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Average convicted British computer criminal is young, male, not highly skilled, researcher finds

Tuesday 13th April 2021 10:16 GMT Hoddy

Sampling Bias anyone???

"sort of computer-enabled criminals who plague Great Britain’s digital doings in the 21st Century." WRONG!

"sort of computer-enabled criminals who WERE CAUGHT plaguing Great Britain’s digital doings in the 21st Century." RIGHT!

This is an analysis of the failures - the ones Plod can catch.

We can assume the ones they haven't caught are brighter, better educated or better organised... or all those things.

Mind you, I'm a real Researcher, not an "academic researcher", whatever the fsck that is.

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Google engineer names and shames dodgy USB Type-C cable makers

Friday 6th November 2015 16:49 GMT Hoddy

For Chrissake - it's NOT 'Flaunt'

"I have started reviewing USB cables on Amazon because I have gotten fed up with the early cables from third-party vendors that so blatantly flaunt the specification, and I want to hold them to task," he wrote on Google+.

I know it's the Google Twonk speaking (clearly, their much vaunted recruitment test doesn't check on literacy) but El Reg could at least have put ‘(sic)’ after the misused word.

Flaunt != Flout

While I'm ranting - 'Enormity' means very, very bad, not very big.

So he's committed the enormity of using flaunt when he means flout.

I feel better now. Thank you for reading.

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