E-Theft For Dummies

If you're going to create a supercomputer by wiring several of these computers together: Don't.

"Whoa, what's going on in your den?"



*SLAM*



"Don't look in there! That's…secret."



"It looked, upon brief inspection, like a dozen Lenovo ThinkPad Edge laptops strung together with copper wire."

"Blast! Well, the cat's out of the bag so I might as well tell you. I have created a supercomputer that is going to let me pull off the greatest electronic bank heist in history!"



"Oh wow, I had no idea you were a hacker."



"I'm not, but I don't need to be with these babies. Each one has an AMD Turion dual-core processor. So together that's a 24-core processor!"



"I see, and how is that going to help you rob the world's banks?"



"I have the most powerful computer in the land, that's how! And don't even ask me how I'm going to store all the money once I get it…"



"Sigh. How are you going to store all the money once you get it?"



"In the 6 terabytes of total hard drive space (250GB per computer)!"



"I don't think you will need that much space for 'more' money. In fact, I don't think you understand how computers work at all."



"I sure don't."

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