532 DEAR HACKER

532 DEAR HACKER

(America’s to be exact) has led us to believe is out there and is going to get us on an unknown date at an unknown location? Is he just a man trying to get the word out or trying to get noticed? Or have the last few covers been a representation of how our mainstream media misleads us into looking at “the wrong hand in a magic trick” or just the latest mainstream media attack on hackers and all that they are afraid of? Also, on the cover of 22:3 there is a shadow above the low hover platform of what I’m guessing is a cruise ship, yacht, or some sort of luxury vessel, judging by the lounge chairs and tennis/basket- ball courts in the background. I have come to the conclusion that this shadow is that of the famous McDonald’s fast food sign. So what does this mean? Has McDonald’s taken over? Is McDonald’s funding these alleged terrorists? Is Fast Food in general taking over or is it up to no good? I guess these are the truly important questions that we should

be asking. I just checked the 2600 website after writing all of this and looking at the new cover of 22:4 (I don’t have enough cash to buy it yet). I think my previous statement is true and to expand on it maybe the McDonald’s sign represents “Big Business” and corporations and the “terrorist” is the government and the device being armed on the plane is their weapon against the underground and the hacker com- munity. But who knows? I’m just a 16-year-old high school student.

WiseCracker

Dear 2600:

I realize that no one is perfect. When you have a large group of people, there is a lot of imperfection. When you run a business, however, the glaring imperfections should not include pricing things stupidly. For instance, the local Pizza Hut prices things goofy. One order of cheese sticks (which includes five sticks and one marinara sauce) comes to $3.68 around here. An individual order of cheese sticks (which includes three sticks and one marinara sauce) comes to $1.60. That’s less than half. Two individual orders comes to roughly $3.38. A little math and you’ll conclude that you can save $.30 if you get two individual orders instead of one single order. Not only that, but you then get an extra

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stick and an extra sauce. Extra sauces cost $.35. You’re definitely sav- ing money. This goes to show how much money you can save by asking stupid questions like “what if I want two individual orders instead of one single order?” It also shows how easy it is to make a stupid math mistake and, when it becomes public, potentially lose money. Hacking isn’t always about technology.

Zachary Of course it’s also possible that their cheese sticks suck and getting people talking

about them like this is all part of the master plan to have lines out the door for the individual orders that nobody would have wanted in the first place.

Dear 2600: My haiku for you, Wonderful blissful pages Of knowledge and fun. Twenty Six Hundred, You are my one drug of choice. Happy addiction.

vyxenangel It’s a double haiku and a self-referential one at that!