Australis13

Good job. It is actually possible to do that with some practice.

Well, this was awful news to get up to this morning.

RIP, Sir Patrick Stewart. You will be missed.

The end of Star Trek: Generations.

I wonder if you could fake it by naming it something that sounds like an unmanned diagnostic simulation instead… Visitors not familiar with the maintenance routines of starship holodecks might be fooled by it.

(And as we’ve seen, cybersecurity in the 24th Century leaves a lot to be desired, so spoofing a diagnostic is probably still possible)

You see, comms networks have nice, straightforward protocols for interaction. There’s defined handshakes, everyone’s clear on who the message is for and what’s the actual content versus just the packaging (headers, etc.).

Human to human communication? Now that’s a complicated mess. Can’t always tell what the actual message is, there’s multiple carrier types (body language, voice, etc.) and it’s really bad at handling packets from multiple senders over short periods!

I love the idea that somebody at NIST is in charge of collating a Standard Minions Meme Collection.