28th June 2005, 11:25 PM
Yeah yeah, but when the question comes up "how would this play out in real life?" it's important to ask "exactly what elements are we going to use from the movies and what elements are we to use from real life?". It gets a little muddled without any sort of definitive lines drawn...
"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)