That being said, I'd like to offer some strategies that might help alternative parties, whatever they may be, to obtain at least enough power to weaken the major parties that they compete against. Quite frankly I'm not worried about diluting the election for either party, as neither major party supports the 5 beliefs I described above (or lacks the conviction to support them) and I think that they are both screwed up, unsustainable in the medium-to-long-term and are doomed to failure (at least from the perspective of a citizen that wants to live in a free country) in their current forms. That being said, here's my suggestion to counter some of the usualfull-of-crap rhetoric.
Full of crap rhetoric #1:
"Don't Waste Your Vote" - This is stupidest thing you could possibly say to a voter, so of course the major political parties say it often enough that people start to believe it. The only way you could possibly waste your vote is to: (1) Don't Vote or (2) Vote for someone you don't want to actually win. Here's my counter-proposal that I hereby release to the public domain in the hopes that some other political party or organization will pick it up and run with it:
INVEST YOUR VOTE!
Let's accept the fact that if you vote for a third party candidate (whatever the party may be) they are pretty certain not to win the election. But don't think of it as a wasted vote, think of it as an INVESTED VOTE.
What is an investment? It is something small that you put away now and don't use in the hopes that it will grow into something more useful and powerful in the future. And that is exactly what INVEST YOUR VOTE means to do. You take your vote
I stopped building/buying machine for people/companies years ago. Now I just tell them "I don't do the hardware anymore. Go to Dell.com, buy a refurbished machine with a 3yr on-site support contract. If you have any problems with it, they're tech support will help you ("Dell Support is Free, I'm Not") and will replace anything that breaks the next day.
It frees up my time for doing more useful things than debugging their modems and stuff.
I picked up a trick my doctor told me about when we were comparing the "free help for strangers" issue.
You: "I'm a [computer-related-job-title]" Them: "Really! Well I've got this problem, [blah blah blah]..." You: "Gee, I'm glad I didn't tell you I'm a proctologist!"
I've been doing mostly small-business and mid-sized business consulting for 10 years. Here's my strategy:
1) Don't do ANYTHING as a fixed price. I do this not because I don't know how long it will take to do what they ask, but because they hardly ever want what they ask for initially. The popular advice is to document the specs in the initial contract and create addendums whenever they change their specs, but in reality it will take forever to get anything done this way, as it will have to go back through legal (costing them more money that could be going to you) and taking longer (time you aren't spending on their project). Additionally, there is almost always some obscure thing that will throw your estimates off. Their source data could be inaccurate requiring you to write scripts to fix it or work with people in-house to gather it correctly. Their server could crash, requiring you to reinstall or reconfigure things that had already been done. The person you've been working with or training could quit requiring you to re-train someone new. The weirdest thing (that you can't think of when writing the contract) is pretty much guaranteed to happen at some point on a fixed-price contract.
2) BE HONEST. Tell them everything. I don't sugar-coat things for people. If they can't handle the truth up front, they're really going to have a problem with it down the road when you realize that what they asked for isn't what they really need. Here's my speech for when I design anything completely new for a company:
"This is something completely new for you. That means that it will have THREE phases. FIRST, I'll create the system that you want and you'll start to use it. This will take (however long you estimate). SECOND, as you integrate the new system into your business, you will find that there are parts of the system that you want to change, or new features that you want to add that hadn't thought of initially. This phase usually take 6-12 months. THIRD, once the new system has been integrated into your companies business processes, the side effect is that the business processes themselves will change due to the new system improving productivity (if not, they're wasting their money on the project). At this point, depending on the level of change, you will probably want to change the project again, as the original workflow that the project was designed to help is no longer the same (due to the project changing it as a side-effect). Depending on how significant a change, this may be minor or major changes to the project, your business practices, or both."
3) Legal Stuff: For regular proprietary stuff, retain the rights to your code and grant them a limited license to use within their corporation. I usually give them both source and executable with the limitation that it is licensed for use within their company and not for redistribution or sale outside their company. Many companies don't care, as long as they have the source code. The ones that do, I explain that I save them thousands of dollars in development expenses by re-using code that I have written for other projects. I intend to continue to do so, and if they want to OWN the code then I will have to write ALL their code from scratch, and not use any of my common libraries so as to avoid legally mingling "MY code" with "THEIR code". So far, nobody has objected past this point.
If your code is licensed under the GPL, explain to them what that means. As the OWNER of the copyright to the code, you can issue a non-GPL license governing the software's use if they want to pay more for the flexibility of having a proprietary (non-GPL) code base to own.
