@13: You are correct for the sub-set regarding their refusal to return something they know is stolen. However your broad comment of "People that took stuff from his house should be arrested also" does not stipulate that.

And again, do not assume you would not have acted in a similar manner if you were in the same situation. You may have a different perspective from where you sit, and being able to look at this in hindsight.

It's a sad situation in any regard. I hope the guy gets his stuff back and I hope the two people arrested are the ones charged with the theft of everything that was taken since their actions caused the greed-storm.

@8: No they should not. Are they dumb for just showing up without the home-owner being present and taking things at that point? Yes. But I'm sure greed took over when one person was waiting and 5 cars pulled up *enter the greed zone*. It would have been more intelligent if someone called the local Sheriff to make sure it was legit, but they did not. And hindsight is always 20/20 so do not assume that you would have acted differently in the same situation (remember you are a comp savvy type who have read stories resembling this, you are not a rural Oregonian)

Either way, this is not surveillance, it's "you robbed a house and left foot-prints all the way back to your place". I posted in the previous thread that I hoped the people responsible did it from their home comp, and wahoo! I was correct in my assumption of human stupidity.

wow... my work would probably bar any links that actually came up but I'm sure I've heard of this happening before.

I really hope the person who posted the add was dumb enough to do it from their home comp. PLEASE!!!!!

being a native of the SF Bay Area I always thought Lombard Street was more crooked, and after reading a bit I guess I'm still confused. Vermont has less turns? I guess it'll take some that still lives there to inform me of the difference.

what the hell are you talking about??!! I may agree that the entire current administration is a complete FAILURE and should be brought up on war crimes charges, etc... but...

The system they have in place DID work, that is why the manager of the individuals in question was alerted to their access of the files (since Obama is a high profile person) and the people were fired. The only reason this is becoming a bigger issue is because that manager didn't pass the information up to higher levels. Not to mention the fact that passport files contain nothing that is not already obtainable by other LEGAL means. If someone is searching those files for documents that will create fire-storms then they are not intelligent.

@Mikey Likes BoingBoing

Actually that was real. I believe it occurred in FL as well.

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Sounds like a story from the by-gone days of aviation!
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very true, but also very dumb. That was a time when there were far fewer people in the sky. allowing things like this to happen in a situation when it is necessary is allowable, but for something like this the father should lose his license to fly or atleast have it suspended for a year. Next we'll be seeing some dude do this because his wife really needed to go to the bathroom.

"I told you to go before we left! ARGH!!!!"

#6 KLG19

I noticed that same thing. I am constantly amazed on a daily basis at the amount of people who appear to not have a solid grasp on the language of the country they grew up in.

If you like your books I would assume that you wouldn't do this, though the extended treds do make this feasible. I have a good amount of literature in my home, but I wouldn't place them where the normal walking of a human or animal would toss grime, sand, possible water, etc... against their sides. Not to mention if someone stepped to deeply they could easily scalp a Seven Pillars of Wisdom or one of my copies of LoTR.

can I just point out:

mikerowsoft.com

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/19/offbeat.mike.rowe.soft.ap/

i think enough said. I hope she wins, but I really doubt she will.

The Penguin would have to make a long distance call for that.

got another joke for ya:

A baby seal walks into a Club.

*Rim-shot*

Thank you. Thank you, I'm here all week

I agree with Takuan:
[quote]Further, I am not sure I could respect a kilt wearer unless they were properly "traditional"[/quote]

It's like wearing a Utiliyamika. If you're not being traditional with it, or wearing it at a Renaissance Fair then you're just trying to catch attention.

I also think people should think twice before making statements like "chicks dig it".

agree with TAKUAN.

How much? For a shelf that I have to still bend myself and slice my palms open in a few places?

No thanks.

A nice idea for the masses, and someone making a shitload of money off of an idea they're trying to load off as being a good idea are two different things.

It appears here that they're offloading the $$$ that would have had to been spent on shipping, if it was a totally constructed shelf, directly into the price and then trying to convince the consuming masses that it's cool and mod.

again, no thanks. I'll stick to my IKEA shelves

Agree with #5 Krisjohn. I use Netflix for what it's worth, and the only reason I stream a movie is to preview it before actually wasting a rental on it.

Seriously read a book people. I think stats say something like 50% of people never read a book again once they get out of college, and for those that never went to college it rises to 70%.

buy what you can without DRM, and ignore or steal the rest.

well all snopes really says is that there's no proof either way, that he's in his grave or frozen to await the age of robots and zombies.

@sardion2000

if you're watching 30G of youtube in one week then you need to step outside and get some sun.

