Actually,
ariels, I'd say your suggestions are just as
flawed. The big problem I see with this
function, is that it looks, by its name, to be returning a
boolean value, where it actually returns a
double. I say it would more properly be named something along the lines of
getFlamingMotherboardTemperature, or something like that.
Of course, I was greatly amused by this, and is_computer_on(), and immediately included them in the function library I'm currently using in a production system, to replace the random number generators.