Seriously?

[jimkeller]

OK, for those who don't follow the news, 17-year-old Jared Cano has just been arrested for allegedly plotting to set off bombs in his former high school on the first day of school. Media reports indicate that when he was contacted by authorities today he was in possession of a large quantity of explosives and had written down a detailed plan of

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[nihilistic_kid]

LET'S ALL CHANGE THE NAME OF OUR NETWORKS TO THAT!

[jimkeller]

I was totally thinking that my next wifi network would be named this. It's much funnier than "TAKE_MY_WIFI_PLEASE" after all.

[jonahmama]

Now, see, that's just wicked!

[jimkeller]

Yes, but if my neighbors are even 10% smarter than someone who didn't immediately destroy all the evidence of his planned crime upon seeing the network, it should dramatically reduce crime in the neighborhood... :)

[freudinshade]

Now I want access to the Google Geopositioning database that lists all the wi0fi networks they know of and where they are. There's a couple of other ones out there. We can see how many locations that SSID shows up in :)

[jimkeller]

Now that would be funny. And if I did it in a story, no one would believe it.

[grndexter]

As a writer, one of the things I've run into is making sure that the things the bad guys do have some kind of glitch in them - so some idiot like this kid don't go out and try to copy what I wrote in the real world.

And on the other side of the coin, my first commercial SF story sale involved a situation where I used a REAL US government policy as one of the causes of a deadly "accident." My editor said I couldn't use that because the government wouldn't DO that! When I told her, "Sorry. That is the REAL WORLD ACTUAL policy!" she came back with, "Well no one would believe it, so you still can't use it."

That was when I learned that classic truth - you can do stuff in the real world that no one would believe in fiction.