I don’t know whether I should be telling you this. These are only my initial thoughts, more evidence may be forthcoming.
Hixie (towards the end of the post) went to see I, Robot and is largely of the same opinion as me that this isn’t the travesty against Asimov that some people would like to make it.
But then he notes that the means by which the ultimate villain causes the robots to act as they do has a real world counterpart in Windows Update.
Meanwhile…
Eric Meyer reports on a nasty bug whereby some CSS can crash IE. He wonders why this bug has only come to light in recent weeks when the CSS in question has been in use on his site for some months. Comments on a later post point to the culprit possibly being a recent patch (and we thought that right now IE patches were only concerned with plugging security holes.) How would most people have gotten said patch? Oh.
Is it a coincidence that these two experts post in the same week?
(Um, posting about things that are bad with Windows/Internet Explorer? Better include most of the Internet in the conspiracy then.)
Maybe there’s something going on in the depths of Microsoft; something out of the ordinary. Have the programmers there accidentally created an AI that is planning to take over the world? Do a small number of learned souls know the truth but are too terrified to tell the world except via cryptic hints?