If you've ever watched the old movie "Jurassic Park" then you know
that they would talk about the chaos theory quite often. That's the
theory that somehow everything is related and it's not really chaos.
It's the one that says if a butterfly flaps his wings in Japan it'll
rain in America. Now, from a legal standpoint I am wondering if such
is the case, can butterflies be blamed for flooding? If the intent was
to make it sprinkle and it floods should the butterfly be held
responsible? Why am I spouting off such nonsense? I was thinking about
the latest virus writer who might face 2-10 years in jail. Some
teenager in Minnesota plead guilty for creating the blaster worm. The
effects of the worm crippled computer systems and caused millions of
dollars in damages. But, those were the effects. The intent of the
worm was to spread and attack windows update. The computer damages are
not really damages at all. All a system admin has to do is to reformat
the hard drive and reinstall the OS. What they are calling damages is
lost time for system admins, whose sole job is to keep the system
running - meaning it is not lost time at all. I suppose because the
virus was good at spreading the writer will go to jail. Sometimes I
wonder though, if corporate America was able to get rid of all the
virus writers what would happen to the anti-virus software writers.
Can one exist without the other? Or will it just rain.

Thought of the day
"I'd like to better know ya buffree"
-- Wierd Science (edited version)