They can also be bogged down or BSoD'd with programs such as fork bombs (each instance of the program opens two more). Of course these don't cause the machine to explode, but instead places the computing device entirely under your control. When fed a paradoxical statement, a sufficiently well-programmed system would just notice the Logic Bomb has taken up too many resources and kill its thread, such as when Windows flags an application as "Not Responding" and prompts you to close it.Ĭomputer software is often vulnerable to being fed inputs that cause buffer overflows or inject commands. While this might have worked before the mid-1990s, computer systems designed since then are capable of creating discrete "threads" to handle problems, which run in their own space while the critical parts of the system continue uninterrupted. The end result is still a super computer muttering an error several times before exploding. Occasionally the way to shut down such a computer is less like a few odd statements, and more like an advanced philosophical debate on the nature of truth, free will and purpose.
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