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To define 'infection'
Posted By: JillybeanDate: 5/7/08 5:34 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Can Flood Infect Machines? (Bryan Ojeda)


I think we're using a biological definition of 'infection' when for a machine, we should be using a computing definition. Certainly, the Flood will not physically change the machine in quite the same way it does a human. I imagine they're capable of rearranging machinery should they so choose, but that's more using than infecting.

I still believe the Flood are capable of infecting AI. I think 2401 PT proves this. Copy and pasted from Wiki: A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer without permission or knowledge of the user. The Flood are more than capable of interfacing with complicated programs (they can pilot ships with those control blobs, you can't deny that) and I'm sure from that they can duplicate/copy files and share information.

What else was he trying to do to Cortana other than copy her files? Maybe her virus software is just very, very good for her to resist so long. For all many fans think she is some sort of angel, she is only code in the end, and code can be read by anything that has the power to.

I suppose, by the same definition, we can infect AI if we can crack through their firewalls. Gravemind is perfectly capable of it. And once you have the AI of a monitor, do you not also have the body too? And what is that if not 'infection'?


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Can Flood Infect Machines?Honestly 5/3/08 4:07 p.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?SgtSatin 5/3/08 4:21 p.m.
           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?elpolloguapo 5/3/08 10:56 p.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?SgtSatin 5/3/08 4:36 p.m.
           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Honestly 5/3/08 4:58 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Honestly 5/3/08 5:00 p.m.
                       Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?GatchamanUK 5/3/08 5:21 p.m.
                             Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?InnerRayg 5/3/08 6:19 p.m.
                                   Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?SgtSatin 5/3/08 6:38 p.m.
                                   Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?scarab 5/3/08 6:40 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?MJOLNIR7 5/8/08 5:00 a.m.
                       Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Free Weights 5/8/08 6:33 a.m.
                             Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?mendicantbias00 5/8/08 7:05 a.m.
                       Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Louis Wu 5/8/08 10:16 a.m.
                             Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?mub 5/8/08 10:33 a.m.
                             Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?MJOLNIR7 5/8/08 11:44 a.m.
                                   Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Louis Wu 5/8/08 11:55 a.m.
                                         Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Don 5/8/08 12:06 p.m.
                                               Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Louis Wu 5/8/08 12:12 p.m.
                                                     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Simpsons Rule 5/8/08 12:20 p.m.
                                                     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Crackshot53 5/8/08 12:21 p.m.
                                                           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Louis Wu 5/8/08 12:28 p.m.
                                                                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Crackshot53 5/8/08 2:18 p.m.
                                                     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?SinisterSamurai 5/8/08 2:55 p.m.
                                                           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Don 5/8/08 3:36 p.m.
                                                           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Louis Wu 5/8/08 3:43 p.m.
                                                                 Yeah. And Duel Weilding became "legal," too. *NM*SinisterSamurai 5/8/08 5:41 p.m.
                                         Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?MJOLNIR7 5/8/08 6:46 p.m.
                                               Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Louis Wu 5/8/08 8:43 p.m.
                                   Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Honestly 5/8/08 6:25 p.m.
                                   I've always taken sentient to mean self-sentient *NM*elpolloguapo 5/8/08 6:29 p.m.
                                   Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Cthulhu117 5/8/08 7:42 p.m.
                                   Humans are NOT the only sentient creaturesangrymob 5/9/08 12:18 a.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?mub 5/3/08 6:15 p.m.
           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?scarab 5/3/08 6:44 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Honestly 5/3/08 6:46 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?SgtSatin 5/3/08 6:55 p.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?scarab 5/3/08 6:37 p.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?ACEfanatic02 5/3/08 7:50 p.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Vincent 5/3/08 8:19 p.m.
           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 5/3/08 8:36 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?SgtSatin 5/3/08 8:48 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Ragashingo 5/4/08 9:39 p.m.
                       Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 5/5/08 4:22 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Omega 5/4/08 11:15 p.m.
                       Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 5/5/08 4:24 p.m.
                             Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Jinno 5/5/08 9:25 p.m.
     Yes.Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) 5/4/08 10:01 a.m.
           You know...stan 5/4/08 11:22 a.m.
           Re: Yes.elpolloguapo 5/4/08 4:15 p.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Cthulhu117 5/4/08 12:19 p.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?SinisterSamurai 5/6/08 5:03 p.m.
           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Bryan Ojeda 5/6/08 8:38 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?angrymob 5/7/08 4:01 p.m.
                       Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Bryan Ojeda 5/7/08 4:13 p.m.
                             To define 'infection'Jillybean 5/7/08 5:34 p.m.
                                   *Bows* *NM*Don 5/7/08 5:41 p.m.
                                   I wish...elpolloguapo 5/7/08 6:10 p.m.
                                         Re: I wish...Bryan Ojeda 5/7/08 9:20 p.m.



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