> Why would you even want to BadExit his nodes?

To further malign him of course.

My favorite is the cup trick:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYBqIRM8GiY

I've heard that called the "Spanish waiter" trick and seen it done with full plates. It's cool.

> even a simple flashlight really does end up costing $100

Not at the army surplus store.

You'll get more sympathy if you use Facebook to track down deadbeat dads and sex offenders who haven't registered.

Or, on the internet, not really.

(family law systems and sex-offender registries are both fairly widely known to be disgustingly broken)

I'll believe you when I see a warning from Facebook castigating investigators for using their service for those purposes.

You should almost certainly eat more fiber if you are sitting long enough to want something to read.

>Netbooks just seem like a solution needing a problem to me. My kids have a netbook that I bought them for Christmas last year

So then the problem is what useless gadget to get your kids for Christmas.

You can generate rules like these for arbitrary integers/primes(much easier than trying to remember them in my opinion). Take 41.

Example: 1476 is divisible by 41? 147 - 4 * 6 = 123. 12 - 4 * 3 = 0. Yes.

Example: 3321 is divisible by 41? 332 - 4 * 1 = 328. 32 - 4 * 8 = 0. Yes

What's the rule? Take the last digit off, multiply by 4 and subtract.

How to find the rules is left as an exercise.

>I get the impression that most people who recommend the Dragon book haven't read it.

These days you can usually tell that they haven't read it if they refer to it as "the Dragon book" and don't say anything about the edition. The same thing goes for "Knuth", "the Appel book", etc.

>It feels like I'm watching someone try to act out the part of a character in a spy novel.

In that case we should be able to figure out his key and decrypt the file. The key in the spy novels is always something you feel like you should have seen coming, something predictable.