It's changed a few times, but it has essentially just been broadcasting the same thing for decades, excepting the spoken word transmissions.

Subtle encoding are completely useless for number stations, so it's unlikely it does that anyway. The point of number stations is that they broadcast to huge areas using shortwave, in easily recordable formats. This way, agents in foreign territory can use basic shortwave radios that can be found anywhere, and decode the messages using the one-time pads they are issued with. This method of encryption is impossible to break, and can be done with essentially no equipment.

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GP said electricity, not energy, they could well be producing more electricity than they use.

For an example of an industry producing more electricity than it uses, may I point you towards something called "power stations"?

Yes, I too learned all my farming knowledge from playing Harvest Moon.

More accurately, this is like saying "I don't own a car, so my petrol costs are zero", and everyone in the comments going "But that doesn't include your bus tickets or the time you spend walking!", and completely missing the point.

This is a ruling which has been completely ignored by UK authorities, so no. It isn't relevant.

It should be, but apparently legal obligations don't mean anything if you're the government.

His name is only written in the source code, which I doubt anyone cares about. The issue is the researchers who decided to call it "The Chuck Norris Botnet" and then publish papers about it, using that name.

I've also got to question the sense of naming a botnet like this. Sure it's memorable, but what's to stop Chuck Norris from taking legal action against the researchers who coined the name? I certainly wouldn't want my name associated with a criminal enterprise.

Netcraft confirms it.

Okay, I just read a bit more and it looks like apparently they aren't even *allowed* to take the laptops home, they're just lent out for a couple of lessons. So the laptop WAS stolen, and the camera correctly identified the thief.

To be honest, this story sounds like they did almost exactly that.

Obviously an investigation is needed, but doesnt this situation seem most likely:
Student reports his school laptop stolen so he can keep it for himself
School activates anti-theft software (which includes webcam)
School recieves image of said student, proving he lied to steal the laptop
School sends letter to student's parents telling them what their child has done.

Now I don't know if that's true, but frankly it sounds more believable than some evil school big brother conspiracy. I guess the the FBI investigation will find out in the end though.

And the parents whose children will be going to school there in a couple of years time? Should they have to pay out of their own pockets to get their children a decent education because some individual or group of individuals committed a stupid crime?

...do you think that the meteorite was made by magicians?

Space is natural too.