Murder is a difficult thing to get away with most of the time, and there's a level of sophisticated social engineering required before you can really rack up a count, otherwise you'll get caught around the 2 to 10 mark, like most people serving prison sentences that aren't drug or theft related.

But in all honesty, murder is not lucrative unless you're commander and chief to an army. The real money maker is hacking -- why doesn't EVERYONE hack? People on the internet are just slinging their credit card info and personal information around willy-nilly.

If you're a homeless person, here's what you do: (this is assuming you are so poor you have no money and little education beyond your street smart observation)

1. Steal someone's smartphone.
NOTE: If you are unsure what a "smartphone" is, just look for the people that are walking around, seemingly lost, looking at their phone the whole time. If you feel in control, ask them if they're lost. If they reply with a fragmented sentence about "GPS" or "Google maps", you have found your mark. If you're proficient with this style of conversation, find a way to lead them down an alleyway -- you know what to do after that. Example: They say they know that their destination is "somewhere around here, they just can't find the entrance", tell them that's because "the place is using a side entrance down this convenient alley."
2. Steal a second person's smartphone.
NOTE: Hopefully at least one of them isn't password locked. If both are, keep stealing until you have one that isn't.
3. Setup a free email account at Gmail and then go to Craigslist and sell the first device.
NOTE: Or Hotmail or Yahoo or Mailinator or whatever.
4. On the second device, find someone on Craigslist who will help you reset the first device so that no one can trace it back to you.
5. Use Google to learn how to hack, or better yet, just learn how to create phishing emails.
6. NOW HACK (or phish)!
7. You probably gave up on life a long time ago, so if you've figured out a foolproof way to steal smartphones, keep doing that, because people with smartphones are pretty dumb and hacking is actually kind of hard.

Special thanks to Google, Craigslist, smartphones, and the blind entitlement of your victims.

>> ^PostalBlowfish:

>> ^BicycleRepairMan:
How about stupid fucking youtube tv-hosts wannabes who doesnt understand how the legal system works, or that even criminal rapist teens also have families, should we name and shame them too?
First, I think the hosts of this video have the naming/shaming you're suggesting handled multiple times in this video. Second, people on the internet aren't helping things?! HOLY SHIT LIGHT THE BAT SIGNAL!
I just don't get the hate in here. People are saying "I totally empathize with the victim" and then "I hate the hosts" but usually not "I hate the perpetrators" and that's just bizarre that there's more hate for people fucking around on the internet than for real life rapists.
The victim obviously was aware of the consequences (she's in a rather unfair position btw) and she named the rapists anyway. She obviously accepts that the law will punish her, which I think is rather heroic. She was raped, and she has been threatened with a penalty for talking about it, and that didn't stop her. I hope she is actually rewarded in the long run.


I did share some of my feelings towars the perpetrators, actually, and they werent positive either. As for people on the internet not helping, fair point, but there are ways of doing opinion pieces/news stories without making a bad situation worse.

My point is that one should be careful about this vigilante-business on the internet. Like it or not, there are human beings behind names and news-stories, We werent there when the crime happened, we werent there when the trial was held, we didnt even read the case files or make any effort. Because thats the courts and the legal systems job. It is also their job to find someone guilty or not and deal out punishments. Not our job.

I agree that in this case it looks like that system failed miserably, by even attempting to silence and punish the victim. That sucks, but instead of going vigilante on people, it might be a good idea to speak up against this system, appeal the descision or whatever it takes. Change the law. Thats all fine. Vigilante justice is not. That just means a bunch of uninformed trolls are responsible for dealing out sentences made using the armchair approach. We shouldt go back to that.

Rapists and murderers may be monsters to us, but society is, or atleast is supposed to be, better. To rise above revenge, bloodlust and tribal warfare, thats what civilization means.

>> ^BicycleRepairMan:

How about stupid fucking youtube tv-hosts wannabes who doesnt understand how the legal system works, or that even criminal rapist teens also have families, should we name and shame them too?

