Re: [despammed] Re: cutting and pasting into vim in a kterm

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

Quoting Simon Cozens <simon@example.com>:

> Nope; said bug altered the likelihood that the worm would 
> attempt to infect other machines. Its progress should have
> been slow, moving from one computer to another, but 
> instead every node hit three other nodes. (IIRC.)

Ah yes, you are correct. The bug that caused machines to run
out of memory was a problem with the worm checking to see if
it had already infected the computer, and if it had, not
launching another copy of itself. The worm was supposed to
be low-profile and not cause damage, so one copy in the
memories of tens of thousands of computers would have been
far better in the experiment than thousands of copies in
thousands of computers. The worm *should* have gotten a lot
more than 10% of the Internet, had it not been for those
damn bugs. But, according to Glover's First Law of Coding:

The programmer is not God, therefore, his software will
contain bugs in order to remind him that he is not, contrary
to his own delusions.


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Josh Glover
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