I can usually convert a 2.5 hr video down to 1GB at a very very good quality. So using this as a benchmark I would say that in order to use 30GB of traffic in 1 week you would have to had spent 75 hours watching youtube. Furthermore, youtube vids are far lower quality than the video I produce so I might up that hour count to 100. QED

I seriously doubt your 30Gigs in a week data is accurate. However, feel free to prove me wrong.

Maybe the bank planted them. Fake plans eh??????

Don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain

awesome point Spikeles (#5) I hope other actually read your comment before just running to the bottom and posting their own thoughts before thinking about how they sound.

Everyone needs to keep in mind when you read ANY article, whether the author shares your views or not, they have an agenda and are writing the story for a reason.

seriously what are you using 56 GB a month doing? Not that I don't think unlimited should mean unlimited but this begs the question.

I trade in a lot of free flac and SHN concerts and I don't approach that type of traffic size.

seriously #2, shame on that type of comment, and yay or #7 for saying what I wanted to so perfectly.

Either way, this is a perfect example of why he should be fired. If you're in charge of a project (in this case project = Universal Music), and you don't understand the marketplace, then you should not have your job. If someone gave you 12 years to understand a new form of industry and that wasn't enough time to see how you could adapt and change then you should quit and go sit on a beach somewhere.

who eats that little popcorn? seriously!

same thought here.... problem solved.

NEXT!

@the comments about sending stuff to the sun

I've always pondered whether that would be the ultimate answer to all of our nuc waste. However, don't you just have a 2nd thought, even a small one, that we should go messing around with our source of heat, light, and life? I'm sorry, but I could never stand behind the idea of sending anything our Star.

in Soviet Russia the chopper flies you!

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people who stop in midstream on the sidewalks of NYC /should/ be arrested.
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wow! that's a bold statement. forgive me if i forgot what street i was on and needed to regain my bearings, or, Eru forbid, I drop something and decide to stop and pick it up.

uh..... i'm kinda shocked BB was so slow on the pickup of this.

either way, what they're doing amounts to breaking the law since they're impersonating a particular person/IP while conversing with the target IP.

most people look forward to FIOS in their area to get away from comCRAP, but as of now most of us have to suffer through it. And I'm saying this from the point of view of a concert music trader on this great sea of tubes, so their actions hurt the legal traffic as well.

uh duh.... would shopping in bras and panties be some sort of indecent exposure depending on where you are. Not to mention that most women would never just walk around in the skivvies.

Either way, a store is private property and they have the right to say who can and cannot be in there.

[horror movie buff love speak]
I was reminded of this particular scream when over the weekend camping I put the idea in a friend's head to scare his girlfriend while she was walking with a friend.

i could hear the scream from such a wonderful distance away and immediately thought of this particular scream and how close they were. Good times.
[/horror movie buff love speak]

it's a shotgun that shoots small beanbags. basically incapacitating you

seriously! it's not like the cops are just walking into random peoples houses and searching them. They served the dude a warrant on an unrelated charge which gives them the right to search his premises. This is no different than the dude who called the fire Dept when his house was on fire only to be arrested when 45 pot plants were found in his house.

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Wasn't a teacher found guilty of showing porn to kids on accident?

Same state?

Can we get this guy prosecuted as well? ;)
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I hope the wink means that you're saying this in Jest BQAggie87. The fact of the matter with the previous case you and the submitted of the above story both bring up is that the Sub teacher in question was using a computer at the school that had absolutely no security on it and the thing was riddled with p0rnware. And beyond that fact it was st00pid of her to be charged anyways, so it might be best if they don't charge this dude so that she has some rights to stand on.

I totally agree with #10 and #11

Dave X had the best manipulation of the poster yet in my opinion (#32)

thanks for that huge laugh :)

beat me to it :) I have one sitting next to me in my Cube Sweet Cube, though it's not plugged in at the moment.

has there been an update to the game since its original release? i'm wondering the reason of why that site is posting about it now since it's been out for many years.

Either way, I remember playing this a long while ago and it was awesome; but it was also pretty difficult to compromise enough so that you win. I think it catches the McIndustry very well.

yeah! this would be fantastic right up until your dog comes by happy as can be, or you reach for the remote to quick and spill your nice full beer all over your issues of Fortean Times, say bye bye to your 90$ subscription mag collection.

i can put you in contact with some people if you really want to discuss that ;)

wow! it's like my mom trying to sell me her conspiracy stories of the great reptilian city under Lake Michigan. Or the UFO city under Mt. Shasta.

Seriously. Do you think some plain citizen somehow made their way into a secret government installation, saw otherworldly creatures and children being used as slaves, and didn't plan ahead to bring a camera?