Mondjatok vicceket!
Egy viccnek nincs \"eredeti\", \"jobb\", \"rosszabb\", \"elrontott\", és egyéb hasonló jelzőkkel illetett változata. Változatok vannak, és mindenkinek az az eredeti/legjobb, amit először hallott, így felesleges beszólni azért, mert valaki más egy másik változatot ismer.
Egy viccnek nincs \"eredeti\", \"jobb\", \"rosszabb\", \"elrontott\", és egyéb hasonló jelzőkkel illetett változata. Változatok vannak, és mindenkinek az az eredeti/legjobb, amit először hallott, így felesleges beszólni azért, mert valaki más egy másik változatot ismer.
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Whir #2296 From: Steve Mann
To: [email protected]
Subject: Vandalism of informatic property (unsolocited advertising+virus)
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 06:16:29 -0500
Recently I purchased four new computers, and I requested that they be
shipped with no operating system, because we develop our own software
in my lab, and we have a policy against using Closed Source software or
operating systems. Therefore, we would expect blank hard drives.
However, all four of my new computers appear to have been contaminated
with informatic detritus of some kind, which appears to include
an unsolicited advertisement. In particular the word "Windows",
which appears to be a trademark of your corporation, appears on each
of my computers when booted.
Presently, we are posting a copy of this waste material to our main WWW
server to seek advice from the computer science community as a whole,
on how best to dispose of it, as well as advice on what fee would be
reasonable for us to charge for its disposal.
We are also seeking advice from the community, and hoping that other
scientists can analyze these waste products to confirm their origin,
as well as give us advice on how best to decontaminate our systems,
and to obtain three independent quotations for having this unwanted
material verifiably removed from our computers.
Since the hard drives in question are each approximately 40 gigabytes,
and the best way for us to make this waste matter available to other
scientists for analysis has been to "dd" the entire hard drive contents
to our WWW site, this requires considerable space on our main file
server that supports or WWW server.
Accordingly, we seek a storage fee for this waste matter, until such
time as we can collect sufficient opinions on how best to dispose of it,
and to ensure that it has not adversely affected any of our computers,
as well as how best to ensure that new computers we order in the future
are not similarly contaminated.
Any advice you can provide on the nature of this waste product would
be greatly appreciated, especially if it might expedite the analysis
so that we can free up the 160 gigabytes of space on our WWW server
that the samples occupy.
The unsolicited message displayed on the screens seem to partly match
a sticker that was found on the side of each computer reading "Windows
2000 Professional 1-2 CPU Certificiate of Authenticity".
It might seem, therefore, that your corporation would be the
corporation responsible for contamination of my computers with
this waste product, virus, or unsolicited advertising material.
Please advise if your company can assume blame for this deliberate
vandalism of my new computer, or if this was an accidental act and
merely a result of negligence on the part of your company.
I would welcome your comments on what fee you feel might be
reasonable fee for disposing of this material, and how long we should
need to keep it publically available on our WWW server for reasonable
analysis.
I am sending to this email address because this is the address that
I find from visiting the WWW site that appears on the unsolicited
stickers attached to the outsides of my new computers.
I will also be scanning the surfaces of my computers and posting copies
of these stickers to the WWW in order to obtain a quote for having
them removed from the outsides of my computers and having the housings
cleaned.
If you can advise on a removal process for these unsolicited
advertising stickers, or what you feel you might be willing
to pay as a reasonable fee for their removal, please advise.