A Few Years Back
I did a contract where I just happened to working in the same area where they were developing the army's battlefield laptop. This was in 2001. The laptop was based around a 286 processor. Yes, you heard that right. The yet-to-be-deployed laptop was based around technology that was at least 5 years out of date. That's what happens when you let committees argue about specifications.

Anyway.

So me and a mate were working late and were the last ones in the office. So we decided to take a look at the battlefield laptop. Man, it was a work of art. A standard laptop but had been encased in an armoured shell and painted khaki-green. It weighed a fucking ton.

Then we had a bright idea, implemented it and went home.

Next day, hell broke loose at work. The head of the battle-field laptop project was stalking the office demanding to know who'd placed a big red sticker over the Enter key so that it now said "Launch!"

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Mon 28 Sep 2009, 13:30, Reply)