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He didn't know. After it burnt his laptop, he decided to pass it on and make it easy for somebody to steal the key and burn their laptop.
by amyjess 12y ago
He didn't know. After it burnt his laptop, he decided to pass it on and make it easy for somebody to steal the key and burn their laptop.
- Aardwolf 12y agoI see. Thanks! Highly unlikely that 129 people in a row respond like that though... More likely is that someone destroys the USB device in anger, dismantles it, is too shocked to do anything, doesn't interpret the number as a counter, or doesn't want to ruin other people's computer. And, of course, that many people in a row stealing a USB device from a backpack is already unlikely in itself.
- elwell 12y agoYeah it would have been clearer if he didn't use a power of 2 for his counter's current state. Made me think it had to do with the device's storage capacity.
- jader201 12y agoI'm assuming the original story was actually told as a joke, where the "128" number was intentionally misleading until the punchline at the end where he incremented the number and "payed it forward".