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Why non-male? I'd think a highly educated white collar white female would be able to pull it off just as well if not better. (To be honest I have trouble imagining one would want to though...sexist of me I suppose.)
If that training program is any bit as useless as "online driving school", I can sort of understand how the Macro came to be...
One of my proudest hacker moments* a while back was taking online defensive driving school (to have a speeding ticket excused) and figuring out what to type into the Javascript console to make the 'next' button clickable before the timer on the page ran out. (This technique would have been subverted had there been any server-side checks whatsoever, but nope...they completely entrusted the client to keep the time. I suppose they don't have much of an incentive to make it any more difficult given that the government probably doesn't have a very rigorous accreditation process for these courses.) That cut whatever was left of the required 6 hours down to about 20 minutes. I guess I'm an unethical monster that should never be allowed to run a company. :\
*I know, it's pretty lame in comparison to, say, figuring out how to jailbreak an iPhone, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't proud.