September 10, 2003 – 22:11
I’ve now finaly got back to my main desktop so I can check my email since I’m incapable to do so from the road using my iBook. I was greeted by 500 messages, half of wich I estimate is copies of the Sobi.F worm sent as bounced Mail Delivery notices after someone spoofing my email adress.
I will now closely monitor every incoming email message and send a cease and desist letter to everyone that use Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express if they do not switch mailer and/or OS. Yes, the bogieman is coming after you! Whohahaha!
I have recieved a “Mail Delivery System” error message from a email message I didn’t send. Apparently someone tried to send a message containing the Sobig.F virus in an attachment using my email address in the from line. I’m investigating the abuse since that practice violates both US Federal law as well as European and Swedish law.
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I’m sick and tired of people emailing around MS Word documents. When are they gona learn? Either send it as plaintext (when it’s short and you don’t need formatting) or send it as a PDF file. All operating systems I use (KDE/GNU/Linux and MacOS X) can print documents to a PDF-file from the printing dialog. So why can’t they? I’m thinking about pen down a guide to common sense for regular computer users, those who used to be known as lusers in the MIT ITS era.
I might have sounded harsh in the last post. But between last weeks power outage and virus infections I found that if we could convert moronity into electricity we would have an eternal energy source.
In times like this, when people ask me if I got infected by the latest worm, I get to hold many lectures on why I consider people insisting on using MS Windows morons and why they should switch to Linux (Ark Linux, Gentoo) or just get a Mac.
On a related issue, I found this via a banner that pissed me off — for about two seconds — until I realized how well crafted the site is and that probably a majority of MS Windows users will find it beliveable.
Out of curiosity I searched for and article on XP — or eXtreme Programming in Wikipedia. And got a pretty suprising search result where Adolf Hitler top the “Article text matches”. Hmm, and Wikipedia is supposed to be NPOV…
There has been many complaints over the fact that AI science hasn’t made any breakthroughs since the seventies. My guess is that most people function after the stimuli-reaction principle. Exactly like the Alice bot, and that’s why it works.
A computer only has to apear intelligent to pass the Turing test. It’s scarry since it actually tell you more about us humans than the state of AI science. You just have to apear intelligent. We’re quite stupid, aren’t we?
People think I’m a cynical dude with attitude. To tell the truth; there’s enough stuff in the world to disilluse you, what’s left is mocking it.
To quote Scott Adams: “Stupidity is like nuclear power, it can be used both for good and for evil. And you don’t want to get any on you.”
The search terms people have used to find my page in web search engines never stop to amuse me. I got a hit after someone searched for: “depression why do i even bother trying single” …