First, I think the hosts of this video have the naming/shaming you're suggesting handled multiple times in this video. Second, people on the internet aren't helping things?! HOLY SHIT LIGHT THE BAT SIGNAL!

I just don't get the hate in here. People are saying "I totally empathize with the victim" and then "I hate the hosts" but usually not "I hate the perpetrators" and that's just bizarre that there's more hate for people fucking around on the internet than for real life rapists.

The victim obviously was aware of the consequences (she's in a rather unfair position btw) and she named the rapists anyway. She obviously accepts that the law will punish her, which I think is rather heroic. She was raped, and she has been threatened with a penalty for talking about it, and that didn't stop her. I hope she is actually rewarded in the long run.

Your right but back then they were still constricted by programming and memory constraints since the average computer had maybe 128k of ram to work with. I remember programming in Basic when I was like 8yrs old. I remember having to do programs sometimes upwards of 500 lines or more that only ran once and couldn't be saved in anyway. And the finished product was some Pixel Art or maybe a song that played "Mary had a Little Lamb" through a PC Speaker. Granted Basic was a very limited programming language to begin with.

Then there was the gaming crash of 83' that pretty much destroyed those same bedroom coders your speaking of.
It wasn't really till the invention of Shareware which didn't become widely used till the late 80's that things started to get back on track and people had some of the freedoms we are enjoying now with indie games and crowd-funding. Though I see and acknowledge your point about things being cyclical. If games hadn't suffered such a major setback in the early 80's things would have been very different today.


>> ^spoco2:

>> ^Auger8:
A new age has dawned for games. The ideas of the common man can now be expressed to the world in a way that was never possible before. Free of the restrictions of publishers and corporate giants. Free of the expectation to make the next great cookie cutter FPS or RPG. We can now for the first time in history truly make the games that we WANT to make. We can innovate. We can push the boundaries of the old genres. We can create new genres and we can tell the stories that not only change the industry but change the hearts of the players we strive so hard to reach. This is the second Golden Age of Gaming and I for one couldn't be more excited to see it arrive!

Erm, hardly 'for the first time'.
The first games on home computers, back in the mid 80s, were largely one man jobs. A whole collection of bedroom coders made buckets of money back then creating games for computers like the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64.
Yeah, it then became taken over by the giant media companies, and yes it's now becoming far more accessible for people to be able to code quality games with tiny teams, and have them reach people via the internet and delivery systems like Steam.
But it's a return to that, not a first time thing, it's all cyclic

>> ^Auger8:

A new age has dawned for games. The ideas of the common man can now be expressed to the world in a way that was never possible before. Free of the restrictions of publishers and corporate giants. Free of the expectation to make the next great cookie cutter FPS or RPG. We can now for the first time in history truly make the games that we WANT to make. We can innovate. We can push the boundaries of the old genres. We can create new genres and we can tell the stories that not only change the industry but change the hearts of the players we strive so hard to reach. This is the second Golden Age of Gaming and I for one couldn't be more excited to see it arrive!


Erm, hardly 'for the first time'.

The first games on home computers, back in the mid 80s, were largely one man jobs. A whole collection of bedroom coders made buckets of money back then creating games for computers like the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64.

Yeah, it then became taken over by the giant media companies, and yes it's now becoming far more accessible for people to be able to code quality games with tiny teams, and have them reach people via the internet and delivery systems like Steam.

But it's a return to that, not a first time thing, it's all cyclic

We already have the war on drugs. SOPA is the first step to outlaw independent media. Indy media will be ok, as long as it never uses any kind of copyrighted content. The instant it does, Indy media gets gets shutdown by financial sanctions, and gets shut off the web.

Sure, it's not the end of the world. But try making a news site without using "clips from the news"
Try making a comedy site without having a George carlin or Jon Stewart clip.
Try making a music site without having a sample of commerical music. (or a copyrighted melody, or copyrighted lyrics)

People on the internet are free to remix culture, to reinvent it. Until SOPA passes we are free.

