Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 06:34:32 -0700
Title: Closed system?

He turned to her, demanding, " Were you, Jean?  Do you know
what's going on here?"  Yates looked at me again and back
at Sis, "Jesus!  I've been afraid of something like this!  As far
as I'm concerned you're both history, and I don't care HOW
much of a genius you are!"  And he sat back into his chair,
as if relieved of some great burden.

"I was very close, but it was Sis who was able to organize
the DOCs and finally tesselate them onto the chips.  I assumed
that the information and electronics were..."

Tes.sel.late vt -lat.ed ; -lat.ing [LL tessellatus, pp. of tessellare
  to pave with tesserae, fr. L tessella, dim. of tessera] (1789): to
  form into or adorn with mosaic.

"To hell with that!  Remove them.  Get them out of my system!"

Sis glanced at me and then looked at Yates, "We tried.  We
even tried to shut down the system but it seems to have
pulled its own security blanket around it.  You can use it,
it will help you with your computations or storage and retrieval
but you cannot alter security or shut it down."

"So it's a sequitur that we're stuck with it and the present
users, unless it will allow a new password?"

se.qui.tur n [L, it follows, 3d pers. sing. pres. indic. of sequi t
  follow--more at sue] (1836): the conclusion of an inference:
consequence.

"True.  It gives you two tries on your first level password but has not
tolerance on the second level.  If you mess up it feeds a surge to whatever
terminal or workstation you're on and ... blam, you're outta order."


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d.



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