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In Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon, one of the characters is tied to a cabinet containing a bomb and a laptop sitting on top of it. The character is then

In Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon, one of the characters is tied to a cabinet containing a bomb and a laptop sitting on top of it. The character is then told that the bomb will explode the moment he stops typing.

a_imho 7y ago
The office worker and the mortgage?
- gmueckl 7y ago
  I don't honestly remember who was the victim of that contraption. And I don't have to book nearby to re-read the passage. It's just that the silliness of that idea is somehow burned into my memory.