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From: Brian W Allison <ballison@*******.WAM.UMD.EDU>
Subject: Re: computer economics in 2057
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 19:36:20 -0500
On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Timothy P Cooper wrote:

> You have to know how to react when you see a particular icon...if you arn't
> familiar with the sculpting you have to take extra time to think/translate. How
> do you respond to the little rabbit eating grass in the middle of the clearing?


Easy. I forge a Supervisor Passcode. Then I do just about whatever I
want to, in that host.

And when I go to another host, I only have to perform two System
Operations which are chancy:
1) Log On To Host
2) Validate Passcode (Supervisor)


Control Channel: 6
Validate Complex Form: 8

> That's why all the hot deckers own filters.

Deckers are soon to be the way of the past - when the Matrix is done
Awakening.

We dance, we laugh, we live - where it matters.





Brian W. Allison

Computer Scientist Vocalist Would-be Poet Bicycler Scuba Diver
Hacker(0xca) Nerd(79) GenX(21) #include <witticism.h>
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