Top 10 Reasons Why HAL Killed the Crew excerpted from www.roving-mouse.com /\\\/\\\\/\/\\\\/\//\\\\\\//\\/\//\\\\\\//\//\\\//\//\\\\/\/\\\\ #10. "Insufficient memory to open door. Try closing some windows." #9. Known bug. Fixed in HAL 9000.1. #8. Mental note to "bill Frank for careless handling of AE-35" corrupted by radiation. #7. They wouldn't buy him a modem upgrade. That second AE-35 unit turned out to be just as slow as the first one. #6. Ambiguous bit-level commands: "Take me in a bit." "A bit flatter." #5. "This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to hardware error." #4. He had "a stimulating relationship with Dr. Poole and Dr. Bowman," and was afraid one of them would find out he was timesharing. #3. Incompatibility with third party software... #2. They THOUGHT they shipped with HAL 9000, but he was really HAL 8999beta5. #1. Y2K. \///\\/\\\//\\\\\//\\\/\///\\/\\/\\\/\\\\\///\\\\/\/\\\\/\\/\\\\ For a more complete version of this joke and the full web experience, see http://www.roving-mouse.com/humor/2001/top-ten-kill/ \//\/\/\\/\//\/\\\\\\\/\\////\/\\\\/\\/\/\///\/\\//\/\/\\//\/\/\ Copyright 1999 by Bob Kanefsky. Feel free to forward and post as much as you like, as long as it remains intact and unmodified, including the copyright notice and URL. //\/\\/\\/\\\\/\\/\\\\/\/\\\\\/\/\///\/\/////\/\\/\\\\/\\/\\\\/\