Carly is the idiot who took down one great institution and damned near destroyed a second.
She destroyed AT&T Bell Labs, and damn near took down HP, trying to turn it into a glorified ink company.
I was working for a defense contractor in the late 80's. I had developed a prototype test driver for our system, that talked to the target system over an RS-232 interface.
This was back in the days of serial terminals, so no graphics.
I had put in an easter egg, that if you ran the program with my name as the sole argument, it displayed a little ASCII animation intro. The funny thing was that I had actually made a mistake on the first cut, and it scrolled in upside down. So I kept it, added "Oops, start over", and reran the animation properly.
It was originally for internal use only, so nobody cared. Eventually the marketeers saw some potential in it, and started selling it to DoD clients. They made me take the egg out at that point.
"Ushering in..." That wasn't Hugh, that was a direct quote from TFA.
Are you a Turtle?
Been once since 1975!
Dammit! You beat me to it!
Guess that makes sense.... <ANCIENT-SLASHDOT-MEME>Since only old people use email anyways...</ANCIENT-SLASHDOT-MEME>
The following notice is being posted for the sarcasm-impaired, in compliance with the ADA.
The OP had implied <SARCASM> tags.
Are the ponies powered by hot grits?
Only if you happen to be carrying the Loc-Nar with you.
Yeah, Apple *really* led with that. Firefox has had a "block third party cookies" setting since day one.
Years ago, I remember reading about some dude who designed an A-bomb for his senior thesis.
His last stumbling block was the proper explosives for the implosion. So he called up the sales arm of some manufacturer, said he was a building contractor, and that he would need an explosive with $CHARACTERISTICS.... and that he was ready to buy in quantity.
The sales guy fell all over himself providing the exact info the dude needed.
He turned in his thesis, and then when no grade was published, he went to see his professor, who told him that DOE was considering classifying it.
"The money is out there, Scully..."
SSFL (Santa Susanna Field Laboratory) was also the site of the worst nuclear accident in US history.
And now here's something you will REALLY like...
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin
