>>1All abstractions eventually have to deal with physical reality.
Our minds are biological brain interfaces(even if we have souls, the souls have to interface into physical downstream output).
CPUs are built on analog microelectronics(with a digital representation defining 0's and 1's).
The Internet is just cables and sattelites, it can be cut,interfered with or shut off. Dealing with reality is hard, but its the truth behind all abstractions and autistic escapism cannot nullify it.
Living in abstraction land where perfect RAM doesn't get corrupted and CPUs never have bugs is a recipe for disaster.
I hope this exploit is not applicable to JavaScript/Flash/Silverlight as this would create some serious botnet potential.
Kanter, of the Microprocessor Report, said. "If you want to actually fix this problem, we need to go out and replace, on a DIMM by DIMM basis, billions of dollars' worth of DRAM. From a practical standpoint that's not ever going to happen."