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PARC's New Networking Architecture

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."

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  1. In related news.. by ebob9 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Personal Firewall and Anti-Virus coders everywhere today announced that "You've got to be kidding me".

  2. Only two possible outcomes. by pete-classic · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  3. Why even have a network? by 192939495969798999 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!"

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    stuff |
  4. Re:Whats wrong with generated code? by NSash · · 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!