So if everyone gets infected, does everyone get fined? I think it's ridiculous to get fined at all, let alone getting fined for deficiencies in software/you/ didn't write.
It seems that automatic filtering software is failing, and e-mail viruses are only becoming more and more clever, with ever more randomized characteristics. The solution to this problem is obvious: someone needs to be there to look through all the e-mail that goes through the Internet and filter out the viruses and spam that nobody wants.
So how about this idea? The government mandates that all ISPs to have a group of people on-site full-time, 24/7, to scan through every e-mail message to go through their mail servers. If it is a known virus or spam e-mail, they would set the evil bit to true, and thus render it invisible to both future mail servers and recipients. Spam and viruses can be completely eliminated using this method!
I would recommend having a team of seveal dozen with short, 4-hour shifts rotating throughout the day in order to minimize the effects of fatigue. Boredom shouldn't be a problem, due to the sheer stupidity of much e-mail that would have to be certified. In the future, this could even be outsourced to a work-at-home type environment, where all that is required is a computer with a capable internet connection and some time!
This may even introduce a new way to tax e-mail, by adding a minute "certification charge" to have your e-mail certified genuine by a third party. Low monthly subsription rates could also be available, allowing you to send an unlimited number of e-mails at a fixed price.
What a grand future these e-mail viruses have created! Thank you, Outlook!
Thanks for telling us for the four hundredth time! Geez. Hearing people repeat the obvious "firewalls can't stop infected laptops" got annoyingly old weeks ago! Please, stop trumpeting it like it's some kind of newfound wisdom.
Crappy CG? Uh, okay. I thought it was ruined by gratuitous, no-value-added sex scenes that it really could've done without. If I want to see nude scenes, I'll rent a porno, thanks.
As the country's intellectual community, they should know better... since the creative energy and intelligence required for research and development obviously far surpass those for a monotonous assembly line job.
Although it can be argued that intellect and morality are completely unrelated and should be kept separate.
Oh, don't go trumpetting Apple as some wonderful, acommodating, friendly company now that a single PC BIOS manufacturer is going to produce DRM-enabled software. Phoenix isn't even a computer company, just a single BIOS manufacturer. They two are rather incomparable.
But the point is, these employees were not trained in the dangers of the chemicals with which they were working. Such safety procedures did not [yet] exist, perhaps because the dangerous natures of the chemicals were not known.
But it's true that if such procedures did exist as they do now, then there's no case: nobody can prevent you from hurting yourself if you want to, and refusing to follow safety procedures is a concious acceptance of that risk.
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If you lend someone a CD, you're not actually making a copy.
If send someone an MP3 of a CD, you are making a copy.
It has nothing to do with geographical distance.
but it did happen. the information just hasn't reached us yet.
i don't see what's so terrible with the idea of absolute time
So if everyone gets infected, does everyone get fined? I think it's ridiculous to get fined at all, let alone getting fined for deficiencies in software /you/ didn't write.
Jesus Christ... who cares!
Simpson. I don't think he's taught it before... Mavaddat is teaching the other sections.
It seems that automatic filtering software is failing, and e-mail viruses are only becoming more and more clever, with ever more randomized characteristics. The solution to this problem is obvious: someone needs to be there to look through all the e-mail that goes through the Internet and filter out the viruses and spam that nobody wants.
So how about this idea? The government mandates that all ISPs to have a group of people on-site full-time, 24/7, to scan through every e-mail message to go through their mail servers. If it is a known virus or spam e-mail, they would set the evil bit to true, and thus render it invisible to both future mail servers and recipients. Spam and viruses can be completely eliminated using this method!
I would recommend having a team of seveal dozen with short, 4-hour shifts rotating throughout the day in order to minimize the effects of fatigue. Boredom shouldn't be a problem, due to the sheer stupidity of much e-mail that would have to be certified. In the future, this could even be outsourced to a work-at-home type environment, where all that is required is a computer with a capable internet connection and some time!
This may even introduce a new way to tax e-mail, by adding a minute "certification charge" to have your e-mail certified genuine by a third party. Low monthly subsription rates could also be available, allowing you to send an unlimited number of e-mails at a fixed price.
What a grand future these e-mail viruses have created! Thank you, Outlook!
yep; globalization has a long way to go yet.
but by then, they'll just be importing technology from Ix.
Did anyone else read the headline "Satellite-Assisted European Road Tolls Next?" and see "European Ninja Trolls" instead?
Thanks for telling us for the four hundredth time! Geez. Hearing people repeat the obvious "firewalls can't stop infected laptops" got annoyingly old weeks ago! Please, stop trumpeting it like it's some kind of newfound wisdom.
Crappy CG? Uh, okay. I thought it was ruined by gratuitous, no-value-added sex scenes that it really could've done without. If I want to see nude scenes, I'll rent a porno, thanks.
jesus christ, that's a 200 MB MPEG!
hi! i'm a 2nd-year CS student. currently taking CS246. what's up?
aha it was funny on spike tv...but the guy looks handicapped so you feel guilty for laughing at him
;)
no i don't.
touche.
As the country's intellectual community, they should know better... since the creative energy and intelligence required for research and development obviously far surpass those for a monotonous assembly line job.
Although it can be argued that intellect and morality are completely unrelated and should be kept separate.
I wouldn't call a 386 ancient...
and their dog!
It's funny. Laugh. :)
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Oh, don't go trumpetting Apple as some wonderful, acommodating, friendly company now that a single PC BIOS manufacturer is going to produce DRM-enabled software. Phoenix isn't even a computer company, just a single BIOS manufacturer. They two are rather incomparable.
But the point is, these employees were not trained in the dangers of the chemicals with which they were working. Such safety procedures did not [yet] exist, perhaps because the dangerous natures of the chemicals were not known.
But it's true that if such procedures did exist as they do now, then there's no case: nobody can prevent you from hurting yourself if you want to, and refusing to follow safety procedures is a concious acceptance of that risk.
I just think it's sad that there are less than 40 million elephants left in the world.
What do you do then?
;)
Starve.
I'm getting kind of scared. Though I'm Canadian, so this can't affect me, right?
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