A Surfiet of Worms!
I am getting HAMMERED by the Sobig worm.
I must be receiving at least 40 or 50 emails an hour, all Sobig related. I, myself don't have the worm--I've checked--but it's getting on other peoples' machines and 'spoofing' as me, and so at least half of the crap that I get is mail-undeliverable errors from mailer-daemons.
AAAAARRRRGH!
On the positive, I now know more email addresses than I will ever need. If I could be bothered, I might even retain all the addresses I'm getting, in a vain effort to understand what's going on. Sobig is turning into a degrees-of-separation tracer: when it infects a computer, it finds email addresses in the victim's address books and uses them to send more copies of itself, and
In the parlance of Niccolo Machiavelli:
"Thus things proceed in their circle";
And thus the empire is maintained.--
- Ezra Pound, "Moeurs Contemporaines"
In any case, mail-undeliverable notices that I receive bounce back to me from people at least two degrees of separation away. In other words, these people have a Ouij Number of 2 or greater--and I'm not sure I can think of many people, off the top of my head, who have very high Ouij Numbers, because, naturally, I haven't met them.
No, I haven't been wasting my time at the Oracle of Bacon . Although I can tell you that I have a Bacon Number of 4. Nyeah, nyeah nyeah.
Hell, Sobig might be Ramsey Theory in action. But I don't know enough mathematics to be able to make sweeping statements like that. Someone might want to correct me.
And some more imponderables for you:
OK. back to work, but not before a juxtaposition. Comrade Chris, are you listening?
I must be receiving at least 40 or 50 emails an hour, all Sobig related. I, myself don't have the worm--I've checked--but it's getting on other peoples' machines and 'spoofing' as me, and so at least half of the crap that I get is mail-undeliverable errors from mailer-daemons.
AAAAARRRRGH!
On the positive, I now know more email addresses than I will ever need. If I could be bothered, I might even retain all the addresses I'm getting, in a vain effort to understand what's going on. Sobig is turning into a degrees-of-separation tracer: when it infects a computer, it finds email addresses in the victim's address books and uses them to send more copies of itself, and
In the parlance of Niccolo Machiavelli:
"Thus things proceed in their circle";
And thus the empire is maintained.--
- Ezra Pound, "Moeurs Contemporaines"
In any case, mail-undeliverable notices that I receive bounce back to me from people at least two degrees of separation away. In other words, these people have a Ouij Number of 2 or greater--and I'm not sure I can think of many people, off the top of my head, who have very high Ouij Numbers, because, naturally, I haven't met them.
No, I haven't been wasting my time at the Oracle of Bacon . Although I can tell you that I have a Bacon Number of 4. Nyeah, nyeah nyeah.
Hell, Sobig might be Ramsey Theory in action. But I don't know enough mathematics to be able to make sweeping statements like that. Someone might want to correct me.
And some more imponderables for you:
- If a picture is worth 1,000 words, how many words is a table worth?
Am I being cheeky if I append the relevant clauses of a treaty I spend one-third of my essay dissecting?
Am I being coherent at all?
OK. back to work, but not before a juxtaposition. Comrade Chris, are you listening?