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A sensation of wonder about technological developments
Feb 9, 2010, 07 :33 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (1500 reads)

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"Putting aside hype and advertising, every news we get about new developments usually plays with our sense of wonder. It's a common thing to admire the way someone solved what was previously a limitation. The funny thing is this can be true even when faced with things we normally consider evil, because we can see that the application of the technology is different from the way it was used.

"This happened to me while researching data about how to detect if your computers are members of botnets. I came upon a series of data that appears to be a timeline of bot control methods, and I can say it is great to see how the apparent generations work. Let me tell you a little story about it."

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