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A possible solution might look like this

A possible solution might look like this

Posted Feb 17, 2009 20:19 UTC (Tue) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
In reply to: A possible solution might look like this by lyeoh
Parent article: How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps

The halting problem is not hard to solve. It's IMPOSSIBLE to solve. See Wikipedia for info.

As for your proposal, I don't know how wise it is to resort to the "bug the user" idea, when that's been shown to induce users to just click through things in annoyance.


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