Could aliens use SETI@home to take over Earth's computers?
The Guardian Unlimited reports that particle physicist Richard Carrigan is warning that evil extraterrestrials could use SETI@home to infect the Earth's computers with malicious code. Since SETI@home, a project in which participating volunteers donate some of their computer's processing time to comb through signals from outer space in search of signs of intelligent life, distributes extraterrestrial data all over the world simultaneously, Carrigan says aliens could take over massive numbers of computer networks simultaneously. What they might do then is anybody's guess, but if Jeff Goldblum is still alive, he can always just send back a virus of our own and save the world.[Via Boing Boing]
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Joid said 5:31AM on 11-27-2005
LOL @ Richard Carrigan
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Jake Boxer said 4:43PM on 11-27-2005
Even though Macs and PCs can barely communicate with one another, I'm sure aliens will have no trouble writing malicious code that is compatible with our systems.
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gem said 3:34AM on 11-28-2005
ha. i think we should worry more about mean, terrestrial human beings writing malicious code and plotting to take over Earth's computers.
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