Doomsday? Hey guys, it's the internet! Who's gonna die if the internet shuts down? Come on now, it's not like the next ice age or nuclear war!
Not quite, but considering the amount of business that is done over the Internet these days, it is going to be pretty rough for many companies. Especially banks would be vulnerable, I guess, subsequently leading to massive drops of stock prices, leading to further bancrupticies. Not nice, not at all.
Of course, it is uncertain if such a worm could really take down the Internet. But if it could, it would really hurt.
Although not a lawyer, I will provide some info directly from Germany.
One possible problem that Google has is that recent German laws make a site's owner responsible (among other things) responsible for all linked content, unless there is some explicit disclaimer of a certain form. It sounds strange, but even if you cannot control the linked site, you are still responsible.
Another peculiarity of German law is that it is very inclusive. It claims to govern (more or less) all actions done by a German, to a German, or in Germany. I.e., it affects Google even if all servers are on the other side of the big lake, simply because the download happens in Germany.
This is very annoying and impractical, but do not expect those who make laws to understand the Net.
Speaking of Logo and Java, RoboCode somewhat reminded me of Logo, although in a less peaceful, less turtlesque style. Maybe that would be Logo for (maybe not quite) grown-ups.
It would surely be also interesting to see how this cluster scaled, i.e., use only 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 of the 32 machine available. Do we still see a linear at the full size, indicating that adding more machines would be any good? Or did the performance already top off, indicating that you can get better price/performance figures when restricting yourself to fewer machines?
I do not hazard a guess, but it is surely interesting what Linux can do best, instead of comparing it to Windows, only.
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Not quite, but considering the amount of business that is done over the Internet these days, it is going to be pretty rough for many companies. Especially banks would be vulnerable, I guess, subsequently leading to massive drops of stock prices, leading to further bancrupticies. Not nice, not at all.
Of course, it is uncertain if such a worm could really take down the Internet. But if it could, it would really hurt.
One possible problem that Google has is that recent German laws make a site's owner responsible (among other things) responsible for all linked content, unless there is some explicit disclaimer of a certain form. It sounds strange, but even if you cannot control the linked site, you are still responsible.
Another peculiarity of German law is that it is very inclusive. It claims to govern (more or less) all actions done by a German, to a German, or in Germany. I.e., it affects Google even if all servers are on the other side of the big lake, simply because the download happens in Germany.
This is very annoying and impractical, but do not expect those who make laws to understand the Net.
Speaking of Logo and Java, RoboCode somewhat reminded me of Logo, although in a less peaceful, less turtlesque style. Maybe that would be Logo for (maybe not quite) grown-ups.
I do not hazard a guess, but it is surely interesting what Linux can do best, instead of comparing it to Windows, only.