*Very HACKER CRACKDOWN. All those scruffy haxx0r kids of the day, they are twenty years older now. Got that midlife crisis thing going on.
*Explaining today, twenty years from now, will seem at least this clunky and archaic.
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*One can see that Quinn's piratical instincts haven't deserted her, because as soon as she hears of the existence of a bootable biological platform, she instantly concludes that Venter's cells are all about pirating narcotics. In your bedroom closet. With, you know, privately owned glassware.
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*That'll be lively: genomic narcotics.... plus the inevitable genomic mafia, genomic terrorism and, wait for it, genomic child pornography.
(((This just in: what a 'rogue BBS system' has evolved into, nowadays:)))