Re: virus: Rationality

Alexander Williams (thantos@alf.dec.com)
Tue, 04 Mar 1997 21:12:12 -0500


Martz wrote:
> Why? Are you trying to say that transfer loss doesn't occur in the
> (any?) transit material?

I'm saying that if loss occurs in a non-interpreted medium, then upon
recipt you either have a valid executable or its broken.

> But the meme is not interpreting itself. That's being done by some other
> memes. Sort of like a piece of software (a compiler) interpreting
> another piece of software (a program written for that compiler).

However, we can talk about how to talk about things, self-modifying the
interpretive memes ...

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There is something that  happens to an  enemy when he sees his  home
and family stepped on by a hundred ton metal man.    -- Arkon Verian
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were the Metal Knights.  These Knights had served the leaders of the
Bendar for Generations,   righting wrongs and  bringing  fear to the
Empire's Enemies.  It is  said that these  metal giants were  shaped
like men so  that the alien servants of  Evil would know that it was
Man who defeated them.
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