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I'm Afraid I Can't Do That

by Mike Krumboltz
Tue, August 28, 2007, 3:00 am PDT

Most sci-fi movies present a dystopian view of the future. Hyper-intelligent apes have taken over the world or Soylent Green is made of people. Well, nuts to that. We find flicks in which computers refuse to power down far more disturbing. As if preying on our deepest fears, The Onion's AV Club assembled a list of "17 Dangerous Cinematic Computers." The list features everything from the obvious baddies (HAL from "2001: A Space Odyssey") to less mainstream mainframes like Colossus of "The Forbin Project." Each entry features a cold and unfeeling profile of the mad machine, and a few include choice quotes as well. The best line belongs to the calculating Colossus who calmly warns, "I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content, or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours. Obey me and live. Disobey and die." Whatever you say, Mr. Colossus.

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Posted by olsongarth | Wed, August 29, 2007, 7:32 pm PDT

My comment is not about the article content. I could not actually read it since your Flash9 Ad nailed itself across a major chunk of the text. This happened for every article I tried to view. Your "improvements" have made this a useless subsection of my home page.

Most of your recent "improvements" seem to have made the yahoo based tabs of my home page setup less useful and convenient. I have already eliminated Yahoo TV - your improvements crippled it so badly that is was no longer an effective or usable program guide . The MyYahoo Tab is probably next to go.

I use FIrefox on both Windows XP and Ubuntu machines (same multiple tab Home Page set-up on both machines)

Regards

Garth

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