2nd July 2010, 10:41 AM
While I'm not too surprised to see the "big" news stations passing huge tech and science news by (it's standard operating procedure), the big alarm bells are raised by none of the huge tech and science sites I visit mentioning the thing. I can't even find it on Google.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)