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Comment Re:she's a nutcase (Score 1) 710

Do individual women need encouragement? Of course - our culture favors quiet little mermaids, not bold warrior princesses.

Indeed. I saw a sign over a door in a photo Chelsea Handler tweeted that said, "Well behaved women seldom make history." which is a quote from and name of a book by historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.

Comment Re:i interpret it to mean (Score 5, Funny) 497

A rare scientific law means it is settled. For most of them their are theories ...

The problem most people have is confusing Scientific Theory and pundit "theory" (mind the quotes). The two are not the same -- I even question Commander Data's overuse of the word theory in his many musings. I think he was sometimes a little slack in his application, but that's just a theory.

Comment Re:On The Bright Side (Score 1) 253

You missed some pretty blatant sarcasm there, buddy.

You missed some pretty blatant sarcasm there, buddy.

I considered that but, if it was sarcasm, it actually wasn't well executed and some people really don't know that some NICs support MAC cloning/changing, so I replied.

Conveying sarcasm in writing is hard to do well. Simply stating a contrary fact/opinion in a reply, like 'Because a MAC address cannot be cloned" hoping the reader knows the truth and assumes the writer does too doesn't cut it. There needs to be some clue that the writer actually knows the truth. When speaking, this is usually done through tone and inflection - which is hard to do on the page. In this case, a better attempt would have been, "Ya, well, it's not like a MAC address can be cloned with a few simple commands."

Comment Re:Directly contacting gov agencies. Good idea? (Score 5, Insightful) 137

The Secret Service agent I spoke with was interested, but let me know why he couldn't justify further investigation. Without a clear abused victim with a clear monetary damage of at least $30,000, he couldn't justify obtaining the necessary necessary agency time to get the warrants to track the spammers and the fraud. So I learned a hard lesson: getting the specific criminal act of large enough damage to *justify* prosecutorial interest is key. It's why so many low scale spammers and fraudsters continue so long: they operate under the radar of police or FBI or Secret Service wire fraud thresholds.

On the other hand... had that spammer tried to sell *one* bootleg copy of a movie...

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