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Talk It Over With Captain Crunch
John T. Draper is most famous as "Captain Crunch," the legendary phone phreak who taught others how to make illicit use of Ma Bell's facilities to call almost anywhere, almost any time, for free. But (as a glance at his personal page will show you), that is just about the least of Draper's accomplishments. Not only that, he's still going strong. This is your chance to talk directly to a man without whom the modern-day personal computer -- and modern hacking and many other things we take for granted -- might not exist at all, and certainly would not exist in their current forms. One question per post please, and try to avoid asking questions that could be answered with a little online research. We'll send 10 or 12 of the highest-moderated questions to Draper tomorrow, and run his answers as soon as he has time to reply.
Mr. Crunch,
Your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
So, does the Crunchbox have a cereal interface?
This is offtopic but the parent's question reminded me of a funny story.
A few years ago Larry King was interviewing Stephen Hawking, one of the great minds of our time and the world's best known physicist, and he asked a similar question.
"What problem do you think about the most? What problem plagues your mind the most?" queried King.
After a short pause, Hawking's synthesizer replied succintly: "Women."