[nzlug] Being a lazy burger....

[Cliff Pratt]

Robin Sheat wrote:
> On Monday 02 April 2007 12:08:09 Vik Olliver wrote:
>> Surely: Hostes alienigeni me abdvxervnt. Qvi annvs est?
>> Obviously a hoax since the QWERTY keyboards at the time lacked the U
>> key.
> It only applies when writing in stone. As nothing I say is set in stone, it's 
> acceptable to use 'u'. And besides, if you want to be that pedantic, it'd 
> probably be more like:
> HOSTESALIENIGENIMEABDVXERVNTQVIANNVSEST
> or something.
> 
>> The Roman civilisation then collapsed as, lacking zero, they had no way
>> to terminate their 'C' strings.
> Surely not being able to indicate the program terminated correctly would be a 
> bigger issue...
> 
Nah, it was the buffer overflows. The Roman civilisation was destroyed 
by those renowned hackers, the Vandals and the Goths.

Cheers,

Cliff