Laying on freshly cut grass and gazing at clouds is how Jana Dbouk finds inspiration: within imagination and possibilities. Living the American nightmare, in poverty and no education, is what caused Jana to appreciate the small things in life. Never leaving home to take care of her sick single mother, Jana’s love for writing sprouted by creating short stories to entertain her mother. Letting her imagination run wild, Jana’s stories quickly became her escape from her dull life. One day she would be exploring space, another day she was the Queen of England. Her most popular article about the Steven Rays scam has taught her that applying real life examples to math equations makes them much more understandable, that the domain excludes the vertical asymptote, and that people need to be much more careful with opening strange emails. With her interest in computer programming and a regular receiver of fake emails, her article remains significant to her as it’s relatable. Fast forward twenty six years, Jana wakes up to the laughter of her four year old daughter, Alissa, is one of The Top Ten Authors in History, and donates her time to read to those who can not. You could say, Jana is most commonly described as your favorite person’s favorite person.
Steven Rays Fined $54 Million for Computer Hacking Damages.
Sunday October 20, 2013. 11:46am Author: Jana Dbouk
In 2011, over 160,000 citizens across Canada signed the Safe Site Petition in alliance for Steven Rays to end his virus-causing chain emails. Today, the country is in shock after over fifteen million dollars were stolen online through Rays’ new hacking software. CIBC’s Head of System Programming, Joe Haring, quickly alerted the media after “large sums of money were somehow being removed from the system in unexplainable patterns.” Over eight banks and millions of computers are now damaged after the cyber attack which has been explained to “infect the user’s computer and use their WiFi connected to infect surrounding computers.”
Alexander Almaya, our Head of Miscellaneous Expenses, has determined that to find the amount of computers infected by the virus in the hour it was active the following equation should be used: I(p)=40/70-t. The first equation determines the amount, in millions, of infected computers, represented by I. Since the duration of the attack was an hour, the value of time would be represented by T. This shows us how many computers were infected in say 10 minutes or 40 minutes. To calculate the rate of change, Almaya had devised the equation: R(p)= (40/70-t)2. The second equation would be used to calculate rate the amount of computers, represented by R, infected at any momentum.
Domain: All the values of x which define the function across the x axis. In this case, includes all real numbers excluding 70 (see vertical asymptote below).
Range: All the values of y which define the function across the y axis. In this case, includes all real numbers excluding 0 (see horizontal asymptote below).
Horizontal Aympotote: Line across the y axis the curve approaches-but never touches- as it heads towards infinity.For the virus to be active it had to have infected at least one computer, which is why the value of 0 is never met.
Vertical Asymptote: Line across the x axis the curve approaches-but never touches- as it heads towards infinity. Government officials issued computer programmers to eliminate the virus, which was successfully completed seventy minutes after the attack explaining why the graph does not reach 70 (the virus was never active for seventy minutes).
Instantaneous Rate of Change: The rate of change at any momentum. Equal to the slope of the tangent line. For example: the amount of computers infected per minute after twenty minutes the virus was active.
Average Rate of Change: The overall rate of change- the change in the y-valye divided by the change in the x-value. For example: the average number of computers infected by the virus per minute over the duration it was active.
End Behavior: The action a graph represents as it extends in a direction. For example: a graph extending to negative infinity will never touch the horizontal asympotote.
Slope: Measures the steepness of a line. For a curve, it is found by drawing a secant line. Is equivalent to the average rate of change.
Using the equation, Almaya calculated that after twenty minutes, I(p)=40/70-20, eight hundred thousand computers were infected. With the virus spreading quickly, I(p)=40/70-40, over 1.3 million computers were taken control over in simply forty minutes. By the end of the hour, I(p)=40/70-60, Rays’ virus had infected four million computers.
To make this easier to understand, Chief Executor in Product and Design, Mark George, has graphed and labeled the numbers. To display the average rate of change for the duration of the hour, Almaya kindly re-evaluated the graph and concluded the average rate of change to be 66.666.485 computers per minute.
To determine the rate of change for the first twenty minutes is, R(p)= (40/70-20)2, is: 640, 000 computers (32,000 computers per minute). Slightly decreasing to R(p)= (40/70-40)2 1.179 million computers after forty minutes (29,475 computers per minute), and then rapidly increasing to R(p)= (40/70-60)2 , a rate of eight million computers in one hour (133,334 computers per minute).
When asked about how they would feel about a tax increase to cover the costs of the infected computers, citizens became furious and stated they should not be expected to pay a cent to cover costs. The Safe Site Petition signed had by quote stated “when signed by over 100,000 approved citizens, any incident resulting of the matter will not be the responsibility of the citizens”. Unfortunately, this is now in the hands of Rays as well as law suits from banks which have crashed because of the incident.
