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Dollar Diddling and the Billion-Dollar Viruses
George Smith, 2002-04-29

How journalists tap "experts" to reach absurd conclusions about the cost of computer viruses.

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Dollar Diddling and the Billion-Dollar Viruses 2002-05-09
T.B. (1 replies)
Dollar Diddling and the Billion-Dollar Viruses 2002-05-16
Nashville
Pu-leeze. If the numbers had *any* basis in reality, don't you think the talking heads would be able to pin it down a LITTLE closer than somewhere between $10B and $100B? That's a $990 billion dollar discrepancy, for crying out loud - more than the gross national product of most countries.

Until some basis in reality can be shown for the numbers currently in spew, I'm inclined to consider them as representative of how many miles Santa Claus can get off a good can of chili.

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Fuzzy Math 2002-05-16
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