Word: virtualization
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...falling energy prices are the best kind to have. Much as the prospect of rising pump prices earlier in the summer had economists worried about a "virtual tax," psychologically and otherwise, on producers and consumers alike, the reality of precipitously falling energy prices means that consumers will feel richer and manufacturers, well, at least cheaper fuel doesn?t make that woebegone sector?s predicament any worse...
...year before money had flowed everywhere, and it seemed the “dollar and a dream” was no fantasy—it was reality. Any bright-eyed dreamer or college drop-out with an idea—Sell books online! Deliver groceries over the web! A virtual petstore? Sure, why not?—could get millions (millions!) thrown at him. The American Dream! How quickly it could be realized...
...small problem: while there are thousands of online book clubs for discussing, not buying, books, I quickly learned that most have no focused topic to discuss. What's worse, many are virtual ghost towns long since abandoned by their participants. Unwilling to admit failure--or admit how little time I had spent "researching" this idea--I plowed through dozens of clubs until I found some winners...
...talking the virtual version of HIV here. There was no malicious intent. The greatest effect so far noted in Code Red's last go-round two weeks ago was that the White House website, the ultimate target of its initial attacks, had to change its IP address. Hands up anyone, even anyone who was surfing the White House website at that exact moment, who noticed...
...There is such a thing as white-hat hacking, where large corporations hire the most clever and mischievous of virtual raiders to probe their defenses for weaknesses. At its broadest definition, all hacking is white-hat hacking. Without it, the Internet would be like the Martians at the end of H.G. Wells' classic War of the Worlds: destroyed the moment we left our sterile, germ-free environment...