We had this topic no two days ago. Why is this guy getting so much attention anyways? Dumb is dumb, no matter if he buys a PC or steals candy from small children.
Let's take a purely mathematical approach. Entropy S = k ln W where W is the mulitplicity of the configuration: W = N!/nl!nr!. Now, if we let N be the number of MacOS machines in existence with nl = number that have been cracked and nr the number that haven't been (yet!), we can plug in some numbers and find that the likelihood of break-in is roughly 87.3%. </i>
This might be true for OS 9 Macs, but did you not overlook something when you neglected to mention the "X"?
Not neccesarily. The father is first and foremost a father, someone who - mostly irrationally, I agree, tries to protect his son and would not see anything wrong with his kid if it jumped in his face and bit him.
There's not much evidence, Heckenkamp is actually intelligent in the sense that he is able to deduce facts from information flow. It is however pretty clear that he is a good learner, again in the sense that he memorizes what he reads. Genius and Madness lie close, especially in a situation like this where said genius is literally cut off from his livelyhood and most beloved toy - the computer. Wether or not the carges agains him are correct and wether or not he displayed kind of a strange behavior in court this week, Heckenkamp is not stupid. If he was indeed MagicFX, he must be, however as negligent as this court appearance paints him, intelligent people do not keep records of owned machines and past cracks unencrypted on their harddisk.
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We had this topic no two days ago. Why is this guy getting so much attention anyways? Dumb is dumb, no matter if he buys a PC or steals candy from small children.
Let's take a purely mathematical approach. Entropy S = k ln W where W is the mulitplicity of the configuration: W = N!/nl!nr!. Now, if we let N be the number of MacOS machines in existence with nl = number that have been cracked and nr the number that haven't been (yet!), we can plug in some numbers and find that the likelihood of break-in is roughly 87.3%.
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This might be true for OS 9 Macs, but did you not overlook something when you neglected to mention the "X"?
> The father is an idiot in this case.
Not neccesarily. The father is first and foremost a father, someone who - mostly irrationally, I agree, tries to protect his son and would not see anything wrong with his kid if it jumped in his face and bit him.
There's not much evidence, Heckenkamp is actually intelligent in the sense that he is able to deduce facts from information flow. It is however pretty clear that he is a good learner, again in the sense that he memorizes what he reads. Genius and Madness lie close, especially in a situation like this where said genius is literally cut off from his livelyhood and most beloved toy - the computer. Wether or not the carges agains him are correct and wether or not he displayed kind of a strange behavior in court this week, Heckenkamp is not stupid. If he was indeed MagicFX, he must be, however as negligent as this court appearance paints him, intelligent people do not keep records of owned machines and past cracks unencrypted on their harddisk.