offtopic: laptop

[newdep]

If you every intent to try and steel a computer be sure its not this one ;-)

http://www.break.com/index/stolenlaptop.html

[Ryon]

The professor is just blowing smoke. If they had anything on the thief they would have used the info to get him, rather than trying to scare him into giving himself up.

I think the professor is trying to be the poster boy for the "Back Up Your Data" campaign.