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   Paul S Person to All   
   Re: Pearls Before Swine: Cell Phone Upda   
   20 Oct 25 08:07:28   
   
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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:57:07 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)   
   wrote:   
      
   >Paul S Person  writes:   
   >>On Sat, 18 Oct 2025 17:22:03 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)   
   >>wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>An excellent illustration of the failure of programmers to consider   
   >>>>all the possibilities.   
   >>>   
   >>>Care to elaborate on that?   The universe of possibilities is infinite.   
   >>   
   >>You snipped the elaboration. Naughty!   
   >   
   >No, I did not. You did not describe how a programmer is to   
   >anticipate an infinite universe of possiblities.   
      
   Ah, I see the problem.   
      
   I should have said "all the reasonably foreseeable possible problems".   
   I am talking about things that anyone with even a single functioning   
   brain cell should be able to recognize as a possible problem with what   
   that person is currently doing.   
      
   But I do apologize for the confusion.   
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   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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