First human to be "infected" with computer virus

[shwhjw]

I spose he's not infected, more like a 'carrier' - he can infect other things, even though he's not affected by it himself.

 

[Silent Eagle]

Hes infected with a computer virus? A little misleading but gets attention.
*sigh* better turn on the firewall lol.

I can see it now "Hold on man,i gotta run AVG on myself"

Do you have to click on yourself on your computer now?

"Nobody leave! I gotta scan everyone in the house for viruses!"

You get a virus that shows adverts on your forehead. (I'll let you use your imagination on what ads you get lol)

You can store porn on yourself. (A little LED screen on your thumbnail) Never be bored again!

No,I'm not giving you a "thumbs up" I'm watching TV.

 

[RMcD94]

How can you get infected with a computer virus? It's just 1s and 0s. It'd have to be the matter/energy which made the virus up which infected him, not the actual virus.

Edit: I had a huge argument with my friend about what was better, fingerprints or microchips for security. I want one of those so my door opens automatically when I come close.

Fingerpritns can be faked, at least well enough to cheat consumer-electronics... mythbusters did it.
Fingerprint scanners won't open teh door just by you standing near it.

For security reasons, if you live in a house, a burglar would just enter from somewhere else, so it wouldn't be very effective.

I can't wait till cybernetic implants becomes comsumer tec... i'll pimp my brain with every shit avalible, along iwth my Danish decendance, Ninjutsu training, illegal downloads and a good joint, i'll practially become a cyborg-zombie-pirate-ninja-viking... just need to start a cult so i can finish it off with jesus.

Indeed. My friend refused to back down though. We even asked a policeman (who sided with me).

We got to arguing about how it was more secure in the event you are kidnapped.

Microchips can be inserted anywhere in your body, making it extremely difficult for a kidnapper to simply cut it off and take it. However, with fingerprints, that's not a problem.

It's also less likely that a kidnapper would cut off your neck (killing you) to get the microchip as opposed to chopping of a finger.

And if they don't care about killing or not, the fact that it can be inserted into you anywhere means the kidnapper would do better to having you alive and walking you to your door, because killing you and doing that is a lot more obvious than carrying a finger.

 

[teisjm]

How can you get infected with a computer virus? It's just 1s and 0s. It'd have to be the matter/energy which made the virus up which infected him, not the actual virus.

Edit: I had a huge argument with my friend about what was better, fingerprints or microchips for security. I want one of those so my door opens automatically when I come close.

Fingerpritns can be faked, at least well enough to cheat consumer-electronics... mythbusters did it.
Fingerprint scanners won't open teh door just by you standing near it.

For security reasons, if you live in a house, a burglar would just enter from somewhere else, so it wouldn't be very effective.

I can't wait till cybernetic implants becomes comsumer tec... i'll pimp my brain with every shit avalible, along iwth my Danish decendance, Ninjutsu training, illegal downloads and a good joint, i'll practially become a cyborg-zombie-pirate-ninja-viking... just need to start a cult so i can finish it off with jesus.

Indeed. My friend refused to back down though. We even asked a policeman (who sided with me).

We got to arguing about how it was more secure in the event you are kidnapped.

Microchips can be inserted anywhere in your body, making it extremely difficult for a kidnapper to simply cut it off and take it. However, with fingerprints, that's not a problem.

It's also less likely that a kidnapper would cut off your neck (killing you) to get the microchip as opposed to chopping of a finger.

And if they don't care about killing or not, the fact that it can be inserted into you anywhere means the kidnapper would do better to having you alive and walking you to your door, because killing you and doing that is a lot more obvious than carrying a finger.

Both are irrelevant, cause if someone was determiend enough to kidnap you and possibly cut parts of you off, they would prolly not be shy of just breaking the door down, breaking a window or forcing themselves past the security at the door otherwise.

This is assuming you're using it for a house or something.

If you're trying to secure a safe or something else which cannot just be broken into that easily, you're better off with having alarms that'll alert some security company or something like that.

