Re: Ticking?
No, no, no, you have it all wrong. According to Hollywood movies, even electronic bomb timers fitted by otherwise silent war ninja's will emit a loud "BLEEP" when enabled, and will proceed to blip every second of their short life away, yet are never heard by the opposing party until they blow up. They automatically become more audible, though, if the official hero is trying to find them.
They come from the same outfit that sells computers that make noises during execution of tasks, moving windows, announcing results and generally bleep with every keystroke - in other words, the sort of machine that nobody in their right mind would buy (ah, hang on, that is *exactly* the sort of machine that would come out a mass procurement exercise by government - it is realistic after all)..
So ticking it is. Or bleeping.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
