".technically you don't have to have been a judge prior to, or even a lawyer at ALL, in order to qualify as a Supreme Ct. Justice." What's your point?

Isn't this what it took for the FBI to catch Patty Hearst? She'd left a list off SLA members in the copy machine at Berkley.

" ...Microsoft Research, a division that is tasked with coming out with cool stuff without regard to commercial viability."
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So these guys probably had a lot of time on their hands?