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Anonemous

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Originally posted by: Jhill
This tasteful manner? LOL.

I don't know sh!t about computers compared to a lot of people here and I called his bluff about 5 seconds in his bs speech.

If I was the kid there is no way I would sell or format the hard drive now that the professor told him about all the cool stuff that is on there.

Why does he think a student stole the laptop for an exam? Maybe the kid wanted the actual laptop?

The prof is going to look like a big douch if 2 weeks rolls around and no laptop and no one gets caught. Where's those 2 eyewitnesses and the photo sparky?

As long as he was making crap up he should of said he could blow up the laptop up at any second with a second transponder.
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hehe, This laptop will self destruct in 5...4...3...2... :) /cue Mission Impossible Music
 
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Stark

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Originally posted by: vood0g
i am bored at work. so for those who cant see it, this is what was said:

i have a message for one person in this audience, i am sorry that the rest of you have to sit through this. as you know my computer was stolen in my last lecture the thief was apparently wanting to betray everyone's trust was after the exam....the thief was smart to not plug the computer in the campus network, but the thief was not smart enough to do three things:

1)he was not smart enough to immediately removed windows. i installed the same version of windows in an earlier computer and within 15 minutes the people in redmond washington were very interested to know why it was that same version of windows was being signalled to them from two different computers. complete BS

2&3)the thief also did not inactive either the wireless card or the transponder in that computer. within about an hour there was a signal from various places around campus. this allowed us to track exactly where that computer went and every time it was turned on. more bs

i am not particularly concerned about the computer, but the thief who thought he was only stealing an exam cause presently, we think, probably still in possession of three different kinds of data, any one of which can send this man, this young boy, actually, to federal prison, not a good place for a young boy to be.

you are in possession of data from a hundred million dollar trial sponsored by the nih from which i am a consultant. ...this involves one of the largest companies on the planet. the nih investigates these things through the fbi, they have been identified, have been notified about this problem. emtpy threat to try to get the kid to turn in the laptop

you are in possession of trade secrets from a fortune...company, the largest one in the country which i consult for. the federal trade communications is very interested in this, federal marshals are the people who handle that. more bs

you are in possession of proprietary data from a pre-public company planning an ipo. the securities & exchange commission is very interested in this, and i dont even know what branch of law enforcement they use. getting thick

your academic career is about to come to an end. you are facing very serious charges with the probability of very serious time. at this point, there is very little that anybody can do for you. the one thing that you can do for yourself is to somehow prove that the integrity of the data which you possess has not been corrupted or copied. ironically, i am the only person on the planet that can come to your aid because i am the only person that can tell whether the data that was on that computer are still on that computer. you will have to find a way of hoping that if you have copied anything that you prove you have only one copy of whatever was made. he is the only person? he's not smart enough to encrypt his data and keep it from getting stolen, but he's the only person on the planet who can verify if it's been copied or not? please

i am tied up all this afternoon, i am out of town all of next week. you have until 11:55 to return the computer and whatever copies you've made to my office as i am the only hope you got for staying out of deeper trouble than you are any student that i have ever known has ever been in. the punchline... please give me my computer back!

i apologize for the rest of you to have to bring up this distasteful matter, but i will point out that we have a partial image of the person, we have two eyewitnesses, with the transponder data, we're going to get this person. thank you. translation: i'm screwed without my laptop, please give it back!
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MrDingleDangle

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i bet its pretty much all BS what he said...probably the person who took it sold it right away

no way if the law is already involved do they wait and let the prof. be the law, judge and jury
 

Why isn't the FBI already searching the thief's apartment looking for this computer? I mean if they have a partial image and two eyewitnesses...what else do they need?
 
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I have the video ready to go. It's 6.9MB. Can anyone take the affect of ATOT? :)

PM me if you can host or create mirrors.
 
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Spencer278

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I'm guess the professor didn't back up his data and that is why he needs to make sure all the data is there.
 
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akodi

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Professor Jasper Rine is a highly respected researcher at Cal and almost all P.I.'s correspond with private companies doing consulting/research. Rine probably has the research data on another computer or has backed it up elsewhere, he is rather anal about things (fyi. he's a biochemist). The professor is being really lenient, the data itself belongs to the university and being funded by the NIH makes it government property so in essence the student unknowingly stole government data = federal offense. Rine is offering the student a way of avoiding jail time by proving that the data had not been altered/sold/deleted/made public.

The most likely reason a student stole the laptop was because MCB/premed students at Cal are super competitive and have no souls; they would do anything to get straight A's and be accepted into a good med school even stealing a laptop to attain a midterm.

The way they could tell the student was using it on campus was because to get onto the campus wireless network you need to sign on with your student id and passphrase so it's relatively easy to pinpoint who used the computer.
 
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wbresson

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haha wow this guy is BS'ing really bad, if I had that laptop and was sitting in his class I'd be laughing because thats so far out there, he should of at least made it believable
 
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DiZASTiX

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Originally posted by: akodi
Professor Jasper Rine is a highly respected researcher at Cal and almost all P.I.'s correspond with private companies doing consulting/research. Rine probably has the research data on another computer or has backed it up elsewhere, he is rather anal about things (fyi. he's a biochemist). The professor is being really lenient, the data itself belongs to the university and being funded by the NIH makes it government property so in essence the student unknowingly stole government data = federal offense. Rine is offering the student a way of avoiding jail time by proving that the data had not been altered/sold/deleted/made public.

The most likely reason a student stole the laptop was because MCB/premed students at Cal are super competitive and have no souls; they would do anything to get straight A's and be accepted into a good med school even stealing a laptop to attain a midterm.

The way they could tell the student was using it on campus was because to get onto the campus wireless network you need to sign on with your student id and passphrase so it's relatively easy to pinpoint who used the computer.
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I don't get why he doesn't know exactly who did it already. I'm guessing the student wasn't stupid enough to sign on from the stolen laptop using his account...if he was, from what you're saying they would know exactly who it was and he would be arrested now.

Plus he said they have 2 eye witnesses and a picture? Something doesn't seem right, if they have all this information how can they NOT now who it is? If what the professor is saying is true, I don't think it is as simple as "return the laptop and prove you didn't do anything and we will overlook your federal offence" I can't help but think the professor is making up lies to try to scare the theft...

Whatever though, I'm just thinking...
 
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MrDingleDangle

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Originally posted by: akodi


The most likely reason a student stole the laptop was because MCB/premed students at Cal are super competitive and have no souls; they would do anything to get straight A's and be accepted into a good med school even stealing a laptop to attain a midterm.

The way they could tell the student was using it on campus was because to get onto the campus wireless network you need to sign on with your student id and passphrase so it's relatively easy to pinpoint who used the computer.
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first paragraph is ridiculus, while it is possible that is the case, i would say that the reason it was most likely stolen would be money...if it was for a test, they would just turn it on, get the test, then throw the notebook out, therefore never being caught...

 
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akodi

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Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
Originally posted by: akodi


The most likely reason a student stole the laptop was because MCB/premed students at Cal are super competitive and have no souls; they would do anything to get straight A's and be accepted into a good med school even stealing a laptop to attain a midterm.

The way they could tell the student was using it on campus was because to get onto the campus wireless network you need to sign on with your student id and passphrase so it's relatively easy to pinpoint who used the computer.
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first paragraph is ridiculus, while it is possible that is the case, i would say that the reason it was most likely stolen would be money...if it was for a test, they would just turn it on, get the test, then throw the notebook out, therefore never being caught...
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ridiculous it actually is a crime to steal data which is intellectual property of the government?

the professor actually does know who stole it and he is giving the student the opportunity to turn in the laptop.
 
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