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6 Sep 2024 09:20:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Smuggling BB's as software piracy  
From: Mueen Nawaz
Date: 23 Jan 2009 00:27:27
Message: <4979553f$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> gregjohn 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.
> 
> I think you're going to need a huge car to smuggle a 256 byte program. :-)

	Different color bb's can represent different bases. Problem solved.

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