On Tue, 17 Sep 1996 17:14:53 -0400, Mike Fletcher wrote:

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Gee, biotech has come a long way. Now I can download the Anthrax DNA sequence from the net and insert it in some carrier bacteria and start making Anthrax bacteria. Neat! Now the bad news: the DNA replicator only works under Windows 95 and comes with buggy drivers!

Buggy drivers? But isn't that the point in this case? :)

True, true... <g> And you *really* don't want to see what happens when it crashes!

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Unfortunately, it can be very deadly. The idea here is that it rarely infect s humans - in the normal course of events. If a determined biowarrior is tryin g to infect people, all bets are off.

The Frank Herbert (of _Dune_ fame) book _White Plague_ comes to mind. Basically a molecluar biologist's wife and kids are killed by an IRA bomb while visiting Dublin. He snaps and creates a plague which kills women (men are carriers) as revenge. All without using that nasty Internet (in fact, the book was written back before even ARPAnet).

I remember reading this one. Very applicable! # Chris Adams <adamsc@io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp # cadams@acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 "I have never been able to figure out why anyone would want to play games on a computer in any case when the whole system is a game. Word processing, spreadsheets, telecoms -- it's all a game. And they pay you to play it." -- Duncan Frissell