Samsung Message. Occam’s razor (or Ockham’s razor) is a principle from philosophy. Suppose there exist two explanations for an occurrence. In this case the one that requires the smallest number of assumptions is usually correct. Another way of saying it is that the more assumptions you have to make, the more unlikely an explanation. So, when millions of Samsung phones around the world got a suspicious text message from Samsung the other day, that contained only two 1s, there had to be an explanation. The likeliest one was that Samsung engineers screwed up, and somebody was testing something and pushed the wrong button. The other was that there is a vast Samsung conspiracy involving millions of Samsung phone and device owners all over the world, and that we are testing our world domination takeover. Occam was right. Samsung was incompetent. But, does that make you feel any better? It occurs to me that joining everyone in the world with tech in the cloud is all the scarier when a simple error can have such far reaching consequences. We all may be part of a vast conspiracy to assimilate us into a Borg like collective consciousness. Oh, probably not. Jeez.