Word: foolproofing
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Like HAL, the self-repairing computer is not entirely foolproof. It could not, for example, cope with a flurry of failures that knocked out parts faster than they could be replaced. But in most test situations, STAR has proved a stellar performer. On one occasion, J.P.L. scientists taught it to play blackjack, then momentarily shut down its electrical power, hoping to unsettle the computer brain. No luck. STAR immediately revived, tersely acknowledged the disruption, resumed the game exactly where it had left...
...creature comforts like sports cars and chic clothes. Her husband Nick (David Warner) is a jaded aristocrat who lives almost entirely on credit and his finely chiseled profile. He needs Britt, worldly goods and a lot of money, which gives him something in common with Graham, who has a foolproof plan to rob his bank and get all three. Graham enlists Nick's aid, and Britt spends a good deal of time in bed with each of them, flattering, cajoling and trying in her inimitable way to work out the best deal for herself. Dawns...
...pack now sells for 55? to 65?, in San Francisco, 40? to 50?.) To fight that rise, the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. has now hit the streets with Laredo, a kit that might be called the Rolls-Royce of cigarette-rolling machines. Fast, efficient and all but completely foolproof, it turns out a filter cigarette in less than a minute. Included in the outfit are tobacco, specially made papers and filters, the rolling machine and even 20-butt packets (which, curiously, do not bear the compulsory warning that smoking may be injurious to health). The cost? About 20? per pack...
...analysis; in the case of users, the test turns up traces of barbiturates, amphetamines and morphine, which the body metabolizes out of heroin. The tests have led to a burgeoning business for private laboratories; some do several hundred urinalyses a day, at $4.50 each. Even these tests are not foolproof. If a specimen shows a hint of quinine, which is often used to cut heroin, the applicant can be refused -but he could have picked it up simply by drinking a gin and tonic, which also contains quinine. Another drawback is that the tests cannot detect heavy users of marijuana...