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Supercomputer Performs Simulation of Virus
moller writes to tell us Red Herring is reporting that researchers from the University of California at Irvine and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have announced that they created a computer simulation of a virus. From the article: "Using one of the world's fastest computers at the U.S. National Center for Supercomputing Applications, located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the researchers ran a computer program devised to reverse engineer the dynamics of all atoms making up the virus particle and a tiny drop of water containing it." Nature also has an interesting write up on the research surrounding this project.
That deleted the files on my sister's computer.
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They will be writing computer simulations of spores!
Tsunami -- You can't bring a good wave down!
a McAfee AntiVirus update immediately wiped this program and all associated files from the face of the earth.
The virus later choked to death on a SMTP configuration file.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Dear Sir or Madam: This letter is to notify you, pursuant to the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, that we believe one of your humans is infringing God's copyrighted materials. Specifically, God is the owner of the copyright and trademarked materials, wich includes all life forms. The aforementioned human reverse engineered a virus without authorization, thereby infringing upon God's copyrights and trademarks. Accordingly, God demands that you act expeditiously immediatelly stop and remove all acquired data from that procedure in order for you to claim a safe harbor under the DMCA from liability for contributory and vicarious copyright infringement. Sincerely, God
You don't need a supercomputer, just a Windows box.
Not quite:
Windows Box: lol this is not a virus
Supercomputer: LOL THIS IS NOT A VIRUS
(sorry, it was badly formatted)
Dear Sir or Madam:
This letter is to notify you, pursuant to the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, that we believe one of your humans is infringing God's copyrighted materials. Specifically, God is the owner of the copyright and trademarked materials, wich includes all life forms.
The aforementioned human reverse engineered a virus without authorization, thereby infringing upon God's copyrights and trademarks.
Accordingly, God demands that you act expeditiously immediatelly stop and remove all acquired data from that procedure in order for you to claim a safe harbor under the DMCA from liability for contributory and vicarious copyright infringement.
Sincerely,
God
...on finding a lawyer. I hear most of them end up downstairs.
They need a supercomputer to simulate a virus? Crap, just get an XP box, give one of my coworkers admin rights, and you'll have the real thing in 15 minutes!
Futher proof of Windows' superiority.
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Now that's just unfair. I'd be talking 2nd base at best.
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You can't shoot him. He's Neo, he'll just stop the bullets in mid-air and stare blankly at you.
[you have to know "the answer" before you do the simulation and then teach the model to reproduce that "answer"]
:)
Wait a minute... isn't that completely backwards for QM... shouldn't a QM simulation know the answer even before you ask the question?