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- iomegaboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+180Should have searched for "How to commit murder and get away with it."
- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -5/+170That story is awesome. And she might have gotten away with it if she used altavista.
- sucks, on 10/12/2007, -5/+136one time i was hungry and without thinking i googled "sandwich"
- jetsetgo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+111Jeeves in the library with the candlestick!
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -5/+80Just email oj@simpson.com.
- trghpy, on 10/12/2007, -11/+71So the real question is...
Which search engine was more helpful?
Can i assume she got caught because she used the MSN search results? - sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -3/+57I clicked on "I feel lucky" and got this thread. You don't seem like a horny teenage girl, though.
- Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -2/+48The search would have to exclude "those meddling kids."
- benitojuarez, on 10/12/2007, -4/+45she should have used ask jeeves and blamed the butler.
- devilspy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+44She should have asked Jeeves. Hes a butler and a cutler.
- coolian, on 10/12/2007, -2/+36Altavista?!
You obviously haven't heard about Cha Cha. She could have blamed the agent. - Poco, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31Don't go killing anyone soon...
- dsmx, on 10/12/2007, -5/+31When will people learn. Do research for illegal things at places other than your home, stop making it so easy for the police.
Bunch of bloody amateurs. - Jemm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28From the article: "Her testimony was the strongest evidence yet in the state's circumstantial evidence case against the 34-year-old McGuire, who allegedly murdered her husband with a .38 caliber weapon"
I wonder how it went:
"Hmm... Now how could I get rid of that husband? I'd better google it..."
*2 hours later*
"Ooh! I could shoot him! How didn't I think of that!" - DJCult, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28As I hear it, the goggles: They do nothing.
- chuckpenzone, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28Maybe jbarnett should google how to spell google...
- aukxsona, on 10/12/2007, -7/+27@johnwyles
Twisted to know gun laws? To know poisonous plants?
1.) I found out I have poisonous berries right in my back yard that is with in reach of my children...imagine if we picked and ate those instead of trying to eradicate them. Or that I didn't know they were poison when my daughter tried to eat them?
2.) I want to use a gun safely and legally, but I also want to know my rights to defend myself legally...so I shouldn't look gun laws up?
just in case etc...
3.) I am a chemistry major so I shouldn't look up chemical combinations to make sure all are safe?
If they haunt me it would be a retard that tried to push them... - arnott7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Google does not kill people, people kill people !
- toppgun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19thats what using an anonymous proxy at the library of the town next over to search for "how to kill someone with common household goods and get away with it as an accident" is for...
crap, I told you too much. Now Im going to have to kill you... with a common household good - synystar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21True. Altavista is undetectable by all but the most adept digital detectives. She might also have gone to a local library and feigned an interest in the Dewey decimal system for a moment, never removing her lovely gloves. Digital evidence almost always looks extremely bad... even if it isn't conclusive.
- parax, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17I don't think it's excellent. I don't like the idea that the numerous and trivial things I search for could be used against me legally should anything happen to anyone I've ever met. I've searched for poisons, radioactive elements, terrorists, laws, and any number of other things that could be construed as intent given context.
I watch a lot of crime dramas, and I frequently search for methods of death to find out if they're really possible or if the episode was based on a real case. Using people's information gathering habits against them in a legal context is a terrible thing. What you think, read, and write should be protected.
You shouldn't have to pause before you research because your search strings might be ammunition against you in a trial. If they can use your search strings against you, they'll start using your tivo/dvr preferences against you, or anything you've ever written in any post (of course conveniently clipped to only show what they want it to show). - johnwyles, on 10/12/2007, -9/+25I call for changing the miranda rights to "...anything you say, or "Google®," may be used against you in a court of law."
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Imagine if the husband scrolled through the computer's history a few days before his murder.
"Honey... I think we need to talk. If you're going to kill me, at least clear the Internet history after Googling stuff like this" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15i am now going to google: "how to avoid marriage"
- cam503, on 10/12/2007, -8/+20I just googled: "How to comment on digg."
It wasn't that exciting. - silouette747, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12*Googles* How to get into a threesome *Waits*
- SultanTravi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10What I learned from this is that one should never ever spell the word "centering" with a hyphen.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8this reminds me of a 48hr investigation episode about a guy who fake a robery and killed his wife. During which he was shot 4 times. They got him searching Google on how to shoot him self without causing harm, rofl people don't know what they do on their computer can come back and bite them in the ass.
Check out the interesting story.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/30/48hours/main2412759.shtml - dojonz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Did you mean: how to change nothing
- 0x0000ff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8she did it at work and at her parents place, read the article
- LonesomeFighter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6idiots. Google, then wait 18-24 months for search log to be anonymized.
- CaptMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7This teaches us all a valuable and important lesson. If a woman is going to kill her husband, she should search for things like "how to be a good wife" and "how you please your husband" then she can kill him.
- geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Note to self: use tor.
- lysdexia, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Aye - you could bore them to death with Yahoo.
- zbeast, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Perhaps she should have watched a few episodes of CSI.
Lessons on how to commit a murder and get away with it.
- benitojuarez, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8im sorry i didnt see this, didnt mean to steal your comment.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5That's what I was thinking.. I mean the DNA sequence is considered to be about 1GB in length right? I've seen the sequence in book-form at a science center and its only a foot or two in height (double-sided), so a 12GB one-sided paper stack would only be something like 50 feet high right?
- CarolynMittens, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3well... it's not random since this article entirely involves google. and his comment made me smile.
lighten up! - robbiedo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Doesn't it give you a warm feeling inside knowing how helpful Google can be in reaching one's life goals?
- loqqq, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4She should have waited 18-24 months before killing him.
- hadiz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Hah, the #1 result for that query on Google is some loon talking about a robot killing someone.
- euphemizeme, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I think it's excellent that these queries were logged and could be used to prosecute this murderer.
Unfortunately, this is just more ammunition for those who would seek to log and analyze every keystroke people make. - coolbru, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Evidently completely failed to search for 'How to commit murder and not get caught'.
- pietenpol, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Right on, Parax. I couldn't agree more.
In that story linked above about the guy killing his wife, if I recall correctly, it came out during the trial that he had downloaded the Guns and Roses song "I used to love her (but I had to kill her)" and the prosecution made one of those whiteboards with the lyrics all written out.
That's right, they used the fact that he had listened to a Guns and Roses song in a trial to convict him of murder. - thomasthecat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5"Hey Big Tuna...have you ever wondered what would happen if you googled Google?"
- aukxsona, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hmm I'm an American and I have the right to Freedom of information would I take a chance...You betcha...know why it's my right.
Circumstantial. I can look as guilty as you like but if I'm not beyond a shadow of a doubt...I'm not.
Same thing with this lady.
By the way those weren't hypothetical made up reasons...I really did do google searches on poisonous plants, chemicals, and gun laws for the hell of it...and yes they did actually save my kids life. More than once I might add. Education, no matter how bad it looks is never bad. - EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I'm pretty certain I could murder someone without using Google.
- Keloran, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3note to self: delete the "keyword" search from my machine, before commiting murder
- R3PUBLIC0n, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3In other news, Spiderman's identity revealed to be New York City's Peter Parker after forensics experts determined that he Googled the phrase "How do I shot web?" on the 9th.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Note to self. Next time use a linux live dvd.
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