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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by mattkevan on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @09:53AM (#10226565)
There's a variant of Clarke's third law which applies here: "Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice."
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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by masteryupa_ on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @11:23AM (#10227268)
@mattkevan could you provide a citation for this? A quick search nets Arthur C. Clarke's three laws, with the third reading:

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - 1973, Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws

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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by MiguelHudnandez on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @12:42PM (#10227904)
No citation is necessary, they're just quoting a clever anonymous adaptation. It's not anything Arthur C. Clarke ever said.
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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by stuaxo on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @10:09AM (#10226676)
Hanlons 3rd law ?
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