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[theweaselking]

Professor Jasper Rine lectures at UC Berkeley. Recently his laptop was stolen by a thief who was after exam data. Unfortunately for the thief, Professor Rine had some important stuff on that laptop.

Various forms of audio and a transcript are available of the Professor's speech to his class about the theft.

Comments

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

I still think the Prof is bluffing.

Hell, I think he's bluffing to a point that could be referred to as "bullshitting."

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm with you. I'm actually rather underwhelmed by his speech. Microsoft wants to know why two computers are running the same version of Windows? Puh-leeze.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

If you interpret that as "in response to a criminal investigation, MS is sharing information about the copy of XP", it's not so bad.

Meh. I thought it was a very entertaining speech.

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

If you interpret that as "in response to a criminal investigation, MS is sharing information about the copy of XP", it's not so bad.

Except that's precisley where he screwed up to the point of obviousness. He claims MS called him within 15 minutes of installing that same version on another computer. They don't call you when you try to activate the same copy of XP on two computers. They just don't let you activate it - great big error message.

I would expect a UC Berkeley professor to do better than that - the school is stupid famous for tech.

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

Still, I mean damn... if that's a bluff, he's doing a pretty bloody good job of it.