3) Don't sell yourself short. The fact that you have already written a program that they want to use is your resume. It is reasonable to charge $100/hr for a part-time gig, possibly down to $50/hr if they are willing to commit to a certain number of hours of work for you. If they balk, remind them that they didn't have to pay the thousands it took to develop t
Mars's Global Warming is worse than Earth's is, and we're not even there to screw it up.
It appears to my layman's observations that the primary cause of global warning is that the sun is getting hotter, and we'd have global warming no matter what people did, short of blotting out the sun.
A hotter sun or other non-Earthling-controlled phenomenon seems to be the primary cause.
Here's a rundown of what I've found out dealing with the MSBlast worm, some of which wasn't posted to the list yet (or I just missed it). Luckily my systems here were patched before this came out, but a few people brought in laptops that weren't patched, so here's what to expect.
MSBlast Symptoms:
Windows XP: Computer displays a message that the computer will shut down in 60 seconds.
Go to a command prompt and type "shutdown/a" to abort the shutdown.)
This indicates that your computer is infected with the MSBlast worm.
Windows 2000: Computer displays an error message about "svchost.exe" fatal errors. Odd behavior follows, such as not being able to drag-and-drop certain items, Internet Explorer context menus (right click menus) don't work properly, and other bizarre behavior.
This _does_not_ necessarily mean that a computer has the worm, but the svchost.exe could be crashing as a result of the worm trying to get in. However, you should still run the removal tool to make sure.
Some people have associated this with the install of Service Pack 4, but it appears to be coincidental and not related to the SP4 install. However, SP4 does seem to have it's own user-reported set of issues unrelated to this worm, as discussed here:
http://www.w2knews.com/anecdotes.htm
Windows ME/98/95: Unaffected by this worm.
Windows Update: Windows Update is running incredibly slowly.
You may or may not be able to get in to update your system. This is due to the fact that millions of people are all hitting the service at once trying to get the patch to stop this worm. If you keep trying, you will eventually get in, but it may take a number of tries and 5 minutes or so per try. Additionally, you may get an HTTP 1.1 Server Too Busy error message even after you are in. Just keep clicking on the "Review and Install Updates" link on the left side pane and it will eventually let you in. When it does make a connection, the window or system may appear to hang for up to a minute or two. Just wait it out and it will eventually wake back up with the Blindly-Accept-Our-New-License-Terms window. Read the license terms thoroughl and print out a copy for your files (sorry, couldn't resist) and then OK" and the updates will then download (slowly) the needed files and install them.
To make matters worse, the worm will start a Denial of Service attack against the Windows Update site on Saturday Aug 16, so if you think it's bad now, you aint seen nothing yet.
Worm Trivia: The worm contains the following text, which is not displayed on the screen:
I just want to say LOVE YOU SAN!!
billy gates why do you make this possible ? Stop making money and fix your software!!
If you experience either of the above symptoms on your PC's, you need to apply the appropriate patch from here immediately:
Windows XP Security Patch:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/8/b/98bcf ad8-afbc-458f-aaee-b7a52a983f01/WindowsXP-KB823980 -x86-ENU.exe Windows 2000 Security Patch:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/1/f/01fdd 40f-efc5-433d-8ad2-b4b9d42049d5/Windows2000-KB8239 80-x86-ENU.exe Windows NT 4.0 Security Patch:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/5/1/651c3 333-4892-431f-ae93-bf8718d29e1a/Q823980i.EXE Wind ows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition Security Patch:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/6/c/46c9c 414-19ea-4268-a430-53722188d489/Q823980i.EXE Wind ows Server 2003 Security Patch:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/f/2/8f211 31d-9df3-4530-802a-2780629390b9/WindowsServer2003- KB823980-x86-ENU.exe
Then, run this program to scan your system for any remaining parts of the worm.
Slashdot Mirror
Fabulous. We now have the missing technology for the pheromone-based killer drone swarms featured in Daniel Suarez's Kill Decision
As the world's leading authority on creating religions (seriously, I'm #1 on Google), I humbly offer my free guide:
How to Create Your Own Religion In Ten Easy Steps
This handy guide will help you properly structure your religion and help you gain legitimacy by copying what others have done.
By making it look like similar in structure to other more popular religions, you will simultaneously have demonstrated your core principle of copying stuff while making the concepts seem more familiar (and therefore more acceptable) to the reviewing board.
