To: PatrickHenry
There is always the risk that between the time one searches to see whether an article has already been posted, and the time at which one can post the article oneself, that someone else may post the same article.
A two-phase commit architecture would solve the problem--but I don't think it would be worth the effort :-)
11 posted on
04/10/2003 12:05:07 PM PDT by
sourcery
(The Oracle on Mount Doom)
To: sourcery
....of course this could be explained by entanglement.
15 posted on
04/10/2003 12:16:14 PM PDT by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: sourcery
There is always the risk that between the time one searches to see whether an article has already been posted, and the time at which one can post the article oneself, that someone else may post the same article. This is known as the Uncertainty Principle. :-)
19 posted on
04/10/2003 1:15:40 PM PDT by
Diddley
(It's all relative.)
To: sourcery
There is always the risk that between the time one searches to see whether an article has already been posted, and the time at which one can post the article oneself, that someone else may post the same article. My duplicate posting was only 7 minutes after yours, so I don't know how the problem could have been avoided. I did a search (on Einstein and on NASA), and nothing turned up.
20 posted on
04/10/2003 1:24:32 PM PDT by
PatrickHenry
(Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
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