....Or my latest troubles with wireless networks.
So a couple of days ago, my network went down. No apparent reason why. It just stopped working.
I woke up that morning, checked my email (because I had a few spare moments), got ready for the day and then went to work...all the while unaware that I was about to become a victim. I came home for lunch and tried to get on the internet to check some email...and that's when it hit. Stark white page with some large, bold words written in slightly ominous fashion: "Unable to connect to the server...the URL is not recognized".
"Forsooth!" I exclaimed, "Verily you jest! Why, my computer recognizes a strong connection, and my modem does not blink nor waver!" However, I was baffled and so began the usual routines to reset the internet connection. Unplugging the router, unplugging the modem...waiting the minimum obligatory amount of time...etc.
"Ha Ha! Connected" I cried, in a hopeful, upbeat manner.
Nope....
"What villainy is this! I must speak to a technician!" All that day though, the lines are busy. I call back the following evening, now at 24+ hours sans internet.
Enter helpful foreigner man! In his heavy accent he asks me to do various things that sound slightly pornographic from his inflections. "Unblug de modem and pooosh id bag in avter I tell you to. Nod too soon." For the sake of the younger crowd, I'll leave it at that. Anon, we discover that the modem is operational. "Cawl de manufecksurer ob de rowter."
I get a number and call. After various troubleshooting methods, we finally successful reset the router and get the internet back. Like all ordeals with technology, I had to wait at various times for the technician to get back to me. During one of these periods, my brother made the comment, "And this is why robots will never rule the world." Truer words, my friend, have ne'er been spoken.
If we can't even get too pieces of technology which have limited exposure to human contact to cooperate without error, how can we possibly believe that robots, which would combine both hardware and software and manmade artificial intelligence (AI), could possibly operate without fail long enough to conquer the world. Destroy it? Sure! We can do that without robots, but conquer it? No...
When Microsoft releases its copy of Windows Black Mesa a.k.a "Death to all humans", it will contain enough bugs that the robots will not be able to function without crashing, until, that is, the release of Service Pack 2.0. And after that, it will still need to download a few drivers for the MegaDeathRay 2.13 with nanotech deathbot support.
Maybe we should start harvesting a few of those computer viruses for use against the future attempts by AI to destroy all humans.
Anyways, end of rant time.
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