You can find groups of black people on the internet who have a variety of perspectives and beliefs. What do these clips prove again?

I hate when white people use token blacks to excuse anti-black behavior.

more like "dance like thousands of people on the internet will be watching..."

Who is hiding behind the internet? I'll give you my phone number and we can talk on the phone. Let's see if you are willing to be this rude, insulting and threatening to a live human being (punch me in the face? you want to punch me in the face? jesus h christ.)



>> ^looris:

>> ^bareboards2:
I'm a 57 year old woman who knows a lot about sexist crap. I have seen it, suffered it, listened to it, raged at it for decades.
The comment above about "I'll answer when you tell me the size of your penis" was right-on.
How big is your penis, looris? Girth and length, please, because pencil dicks are pretty worthless on their own.


>> ^looris:
Too easy to put the "sexist" stamp on anything you don't understand. Looks like you're too simple minded, poor fella.


So you lived an unhappy life, and now you enjoy insulting right people on the Internet where they can't punch you in the face. Rofl, so a pitiful creature, I feel sorry for you. I'll stop feeding you, anyway.

>> ^bareboards2:

I'm a 57 year old woman who knows a lot about sexist crap. I have seen it, suffered it, listened to it, raged at it for decades.
The comment above about "I'll answer when you tell me the size of your penis" was right-on.
How big is your penis, looris? Girth and length, please, because pencil dicks are pretty worthless on their own.


>> ^looris:
Too easy to put the "sexist" stamp on anything you don't understand. Looks like you're too simple minded, poor fella.



So you lived an unhappy life, and now you enjoy insulting right people on the Internet where they can't punch you in the face. Rofl, so a pitiful creature, I feel sorry for you. I'll stop feeding you, anyway.

Does she live in Canada? Did you meet her at Niagara falls? I <3 breakfast club!>> ^Boise_Lib:

>> ^enoch:
here are a few rules i live by:
1.i never let anyone dictate how i should feel about myself.
2.assuming someones intentions is the most arrogant of all human proclivities and is something i attempt my best to avoid.sometimes i succeed,other times i fail but in any of those cases if i am unsure.... i ask directly.
3.when dealing with people on the internet i deal with them as human beings and not just a name or avatar.i may be at times harsh or irreverent but i ALWAYS temper my words with that in mind.they are an actual person.
i make no bones if i am angered or irritated or even touched or humbled because i am always sincere.
all of this i can do because i know who i am.my strengths...my weaknesses and even my odd quirks and to ask people on the internet to change their behavior due to my own oddness is a task that is not only unfair but damn near impossible.
that being said,i shall add something here that i tend to keep to myself but for boise's sake (who i find a decent sort),let me add this which may (or may not) add weight to my words:
i am bi-polar.
not your everyday,"im feeling down" kind of bi-polar but the rip-snorting,high-octane,we-are-going-for-a-ride kind of bi-polar.
oh....the stories i could tell you all...but i digress,
i suffer from severe and debilitating depression at times and is a reason some of you may notice that at one point or another i seem to just vanish from the sift.
so for those of you on the sift that suffer from depression.you are not alone but (and this is big) NEVER..EVER..let anyone dictate how you should feel about yourself.
that is your job to work out.
to give someone else that authority is to become a slave to someone elses imperfect and subjective understanding of you.
reserve that for the people who truly love you,for it is through the eyes of those who truly love you who can remind you who you are when you have forgotten.
man,i hope not a lot of people see this.
i feel like my fly is open.
anyways.this one is for you boise.
open fly and all.

I should have just listened to my girlfriend and taken a Xanax instead of posting this.
(Yes, I do have a girlfriend--she's a cheerleader in another state--you wouldn't know her.)
Thank You, enoch.

