Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the from-the-research-center-that-brought-us-everything-else dept.
Sandeep writes " PARC announces a new software architecture , named Obje, to establish a device-independent networking system. Essentially, it allows two devices to teach each other how to talk amongst themselves. It does this by sending actual code over the network."
if you're sending code over the network in order to communicate, why have a traditional network at all? Why not just synchronize all the files between all the machines, or just have terminals? It seems like a mistake to send code for anything as a part of initiating network communication. PC 1: "here's how to hack me." PC 2: "OK! sending hack." PC 1: "thanks! Now I'm hosed." PC 2: "no prob. see you in hell! ha ha ha!"
Essentially, it allows two devices to teach each other how to talk amongst themselves.
What happens if one of them starts to get a little verklempt?
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Until Slashdot fixes the funny modifier, use insightful or interesting. The poster knows your intentions.
Re:Whats wrong with generated code?
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NSash
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· Score: 5, Funny
Code can be a very concise way to express an algorithm.
And to think that all this time, I was expressing my algorithms in pictograms!
And in other news...
by
papasui
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· Score: 2, Funny
Apple Computers CEO Steve Jobs has been sighted spending large amounts of time in the Palo Alto area. When questioned Steve replied "Oh I've been doing some research for new products."
The Obje platform works with all standards, including those that have not yet been defined.
Based on that rather sweeping statement, they should have named it Ouiji instead.
"I see a device.... I can talk to it! Let's start out by identifying myself:"
COLOSSUS COLOSSUS COLOSSUS COLOSSUS COLOSSUS
(apologies to D.F. Jones)
-- // Beyond Here Lie Dragons
History of the Future
by
Danathar
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· Score: 4, Funny
1. Apple copies it into OSX
2. Microsoft Copies Apples Implementation
3. Apple Sues Microsoft
4. PARC is clueless....
5. It becomes the de-facto standard in Windows...MS settles with Apple
Wait...did'nt this happen before?:)
Re:Not enough info ....
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sjwt
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you meen the OSI theoretical 7 layer model that IIRC no one had got working past 6 layers..
mind you it was many moons ago when i was last requested to becoem infomed on the 7 layer model, NT 4 was moving in on novel and id just herd of a new apprently working version of windows comeing out around 2000..
so most of what i lernt back then was moot:)
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Gee where have i seen this before
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 2, Funny
ok let's see powered nanobots using a rat's heart, self teaching code. Damn it's skynet time !!! without the boobs.
Re:lpr -Pnewprinter
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Linker3000
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· Score: 3, Funny
To clarify...
One day I could walk in to my kitchen to discover that my kettle has become fed up with boiling water so it has explained the principle to the toaster which, due to limited processing ability has offloaded 'toasting' to the fridge.
Now, in order to cook breakfast, I fill the toaster with water and stick a filled coffee filter on top, put a couple of slices of white bread in the fridge, take some now-precooked sausages from the fridge and place them in the washing machine to keep warm, use my CD player to phone the local 'white goods realignment doctor' to book the kettle etc. in for a little chat, switch on the microwave oven to catch the breakfast news and go have a shave with my PDA while the coffee brews.
Is that it?
-- AT&ROFLMAO
Re:DMCA and other viruses
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 2, Funny
The next innovation from PARC will thus be a legal document analyzer. This analyzer will verify compatibility between licenses of varying devices and/or their network code. Once a collision is found, it will automatically report the offense to Microsoft's DRM Security Office and to the RIAA. They, in turn, will sue everybody, after patenting and copyrighting all possible forms of the alleged legal violation and the services related thereto.
Of course, when a new device receives the network code from Obje, it will have to sign on the bottom line of the object code... in triplets.
Now the important stuff
by
UnknowingFool
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· Score: 2, Funny
Forget about the implications to security and usability, what I want to know is how do you pronounce 'Obje'. I want to start mentioning it in conversations with PHBs to see how fast they can butcher the name and how fast before they start demanding it be installed on every computer.
-- Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Re:Whats wrong with generated code?
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GileadGreene
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· Score: 3, Funny
And to think that all this time, I was expressing my algorithms in pictograms!
Yeah, pretty much everyone seems to use UML these days...
Re:heh - The infinite IS possible with Obje
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bunnyman
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· Score: 2, Funny
The Obje platform works with all standards, including those that have not yet been defined. It requires no central coordination, pre-configuring, or special set-up, and can be easily used by people with no technical expertise.
So, it's omniscient as well as omnipotent ? Singularity is here !
-- >|<*:=
Another PARC Invention? Who Will Steal It?
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DoctorMabuse
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· Score: 3, Funny
Dear PARC,
Thanks. We've gotten all we can out of mice, object-oriented languages, windows, laser printers and everything else we stole from you.
Did you just say that Cisco has a project called "Spanish Inquisition"?
Who would've expected that?
-- autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Re:Whats wrong with generated code?
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autopr0n
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· Score: 2, Funny
Code can be a very concise way to express an algorithm.
