4 Aug
1998
4 Aug
'98
4:53 a.m.
At 10:38 AM 7/23/98 -0400, bill.sheehan(a)stoneweb.com wrote:
Reminds me of a trick Penn Jillette (of the magician
duo Penn & Teller)
thought somebody (somebody other than *him*) should try on their laptops
next time they pass through an airport:
AUTOEXEC.BAT
echo ARMING....
Many years ago, P&T's text-based BBS had a similar trick, proceeding
through a set of menus that warned you again and again that choosing
this menu would format your hard disk. As I recall, at the end
you got a message that congratulated your skeptical powers, knowing
there was no way they could do that... (I know, there's the old
reprogram the ANSI.SYS function key trick...)
- John