Courts Make No Sense
I was alerted to this article earlier today, which details the way in which a hacker was tricked into doing something illegal, just so the FBI could get rid of him. It all focuses around a leak of Windows source code a few years ago, that went whizzing round the Internet. This guy decided to sell it at $20 a throw. The FBI bought a copy off of him and then put him in jail, supposedly because he was selling trade secrets. The fatal flaw with this prosecution is that as the source code was available on the Internet, it wasn’t exactly possible to class it as a secret. Still, he’s been sent to jail for two years and has had some software installed on his PC that tracks his every move. Why he can’t just buy a new PC, go to someone elses house or use an Internet cafe I don’t know, but according to the Americans it’ll stop him. Just seems a tad harsh for $20 of source code that was freely available anyway.
Moving back to the point…
Or rather getting there, as I never mentioned it in the first place…
My teachers. And not specifically Miss Harding this time. The science department have decided that we are to do another piece of coursework. This will involve hours of work, listening to teachers drone on in a monotonic monosylabic voice (which, as we have already proved, is good for insomniacs), doing an experiment and pages and pages of writing. It isn’t worth it. We have alread done 4 as it is, and the majority of our class have already got the marks they need. Doing another piece of coursework is simply an extra burden we don’t need, especially when we still have graphics, electronics, English, German and ICT coursework to be doing!
I was rather stuck today with what I could do for a list, as I am feeling particularly uninventive. I have decided that the date will do, so here are some facts about lobsters (long story):
- A lone lobster can move at a maximum speed of 0.62mph, which is about 15 miles per day.
- A line of lobsters however, can move at 0.78mph, giving a distance of 17.8 miles per day.
- An experiment was conducted with some lobster carcases and wire that proved they become more streamlined when in a line, each holding the tail of the one in front.
- In this line, the lobster at the front occasionally stepped back, let the line pass, and joint at the end again, much like a game of tunnel-ball.
- Lobsters urinate more when other lobsters are agressive to them.
- The best bait with which to catch a lobster is a large brick soaked in paraffin.
- French dramatist Gerard de Nerval frequently took a pet lobster, tied to a blue ribbon, for walks through Paris.
I also have one more random fact for you, which is entirely unrelated to anything else here. In 1978, rock musician Terry Kath played Russian Roulette. His last words were “Don’t worry, it’s not loaded.”.
Anyway, just to annoy Scott Adams, have a nice day 