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6 Sep 2024 09:15:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Smuggling BB's as software piracy  
From: stbenge
Date: 23 Jan 2009 03:34:49
Message: <49798129$1@news.povray.org>
scott wrote:
>> I was just imagining a scifi novel where The Man has complete control 
>> over
>> people's computers and the only way to share software (legally/ 
>> illegally) is
>> to load your car up with bb pellets.  The Man doesn't stop cars and 
>> doesn't
>> think to check for bb's.   Once you get to the destination, you count 
>> bb's, and
>> viola, sofware is shared.
> 
> Yeh a good one, although if he doesn't stop cars, then why not just 
> write out the code on paper and take that?

The Man will be stopping cars, trust me.

You could always imprint binary code onto paper napkins. Who would stop 
to study minuscule topography? :)

Sam


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