Damnit, you're right! Now what the hell am I going to do with all this Turing machine tape!?
-- autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
August 20, nnnn
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 1, Funny
And using breakthru PARC technology, OBJE redeclared itself SKYNET, August 20, nnnn.......gonna need a bigger tinfoil hat!
Re:Parent should be "Insightful," not "Funny"
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sketerpot
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· Score: 2, Funny
I've been saying for years "Flash ram is cheap, put some in every device to contain a BASIC device driver. The real driver can then be loaded to deliver the total package."
Please oh please tell me that you capitalized "basic" for emphasis, and you don't mean a device driver written in BASIC. *cower*
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Personal Firewall and Anti-Virus coders everywhere today announced that "You've got to be kidding me".
This MUST either result in such intractable security issues that it will be worthless . . .
. . . or the machines will become sentient and use us (along with a form of fusion) as a plentiful power source.
Damn.
-Peter
Microsoft already has this patented feature in OE and IE.
MS definatley has pior art on arbitrary code execution (I'm look at you, Outlook).
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
if you're sending code over the network in order to communicate, why have a traditional network at all? Why not just synchronize all the files between all the machines, or just have terminals? It seems like a mistake to send code for anything as a part of initiating network communication.
PC 1: "here's how to hack me."
PC 2: "OK! sending hack."
PC 1: "thanks! Now I'm hosed."
PC 2: "no prob. see you in hell! ha ha ha!"
stuff |
Microsoft has had technology for sending code over networks for years, as evidenced by the recent MSBlast worm :)
Essentially, it allows two devices to teach each other how to talk amongst themselves.
What happens if one of them starts to get a little verklempt?
Until Slashdot fixes the funny modifier, use insightful or interesting. The poster knows your intentions.
And to think that all this time, I was expressing my algorithms in pictograms!
Apple Computers CEO Steve Jobs has been sighted spending large amounts of time in the Palo Alto area. When questioned Steve replied "Oh I've been doing some research for new products."
"I see a device.... I can talk to it! Let's start out by identifying myself:"
COLOSSUS COLOSSUS COLOSSUS COLOSSUS COLOSSUS
(apologies to D.F. Jones)
1. Apple copies it into OSX
:)
2. Microsoft Copies Apples Implementation
3. Apple Sues Microsoft
4. PARC is clueless....
5. It becomes the de-facto standard in Windows...MS settles with Apple
Wait...did'nt this happen before?
you meen the OSI theoretical 7 layer model
:)
that IIRC no one had got working past 6 layers..
mind you it was many moons ago when i was last
requested to becoem infomed on the 7 layer model,
NT 4 was moving in on novel and id just herd of
a new apprently working version of windows comeing out around 2000..
so most of what i lernt back then was moot
You have 5 Moderator Points!
Which Helpless Linux zealot/MS basher do you want to mod down today?
ok let's see powered nanobots using a rat's heart, self teaching code. Damn it's skynet time !!! without the boobs.
To clarify...
One day I could walk in to my kitchen to discover that my kettle has become fed up with boiling water so it has explained the principle to the toaster which, due to limited processing ability has offloaded 'toasting' to the fridge.
Now, in order to cook breakfast, I fill the toaster with water and stick a filled coffee filter on top, put a couple of slices of white bread in the fridge, take some now-precooked sausages from the fridge and place them in the washing machine to keep warm, use my CD player to phone the local 'white goods realignment doctor' to book the kettle etc. in for a little chat, switch on the microwave oven to catch the breakfast news and go have a shave with my PDA while the coffee brews.
Is that it?
AT&ROFLMAO
The next innovation from PARC will thus be a legal document analyzer. This analyzer will verify compatibility between licenses of varying devices and/or their network code. Once a collision is found, it will automatically report the offense to Microsoft's DRM Security Office and to the RIAA. They, in turn, will sue everybody, after patenting and copyrighting all possible forms of the alleged legal violation and the services related thereto.
Of course, when a new device receives the network code from Obje, it will have to sign on the bottom line of the object code... in triplets.
Forget about the implications to security and usability, what I want to know is how do you pronounce 'Obje'. I want to start mentioning it in conversations with PHBs to see how fast they can butcher the name and how fast before they start demanding it be installed on every computer.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Yeah, pretty much everyone seems to use UML these days...
The infinite is attainable at zombo com!
>|<*:=
Dear PARC,
Thanks. We've gotten all we can out of mice, object-oriented languages, windows, laser printers and everything else we stole from you.
Sincerely,
Apple & Microsoft
Did you just say that Cisco has a project called "Spanish Inquisition"?
Who would've expected that?
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Code can be a very concise way to express an algorithm.
Damnit, you're right! Now what the hell am I going to do with all this Turing machine tape!?
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
And using breakthru PARC technology, OBJE redeclared itself SKYNET, August 20, nnnn.... ...gonna need a bigger tinfoil hat!
Please oh please tell me that you capitalized "basic" for emphasis, and you don't mean a device driver written in BASIC. *cower*