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http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/20/berke...aptop_thie.html (http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/20/berkeley_laptop_thie.html)

The original video has since been edited to remove this portion of the lecture, but the cut version and MP3 are still available.

This makes me feel a lot better about the stupid things I've done in my life.

Well I listened to the "good part" of it.  I'd say someone's in some serious trouble, or else that's one hell of a bluff.  :thumb:

hahahaha.. owned.

Bad scalliano!
Bad potty mouth! *me slaps scalliano upside the head*

That is tramatizing. *crawls in a corner and cries*

Any Idea if they got him? or was it all a bluff?

Sorry, just shocked by the whole ordeal.

They more than likely got him, then he wet himself at what might happen next

If anybody knows, please keep us in touch. I'll let you know about the toads if I hear anything.

It was a bluff ( http://blastradius.blogspot.com/2005/04/fo...xaggerator.html (http://blastradius.blogspot.com/2005/04/follow-up-professor-exaggerator.html) ,) and the theif has yet to come forward.

Could the professor get charged with something for that?

I was kidding actually.  :)~

Aye, what the professor probably gambled on was that the kid would not be as computer literate as he was scared.  Problem is, most college kids who actually sit through their classes tend to know their way around a PC.  The kid probably had already scoured the system and found no evidence of anything the professor was making up, and knew it was a hoax from the beginning.  Either that or he no longer had it and didn't care.  You have to admire the professor's gall and creativity though.  Too bad he's still out of a laptop.  Maybe next time he'll be more careful with it.

Damn, after I go and tell all my mates  :rolleyes:

Heh, I didn't mean to be put a damper on anybody's fun. :p

And don't feel bad scalliano, I've done the same thing on several occasions.  The most recent one being about the inaccurate statement issued about Duke Nukem Forever switching to the DOOM 3 engine.  I told several of my past instructors about that, and they no doubt dispersed it in some kind of cynical joke to their students. :p

2 words for checking systems out. KNOPPIX baby!   <3


Come out of your ivory tower and talk with the peasants. With the doors closed and the same group in the room, the air becomes stale.

I wish I'd had fortune 500 trade secrets on my computer when it was stolen.  :(

If you really want to have a blast, nothing beats plastique and a radio-operated detonator.  Plastique molds nicely, and nothin' says lovin' like blowing the theif to kingdom come.  Just remember where people set laptops to use them, and it makes it even more amusing.  :D

exept that that part is illegal , you got that idea from madmax 2 and 3 where he has rigged his fueltanks so that anyone who touches is gas wil get blown to shit . :p

I didn't know there were patents on methods of killing people  :rolleyes:

You mean you've just been going around killing people without getting permission from the copyright holder? you'll be in some shit when they find you.

Just don't be usin' electricity for no killin'... else Ben Franklin will run wild on you, since he invented electricity an' all. Be givin' him a bad name by usin' it for such distasteful means.

*Steals your thunderbolt and breaks it over his knee*

You think they'll get rid of chalk/marker boards because of this?  So that teachers don't have to face away from their conniving students for so long and risk this stuff happeneing again?

(didn't read the article  :huh: )