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[Andrew MacLean]

Now, that is interesting, John. He may.

Oh well there goes another syllogism

Andrew

[John Smith]

Sorry, but that's just the sort of thing that I have to spot at work.

We have a third party in to write the code for our tills. With all the things that a supermarket cashier can do these days, it's amazing that the till software works at all.

Still, we do occasionally find bugs. I work on the Payments side, so I 'm concerned with us not collecting enough money from the customer... or even worse, collecting too much.

One occasion a few years ago saw me talking to one of the third party programmers about a particularly difficult to locate bug which saw occasional customers being "rewarded" with literally millions of points - certainly worth several tens of thousands of pounds of free shopping had the customers noticed (some did!).

The chap concerned announced that it was a "one in a million bug" which he would never be able to find. My retort was that as we serve 8 million customers a week, you're telling me that the bug was likely to "fire" at least once per day.

Funnily enough, half an hour later, the bug was found and fixed!

[Lynn White]

Well.....

Having read both Billy's biographies by his wife, KC didn;t come up funnily enough... and since Billy talks quite freely ... waaaaaayyy to freely.... about every single possible bodily function know to man, I am fairly sure he wouldn't pass up the comic opportunites that juggling contact lens wear and poor vision would avail him. I can just hear it now...

"Have ye ever put one of those **** wee thingies in yer eye? I mean, what sort of ijit designs a bit of plastic that falls out faster than it goes in?" hehe - He could get at least three shows out if it!

So I could say, John, its a milion to one chance he hasn't got it

[Andrew MacLean]

Oh dear

I know people who venture their hard earned cash each week on a lottery ticket on odds like that! so he probably does.

Andrew

[GarethB]

Perhaps BC's KC is so mild he is unaware of it?

[Andrew MacLean]

Now that could be. Or again, maybe now that he lives in California there is so much agreeable weather that it doesn't bother him.