 

[TerribleAssassin]

Oh my god, I must infect my friends with spyware. It will be so hilarious.

Spyware there phones!

"Hey dude, whats wrong with my phone!"

"I dont know.."

 

[dbmountain]

If you take a sample of HIV, put it inside a small, safe container that is then inserted into your body, does it mean you now have HIV?

 

[Ironsouled]

Somebody, restart that man's server!

OT. relatively high cost as opposed to just using biometrics. One of those little chips, and the procedural cost for each and every person who needs to open Doors A,B, or C.
Cool idea, but not feasable, at least not yet anyway.

 

[RMcD94]

How can you get infected with a computer virus? It's just 1s and 0s. It'd have to be the matter/energy which made the virus up which infected him, not the actual virus.

Edit: I had a huge argument with my friend about what was better, fingerprints or microchips for security. I want one of those so my door opens automatically when I come close.

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Both are irrelevant, cause if someone was determiend enough to kidnap you and possibly cut parts of you off, they would prolly not be shy of just breaking the door down, breaking a window or forcing themselves past the security at the door otherwise.

This is assuming you're using it for a house or something.

If you're trying to secure a safe or something else which cannot just be broken into that easily, you're better off with having alarms that'll alert some security company or something like that.

How would the alarms work exactly? Alarms aren't set off with current methods of opening safes (aside from blasting it), so that's not much help.

Also, breaking a window attracts attention, we were assuming they wouldn't want that.

 

[Count Igor]

Hah, loaded up the same headline JUST as I saw this thread.

I think it's amazing! If they work out the virus, as it states, you'll be able to operate machinery by yourself. (Different site I think).

I. Am. Cyborg.

 

[Mechsoap]

man walking on street until a robber jumps in front of him

robber: 101000011101010101010101010100011111000001010101010100001010101010

the man faints and the robber hacks his facebook

 

[shootthebandit]

i think there is a simple solution here, dont get any microchips or nanobots or any shit put into your body.

id rather be a boring old analog person than some sort of robot freak

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Ghost in the Shell here we come. I'll just call up my good friend Laughing Man.

 

[AMMO Kid]

That makes me laugh

 

[Quaxar]

Guess he should have worn a glove.

 

[oktalist]

It looks like self promotion...

As we have come to expect from the cybernetics division of Reading University.

 

[teisjm]

How can you get infected with a computer virus? It's just 1s and 0s. It'd have to be the matter/energy which made the virus up which infected him, not the actual virus.

Edit: I had a huge argument with my friend about what was better, fingerprints or microchips for security. I want one of those so my door opens automatically when I come close.

snip

snip

Both are irrelevant, cause if someone was determiend enough to kidnap you and possibly cut parts of you off, they would prolly not be shy of just breaking the door down, breaking a window or forcing themselves past the security at the door otherwise.

This is assuming you're using it for a house or something.

If you're trying to secure a safe or something else which cannot just be broken into that easily, you're better off with having alarms that'll alert some security company or something like that.

How would the alarms work exactly? Alarms aren't set off with current methods of opening safes (aside from blasting it), so that's not much help.

Also, breaking a window attracts attention, we were assuming they wouldn't want that.

For the safe, you could ahve a detector which is set off my anyone standing in front of the safe, both passive infrared, active infrared, sonic, thermal and other detector types could do the trick.
For the safe itself you could have many options, a preassure sensor below it will make sure it can't be moved without setting off an alarm, you could hane most of the above mentioned sensors inside the safe and they'll go off if it opens.

As for the windows, yeah it attracts attention, and you could have glass-break detectors on the windows, but my point was, burglaries happen every second, and the burglars will find a way to get in unless you secure every entrance heavily, like reinforced doors with unpickable locks (both chip and fingerprint could work here) bars in every window etc.
So securing teh front door with fancy equipment is useless unless you secure every possible entrance cause the burglar will prolly not use the front door for his entrance regardless of what kind of equipment you have on it.
If you live in an apaprtment with only one door, high enough up to make the wondows unreachable (i do) sure, securing teh front door is enough, cause theres no other entrances.