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Towards an Internet-Scale Operating System

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the worldwide-reboot dept.

gschoder writes: "Two Berkeley computer scientists (including David P. Anderson of SETI@home) envision an Internet-scale operating system to harness the processing power, networking efficiency, and storage capacity of everyone's computers. Scientific American has their proposal."

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  1. Who gets root access? by jparp · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...

  2. The first thing I will do.... by SamBeckett · · Score: 3, Funny

    cat > test.c

    int main() {

    while(1) fork();

    return(0);

    }

  3. I've seen this before in an Apple commercial... by josquint · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... which aired January 1984...

    .

  4. ILOVEYOU by sporty · · Score: 3, Funny

    Doesn't the "I Love You"/SirCam/Nimbda virus already do this? :)

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    ping -f 255.255.255.255 # if only