Modern viruses do not rely on exploits to propogate.
There's nothing obvious on the site you posted that says anything about how a virus might propagate, that is, get off one system and onto another system (whether those two systems be networked or not).
I have the following questions:
How does a "modern virus" propagate from one system to another?
How does a "modern virus" obtain root access?
Come on, EARN your "Informative" moderation. --- Microsoft spel chekar vor sail, worgs grate !!
The point of/. is (IMHO) to show relevant (and semi-relevant) news items to the 'geek community' and to provide humor and a discussion forum. You could always filter out humor stories if you really want to...
Did you realize it was a fake before or after you read it?
Don't get me wrong, I thought it was hilarious - in the same way I think The Onion is hilarious - but only after I found out it wasn't real. With The Onion, you know the stories aren't real (usually). I didn't know that when I first read the article, so I'm thinking, "What the hell is up with this journalism?"
I certainly am not without a sense of humor. And I'll most likely keep going back to FNwire for more "funny" financial news. I just don't think the original posting was very well presented. --- Microsoft spel chekar vor sail, worgs grate !!
This is just the bare bones beginning of an idea, but it could possibly work. Oh, and the prior art for this is something I read in one of Neal Stephenson's books.
Customer digitally signs some money and sends it to artist.
Artist encrypts work with the same public key and sends it to customer.
Customer views or listens to work on computer, PDA, walkman or whatever.
Sure there are all kinds of problems with this, the first being copy protection. But it's a start. --- Microsoft spel chekar vor sail, worgs grate !!
FNwire carries only fake news stories. It says so at the top and bottom of every page. Look at the fine print if you don't believe me. Sure it's funny, but not everyone is going to get it the first time around. I thought the point of/. was to inform, not to confuse.
How about some funny REAL news? --- Microsoft spel chekar vor sail, worgs grate !!
Sounds to me like Bill Joy watched The Matrix. What's truly frightening is he's not at all off base.
What he's obliquely referring to in this article is Artificial Intelligence. It doesn't seem unreasonable to me, given Moore's Law, that by 2030 we could have computers that exceed the capacity of the human brain to process information. That being a given, it doesn't take much of a leap of logic to conclude that some of those machines might just be capable of hosting an artificial intelligence.
The question nobody even has a coherent theory for right now is: what would an (artificially) intelligent computer do? What would be its desires? Would it also have emotions? If so, what would it feel?
They're questions we can't really answer right now. But we really need to be thinking about these things. If we don't NOW, then we might just find ourselves living in the Matrix. ---
It appears that the release will not be open-sourced (to retain the competetive advantage on the profit Mac & Win versions), so does anyone want to comment on Hsu's implication that porting to PPC should be relatively easy?
Sure. I've done fixups for various apps running on the PPC (Macintosh) platform. Every single problem I have seen falls into one of two categories:
Endianness issues: the program assumed that some data stream would be little endian where on the PPC it is big endian.
The assumption that the program would only run on an i386 anyway.
Typos.
In short, porting to PPC is relatively easy. If you aren't talking to the network, or directly to a piece of hardware, then it should be painless.
The main thing that Deneba will have to worry about in porting this is that they have serialized their internal objects correctly to account for endianness issues. (In other words, no writing of structs directly to/fron disk!) Since most well-designed C++ programs take care of this already, I expect it would be pretty painless. ---
In order to lessen the/. effect I have moved my HTML copy of In the Beginning Was the Command Line to a new location with more power and bandwidth. ---
You can download a copy of In the Beginning Was the Command Line from Neal Stephenson's site http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning. html in plain text format, or read it nicely reformatted into HTML here. ---
There already is a project to create an open, patent-free audio format: Ogg, from the people who brought you CDParanoia. Check it out and contribute if you can. ---
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There's nothing obvious on the site you posted that says anything about how a virus might propagate, that is, get off one system and onto another system (whether those two systems be networked or not).
I have the following questions:
- How does a "modern virus" propagate from one system to another?
- How does a "modern virus" obtain root access?
Come on, EARN your "Informative" moderation.---
Microsoft spel chekar vor sail, worgs grate !!
Of course! Didn't you know the Internet was invented so that UNIX could survive a nuclear attack?
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Microsoft spel chekar vor sail, worgs grate !!
Did you realize it was a fake before or after you read it?
Don't get me wrong, I thought it was hilarious - in the same way I think The Onion is hilarious - but only after I found out it wasn't real. With The Onion, you know the stories aren't real (usually). I didn't know that when I first read the article, so I'm thinking, "What the hell is up with this journalism?"
I certainly am not without a sense of humor. And I'll most likely keep going back to FNwire for more "funny" financial news. I just don't think the original posting was very well presented.
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Microsoft spel chekar vor sail, worgs grate !!
- Customer digitally signs some money and sends it to artist.
- Artist encrypts work with the same public key and sends it to customer.
- Customer views or listens to work on computer, PDA, walkman or whatever.
Sure there are all kinds of problems with this, the first being copy protection. But it's a start.---
Microsoft spel chekar vor sail, worgs grate !!
How about some funny REAL news?
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Microsoft spel chekar vor sail, worgs grate !!
I can't say I agree with everything he says, but he raises some very good points about the human condition. It's worth at least a skim.
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What he's obliquely referring to in this article is Artificial Intelligence. It doesn't seem unreasonable to me, given Moore's Law, that by 2030 we could have computers that exceed the capacity of the human brain to process information. That being a given, it doesn't take much of a leap of logic to conclude that some of those machines might just be capable of hosting an artificial intelligence.
The question nobody even has a coherent theory for right now is: what would an (artificially) intelligent computer do? What would be its desires? Would it also have emotions? If so, what would it feel?
They're questions we can't really answer right now. But we really need to be thinking about these things. If we don't NOW, then we might just find ourselves living in the Matrix.
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Sure. I've done fixups for various apps running on the PPC (Macintosh) platform. Every single problem I have seen falls into one of two categories:
- Endianness issues: the program assumed that some data stream would be little endian where on the PPC it is big endian.
- The assumption that the program would only run on an i386 anyway.
- Typos.
In short, porting to PPC is relatively easy. If you aren't talking to the network, or directly to a piece of hardware, then it should be painless.The main thing that Deneba will have to worry about in porting this is that they have serialized their internal objects correctly to account for endianness issues. (In other words, no writing of structs directly to/fron disk!) Since most well-designed C++ programs take care of this already, I expect it would be pretty painless.
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In order to lessen the /. effect I have moved my HTML copy of In the Beginning Was the Command Line to a new location with more power and bandwidth.
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You can download a copy of In the Beginning Was the Command Line from Neal Stephenson's site http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning. html in plain text format, or read it nicely reformatted into HTML here.
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There already is a project to create an open, patent-free audio format: Ogg, from the people who brought you CDParanoia. Check it out and contribute if you can.
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