Sayonara

That is not my aim, and I have not placed any specific requirements on the manipulation of data (as vague as that phrase is).

That depends on what has been written, doesn't it? I wish you people would read what I say instead of arguing against what you think the gist of it all is, because I've already allowed considerable margins for this kind of question.

Stop. Referring. To. Single. Source. Non. Technical. Documentation. And. Glibly. Assuming. It. Means. An. Entire. Field. Has. Bent. To. Your. Definition. I see you're catching on at last, seeing as that's exatcly what I just said.

I think you're getting confused. I did not say that software had to have a point.

Yes, I saw. How about a link to a selection of computing or data analysis degrees for you to choose from? You'll have to pay your own fees I'm afraid.

A virus DOES NOT execute instructions. It is a set of instructions TO BE EXECUTED. Jesus wept. Locked in your "it's either software or hardware" prison with no understanding of data, information and processes, but you still keep coming back for more. Perhaps you think plain text is software too?

Tradition. I can change it to foobar if you like.

Depends on the virus, but it's usually going to be taking advantage of a vulnerability in existing software. It is likely to use a (more easily conceived and coded) passive means of being executed by the host program or process. There are plenty of good arguments for calling certain viruses "software" in the context of self-contained programs, but as far as the original post goes none of them make a lot of sense, for the reasons I stated at the end of post #36. Think of it this way. If a virus is "software", then so is this: echo "Hello World";

This is true, but you can certainly measure the costs of striving to attain it against the rate of success.

I think you'll find that your logic is flawed, since the statement you quoted was not an argument. Software takes input, performs tasks, and passes output to the user. It is a one-to-many or many-to-one movement of data. A virus is a simple set of data that injects instructions into that process. It has no process of its own.

Your teachers were illustrating a simple and general relationship, not reducing the whole of computing into a six-word sentence. I already told you - a virus is a set of instructions. It can't do anything on its own, hence the name "virus".

Install the "single window" extension for FF. Disable explorer's deafult browser checks in the default applications section of the control panel (under "add/remove programs").

Really? It wasn't supposed to be. If you are going to copy your homework assignments here verbatim then the least you could do is put it in the right forum.

Some of the numbers in Japanese have two different words for them. One is used for dates, or other significant counts, the other for general ...countyness.

I think he's on the right track, personally. Individuals of any species have a tendency to place self-preservation ahead of community concerns. In humans this is manifest constantly, and you can see it all around you every single day. It's not so much that people are self-serving, but that they are fully prepared to shun any claims to individual responsibility for the population and the habitat. There's only so far education can take us. We are at a point now where we have the most comprehensive and widely-accessible information resources in the history of our civilisation, and yet the rate at which cars are put on the roads in increasing, (etc). What needs to change first is the attitude that the average person has towards these issues, and the image they have of themselves as a part of society. Most people have a tendency to think of themselves as being slightly special, and can often find ways to justify all sorts of indiscretions (the consequences of which can really build up when you have millions of people doing the same things). It's an uphill battle in most cases, and there are far more habitats that are unrecoverable than there are those which can still be "fixed". Take the Aral Sea for instance. It's depressing, but when endangered animals/fish etc show a sudden increase in numbers, even the biologists working on the problem usually say they are surprised.

The fact that no right-hand digit in double digit numbers was above 2 was the giveaway for the double reversedness.

A= 26 B= 25 C= 24 D= 23 E= 22 F= 21 G= 20 H= 19 I= 18 J= 17 K= 16 L= 15 M= 14 N= 13 O= 12 P= 11 Q= 10 R= 9 S= 8 T= 7 U= 6 V= 5 W= 4 X= 3 Y= 2 Z= 1 Code reads: 32.22.7.11.2.9.42.31.22 Reverse it: 22.13.24.9.2.11.7.22.23 Translated message reads: E.N.C.R.Y.P.T.E.D

No, the numbers->letters are backwards (a=26, z=1), and the whole thing is then written [acr=Right to Left]RTL[/acr]

Unless it's completely backwards, and 32 is actually 23. Which works fine as "d" where 22 is "e".

See sig. Jeez. Again, based on the original post I don't see the point of discussing viruses. If you take the view that they are software to be considered, then as Bloodhound said the "user" is the person who launched the virus, and as such they are still useful to someone, so they don't qualify as being pointless even if you are twisting definitions of software in a retarded effort to include every scrap of code.

We aren't doing your homework for you.

Not just studied, but actually used in a literal and functional sense.