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John
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I'd say yes, apart from very very specialised safety critical systems, then it's still not totally out of the question.

After the bugs in the original operating system you have millions of programs and millions of combinations of hardware and drivers, impossible to test everything.
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When i was 13 I had a Sinclair Spectrum and nobody had heard of the internet. You kids talk crap, boasting about your haxxxxing bollocks.

I was in Baghdad when you were in you dads bag!

[Edited on 13-03-2009 by Ste W]

I would rather lose by a mile because i built my own car, than win by an inch because someone else built it for me.
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Well, well I had an Amiga 500+ and I could make it talk
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YES! With Tutankhamun on the front of the box, I never did manage to recreate it. Best I could do was a fanny.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/13/bbc_botnet_analysis/
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/18/bbc_botnet/
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00jctj1/b00jct10/Click_14_03_2009/
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i get if computers has cosmos image pin protection system then this would never happen

[Edited on 22-03-2009 by chris_uk]

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