Janice, that's the problem...
Is he the unusually articulate wunderkinder with a near arcane grasp of game theory who innocently fell in with the wrong crowd?
Or...is he the Evil MachinMastre who issued me a one-year ban for getting frustrated and calling the_worm06 a 'freak' in reply to his below-the-belt harassment in June of '07?
Nobody knows who MB really is...so how do we separate the alleged youthful braggadocio from the obviously criminal intent to do harm?
He was joking. I doubt Matt's ever shorted a stock in his life.
U.S.C. 223(h)(1) sez U can't annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass anyone on the Net & elude punishment for same.