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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:10:59AM -0500, Edward Wesolowski wrote:
> Michael:
> I can't remember if it was "Neuromancer" or "Mona Lisa Overdrive" but one 
> of William Gibson's stories has a character, ...I have this image of a dude 
> being carried around on a stretcher with a car battery powering a computer 
> he's connected to that's online, "jacked in to cyberspace."
> I think he was still alive. That character was, but there was another 
> character that had died, but was still online.

It was Neuromancer. The character was Dixie Flatline, who got his name
from being fried by anti-intrusion software while jacked in and cracking
into someplace he wasn't wanted. I have longed for such software myself
ever since I started getting spam, back in 1995.

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