Блогът на Фил

На курса по CMMI, който посещавам, ни дадоха домашно, в което се говори за корпорацията Cyberdyne. Мисля, че съм единственият слушател на курса, който се сеща, че така се казваше компанията, създала SkyNet във филма Терминатор. Ето какво открих в един FAQ по темата.

5.14 Is there a real Cyberdyne Systems and Skynet?
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Astonishingly, the answer to this question is a simple “yes!” A net.search
for
“Cyberdyne,” will turn up over 8,000 hits! For example, the following is a
multimedia company:

http://www.cyberdynesystems.com

A net.search for “Skynet” will produce over 14,000 references! For example,
the following is an ISP:

http://www.sky.net

Another example is the following article, which was carried by Reuters on
June
20, 1994:
** VSAT CUSTOMER–AT&T said Allied Van Lines has agreed to
become the first customer of its new [VSAT] satellite hub service.
AT&T said under Allied's five-year, multimillion-dollar contract,
Allied will connect its agents' local area networks to AT&T's
SKYNET hub service for shipment registration, scheduling and
dispatch and to process bills of lading.

Before anyone starts stocking up on plasma rifles and planning to be
wearing 2
million sunblock on August 29, 1997, realize that the results of the above
net.searches typically refer to the names of servers or ISPs. And the other
example is clearly not a automated defense network, but rather a simple
communications net. (Or is it…?)