The computer may be incompetent in itself--that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where computers are designed and manufactured.
The Internet is the Petri dish of humanity. We can't control what grows in it, but we don't have to watch either.
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