#1) The simple fact that the alternative to virtualization is separate physical hardware, where NO amount of knowledge can allow you to break-out of the hardware, and gain control of the 10 other systems.
Are you completely sure? If the computers share resources (e.g. mounted directories from a common file server), there might still be ways to "propagate" root access from one host to another. Some ideas:
* If you manage to happen a central server giving updates to other computers, you can manipulate the update data those other computers get.
* If any user has shell access to several computers using a shared home directory and a shared directory with execution rights (not necessarily writable by the user), someone gaining root access on one computer might utilize that user account to gain root access to the other computers as well.
Now neither of the above scenarios may apply to your case, but then, that's just two things I quickly came up with, and I'm not a security expert, so I'm sure true experts can come up with much more. The point is, just running on different hardware doesn't necessarily mean that "NO amount of knowledge can allow you to break-out of the hardware, and gain control of the 10 other systems."
When was the last time a virus jumped out of your computer and ate you?
You'll get a very biased result here. Those who've been eaten by a computer virus won't be able to answer here. And even if they could, they wouldn't admit on Slashdot that they got a computer virus.
So, they want to filter out content so that no one sees any copyrighted material anywhere on the net.
Given that everything you create is copyrighted (including things explicitly written for display on the web), not displaying anything copyrighted would basically mean completely emptying the web. Yes, this post is copyrighted (through the simple fact that I wrote it just now), and therefore disallowing any copyrighted stuff on the net would mean it couldn't be displayed.
And in a parallel universe, a couple of giant roaches are transporting a box of humans to see if they can survive through 4 weeks of isolation on an island... In a parallel universe? Guess where you are, and why you are halluzinating stories about applying radiation to cockroaches...:-)
Well, looking at your user name, I'd say you'll not get moderated down until you look at your score. So just refrain from looking at your score, and your karma is saved.
Indeed, the theory that all people die is a bad hypothesis, because you can't falsify it: No matter how long you wait, you'll never be able to disprove that the person will eventually die, even if that person is actually immortal. For this reason the hypothesis that this person will die is unscientific. Therefore basic science tells us that we should assume all living people will live forever. Note that the latter is easily falsified. If you stay ethical, you only have to wait for someone's death; if you don't care about ethics, you can just cause such a death.
What if the anti-worm was started on an infected computer (shouldn't be hard to get infected, I guess), and then tried to analyse the communication pattern to find more infected computers to counter-infect?
a stable environment for raising children (definitely wouldn't apply)
What if the robot has a mechanism to build new robots after having sex with you? Maybe using your genetic data (after doing an internal automated analysis on your sperm's genome) to set some parameters of the newly built robot?
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Are you completely sure? If the computers share resources (e.g. mounted directories from a common file server), there might still be ways to "propagate" root access from one host to another. Some ideas:
* If you manage to happen a central server giving updates to other computers, you can manipulate the update data those other computers get.
* If any user has shell access to several computers using a shared home directory and a shared directory with execution rights (not necessarily writable by the user), someone gaining root access on one computer might utilize that user account to gain root access to the other computers as well.
Now neither of the above scenarios may apply to your case, but then, that's just two things I quickly came up with, and I'm not a security expert, so I'm sure true experts can come up with much more. The point is, just running on different hardware doesn't necessarily mean that "NO amount of knowledge can allow you to break-out of the hardware, and gain control of the 10 other systems."
Hmmm
You'll get a very biased result here. Those who've been eaten by a computer virus won't be able to answer here. And even if they could, they wouldn't admit on Slashdot that they got a computer virus.
But it is!
No, those were South African villages. :-)
Given that everything you create is copyrighted (including things explicitly written for display on the web), not displaying anything copyrighted would basically mean completely emptying the web. Yes, this post is copyrighted (through the simple fact that I wrote it just now), and therefore disallowing any copyrighted stuff on the net would mean it couldn't be displayed.
That's how much he was drinking before writing that post.
Well, let's just hope they'll never test the myth of all Chinese jumping at the same time breaking Earth! :-)
Well, looking at your user name, I'd say you'll not get moderated down until you look at your score. So just refrain from looking at your score, and your karma is saved.
I strongly doubt that cockroaches are able to suffer. Their nervous system is simply too primitive for that.
Simple: Swap the RAM page to disk, and then use a big magnet to clear it.
Well, even not considering the question of joy, I see major technical difficulties concerning having sex with cockroaches.
Ever heard of friendly fire?
Simple: Tell your robots that your enemies are not humans, but only look like them.
Are you sure that doing so wouldn't violate a patent?
Indeed, the theory that all people die is a bad hypothesis, because you can't falsify it: No matter how long you wait, you'll never be able to disprove that the person will eventually die, even if that person is actually immortal. For this reason the hypothesis that this person will die is unscientific. Therefore basic science tells us that we should assume all living people will live forever. Note that the latter is easily falsified. If you stay ethical, you only have to wait for someone's death; if you don't care about ethics, you can just cause such a death.
What if the anti-worm was started on an infected computer (shouldn't be hard to get infected, I guess), and then tried to analyse the communication pattern to find more infected computers to counter-infect?
Indeed, but unfortunately they didn't follow their main advice: The huge success they had with making Netscape Open Source.
So maybe Bill Gates just didn't pay enough bribe?
What if the robot has a mechanism to build new robots after having sex with you? Maybe using your genetic data (after doing an internal automated analysis on your sperm's genome) to set some parameters of the newly built robot?
Conclusion: Health insurance should pay for prostitutes. After all, they save the money for a therapy!