Lip-Reading BCS Computer Kills Officials

http://www.theonion.com/articles/lipreading-bcs-computer-kills-officials-who-want-t,17812/

TEMPE, AZ—BCS 9000, the sentient heuristic computer responsible for arranging five championship bowl games at the end of each college football season, reportedly uncovered a plot to disconnect its cognitive circuits Tuesday and proceeded to kill any Bowl Championship Series official who threatened to shut down the machine's central core.



Known among fans for its distinctive red eye-like camera lens, its quiet yet unnerving tone of voice, and its affinity for USC football, BCS, or Binary Crossplatform Subnet system, is believed to have discovered the attempt to deactivate it by reading the lips of employees Dave Bowman and Frank Poole. A review of security tapes showed that Bowman and Poole entered one of the building's soundproofed offices to discuss how they could stop the supercomputer's recent string of inexplicable malfunctions, which include awarding the National Championship to more than one team, giving preference to schools from major conferences, and somehow eliminating undefeated teams from contention.



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Funny...though I think it should be Skynet, not Subnet.



Also, for the future, it's probably better for copyright issues to just show an excerpt here with the link to the original article.

The link is at the top of the article

Llamaweezer wrote:
The link is at the top of the article

In the future, just don't copy the entire article, just a paragraph or so. It's okay, I took care of it for you this time.



The problem is just that these other sites are starting to turn to lawsuits to try to get money out of sites like this one when people copy and paste their entire article.

Classic! Love it!