Not *exactly* computer viruses ...

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Online gaming environments such as World of Warcraft and Second Life would 
make ideal testing grounds for disease epidemic and virus control, a pair of U.S. 
scientists say.  

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/08/21/tech-disease.html

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rslade () vcn bc ca     slade () victoria tc ca     rslade () computercrime org
Even if there arise a mighty boxer among a people, or one great
in the pentathlon or at wrestling, or one excelling in swiftness
of foot -- and that stands in honor before all tasks of people at
the games -- the city would be none the better governed for that.
It is but little joy a city gets of it if a person conquer at the
games by Pisa's banks; it is not this that makes fat the
store-houses of a city.                   - Xenophanes (570-475 BCE)
http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm
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