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http://blastradius.blogspot.com/2005/04/world-of-pain.html

What do you think? ;)

Other than, you're a day too late, not much. But I enjoyed it so much last time, I'll listen again.

Considering that people dig up old news all the time, I guess that's just alright. Besides, the cartoon did technically come out today. :D

Considering that people dig up old news all the time, I guess that's just alright. Besides, the cartoon did technically come out today. :D

You'll find that NS Generalites are usually very well informed. I'm waiting now to see if any information comes out about whether or not the kid's really facing any charges.

Probably not, but could you imagine what the kid must have been thinking if he heard that speech?

LOL Wonderfully ironic. :)

I didn't get a cartoon, I got a transcript. I did a google thingy, got this-
Rine says the computer contains data a National Institutes of Health project, and two biotech companies, one of which is planning an IPO. Due to the importance of this data, Rine says he has begun to bring down the wrath of federal agencies ranging from the FBI, the U.S. Marshals, the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The professor "exaggerated" — as Bob Sanders, a university spokesman, politely put today — about having contacted the agencies and some of the methods being employed to track and nab this pilferer. But the spokesman confirmed Rine is in fact a consultant to the NIH and the two biotech companies.

At the beginning of the monologue, Rine outlines how he reinstalled the laptop's version of Windows on a second machine and how folks at Microsoft's Redmond headquarters responded within 15 minutes to the anomaly. (The idea that Microsoft would respond in 15 minutes to anything ought have been the first indication that there were some liberties with the truth.)

According to campus officials, the parties involved with the data aren't too concerned because the data in the e-mail on that machine can't be deciphered by most of us. But the Berkeley campus was already wary of the dangers of stolen laptops. Last month, thousands of alumni, students and applicants learned their personal information had been available on a laptop stolen on campus.

And while the professor would appreciate the laptop back, Rine has all but resigned himself to the reality that the laptop is gone.


My bet is the kid hedged his bets and smashed the machine, leaving it in a trash heap.

Source (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/FinancialSecurity/story?id=692448&page=1)

It is a shame after such harsh words he didn't get his computer back.

You'll find that NS Generalites are usually very well informed. I'm waiting now to see if any information comes out about whether or not the kid's really facing any charges.

I guess there are a few possibilities:

1) The kid did some quick thinking and figured out that the prof was bluffing. Actually, any pirate could tell that he was pulling rabbits out of his hat when he mentioned Microsoft.

2) The kid got scared of out their wits, which is possible given the severity of the threats.

And then more possibilities:

A) He tries to destroy the laptop.
B) He returns the laptop, discreetly.
C) He panics and kills the professor.
D) He already sold it on eBay and FedUP has it. Then we see a grand movie-like adventure where one single man travels across America in search of the hundred-million-worth laptop alongside the professor who leaves town for exactly the same purpose. Some mafia shootings too, from those looking to hijack the trade secrets.
E) It was actually a female, and she goes on with her life jeering at the dumb professor who couldn't even guess right.

1) The kid did some quick thinking and figured out that the prof was bluffing. Actually, any pirate could tell that he was pulling rabbits out of his hat when he mentioned Microsoft.

This strikes me-If that prof.'s tiraid was true, I would have thought they would have found me by now. So that guy lists all the sensitive information on that computer, and the hack savvy kid realizes two things-He needs to change the windows serial number and-he has some really valuble information. He's just paid off his student loans...