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The Biggest Cloud Providers Are Botnets
Julie188 writes "Google is made up of 500,000 systems, 1 million CPUs and 1,500 gigabits per second (Gbps) of bandwidth, according to cloud service provider Neustar. Amazon comes in second with 160,000 systems, 320,000 CPUs and 400 Gbps of bandwidth, while Rackspace offers 65,000 systems, 130,000 CPUs and 300 Gbps. But these clouds are dwarfed by the likes of the really big cloud services, otherwise known as botnets. Conficker controls 6.4 million computer systems in 230 countries, with more than 18 million CPUs and 28 terabits per second of bandwidth."
Seeing some troll comments here, I wonder whether they (the botnets) already do - and post to slashdot... ;-)
Yeah, I think there was a movie about this concept...can't for the life of me remember what it was called...The Verminator? The Exterminator?
Damn, why has IMDb failed me now?!
Is it just my observation, or is eldavojohn an idiot?
> How long before these botnets are so big and complex that they become similar in structure to the human brain and start thinking on their own?
Now?
95% of the world use's periods only American's use commas
at least we know how to use an apostrophe, retard
Rustok was a real piss cock
Who was very rarely stable.
Cutwail, Cutwail was a woozy beggar
Who could dos you under the table.
Bobax aka Kraken could out-consume
Nagle!
And Maazben was a leery swine
Who was just as poorly coded as Bagle!
There's nothing Grum couldn't teach ya
'Bout the razing of the kernel.
Mega-D, itself, was permanently pissed.
Festi-ville, of its own free will,
On half a gig of pipe was particularly ill.
Xarvester, they say, could stick it away--
Half a dozen XP machine every day.
Donbot, Donbot was a bugger for the lot.
Conficker was fond of its spam,
And Gregory King was a drunk on bling.
'I spam, therefore I am.'
Yes, ZeuS, itself, is particularly missed,
A lovely little thinker,
But a bugger when it's pissed!
-- Apologies in advance to the Pythons
Oh my God! The Botnets are creating their own countries!
when all we could do was imagine quaint toothless beowulf clusters of something
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
..get off of my cloud!
Right. Except in most of the world the dot (what we in America use as the decimal point) is actually the thousands separator and the comma (what we use as the thousands separator) is actually the decimal point.
American: 1,000,000.00
Most of the rest of the world: 1.000.000,00
I'm sure we'll switch as soon as we go Metric. ;)
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