>> ^enoch:

here are a few rules i live by:
1.i never let anyone dictate how i should feel about myself.
2.assuming someones intentions is the most arrogant of all human proclivities and is something i attempt my best to avoid.sometimes i succeed,other times i fail but in any of those cases if i am unsure.... i ask directly.
3.when dealing with people on the internet i deal with them as human beings and not just a name or avatar.i may be at times harsh or irreverent but i ALWAYS temper my words with that in mind.they are an actual person.
i make no bones if i am angered or irritated or even touched or humbled because i am always sincere.
all of this i can do because i know who i am.my strengths...my weaknesses and even my odd quirks and to ask people on the internet to change their behavior due to my own oddness is a task that is not only unfair but damn near impossible.
that being said,i shall add something here that i tend to keep to myself but for boise's sake (who i find a decent sort),let me add this which may (or may not) add weight to my words:
i am bi-polar.
not your everyday,"im feeling down" kind of bi-polar but the rip-snorting,high-octane,we-are-going-for-a-ride kind of bi-polar.
oh....the stories i could tell you all...but i digress,
i suffer from severe and debilitating depression at times and is a reason some of you may notice that at one point or another i seem to just vanish from the sift.
so for those of you on the sift that suffer from depression.you are not alone but (and this is big) NEVER..EVER..let anyone dictate how you should feel about yourself.
that is your job to work out.
to give someone else that authority is to become a slave to someone elses imperfect and subjective understanding of you.
reserve that for the people who truly love you,for it is through the eyes of those who truly love you who can remind you who you are when you have forgotten.
man,i hope not a lot of people see this.
i feel like my fly is open.
anyways.this one is for you boise.
open fly and all.


I should have just listened to my girlfriend and taken a Xanax instead of posting this.
(Yes, I do have a girlfriend--she's a cheerleader in another state--you wouldn't know her.)
Thank You, enoch.

here are a few rules i live by:
1.i never let anyone dictate how i should feel about myself.
2.assuming someones intentions is the most arrogant of all human proclivities and is something i attempt my best to avoid.sometimes i succeed,other times i fail but in any of those cases if i am unsure.... i ask directly.
3.when dealing with people on the internet i deal with them as human beings and not just a name or avatar.i may be at times harsh or irreverent but i ALWAYS temper my words with that in mind.they are an actual person.
i make no bones if i am angered or irritated or even touched or humbled because i am always sincere.

all of this i can do because i know who i am.my strengths...my weaknesses and even my odd quirks and to ask people on the internet to change their behavior due to my own oddness is a task that is not only unfair but damn near impossible.

that being said,i shall add something here that i tend to keep to myself but for boise's sake (who i find a decent sort),let me add this which may (or may not) add weight to my words:
i am bi-polar.
not your everyday,"im feeling down" kind of bi-polar but the rip-snorting,high-octane,we-are-going-for-a-ride kind of bi-polar.
oh....the stories i could tell you all...but i digress,
i suffer from severe and debilitating depression at times and is a reason some of you may notice that at one point or another i seem to just vanish from the sift.

so for those of you on the sift that suffer from depression.you are not alone but (and this is big) NEVER..EVER..let anyone dictate how you should feel about yourself.
that is your job to work out.
to give someone else that authority is to become a slave to someone elses imperfect and subjective understanding of you.
reserve that for the people who truly love you,for it is through the eyes of those who truly love you who can remind you who you are when you have forgotten.

man,i hope not a lot of people see this.
i feel like my fly is open.
anyways.this one is for you boise.
open fly and all.

Don't be stupid. He didn't say "he" would, he said everyone saying this is a problem would still buy the game because it's not a real problem. Which is just patently untrue. There are numerous people for whom this is a significant problem, who almost certainly won't be buying the game.

>> ^sme4r:

First off, who is this directed at? ponceleon?
Secondly, shut up, as it is totally true that he is "online" constantly, and he will buy the game regardless of it's Internet based requirements.
Lastly, don't question magic 8-balls.>> ^Bhruic:
Just because your magic 8-ball told you that doesn't make it true. Believe it or not, for some people, requiring an internet connection is a deal-breaker. Some people are often in situations where they don't have a reliable internet connection. But don't let reality stop you from claiming to know what other people will do.