Cheers and Good Luck!
All Hail The Great Lord Lardicus!
Isn't creating MD5 collisions (making your changed file match the original MD5 value) something that can be done on a PC nowadays with stuff like this: http://www.securiteam.com/tools/6O00E1FEKO.html
> Also anecdotal evidence is almost always wrong.
That's what I heard.
So, how does it work if you live/work in MD but do the work for clients in CA?
Anyone have a link to the law?
Here's my conspiracy theory for the day:
Sony shipped only a small number of units just to whet the appetite of the public.
They are keeping the remaining stock to sell on eBay themselves for thousands of dollars each.
They finally figured out there's no point in selling the first runs at retail when they can get much more revenue with a small 'official' distribution, and then make the big money themselves instead of letting scalpers have all the profits.
Now, pass me my tinfoil hat and tell me I'm wrong...
Wowwww... flashbacks...
If we pass a law saying that lawyers will be paid in the same currency as the settlement, this kind of crap will stop immediately.
What lawyer is going to work for 2.5 million months of free Netflix service?
- Brian
Nah, most people would probably do that BEFORE handing in their resignation.
- Brian
--
Crafting the New Ancient Wisdom
And how could they tell the difference, exactly?
Just wait until e-books become the norm, coupled with wireless distribution, auto-updating and DRM.
You'll never be sure if you've actually read the books in your library (in their present form) or not.
- Brian
Of course.
That would help explain why we can go to Bible.com search for 24 different English versions, and 91 International versions with links to 140 different language editions. Be sure to read #7 and #8 here:
Why My Religion is Right and Yours is Wrong
- or -
The Flawed Logic of "The One True Path"
[Full Disclosure: I wrote the linked article]
- Brian
> Look - people thought barcodes were going to do the same thing and now you wouldn't do without 'em (everything from UPS to all the food in your kitchen).
:-)
You're missing key differences here:
1) Scope of Identification
Bar codes identify a type of product
RFID identifies a unique item.
2) Size and Stealth
Bar codes are fairly large and obvious
RFID chips have already shrunk down to the size of a grain of sand
3) Scanning Requirements
Bar codes must be visible with line-of-sight with the barcode reader
RFID requires only proximity, no line-of-sight with the chip required
From what little I've read, RFID scanners are already sensitive enough to pick up tags from 30 feet away, and the technology is still in its infancy.
I don't have any problem with the use of it by informed choice, but I have no doubts that there will be abuse of the system (as there is with any system). I had to tell the cashier at Target the other day that she missed scanning an item, I have little doubt that disabling RFID tags will be overlooked as well.
And the information is easily correlated. Just driving through the Toll Booth on I-95 with your EZ-Pass RFID toll-paying-gizmo could trivially be linked with picking up the responding tags of all your RFID-enabled property in the car that can get a signal out and associating it with you personally.
The state could make all kinds of money selling off that information to marketers, and considering the cash-strapped condition of many states, I doubt "ethics" would interfere with anything that could increase revenues.
You can make all the crazy projections you want as to abuses, and they still probably will pale with what actually happens in real life.
Just don't walk into your sin-preventing RFID-scanning church door with those smokes, flask and that copy of Big 'uns under your jacket...
- Brian
This is most likely not a technological problem but a legal one.
Most likely the company making the clickers has a patent that prevents anyone else from making them and competing with better products.
- Brian
It would be a good idea if they also dropped duplicate-looking characters, ie 1 and l, 0 and O, l and I, and so on, at least if they are going for visual usability.
Religiously neutral to all faiths just to keep it fair.
Cheers!
- Brian
Don't forget the great nod to the speeder bike chase scene in the forests of Endor scene they nailed in there too while Dash is running through the forest.
...To summarize the rest of this post, here aremy basic personal political beliefs:
(1) The Constitution is a great idea. We should try living by it sometime.
(2) The job of the government is to protect the people from outside forces, not to control them.
(3) Taking care of the people is the job of the people, not of the government.
(4) Any organization will attempt to increase it's power until it reaches "absolute power" and will resist all attempts to restrain it.
(5) Individuals should be free to choose their own actions, be responsible and accountable for their own actions, and accept the repercussions of those actions.
Put those together and you can probably project my opinion on pretty much any topic.
[Clarification: When I speak of "government" in the general sense, I am speaking of it at the Federal level]
That being said, I just took The World's Smallest Political Quiz, which tells you where you basically fall in the political question with just 10 questions. I ended pretty firmly in the Libertarian camp, though I am not affiliated with the party.
