Comment Of course (Score 4, Interesting) 506
Have they not seen "I, Robot" (2004)? Of course you need a manual override.
TFA says these transistors would be filled with helium gas, and if it gets replaced with other gases, the thing would quickly stop working due to ionization.
So I guess there'd be magic smoke going both in and out of the chip.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?