Conference hydra::dejavu

    > Demon Computer Kills 2 Workers!                               November 12,
    >1991
    >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    >by Sally O'Day (Weekly World News)

    Well we have plenty of time before next Tuesday to stop it from
    happening since I have it on good authority that today is only the 8th
    of November. I suggest that they shut of the power from the substation.

    I well remember being called to a site some years ago because the
    computer was trying to kill the operator. The operator was most upset
    when I pointed out that as the computer was not alive it
    was incapable of either liking or disliking her. On examination we
    found out that a static charge was building up on her body, the
    computer room floor was tiled carpet and the humidity was a bit low.

    No great mystery.

    Jamie.

Welcome back, Jamie,

I was beginning to miss your `no great mystery' approach. We very much need it,
as an antidote to fanciful nonsense, even if it does have very definite limits.

Chris.

    Re .0 (Linda):
    
    Was there any citation as to the source of the story?
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.

    Well, I for one assume this is true until proven false.
    That line about computer consultants babbling like madmen as they
    approach a malfunctioning machine sure rings true from my experience.
    
    I just hope they haven't got this reject from "The Forbin Project
    School of Computer Engineering" connected to the same financial network
    with any other banks.  We'll have pea soup spitting out of automated 
    teller machines and small children being pulled into the receipt
    slots.  It's frustrating enough when the damn things are down,
    but when they're possessed it'll be a real hassle.
    
    I bet Dr. Daistrom, inventor of the M-5, would know what to do !
    
    							todd

    For those DEJAVUers who are not from the US, the Weekly World News is a
    paper best known for headlines like "I'm Having The Baby of Elvis'
    Ghost, and Bigfoot is the Godfather".  Anything which appears in it
    should be treated essentially as fiction.  They do not have a good
    track record for accuracy to say the least.  Most of their stories are
    completely made up.

				Topher

RE: <<< Note 1575.3 by LESCOM::KALLIS "Pumpkins -- Nature's greatest gift" >>>
                        -< Cash-register-line reading? >-

>    Was there any citation as to the source of the story?
    
What I received I put in, just without the forwarding headers to protect
the guilty 8^).  I think that the paper is like a "National Enquirer" 
publication, but am not sure....

Linda

RE: .6

>I think that the paper is like a "National Enquirer"  publication, but am
>not sure....

    Actually, after a bunch of law suits, the National Enquirer has gotten
    relatively fuddy-duddy.  Compared to the Weekly World, the National
    Enquirer is a reliable source of information (but only compared to the
    Weekly World).  I'm not kidding.

				    Topher

So I take it that what we have here is a Terminal Terminator!  

:-D

Nanci

    
    
    :^)

    	This reminds me a story of some Super Computer that was built to
    answer one of those little questions, "Is there a God ?". Well the
    question was posed and the computer computed and the answer came out
    on the terminal;     "YES". Being like what computers are like another
    direct question had to be asked, "Who is God ?" and to this the
    computer answered "I AM" and a flash of lightening came down, or is it
    up, and fused the computers power switch on forever.
    
    Dave.

    As I remember it, they built the "ultimate computer" and then asked
    it the "ultimate question" -- "Is there a God?".  The answer was --
    "There is ... now!".

				Topher