Fortunately, they seem to have the basic ideas that I support. Unfortunately, the very principles that make them attractive to me are the very qualities that prevent them from becoming a major political force. Sort of like Wicca in the religious arena, the very "decentralized power" structure it is based up is antithical to it obtaining sufficient power to make the changes you want to make.
That being said, I'd like to offer some strategies that might help alternative parties, whatever they may be, to obtain at least enough power to weaken the major parties that they compete against. Quite frankly I'm not worried about diluting the election for either party, as neither major party supports the 5 beliefs I described above (or lacks the conviction to support them) and I think that they are both screwed up, unsustainable in the medium-to-long-term and are doomed to failure (at least from the perspective of a citizen that wants to live in a free country) in their current forms. That being said, here's my suggestion to counter some of the usualfull-of-crap rhetoric.
Full of crap rhetoric #1:
"Don't Waste Your Vote" - This is stupidest thing you could possibly say to a voter, so of course the major political parties say it often enough that people start to believe it. The only way you could possibly waste your vote is to: (1) Don't Vote or (2) Vote for someone you don't want to actually win. Here's my counter-proposal that I hereby release to the public domain in the hopes that some other political party or organization will pick it up and run with it:
INVEST YOUR VOTE! Let's accept the fact that if you vote for a third party candidate (whatever the party may be) they are pretty certain not to win the election. But don't think of it as a wasted vote, think of it as an INVESTED VOTE.
What is an investment? It is something small that you put away now and don't use in the hopes that it will grow into something more useful and powerful in the future. And that is exactly what INVEST YOUR VOTE means to do. You take your vote
Well, Taco did you admit he was reading this over 56K, didn't he.
:-)
Who can read all the posts at 56K?
- bg
Black?
I stopped building/buying machine for people/companies years ago. Now I just tell them "I don't do the hardware anymore. Go to Dell.com, buy a refurbished machine with a 3yr on-site support contract. If you have any problems with it, they're tech support will help you ("Dell Support is Free, I'm Not") and will replace anything that breaks the next day.
It frees up my time for doing more useful things than debugging their modems and stuff.
I picked up a trick my doctor told me about when we were comparing the "free help for strangers" issue.
You: "I'm a [computer-related-job-title]"
Them: "Really! Well I've got this problem, [blah blah blah]..."
You: "Gee, I'm glad I didn't tell you I'm a proctologist!"
I've been doing mostly small-business and mid-sized business consulting for 10 years. Here's my strategy:
1) Don't do ANYTHING as a fixed price. I do this not because I don't know how long it will take to do what they ask, but because they hardly ever want what they ask for initially. The popular advice is to document the specs in the initial contract and create addendums whenever they change their specs, but in reality it will take forever to get anything done this way, as it will have to go back through legal (costing them more money that could be going to you) and taking longer (time you aren't spending on their project). Additionally, there is almost always some obscure thing that will throw your estimates off. Their source data could be inaccurate requiring you to write scripts to fix it or work with people in-house to gather it correctly. Their server could crash, requiring you to reinstall or reconfigure things that had already been done. The person you've been working with or training could quit requiring you to re-train someone new. The weirdest thing (that you can't think of when writing the contract) is pretty much guaranteed to happen at some point on a fixed-price contract.
2) BE HONEST. Tell them everything. I don't sugar-coat things for people. If they can't handle the truth up front, they're really going to have a problem with it down the road when you realize that what they asked for isn't what they really need. Here's my speech for when I design anything completely new for a company:
"This is something completely new for you. That means that it will have THREE phases. FIRST, I'll create the system that you want and you'll start to use it. This will take (however long you estimate). SECOND, as you integrate the new system into your business, you will find that there are parts of the system that you want to change, or new features that you want to add that hadn't thought of initially. This phase usually take 6-12 months. THIRD, once the new system has been integrated into your companies business processes, the side effect is that the business processes themselves will change due to the new system improving productivity (if not, they're wasting their money on the project). At this point, depending on the level of change, you will probably want to change the project again, as the original workflow that the project was designed to help is no longer the same (due to the project changing it as a side-effect). Depending on how significant a change, this may be minor or major changes to the project, your business practices, or both."
