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JohnT writes:

> Since you became a penurious semi-vagrant you have had no professional
> connection with the computer industry, so how would you know?

I have many connections with the computer industry. I just don't
receive a salary from it right now.

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Jim Ley writes:

> but a typical car doesn't contain one or more computers ...

Most modern cars contain several.

> washing machines and microwaves aren't computers either.

They both contain computers, though.

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Stanislas de Kertanguy writes:

> OK, so I infer that injection calculators don't have antivirus software
> because it would destabilize tham ?

They don't have it because they don't need it.

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JohnT writes:

> I should think that it is certainly possible for the uplink from Braunsweig
> to be deliberately corrupted.

So?

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From: Jim Ley on
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 18:08:49 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>Jim Ley writes:
>
>> but a typical car doesn't contain one or more computers ...
>
>Most modern cars contain several.

No, only on some highly technical definition of computer that you
would not see used in a travel newsgroup - just like if you tried to
argue that most salt wouldn't be something to put on your fish and
chips, technically correct, but not correct in the context you're
using it - that of a travel newsgroup.

Jim.