The gremlins are out in force
First the Cobourg Blog was hit and now the Town of Cobourg's site is contaminated. just what is cyberspace coming to?
Thursday, April 17, 2008
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8 comments:
This particular thing has been spreading for ages (in Internet time). More info here:
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=4210
Would not be too surprised if the town bought their web site software some years ago & let it rot.
Remember that wonderful novella called "The Maching Stops" written by a famous leftie whose name I seem to have forgotten?
It is about how humans allowed technology to take over almost all of society's functions, and after too many years, when the machines began to break down, and the current crop of people didn't have the knowledge any more to fix them, everything broke down and human society was destroyed.
It's a fearsome book, and for some reason this post made me think about it again.
Could this be the beginning???
DJO
The Machine Stops was written by E. M. Forster in 1909. The Google machine is working real smooth -- I highly recommend using it when human memory fails -- takes only a moment of time. Check out the story at brighton.ncsa.uiuc.edu/prajlich/forster.html
Of course, machines have enhanced the quality of human life since 1909, and will continue to do so regardless of misguided doomsters.
It was written by E. M. Forster.
It can be read here:
http://emforster.de/hypertext/template.php3?t=tms
"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship." -- Edward M. Forster.
Pity that the collective hate mongers against Gordon Gilchrist's freedom of speech didn't pay attention to this alleged leftie.
If life is a highway, then virus contamination of the internet can be regarded as potholes or sinkholes. A good driver cruises the net with this knowledge always in mind, and Chris makes a valid point about software left to rot; sort of like letting the brake linings on our vehicle degrade.
The concept of code rot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_rot) is a curious one. The software doesn't deteriorate, rather it fails to adapt to its changing environment, which is effectively the same.
I see the gremln has gone and the cobourg site has returned to its usual stale state.
Code rot as you explain it would be like driving the first Ford Model T on its rims in a NASCAR race track.
Why Ben (Big Bad) Burd, with a comment like that, you're liable to hurt a feeling.
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