This might be a little old - but I have an intense feeling that the current OS paradigm cannot hold for long. I will make myself even more clear - MacOS does it wrong, Windows does it wrong, Linux and all UNIX does it wrong, too.
OSes are still made by a bunch of programmers for a bunch of programmers. And the computers are now SO pervasive and the economical loss resulting from bad usability of these tools is so big that I believe (hope) this cannot last long.
Tool was the important rediscovered buzzword in the last paragraph. Because tool is all that computer is. It's not a piece of art, it's not a personal friend -- it is a mere tool. Like a hammer or a pencil or anything. Only a bit more versatile.
The main OS shift is probably happening today with PDAs and mobile devices. They are the first widely used single-purpose computer technology base TOOL. And more functionality will migrate from desktop PCs to tools. Bluetooth will help along this line.
I have a dream where you walk up to a computer (at that time rather a terminal), you touch it - and the usage of it is as evident to you as the usage of a hammer. (No, it's not going around and bashing things with it.:)
manager: Gee, Michel, IBM is getting a lot of press for pushing this Linux thing.
Dell: Nah, Linux sux
manager: yes, but it gets a lot of coverage lately. We should really come up with something.
Dell: Nah, Linux sux.
manager: Michael, you will slashdoted.
Dell: Darn, you are convicing. Call our PR department...
Then again, even if we had the technology to span such distances in person, it would take hundreds of years to even build up a decent speed...
Actually, not quite. The most recent estimates of what speeds we will be able to reach within the next few decades with light objects are about 0.3c.
Now, considering acceleration 0.5m*s^-2 (one meter a second), it would take (300 000 000 * 0.3 / 0.5 / 3600 / 24 / 365) = 5 years to reach that speed. Then, it would be some 30 years of travel and another 5 years of braking. This, of course, asuming the acceleration is linear, which probably won't be the case since 0.3c is a damn lot of speed...
Anyway - all this just considered with present-day physics and mindset. You actually might live to see transmition from this system...
I wonder - aren't the computers used in DDoS attack usually 24/7 connected computers? Even more likely, aren't they usually some small, old and left-over university department servers -- like an ex-secondary mailserver or a callback dialup server and such - but all in all usually a server?
And how likely is a movie going to be played on that machine? It seems to me rather, that this trojan is directed at multimedia computers of porno-seeking perverts. This isn't likely the best platform for DDoS, I'd say...
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This might be a little old - but I have an intense feeling that the current OS paradigm cannot hold for long. I will make myself even more clear - MacOS does it wrong, Windows does it wrong, Linux and all UNIX does it wrong, too.
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OSes are still made by a bunch of programmers for a bunch of programmers. And the computers are now SO pervasive and the economical loss resulting from bad usability of these tools is so big that I believe (hope) this cannot last long.
Tool was the important rediscovered buzzword in the last paragraph. Because tool is all that computer is. It's not a piece of art, it's not a personal friend -- it is a mere tool. Like a hammer or a pencil or anything. Only a bit more versatile.
The main OS shift is probably happening today with PDAs and mobile devices. They are the first widely used single-purpose computer technology base TOOL. And more functionality will migrate from desktop PCs to tools. Bluetooth will help along this line.
I have a dream where you walk up to a computer (at that time rather a terminal), you touch it - and the usage of it is as evident to you as the usage of a hammer. (No, it's not going around and bashing things with it.
manager: Gee, Michel, IBM is getting a lot of press for pushing this Linux thing.
Dell: Nah, Linux sux
manager: yes, but it gets a lot of coverage lately. We should really come up with something.
Dell: Nah, Linux sux.
manager: Michael, you will slashdoted.
Dell: Darn, you are convicing. Call our PR department...
Actually, not quite. The most recent estimates of what speeds we will be able to reach within the next few decades with light objects are about 0.3c.
Now, considering acceleration 0.5m*s^-2 (one meter a second), it would take (300 000 000 * 0.3 / 0.5 / 3600 / 24 / 365) = 5 years to reach that speed. Then, it would be some 30 years of travel and another 5 years of braking. This, of course, asuming the acceleration is linear, which probably won't be the case since 0.3c is a damn lot of speed...
Anyway - all this just considered with present-day physics and mindset. You actually might live to see transmition from this system...
I wonder - aren't the computers used in DDoS attack usually 24/7 connected computers? Even more likely, aren't they usually some small, old and left-over university department servers -- like an ex-secondary mailserver or a callback dialup server and such - but all in all usually a server?
And how likely is a movie going to be played on that machine? It seems to me rather, that this trojan is directed at multimedia computers of porno-seeking perverts. This isn't likely the best platform for DDoS, I'd say...