3) Legal Stuff: For regular proprietary stuff, retain the rights to your code and grant them a limited license to use within their corporation. I usually give them both source and executable with the limitation that it is licensed for use within their company and not for redistribution or sale outside their company. Many companies don't care, as long as they have the source code. The ones that do, I explain that I save them thousands of dollars in development expenses by re-using code that I have written for other projects. I intend to continue to do so, and if they want to OWN the code then I will have to write ALL their code from scratch, and not use any of my common libraries so as to avoid legally mingling "MY code" with "THEIR code". So far, nobody has objected past this point.
If your code is licensed under the GPL, explain to them what that means. As the OWNER of the copyright to the code, you can issue a non-GPL license governing the software's use if they want to pay more for the flexibility of having a proprietary (non-GPL) code base to own.
3) Don't sell yourself short. The fact that you have already written a program that they want to use is your resume. It is reasonable to charge $100/hr for a part-time gig, possibly down to $50/hr if they are willing to commit to a certain number of hours of work for you. If they balk, remind them that they didn't have to pay the thousands it took to develop t
It appears to my layman's observations that the primary cause of global warning is that the sun is getting hotter, and we'd have global warming no matter what people did, short of blotting out the sun.
A hotter sun or other non-Earthling-controlled phenomenon seems to be the primary cause.
IANAScientist,
- Brian
Here's a rundown of what I've found out dealing with the MSBlast worm, some of which wasn't posted to the list yet (or I just missed it). Luckily my systems here were patched before this came out, but a few people brought in laptops that weren't patched, so here's what to expect.
/a" to abort the shutdown.)
MSBlast Symptoms:
Windows XP: Computer displays a message that the computer will shut down in 60 seconds.
Go to a command prompt and type "shutdown
This indicates that your computer is infected with the MSBlast worm.
Windows 2000: Computer displays an error message about "svchost.exe" fatal errors. Odd behavior follows, such as not being able to drag-and-drop certain items, Internet Explorer context menus (right click menus) don't work properly, and other bizarre behavior.
This _does_not_ necessarily mean that a computer has the worm, but the svchost.exe could be crashing as a result of the worm trying to get in. However, you should still run the removal tool to make sure.
Some people have associated this with the install of Service Pack 4, but it appears to be coincidental and not related to the SP4 install. However, SP4 does seem to have it's own user-reported set of issues unrelated to this worm, as discussed here:
http://www.w2knews.com/anecdotes.htm
Windows ME/98/95: Unaffected by this worm.
Windows Update: Windows Update is running incredibly slowly.
You may or may not be able to get in to update your system. This is due to the fact that millions of people are all hitting the service at once trying to get the patch to stop this worm. If you keep trying, you will eventually get in, but it may take a number of tries and 5 minutes or so per try. Additionally, you may get an HTTP 1.1 Server Too Busy error message even after you are in. Just keep clicking on the "Review and Install Updates" link on the left side pane and it will eventually let you in. When it does make a connection, the window or system may appear to hang for up to a minute or two. Just wait it out and it will eventually wake back up with the Blindly-Accept-Our-New-License-Terms window. Read the license terms thoroughl and print out a copy for your files (sorry, couldn't resist) and then OK" and the updates will then download (slowly) the needed files and install them.
To make matters worse, the worm will start a Denial of Service attack against the Windows Update site on Saturday Aug 16, so if you think it's bad now, you aint seen nothing yet.
Worm Trivia: The worm contains the following text, which is not displayed on the screen:
I just want to say LOVE YOU SAN!!
billy gates why do you make this possible ? Stop making money and fix your software!!
If you experience either of the above symptoms on your PC's, you need to apply the appropriate patch from here immediately:
Windows XP Security Patch:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/8/b/98bcf ad8-afbc-458f-aaee-b7a52a983f01/WindowsXP-KB823980 -x86-ENU.exe
Windows 2000 Security Patch:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/1/f/01fdd 40f-efc5-433d-8ad2-b4b9d42049d5/Windows2000-KB8239 80-x86-ENU.exe
Windows NT 4.0 Security Patch:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/5/1/651c3 333-4892-431f-ae93-bf8718d29e1a/Q823980i.EXE
Wind ows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition Security Patch:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/6/c/46c9c 414-19ea-4268-a430-53722188d489/Q823980i.EXE
Wind ows Server 2003 Security Patch:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/f/2/8f211 31d-9df3-4530-802a-2780629390b9/WindowsServer2003- KB823980-x86-ENU.exe
Then, run this program to scan your system for any remaining parts of the worm.
Removal Tool:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/Fix