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``Needless to say, Aristotle did not envisage modern finance.''
Frederick Copleston, S.J.
A History of Philosophy: Vol 1 Greece & Rome Part II, p95
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Things You'll Hear About
There are certain things that you'll hear about shortly after you
start actively using the Internet. Most people assume that everyone's
familiar with them, and they require no additional explanation. If
only that were true!
This section addresses a few topics that are commonly encountered and
asked about as a new user explores Cyberspace. Some of them are
directly related to how the networks are run today; other points are
simply interesting to read about.
The Internet Worm
from a letter by Severo M. Ornstein, in ACM June 89 Vol32 No6
and the appeal notice
On November 2, 1988, Robert Morris, Jr., a graduate student in
Computer Science at Cornell, wrote an experimental, self-replicating,
self-propagating program called a worm and injected it into the
Internet. He chose to release it from MIT, to disguise the fact that
the worm came from Cornell. Morris soon discovered that the program
was replicating and reinfecting machines at a much faster rate than
he had anticipated---there was a bug. Ultimately, many machines at
locations around the country either crashed or became ``catatonic.
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