Comment Re:CNN is reporting (Score 2) 443
Someone at the station must have been watching Earth II again...
Per her source, the deletion of data while she was using it was a warning. Warnings don't work that well when they're less obvious to the user. (I think Tom Clancy actually invented that move originally).
The reference I remember was in Doctor Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, when it's revealed that the Soviets have a doomsday weapon that'll destroy the world if a nuke goes off in their territory, and the Americans comment how a deterrent weapon is only good if it's known.
An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'.