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You listening to the cyber wire network

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powered by and two k. The

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word is demon. Spelled

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D as in double a

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is an apparition, he is

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an evil M as in

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monster oh is an ogre

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and in as in nixie.

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Definition. An operating

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system program running in the

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background designed to perform a

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specific task when certain conditions

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or events occur. Example

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sentence in. Unix. The names

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of demons conventionally in in the letter

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d. Like I know the

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name d and Lpt. Origin

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and Context. While

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working at M I T Project

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Mack in the nineteen sixties, Doctor

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Fernando corporate Go and his colleagues

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originally coined the word to honor

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a famous physics thought experiment in

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the nineteenth century Games Maxwell best

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known for his groundbreaking theories around

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electromagnetism, imagined a close container with

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to compartments separating the two sides

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with a tiny gate is large

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enough to pass one molecule. A

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small demon operate a the gate

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and allowed fast moving molecules the

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pass through to one side. and

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allowed slow moving molecules to pass

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to the other a demon essentially

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decrease the systems entropy which is

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a violation of the second law

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of thermodynamics doctor convert oh and

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crude thought that max was demon

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was the perfect metaphor for their

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operating system programs are being the

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performed a task depending on the

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right circumstance Nerd

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Reference. In 2006,

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Daniel Suarez self-published his novel, Demon,

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that contains everything that a cyber

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nerd loves. Online gaming,

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hacking, augmented reality, and

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machete-wielding killer motorcycle robots.

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Here is Suarez describing the book at a Google

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Tech Talk in 2009. So,

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for those of you who haven't read it, I'll give you

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the high concept that I gave the Hollywood folks. That

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seemed to work okay. It

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is the story of a highly successful

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online game designer who creates

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a program that monitors the web for the

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appearance of his own obituary. And

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when that appears, this program activates

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and cascades in activating other programs

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that begin to tear apart the

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systems supporting the modern world. It's

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not a comedy, obviously. In

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other words, the bad guy builds a

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demon that wakes up other demons in

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order to destroy society as we know

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it.