Correct, but for the same crime and effort, (so just as easy) the criminal could have made a bigger profit. They took the stereo and left behind the laptop. Criminals however are not always the brightest bulbs.

Someone broke into the office of a consulting shop I was working for, passing up dozens of macbook pros and who knows what else for an old-school translucent aqua imac and a $100 Walmart bike.

Many of these opportunistic thieves think about what they can move quickly so if they are caught they no longer have the goods on them. That imac and walmart bike they could have moved the same day for probably $100 profit, where as the macbooks they may have had to shop them around for longer, long enough for theft services to lock them down and track them once they are turned on... Not good news for the crook. They are smarter than you probably think.

They were probably hipsters... was it is a fixed gear bike? And Aqua iMacs are pretty culkin.

Notice any facial hair trimmers missing?

Please. No walmart "bike" has horizontal drop-outs.

Incorrect. http://www.walmart.com/ip/700c-Thruster-Fixie-Bike/21635147?...

Comment of the year. Hah!

To be fair, if they were tech savvy they would probably work as freelancers or at a computer store instead of stealing aqua imacs.

The thief probably wasn't bright and hadn't seen it before, thinking that iMac must be so new that he hasn't seen it in the news and therefore the most valuable (after all, Apple is making colored iPhones now).

Nah, just wait 15 years and sell the Aqua iMacs for thousands of dollars. Better than those mainstream macbook pros...

Sounds about right, those macbooks aren't worth anything.

You'd think somebody smart enough to glean a key from github and setup instances on aws would have thought this out more

Most scrypt mining software uses the CPU by default. It might have been too difficult for the thief to figure out how to get GPU mining setup.

No it doesn't. cgminer is the "default" that almost everyone uses and the current version doesn't even have CPU mining. The current version doesn't have script either, you gotta download a previous version but that's a different story. You gotta throw in a --script when starting it, otherwise it mines with SHA-256.

If you wanna CPU mine, you gotta download a specific CPU miner.

Source: I mine Litecoins.