Smuggler Nabbed with 306 CPUs Stuffed in Girdle (tomshardware.com) 44
Chinese customs have apprehended a man attempting the biggest on-the-person CPU smuggling feat we have seen reported. From a report: The perp was stopped at Qingmao Port as he sought to cross from Macau to mainland China with 306 CPUs fashioned into a girdle around his waist. According to China's People's Daily, the smuggler gave himself away as he "was walking in an abnormal posture." We aren't surprised if the smuggler wasn't comfortable, as 306 CPUs weighing 50 g per unit would be over 15 kg (about 33 pounds). Moreover, we have to factor in paper and tape packaging materials, as shown in the images. Another report on this smuggling attempt, posted by Hong Kong's On News, says that the male passenger didn't just wear the CPU 'girdle' around his waist. Some of the 306 CPU payload was taped to his legs. In the images, you can see the slim passenger wearing a black loose-fitting sports shirt. The topmost image shows the shirt rolled up from the waist.
Note to self (Score:2)
When smuggling small items, use a homing pigeon [wikipedia.org] instead of your own body.
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When smuggling small items, use a homing pigeon [wikipedia.org] instead of your own body.
Of course, that requires smuggling 306 homing pigeons into Macau in the first place.
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... or 712 round-trips by 1 homing pigeon.
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*612
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... or 612 round-trips by 1 homing pigeon.
The pigeons have summer homes in Macao?
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You need to get the pigeons into Macao first, so they can fly home with the packages. Your reading comprehension skills are lacking.
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It's better to used a swallow, a laden European swallow has a high airspeed velocity.
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use an African sparrow, much faster...
What is this nonsense? Everyone knows Africa swallows can carry more not faster. Like a coconut's worth of chips.
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Or maybe a pair of European swallows can carry the bigger load
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Real faking the fake ? (Score:2)
Purpose to smuggling CPUs is to rebrand the real original CPUs as "fake knockoff" so a company can get CCP govt subentions
see here : https://youtu.be/wZScr_jcDVM?t... [youtu.be]
China is doing fake fakes now, rebranding real high end brand items.
Is it real ? is it fake ?
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Aha, rebranding chips does not exist.
That's new.
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Is that an African homing pigeon or a European homing pigeon?
Girdle (Score:1)
Some fellow slashdot posters could probably use a girdle.
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The pictures showed a waist cinch / support belt. I thought that a girdle was something that covered the entire pelvic area.
Had it backwards, buddy.... (Score:3)
It's always "Intel Inside". ....
Gonna have to swallow those or implant them surgically
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Re:Cruise Missiles (Score:5, Informative)
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Smuggling is, consequently, a fairly major industry in mainland China, employing millions of people, most of them in and around Hong Kong and Macau. The list of commonly smuggled items is
next computer trend (Score:2)
En Culo Processing
More Impressed (Score:2)
I would have been more impressed if they had been stuffed up his ass.
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Little Endian (Score:2)
How many smugglers needed ... (Score:5, Funny)
for a Beowulf cluster ?
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Giving Asians a bad name (Score:2)
but not as bad as this Indian butt smuggler
https://nypost.com/2020/10/16/... [nypost.com]
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but not as bad as this Indian butt smuggler https://nypost.com/2020/10/16/... [nypost.com]
"precious nuggets" indeed !
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I would upvote you if I could
I guess you could say... (Score:3)
...he took a calculated risk.
YEEEEAAAAH!
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So close and yet so far (Score:2)
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Maybe he used an original Pentium with the FDIV bug to do the calculation.
Qingmao and Gong Bei ports are something else (Score:4, Interesting)
If anyone travels to Macau or Zhuhai it is really worth a visit to the Gong Bei underground market. We often hear stories about smuggling operations like this one, but they are just so brazenly doing it out in the open there. I was walking through and just a guy casually cling filming god knows how many packets of cigarettes onto his mule/mother not 50m from the official border checkpoint.
I'm not surprised someone was caught smuggling intel CPUs. I'm surprised that they were stopped and it made the news. Maybe things have changed in the past couple of years and they stopped turning a blind eye to this.
A shame... (Score:4, Funny)
80 more CPUs and that would have been a more fun headline.
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80 more CPUs, and all stamped "16 BIT S/W ONLY"
That's Gotta Feel Weird. (Score:1)
Not the smartest person (Score:1)
Image if he hid ARM CPUs internally (Score:1)