no mod points.... psuedo-modding parent +1 - insightful

you are being taken advantage of.

If you compare that money against the total government expenditures, I'd guess percentage-wise they're spending far less on gadgets from their budget than the average consumer. Maybe we should be congratulating them.

Of course, there may be buried beneath all the other expenditures many gadgets that don't show up as itemized and measurable.

I think the better question is, "Can anyone think of an example where someone has been hacked in such a way whereby the hacker does so to make the hackee look like a sexual cad?" I can't think of a single instance where the hack has been to that end. Probably is one, can't think of it. Nope, nothing comes up. Idiots. More idiotic when they start down the implausible denial path. Didn't sound plausible day one. And Weiner looks more ridiculous now than he would have. Now he's a cheater and a liar. Bad at both.

And, yeah, IT community, hackers specifically, are an easy scapegoat. Sucks that people would buy the story/claim of hackery. Blows that the media lets it slide. It's a head shot the IT community doesn't need.

intelligence enhancement, and may hold improtant clues...

Like, speling?

An ironic twist I think... I know many people whose DSLR pictures totally suck because the camera is beyond their ability to master even simple photographs. Also, ironically, anyone who would want useful information from digital pictures can readily shoot quality pictures with non-DSLR digital cameras. Is this for real?

yes, that would be sub-bullet one of many under "etc."... :-)

well, the bulk of real information about the said thief in TFA says he "recieved a stolen motorcycle". This isn't much to go on and get a sense of how or why the sanctions were applied. Considering the dearth of underlying exposition, this article qualifies as a non sequitur.

Some additional information worth introducing to the discussion:

• "how" the thief received said stolen motorcycle
• "why" /. summary would describe motorcycle as "bicycle"
• "if" there were computer-related activity leading to discovery and tracking of said thief.
• etc.

and, to extend the example, aside from "which is easier", I don't know how many times I've had to iterate on a task in a GUI that had no CLI for a specific repeatable task. So, not only would a CLI that I could have scripted been easier, and more accurate (same script, same change everywhere), but I could save orders of magnitude in time (typically 2 -- yes, 100x faster to script).