Re: Capital Punishment for Virus makers

[Harmon Seaver <hseaver@cybershamanix.com>]

   I don't think we need anymore penalties for virus makers -- I don't think we
need the government's involvment at all -- left alone, the free market will take
care of the problem. I don't have even the slightest problem with viruses,
except for seeing all the warning messages about them, and I certainly don't
want one penny of my taxes wasted on the government doing anything about them.
  It's quite simple Tom -- you are using a virus magnet for a mail reader, and
an extremely defective operating system. It's an very simple matter for you
to change to a decent mail reader, and wouldn't be all that difficult for you to
change to a real operating system that doesn't get viruses. 
   We don't need anymore corporate welfare or draconian laws propping up
defective products. The computer world is a lot like the auto industry -- most
people are driving Fords and Chevys, some people drive Audis and Mercedes --
except that in the computer world it costs much less to drive a Mercedes. Go
figure! 
   Surely anyone with the technical mindset to design and build gasifiers can
figure out how to install and run an better operating system, eh? 



On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 06:48:47AM -0600, Tom Reed wrote:
> Dear All:
> 
> Computer viruses are a terrible, but low level nuisance to all of us computer users.  At least one needs virus protection costing maybe $50/yr, so a tax of $5 billion/year on the 100 million computer users in the US (and a great boon to the virus protectors who have no incentive to stop collecting this tax).  At worst they cause a loss of 10 to 100 hours of time to the 100 million users, a "tax" of 1 to 10 billion hours on computer users.  
> 
> A lifetime (80 years, 8 disposable hours/day) has 15,000 disposable hours.  So this mischief "murders" (10^9/15,000) 67,000 people a year, far greater than 9/11.
> 
> I cana't imagine what joy the vius makers get out of their mischief, but the 67,000 murders and $5 billion should make it a CAPITAL OFFENSE to spread a virus.  Instead, those who are caught are slapped on the wrist.  
> 
> I hope you will join a national campaign to institute more proportionate penalties for virus bandits.  Lifetime imprisonment WITHOUT COMPUTER ACCESS would be a living hell for them, so lets start with that!
> 
>                                                                             ~~~~~~
> Please forward this to anyone (legislators, pundits, editorial writers etc.) who you think may help with this campaign.
> 
> Yours truly,                                     Thomas B. Reed                COLORADO

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Harmon Seaver	
CyberShamanix
http://www.cybershamanix.com

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