In an earlier slashdot article (http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/18/0141232_F.s html) a text was mentioned that describes the early WANK worms, and, at the least, implies that a worm killing worm has (successfully) implemented, and was (I think) only the third worm ever widely released (preceeded by father christmas and the first WANK worm...).
Anyway, here's a snippet from the text: "It was also designed to hunt down
and kill the decoy-duck program. In fact, the SPAN network was going to
turn into a rather bloody battlefield. This worm didn't just kill the
decoy, it also killed any other copy of the WANK worm. "
And there are no orbital telescopes that can be tasked for planet searching? How pathetic is that.
You'd think that might be something we want to find out about so that when our sun blows up in a few million years (if not sooner) we will have some idea of where we can go (let alone how to get there).
But I guess that's a little ways off.
BTW for those who care, is there any realizable time pay off to computing in 0 gravity (I suppose Moore's law keeps relativity (which tells us time goes faster where there is less gravity) in perspective.)
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In an earlier slashdot article (http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/18/0141232_F.s html) a text was mentioned that describes the early WANK worms, and, at the least, implies that a worm killing worm has (successfully) implemented, and was (I think) only the third worm ever widely released (preceeded by father christmas and the first WANK worm...).
Anyway, here's a snippet from the text: "It was also designed to hunt down and kill the decoy-duck program. In fact, the SPAN network was going to turn into a rather bloody battlefield. This worm didn't just kill the decoy, it also killed any other copy of the WANK worm. "
And there are no orbital telescopes that can be tasked for planet searching?
How pathetic is that.
You'd think that might be something we want to find out about so that when our sun blows up in a few million years (if not sooner) we will have some idea of where we can go (let alone how to get there).
But I guess that's a little ways off.
BTW for those who care, is there any realizable time pay off to computing in 0 gravity (I suppose Moore's law keeps relativity (which tells us time goes faster where there is less gravity) in perspective.)