Alien computer viruses?

Berkeley SETI PhD candidate Andrew Siemion talks about why your computer won't be getting an alien virus in this article on io9.com.
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You like your broken links Dr. Eric, huh? :-) I tried fixing it but no luck.
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-Dave #2


3.2.0-33

You like your broken links Dr. Eric, huh? :-) I tried fixing it but no luck.

Yeah go figure it does indeed work. Before I got a 404. weird.



Look at the comments at the end of the article. LMAO the proposed alien spam messages are priceless.
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-Dave #2


3.2.0-33

I've just got an alert from ET Antivirus 2013 telling me my system is infected. They only want fifty klaygaars for a twenty leeptoo licence, sounds like a bargain :)
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In an alternate universe, it was a ZX81 that asked for clothes, boots and motorcycle.

Beer/wine o'clock, the best of the o'clocks.

Humpty dumpty sat on a wall, along came a giant, and cooked him for breakfast.

Berkeley SETI PhD candidate Andrew Siemion talks about why your computer won't be getting an alien virus in this article on io9.com.

Hmm...

Why bother infecting computors when it would probebly be more intresting in controlling the human minds for an Alien interest in humanity.

I've just got an alert from ET Antivirus 2013 telling me my system is infected. They only want fifty klaygaars for a twenty leeptoo licence, sounds like a bargain :)

I've just got an alert from ET Antivirus 2013 telling me my system is infected. They only want fifty klaygaars for a twenty leeptoo licence, sounds like a bargain :)

So really, a Virus fell through a Wormhole in Space and recorded itself on a 360k floppy in the 1970s in a garage on a computer belonging to a couple of dropouts from Harvard who said "wow, we could make millions if we sold this rubbish"?

So really, a Virus fell through a Wormhole in Space and recorded itself on a 360k floppy in the 1970s in a garage on a computer belonging to a couple of dropouts from Harvard who said "wow, we could make millions if we sold this rubbish"?

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs never went to Harvard, but they did work out of a garage. Paul Allen and Bill Gates did drop out of Harvard but they worked out of Bill's parent's house.)

So really, a Virus fell through a Wormhole in Space and recorded itself on a 360k floppy in the 1970s in a garage on a computer belonging to a couple of dropouts from Harvard who said "wow, we could make millions if we sold this rubbish"?

Yes, and when they saw that a portion of the population wanted nothing to do with that software, they decided to assist a college student from Finland to make a clone of their first virus attempt under the guise that it was an OS for geeks.

So really, a Virus fell through a Wormhole in Space and recorded itself on a 360k floppy in the 1970s in a garage on a computer belonging to a couple of dropouts from Harvard who said "wow, we could make millions if we sold this rubbish"?

Yes, and when they saw that a portion of the population wanted nothing to do with that software, they decided to assist a college student from Finland to make a clone of their first virus attempt under the guise that it was an OS for geeks.

...Oz, LOL.

(to get technical Linux is a Unix clone, not DOS.)

If you listen to the musicplayer backwards there are hidden messages in it,
I am shure i heard something . . . . .

Initially I thought the title of the thread had to do with why it is unlikely to get SETI work units. ;)

Thanks for an interesting and thought provoking discussion.

-Boomer
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