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[–]Dial-up-tone 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If only we had a built in defence system for viruses in our body, it would be able to adapt to new variants as it encountered them, just imagine...

[–]the-ham-bummer 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Problem: Computer has vulnerability

Solution: patch the vulnerability

Enter Bill Gates

Solution: Add antivirus, resulting in computer security market, which is an incentive for vulnerable systems to stay vulnerable.

Problem: people get illness

Solution: cure the illness

Enter Bill Gates...

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The problem is the complexity involved. Check out this GitHub bug report I think reading that, and bear in mind this is just a screen saver, gives an idea what I mean.