Celebrating the full spectrum of IQ, from clueless hackers to brainy developers A buddy of mine who once worked as a New York City assistant DA shared the following insight with me: Most criminals are not very bright. He and I had just seen a heist movie — something where an evil genius and his sharp-as-tacks cronies had pulled of an inordinately complex scheme to knock over a bank, grabbing millions in the process. In truth, however, most criminals are more “Fargo” than “Oceans 13,” and that goes for cyber criminals, as well.Case in point: The six tales of incompetence on display in “Stupid hacker tricks.” “Hackers have a reputation for operating on a higher level,” says Associate Editor Jason Snyder, who edited the article. “But as author Andrew Brandt points out, their lower-brain functions — greed, ego … and an obsession with Anna Kournikova — are what bring them down.” In other words, for all their techie smarts, these hackers are still pretty stupid. Brandt’s investigation into the recesses of the criminal brain is a good companion piece to last year’s “Stupid user tricks” and this year’s follow-up “More stupider user tricks.” We figured after picking on users, it was time to turn our attentions elsewhere.Once you’ve reveled in the stupidity of criminals, you can cleanse your mental palate and boost your own smarts by checking out David L. Margulius’s Enterprise Insight. Dave’s weekly take on key business issues and his enterprise-centric analysis of breaking news is consistently thought-provoking, funny, and, yes, just plain smart. Speaking of smart, the brainiacs will be descending on San Francisco this week for the Apple WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference). Our own Tom Yager will be on the scene, blogging his fingers to the bone to keep you on top of show developments. Tom will also be posting his preview of the Mac OS X Leopard beta, which is being made available to conference attendees. We’ve also got our first full-fledged review of the just-released Parallels Desktop 3.0 — software that allows Macs to run Windows, including Vista. (Don’t despair, Windows users: Parallels Workstation will let you perform similar multi-OS tricks on your platform of choice.) Senior Contributing Editor Paul Venezia is simply gaga over the new Parallels for Mac; read his review to understand why he believes this is a must-have application for Mac heads who want to straddle the Apple-Windows divide.Remember: You can also get this complete column in your e-mail inbox every week. To do so, sign up here. Technology Industry