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posted by quagga, Jul 02, 2009When you consider all these benefits of a cashless society it is obvious that very soon cash will be a thing of the past.
Recently a significant milestone was achieved in the field of computer operating systems: the OKL4 operating system kernel. The most significant point to understand about the OKL4 kernel for this article is that it guarantees by way of solid mathematical proofs that programs can run on it in isolation and safe from interference from any other programs including viruses - this is something that no other publicly available operating system provably guarantees!
So what has this talk about operating systems got to do with CASH - the subject of the title of the article?
Well this technology in combination with the following facts leads to some very exciting possibilities:
Firstly, due OKL4's speed, reliability and security it is predicted that the OKL4 kernel will become extremely popular among mobile phone manufacturers. It has already been deployed on hundreds of millions of phones.
Also, due to OKL4's security guarantees and architecture we can design software that runs with complete security on these phones.
- Thirdly, almost every Australian who is old enough to enter into a legally binding contract owns a mobile phone and we upgrade them to newer models every few years.
- Lastly, all but the most basic modern mobiles can communicate directly with each other and other computers when in close proximity through wireless protocols such as Bluetooth.
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