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From: kwok@cae780.UUCP (Edward C. Kwok)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: War is Inevitable?! - (nf)
Message-ID: <193@cae780.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Dec-83 15:26:35 EST
Article-I.D.: cae780.193
Posted: Fri Dec  9 15:26:35 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Dec-83 05:23:45 EST
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Organization: CAESystems, Inc. Sunnyvale
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A Public Apology:

To all those of you whose relatives perished in our last nuclear attack on
Moscow. The attack was triggered by line 2345 of main.c in our EWS (Early 
Warning System) software system.

    The line should have been:

    if (overwhelming_evidence == TRUE) retaliate;

    instead it reads:

    if (overwhelming_evidence = TRUE) retaliate;

Our company was responsible for a recent bug-fix in the program, and 
might have, regretfully, introduced the bug. 

We are sorry, so sorry!

A copy of this message will be sent to the new USSR government, that is, when
they have enough survivors showed up to form it.

Our deepest apology too, to XYZ Corp., the manufacturer of the computer whose
machine was blamed for the error. Let us emphasize once again, it is NOT a
machine error. We will estimate the loss of business to XYZ Corp. because
of this unfortunate event, and come up with a settlement agreeable to the
shareholders of XYZ Corp.

Again, our deepest sympathy for those who have lost their loved ones. We
have already taken measures in our software department to prevent such event
from happening again. Specifically, QC circles are now being formed amongst our
programmers.


Sincerely yours,


I. Wantcharmony,

President, LAYSIOH Corp. - "Leave  America's security in our hands!"

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Edward C. Kwok (CAE Systems)