My hypothesis:
School calls the cops, school sounds like they're shitting their pants out of far. Cops roll heavily on the school, arrest the kid. Soon realize that the school over reacted like crazy. Rather than admit they were wrong and lose face, they apply creative interpretations of innocuous objects and come out of it looking like heroes.
 

Pidgin does the same thing.

Well to be fair he does have some points. Not that we so much 'lost' anything on the 'net, just that the way it is used has changed a lot over the last 20 years or so.

Like the example with links (which is one of the only good points he makes in the article I think) I remember back in the 90ies or there abouts it was commonplace for websites to have a 'links' section where whoever was running the site could post likes they thought would also be relevant or interesting to their readership.

This, in fact, was the whole reason that the PageRank algorithm was designed in the way it was, outgoing links were taken as being an 'endorsement' of the site being linked to by the site it was linked from.
Now links are used in a completely different way, like, while people will still have their 'links' section. In many cases sites are set up to generate a ton of out-links to sites in their little network and in turn receive a bunch of in-links from other sites in the same network, thus generating a higher PageRank.

Now is it bad that the way the 'net functions has changed, eh, I don't know. I did like the Wild West feel of the old internet though. Though, I suppose that has sort of moved on to the likes of TOR and stuff now.

Well they don't have to be Indian, just suggested that to play off the stereotypes, any nationality will do. Just hire a whole bunch of office drones.

I'm not sure what the Greek translation of 'sonic screwdriver' is, but it's not that.

Either way: Deus ex sonic screwdriver works fine, god in the sonic screwdriver.

Don't forget the occasional bit of heavy handed handwaved deus ex machina.

Not really.

Affairs by in large are clandestine things that would have negative repercussions for a marriage. Being that he is cleared for pretty by all the secrets of the CIA having him as easily blackmailed as that would be bad.

There, however, is such a thing as "synchronous" in PC-based multiplayer games.

Would be a complete nightmare to keep synchronous across multiple computers and server though.

Have you actually *tried* this game? Cus' it's a long way off from a big-ass 4x sorta game. I mean the game is fun, interesting and trippy and all that, but it is kinda rudimentary.

Would be fun to play on a large screen while in an altered state though.

Myth has that code being 111-111-111 though.

And 'locks forever' in this context means 'locks until someone physically pulls the weapon apart and resets it'.

...is this Dotcom guy and his homies reminding anyone of the crew from Stephenson's Cryptonomicon? 'Datahavens' and now his considering putting down cable. Does that mean he's gonna start looking for Japanese war gold soon?

See thing about that is, I don't really have any friends who went to any american high school.

Well I don't really have any friends, but that's a different matter.

Am I the only one who does this already? I habitually lie, I mean I might add my real name if I *have* to, but far as Facebook is concerned I'm a Muslim communist who lives in Pyongyang north Korea.