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Re:Man hacks Tesla firmware, finds new model, has car remote... by aaroninsf on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @06:27PM (#11256417)
That reminds me, I was as a public service going to make an auto-updating epub of Neuromancer which simply incremented the units as needed to sound duly impressive.

"His buyer for the three petabytes of hot RAM..." etc...

Re:Man hacks Tesla firmware, finds new model, has car remote... by emmelaich on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @09:08PM (#11257027)
Better off making something up. Flebibytes or something. Gibson should've done that in the original.
Re:Man hacks Tesla firmware, finds new model, has car remote... by taneq on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @09:56PM (#11257165)
Or being deliberately nonspecific. Three memory modules, going cheap if no questions asked. That's why Snow Crash still reads so well, it skirts the quantitative and focuses on the qualitative.
Re:Man hacks Tesla firmware, finds new model, has car remote... by stan_rogers on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @09:43PM (#11257131)
That's why Star Trek used things like kiloquads. Unless and until you know what a "quad" is, it's just a number in mid-air.
Re:Man hacks Tesla firmware, finds new model, has car remote... by kordless on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @09:26PM (#11257090)
Flebibytes? That's a crazy amount.
Re:Man hacks Tesla firmware, finds new model, has car remote... by aaroninsf on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @01:20PM (#11291271)
On the street, sure.

In academe anything under ten mangabytes is noise these days tho and I imagine the dark economy is two factors beyond anything we have access to. :/