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Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 13:32:23 -0500
From: Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
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On 03/02/2015 11:25 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:09 AM, alister
> <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>>> Sounds ominous. Is that better or worse than the final solution?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> As in "this program will inadvertantly self distruct in five seconds"?
>>>
>>> It's usually implied as being externally enforced, so I'd say it's more
>>> akin to my solution to all manner of Windows problems.
>>>
>>> ChrisA
>>
>> Is that the same as my solution to windows related problems?
>>
>> (Dad bought a new laptop on Sat it was sterilised (As in disinfected )
>> immediately & has never run Windowz - lucky thing).
>
> Yes. What Steven is referencing is:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Solution
>
> And is unrelated to this:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Problem
>
> ChrisA
>

And all of them unrelated to "The Last One"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_%28software%29

which was hyped to be the last program ever to be needed...

-- 
DaveA