Cryptonomicon (1999) by Neal Stephenson had a scene where a guy was being asked to crunch data (on pain of death) to get the location of buried treasure, and so had to first make a program that obfuscated his screen output to display a bogus location and to blink out the real coordinates to his capslock light in Morse code.

Ten years later, lilspikey made it real.

http://www.psychicorigami.com/...

to make a nest there.

What is life?

Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.

How long before this gets used as an assassination market? Probably by using Craigslist style euphamisms (like "flower donations").

here's the judge offering to sell her the car
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FF1MKmzBG

and then here's the judge threatening to report the car stolen when she tells him she got another job to pony up the cash.
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FN5egyjaW

Here is the judge offering to sell her the car.
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FF1MKmzBG

here is the judge threatening to report the car stolen when she gets another job to pony up the cash.
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FN5egyjaW

hillary knows about this law

http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/statuses/133650002890334209

"One last thing: A law has been uncovered that would allow prosecution of my father. I will not use it and I beg the state not to either."

she's been posting on her twitter to the effect that
1) she has taken no money from any of the media attention.
2) she doesn't want her daddy jailed,
and
3) she just wants him to say to her that he realises that he was wrong and mean it.

personally, I don't hold out much hope for her approach. He's lost face, and he's addicted to power and respect (and, as it turns out, was addicted to opiates). He'll want to get his own back and retaliate in nasty ways. If Hillary wants to have any peace in her life, she has to jail her own father so he can't come after her ever again.

>manor
pun on house

sigh. nobody will get that.

How about you go and ask some serial killers how their parents taught them the delight of pain?

http://www.amazon.com/Why-Does-He-That-Controlling/dp/0425191656

usually power oriented abusers have to hit "rock bottom" before they turn around. Sometimes that means jail in a "pound me in the ass" prison, according to Dr Bancroft.

power oriented abusers are literally drunk on power. They need it to feel normal. They would trade anything to feel normal. only they, themselves can give up the addiction to power.

having said that, I wouldn't beat him up. I'd like to see him jailed. Maybe "Bubba" teach him that violence is not the answer.

here is the judge offering to sell her the car
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FF1MKmzBG

here is the judge threatening to report the car stolen when she gets another job to pony up the cash.
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FN5egyjaW

here is the judge demanding that she pay off the car or take it back
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FF1MKmzBG

and when she says that she can pay it off, he threatens to report the car stolen.
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FN5egyjaW

There was one year when the Peace prize was not awarded. Gandhi had just died, and there were "no living candidates worthy of the prize".

Of course, there are fields with cowboys. Larry Page and Sergey Brin stand out as men who were not awarded PhDs, and had academia laugh at their BigTable database paper.

They did it anyway.

Of course, it was handy that they were in a field where you can just buy equipment from best buy, rather than needing to get machine hours from CERN.

Also it's so that Roy Batty can chew out Leon for leaving behind his precious photos.