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[StoOgE]

here is what I dont get. Wouldnt the proff just change the test as soon as he found out his laptop was stolen? It didnt do the kid any good anyway.

 

[teiresias]

Ummm, if you have information that delicate to store shouldn't it be encrypted on a separate harddrive that you only have in the laptop when you want access to it?

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

It seems more likely that when he tried to activate Windows on his second computer, it said that they activation key was in use, and he called Microsoft to help him in tracking the stolen laptop.

i agree that he should've been more careful, but i've known of people with similar sensitive data, though debatedably not nearly as important, who were just as careless. Having to pass through numerous hoops including encrypting and decrypting data you use on a regular basis is a pain.

It sounded more like the prof was trying to scare the shit out the thief. For all his cockiness about how the kid was doomed, he gave a hard deadline, kinda like he was going out of town and needed his porn collection or address book. Or maybe a presentation. I'm just guessing but maybe the kid is in deep shit? Then why don't you take your 'homing device' and call CTU? Or use the partial photo to reconstruct his exact Banana Republic purchases and nail him the next time he wants a new shirt? I call bullshit.

 

[whytemyke]

I'm sure you wouldn't want me and all others like me to start using the term conservative to refer to fascists.

Haha, why should I care? Washington gets away with it.... no reason GAF shouldn't.

As per the other part about using liberal to refer to a social marxist, they're so socially interchangeable that I'm not typing my comments here for an academic environment.

 

[TheOMan]

Man, if this is prof is telling the truth I can't imagine what the guy who stole is going through and I really wanna find out what happened.

However, if the prof had that kind of data on his laptop, surely he would have at least a power on password. I'm pretty sure that would be a *mandate* of the companies he's working for. If he doesn't, then yeah this reflects pretty poorly on him. Still, the guy who stole it can't be feeling too good :lol

 

[TheOMan]

here is what I dont get. Wouldnt the proff just change the test as soon as he found out his laptop was stolen? It didnt do the kid any good anyway.

Excellent point (I thought of this as well). Either the kid didn't think this through or that prof misplaced his laptop ....or a corporate spy (albeit not a smart one) got a hold of it.

 

[Loki]

Though it may not have been a pre-med, many pre-meds are definitely nuts enough that that was the first thing I thought. I remember I took Bio I and II for majors (for fun, even though I wasn't a bio or even science major) and God those kids were (for the most part) annoying in how grade-obsessed they were; thus I had to get top grade in both just so I could rub it in all their stupid faces. My friend was a TA for O-Chem (he's now in med school) and I always loved hearing stories about crazy pre-meds and their grade-related requests.

premeds truly were the worst part of my experience there... and what did I do? I became one within a year. I hated all the cut throat behavior, the maneuvering, the lies... You really had to work together to get through all the classes/labs but the competitive nature drove me to study alone. I was REALLY shy even then but I was about the most open guy I knew when it came to talking about homework, exam scores, etc. That was kind of scary.

Heh, and here I thought it was only at my university. The competition between students is ridiculous; I try to make it a point not to get involved in pissing contests about grades, the amount of time I studied for courses etc. What makes it worse is that you generally see the same students in every class for years at a time, being that they're all taking the same courses. This leads them to believe that they can be more forward (and underhanded many times) with one another than they would likely be otherwise.

 

[AntoneM]

Haha, why should I care? Washington gets away with it.... no reason GAF shouldn't.

As per the other part about using liberal to refer to a social marxist, they're so socially interchangeable that I'm not typing my comments here for an academic environment.

alright since you efectively are calling me and all welfare liberals Marxists I have no choice but to start refering to you and all other conservatives on the board as Fascists.

 

[IAmtheFMan]

Heh, and here I thought it was only at my university. The competition between students is ridiculous; I try to make it a point not to get involved in pissing contests about grades, the amount of time I studied for courses etc. What makes it worse is that you generally see the same students in every class for years at a time, being that they're all taking the same courses. This leads them to believe that they can be more forward (and underhanded many times) with one another than they would likely be otherwise.

If it's any consolation, the vast majority of these people (at least in my experience, and in my class) don't make it to med school, and pretty much everyone that's in med school is much more level-headed. Oh sure, the cut-throat ones still have a few representatives ('gunners' we call them) but overall, it's nowhere near as bad.

 

[Mr. Spinnington]

Kid prolly went home and burned the laptop after hearing that speech. He will then take all precautions so that there will be no trace of finding the machine. He will then deny he ever took the machine and when the feds can find no trace of it, they will have nothing to charge him with. The professor will then be 'pwned' cause he can't produce those very important files to each of the different companies they belong to and he will realize that he shouldn't have given that speech in the first place.

or

 

[NotMSRP]

So the thief stole the laptop for the final exam? Midterm 2 already passed. At first, I thought this was related to the Berkeley laptop theft with 100,000 identities on it but that was done on March 11th, a month apart.

 

[whytemyke]

alright since you efectively are calling me and all welfare liberals Marxists I have no choice but to start refering to you and all other conservatives on the board as Fascists.

I'm sure if you cry harder about it you'll make me see the error of my ways and I'll stop.

By the way, it's kind of hard for someone to be a welfare liberal without being at least a socialist. "Hello, I believe that we need a system where the poor are taken care of by the rich and the government, and I propose we do this via capitalism."

EDIT: And whoever said I'm a conservative? I probably hold more left-wing beliefs than you do, as I'm a social-libertarian. The difference is that I can realize that most people on the left usually fit the stereotype given to them (thin skin and whiney... sound familiar?) and I'm not so blind as to not use that as a source of a joke against other 'liberals' like myself.

 

[Zelda-Bitch]

I call bullshit. Professor loses.

 

[AntoneM]

I'm sure if you cry harder about it you'll make me see the error of my ways and I'll stop.

By the way, it's kind of hard for someone to be a welfare liberal without being at least a socialist. "Hello, I believe that we need a system where the poor are taken care of by the rich and the government, and I propose we do this via capitalism."

EDIT: And whoever said I'm a conservative? I probably hold more left-wing beliefs than you do, as I'm a social-libertarian. The difference is that I can realize that most people on the left usually fit the stereotype given to them (thin skin and whiney... sound familiar?) and I'm not so blind as to not use that as a source of a joke against other 'liberals' like myself.

Social-Libertarian or Individualist Conservative?

And your wrong about the welfare liberal stance, they don't want to take care of the poor at the expense of the rich and middle class, they want to enable the poor and oppressed peoples in such a way that allows them to become successful, that's the difference between a socialist and a welfare liberal. Socialists identify the upper class as the obstacle to their freedom and that they'd be better off without that upper class, welfare liberals identify lack of opportunity as the obstacle to their freedom and that by creating opportunity for poor or oppressed people everyone will be better off. You can continue to spout off that welfare liberals are socialists but I have to come to the conclusion that you really don't know what your talking about.