Comment Re:Ig Nobel Prize? (Score 2) 165
Ig Nobel Prize?
Surely this research is a leading candidate!
Or, with some of the "try this at home" do it yourself amateurs, possibly even a Darwin Award.
Ig Nobel Prize?
Surely this research is a leading candidate!
Or, with some of the "try this at home" do it yourself amateurs, possibly even a Darwin Award.
I appreciate the humour in your comment, but just can't help myself from posting this. Because what has been done with a court order is frightening enough:
From the ever entertaining and informative Ken White at Popehat.com
1. Eckert's abdominal area was x-rayed; no narcotics were found.
2. Doctors then performed an exam of Eckert's anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.
3. Doctors performed a second exam of Eckert's anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.
4. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
5. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema a second time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
6. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema a third time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
7. Doctors then x-rayed Eckert again; no narcotics were found.
8. Doctors prepared Eckert for surgery, sedated him, and then performed a colonoscopy where a scope with a camera was inserted into Eckert's anus, rectum, colon, and large intestines. No narcotics were found.
I didn't have time to read the article. What did he do? Download an MP3?
Wire transfers are largely an oddity of the USA. Most of the rest of the world doesn't use wire transfers anyway.
Don't forget about Nigerian Princes...
...what commuters would be doing if a computer handled the driving: More than one-in-four would text/talk with friends; 21% would read; 10% would sleep; 8% would watch movies; 7% would play games; and 7% would work. The rest of those surveyed said they'd just watch the scenery blow by."
So essentially the same as what most of them are doing now, based on casual observations.
To tell the truth is not a crime.
Yes, it is. You may have some moral justification, but it can still be a crime. In the US, telling the truth about intelligence techniques to real and potential enemies is a crime, even if you also tell the public. Snowden broke the law, and is now a criminal evading law enforcement, but he satisfied his own conscience.
Why is it that truth about a crime is a bigger crime than the original crime itself?
Real Programmers don't eat quiche. They eat Twinkies and Szechwan food.
