As those of you who follow internet rumour will recall, the letters "NYC", when rendered in the Wingdings font, display as a skull-and-crossbones, a star of david, and a thumbs-up sign. Obviously Microsoft is anti-semitic! OMGWTFBBQ!!1!
I take this quote from the Snopes page on the subject:
"Young calculated the odds of three letters of the alphabet being combined with 255 symbols, and said he found that the odds of obtaining the message were less than one in a trillion."
More great journalism from the New York Post, then.
One in a trillion!? Even with the most naive calculation I can think of—26 * 26 * 26 * 255 * 255 * 255—I get only a quarter of a trillion. What crack was he smoking?
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