On Mon, 8 May 2000, Dave Mullen wrote:
> I was thinking more in terms of ...
>
> Let's assume that every cycle of the LL test for M(M(19)), we took the
> LSB and wrote it to a file - you might find the code for the virus
> there !
Chance is still way off, virus was about 14kB, giving a 1 in 2^120000
chance of seeing it each iteration, compare that to the 2^19 iterations
taken for the M(M(19)) and you see how far off you are.
> (Remember that Bill Gates seems to do this with every application he
> creates - whatever the glitch, error, design flaw, overflow condition,
> why does it always manage to save as a file and then get executed ?)
That's because he seems unable to produce an application that doesn't
include a Turing Complete language with file write rights.
> btw, I'm on 21 months now without work, the money is running out, and
> only the Mersenne mails and Discworld MUD keep me alive !
Careful, that MUD can be awfully addictive as I can attest with 129 DAYS
of accumulated online time (I'm Olorin there)
>
> Regards
>
> Dave
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