excerpts, see also:
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2024/03/today-is-03292024.html
by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 12:49 AM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
Friday, March 29, 2024
Today is 03/29/2024
excerpts, by me, Kerry Burgess, 12/01/2023 04:15 AM
As though the Julian Jaynes bicameral gods are telling me - non-verbally - stories that I will discover in the future.
[excerpt ends - by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 12:49 AM March 29, 2024]
From 3/26/1999 ( ) To 3/30/2024 ( Today , Saturday ) is 9136 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/7/1990 ( ) is 9136 days
https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19901107-01.2.23&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19990329&slug=2952170
Monday, March 29, 1999
`Melissa' Crashes, Swamps E-Mails -- An Estimated 100,000 Computers Infected By Virus
The AP
PITTSBURGH - E-mail systems crashed or were swamped at hundreds of companies of all sizes by the "Melissa" computer virus, a computer expert estimated today.
Jeff Carpenter, a team leader for the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, estimated that more than 100,000 computers and hundreds of companies had been infected by the virus.
CERT first learned of the virus Friday afternoon, and its members worked through the night to analyze it, Katherine Fithen, CERT manager, said. She said the full reach of the virus might become clear today when millions of people sit down at their computer terminals for the first time since Melissa emerged.
Fithen declined to say if any government's security was breached and wouldn't name anyone whose files had been damaged. The New York Times reported today that files at Charles Schwab, Lucent Technologies and Intel had been affected.
The Melissa virus spreads via infected e-mail and attacks computers loaded with Microsoft's widely used Word 97 or Word 2000 programs, according to CERT.
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/melissa.shtml
F-Secure Virus Descriptions : Melissa
NAME: Melissa
ALIAS: Simpsons, Kwyjibo, Kwejeebo, Mailissa
For more information on Melissa, see Global Melissa Information Center at http://www.F-Secure.com/melissa/
A virulent and widespread computer virus was found on Friday, March 26, 1999. This virus has spread all over the globe within just hours of the initial discovery, apparently spreading faster than any other virus before.
The virus, known as W97M/Melissa
https://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/05/04/iloveyou.01/
CNN
'ILOVEYOU' computer bug bites hard, spreads fast
May 4, 2000
Web posted at: 5:57 p.m. EDT (2157 GMT)
By D. Ian Hopper
CNN Interactive Technology Editor
(CNN) -- By midday Thursday, the self-propagating and destructive "ILOVEYOU" virus had already wrought hundreds of millions of dollars in software damage and lost commerce, analysts said.
The virus was first reported in Hong Kong and spread gradually west as a new day dawned, infecting government and business computers. Anti-virus companies in the United States fielded thousands of calls from corporate customers reporting widespread infections.
Two anti-virus companies, Symantec, which makes Norton Anti-Virus, and F-Secure, have developed posted "virus definition" files for the "ILOVEYOU" virus, which is currently known to spread through the Microsoft Outlook e-mail program and through a popular Internet Relay Chat program. Those files have so-called "fingerprints" for the virus, allowing those programs to detect and eliminate it.
"This is fairly big time," said computer security expert Peter Tibbett, who works for ICSA.net of Reston, Virginia, which measures the frequency and cost of viruses on 1 million machines per year.
'LOVE' already costing much
He estimated $100 million in software damage and lost commerce had been caused by 9 a.m. Thursday in North America alone and predicted the price tag would exceed $1 billion by Monday morning.
ICSA.net has 200,000 clients, among them financial institutions, government agencies and corporations, Tibbett said. The Department of Justice used the company's estimates for damage caused by last year's Melissa virus, he said.
"This beats Melissa hands down," Tibbett said.
From 2/14/1969 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Requiem for Methuselah" ) To 3/30/2024 ( Today, Saturday ) is 20133 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/16/2020 ( ) is 20133 days
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: 11:46 AM December 16, 2020
Today's the official debut on Amazon Prime of Season 5 of the video serial "The Expanse"
From 2/24/1943 ( premiere USA film "The Meanest Man in the World" ) To 3/30/2024 ( ) is 29620 days
29620 = 14810 + 14810
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/21/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: Re: Journal May 21, 2006 ) is 14810 days
excerpts, by me, Kerry Burgess, 12/01/2023 04:15 AM
As though the Julian Jaynes bicameral gods are telling me - non-verbally - stories that I will discover in the future. That's a contradiction, however, to the concept Julian Jaynes expertly describes in his book. I am extending his concept about what happened to the people of ancient times and adapting to my own personal observations about my own personal experiences and I am suggesting that everyone today is affected by the notion I theorize. Far as I know, Jaynes never tried to suggest that the human species - past and present - have some sort of "back door" vulnerability to foreign influence by extraterrestrial intelligence. And I am not suggesting E.T. is here *now* and is still mind-controlling people to do stuff they would not have done anyway. Rather, I am more inclined to accept the fictional notion established in tangible form under the name James Corey and his "protomolecule". The human species forced into a collective consciousness by an alien race but they created it more than a billion years ago so don't take it personally.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 1:09 PM Pacific-time USA Saturday 03/30/2024
