Word: foolproofing
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...threw out at least got sampled. Today most new shows seem doomed to demise unless they get a time slot next to an established hit. Of the 22 network series introduced last fall, only two wound up in the season's Top 30. One, A Different World, had the foolproof time period after The Cosby Show; the other, My Two Dads, followed Family Ties...
Nozick said that an attempt by God to communicate proof of His existence might involve stating this outright to people or by "some underlying trend of the universe," such as the motion of elementary particles. Neither method is foolproof, though, since an outright statement could come from aliens and the motion of particles could occur as an aberrance. At present, he said, no method for such a communication has been devised...
...Aldus Corp. FreeHand is the first commercial software product known to have been a virus carrier. The bug could just as easily have instructed its host computers to erase their storage disks. Several companies are now marketing "vaccine" programs that offer some protection against uninvited invaders, but none are foolproof. Experts advise users to make backup copies of their important disks and to regard each new piece of software as a potential carrier until it has been thoroughly tested...
Harvard is also trying to improve the ability of computers to recognize faces. Although lab workers said they are approaching the work from an academic perspective, computers able to recognize individual human faces could make security systems more foolproof...
Granted, the script of Charley is almost foolproof (thus its appeal, I suppose, for actors and directors). Because the play is a farce, its humor depends almost entirely on plot, rather than on more difficult elements like character development...