On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
Has anyone suggested stone tablets yet?
Yes, but nobody remembers how to read Stonehenge.
One snafu is that for it to work you would want the
error correcting
code to also be applied to the self-replicating software. Otherwise you
could end up with a payload and no (easy, and the key here is easy)way
to unlock it. Have to look into bootable CDs and see how that works...
self replicating data storage,... DNA perhaps?