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The Wackiest Technology Tales of 2008 97

coondoggie writes "Despite the daily drumbeat of new and improved hardware or software, the tech industry isn't all bits and bytes. Some interesting things happen along the way too. Like floating data centers, space geekonauts, shape shifting robots and weird bedfellows (like Microsoft and Jerry Seinfeld). What we include here is an example of what we thought were the best, slightly off-center stories of 2008."

Comment Re:Debian (Score 1) 133

I just suggest that problems with viruses are much more common (and therefore may cause much wider damages) when you're running Windows os. I dare to say that Linux "market-share", although constantly raising, is not encouraging enough if you want to make yourself "popular" by writing another virus or just want to gain control over infected machines. The level of security that results from default installation settings of the OS is not the most important issue when you are hosting the stock exchange - they surely have their experts - but the enviromnet where the OS is running _is_.

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