The protection mechanisms that are present in the Windows kernel are rendered less effective inside of a virtual machine as opposed to a physical machine.
But a virtual server could be intercepted in midflight, Oberheide points out, and altered to give a hacker entry into whatever new physical machine it has moved.
The performance of a virtual machine, for example, may vary widely, based on the computing taking place on the other virtual machines that are running on the same physical machine.
The Supreme Court did uphold a patent on a software-controlled rubber-curing machine in 1981, but its ruling emphasized that this was because the patent covered a physical machine that happened to have a software component, rather than claiming a software technique by itself.
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Of course, a physical Archer pinball machine would be that much better.
In some fields, it is direct and obvious, like operating a tool or machine or creating something physical.
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"Basically you're encapsulating an operating system and applications within a virtual machine instead of separate physical servers, " said Marks.
Our data consistently shows Web site response times vary from region to region based on the physical location of a cloud server machine.
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We are heading into an instrumented world, in which intelligence is widely distributed across the physical landscape, turning everything into, in effect, a machine.
Or we would be, if not for Downey's deliciously deft physical performance, which insists that the melding of man and machine is no walk in the park.
Facial detection technology can enable a machine to present a customer with items they would typically purchase based on their physical characteristics.
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