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On 23/07/12 15:27, Gibbs wrote: > On 22/07/12 22:22, paul sutton wrote: >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18922629 >> >> Tee hee calling a hex string 0xB16B00B5 >> >> >> Paul >> >> > Tis funny and shared around the office. The only thing that annoys me > is the PC'ness towards the end. Last week on the Ubuntu mailing list > they were up in arms because somebody mentioned the word 'breasts'. > Maybe I am different but is it REALLY offensive in anyway? > > Sorry to take the subject off course but it annoys me how overly > 'offended' (are they really offended!?) people seem to get over > unbelievably minor things. > > Gibbs > reminds me of if you do use a few commands to get odd (but logical responses) on the command line. sudo touch breasts (creates a file called breasts) then as normal user do touch breasts and you get cannot touch breasts : permission denied. good job is computer people have a sense of humour, anyway how is the above code from MS any different to having SEX as an instruction in the dragon 32 microprocessor. i am sure programmers generally think of an instruction as to what it will do then create the mnemonic accordingly. fellow hackers see the logic, other non hackers don't. Paul -- -- http://drupal.zleap.net skype : psutton111 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq