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Freedom Downtime Released to Video

tomcat writes "For those who don't know, Freedom Downtime is 2600's two hour long documentary that deals with one of the stories the mass media managed to overlook - that of hacker Kevin Mitnick, imprisoned for nearly five years on charges that to this day remain unclear."

22 comments

  1. P1ss Fr0st by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    PISS FUCKING FROST

  2. Things To Do Today by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1. Take off car's gas cap.

    2. Hump the hole furiously.

  3. Clarity? by QuodEratDemonstratum · · Score: 4, Informative

    on charges that to this day remain unclear

    They look quite clear on the indictment

    1. Re:Clarity? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      He means unclear to Mitnick apologists.

      Kind of like how evidence against Creationism is unclear to creation scientists.

    2. Re:Clarity? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Mod parent up.

  4. diaper_tales! by diaper_tales · · Score: -1

    I awoke Saturday morning when Tammy came into my room and leaned over my crib. "Hey baby, did you sleep well last night?" "Yeppers, Me slept really good last night Tam Tam" "That's good sweetie, I did too. "So are your dipees all wettie?" "Yep me wet." "Ok let's change you then." She picked me up out of my crib and laid me on the changing table and slid off my jammies and slid down my rubber pants. Then she un-pinned my squishy and soaked cloth diaper. She smiled at me as she wiped my hiney and my front and she sprinkled powder on me and then put another diaper under me and drew it up between my legs and pinned it nice and snuggly. I enjoyed being babied so much. By this point I couldn't even remember how it all started. To me it seem as if I was always this way.

    I hugged Tammy and she walked with me to the kitchen and got some stuff out of the cupboards and made us both breakfast. She even made breakfast in bed for mom and dad and carried it down the hall to their room. They were very happy. Tammy came back out to me and I was sitting in my highchair just banging on the tray and being silly. "Honey, you must be hungry huh?" "Yep me hungry!" I giggled and Tammy just looked at me.

    She sat down at the table next to me and would eat some of her oatmeal and then she would spoon-feed me. She kept alternating between us. Finally I was full and Tammy finished the rest of the oatmeal. She then grabbed a washcloth and wet it and then came back over to me and wiped my face and took my bib off. She let me out of my highchair and I walked to the living room and sat down to watch cartoons.

    After Tammy took mom and dad's breakfast tray to the kitchen and washed up some of the dishes, she came into the living room and sat on the floor with me. I laid my head in her lap and she leaned against my beanbag. We were laughing and having fun watching cartoons.

    The phone rang a short time later and it was one of Tammy's friends. She talked for a while and then came over to me. "Hey Tiffy, Kimmie and I are gonna go over to the mall this afternoon for a couple hours, do you wanna come with us?" I shook my head. "Why not?" "Because me don't wanna walk around all day." "Oh you silly girl, you don't have to walk around." Mom interrupted as her and dad came out into the living room. "Come with us honey." Dad said. I fallowed him out to the garage and he walked to the corner and pulled a blanket off of something. I stared for a minute in disbelief. "A Stroller!" I hugged daddy and mommy and Tammy. "Thank you!" "You are welcome honey. Your father spent a lot of time in the evenings working on it. He welded the metal and I sewed the fabric for it. We ordered some of the plastic handle grips from a store that sells parts for baby strollers. And the wheels are actually training wheels off of some old bikes that we found in the trash. So your daddy and I worked on this for you as a surprise. But since Christmas is still a ways away, we figured we should give it to you now so that you can go more places and not have to walk." I stood there and just had the biggest grin on my face. I hugged and thanked everyone again.

    A few minutes later Tammy's friend, Kimmie, rang the doorbell. Tammy invited her in and she said hello to me and to mom and dad as well. We all sat around the living room and talked a bit. As we were getting ready to go Kimmie went to use the potty. "Hey Tiffy, your diaper need changing yet?" I blushed and nodded. Tammy took me to my room and undid my diaper and powdered me. Just then Kimmie returned from the bathroom. "Aww isn't she so cute" Tammy turned and smiled at Kimmie" "Yeah she's the sweetest baby girl in the whole world." I smiled. "Hey I gotta go potty too, can you finish pulling her pants up for me Kimmie?" Tammy said as she went to go potty too. I was a little shy about Kimmie helping me because I didn't know her to well. She knew all about me and we had met before and Kimmie had spent the night. But it was different having her actually help me get dressed after my diaper was changed.

    Tammy came back and we all went to the garage. Kimmie was also impressed with the stroller my daddy made for me. They folded the stroller in half and put it in the trunk of Kimmie's car. I Sat in the backseat, Kimmie drove, and Tammy was next to her in the front. Kimmie was 16 and already had her license. Tammy was so mature for her age that she hung out with older kids.

    We finally got to the mall and got out. They unloaded my stroller from the trunk. I sat in it and it was so nice and comfy and padded. They buckled me in too! Tammy hung my diaper bag over the back handle and pushed me through the parking lot up to the mall while Tammy walked beside her. They agreed to take turns pushing me.

    It was close to lunch time so we hit the food court first. I ate a hamburger and french-fries and had a huge Dr. Pepper! "I guess we'll be changing diapers a few times today." Kimmie smiled at me jokingly. "Yeah, soda just goes right through her, so she'll probably be wet before we get done eating." I blushed and they smiled at me. "Aww poor baby is blushing." We giggled and they talked to each other about school and stuff and we ate.

    Sure enough when we were done eating Tammy reached down and put her hand under my outfit to check my diaper. She pushed on it and felt it all squishy and warm. "Oh my goodness, you did go tinkles a lot didn't you?" "Yeah, I still am going right now too." I smiled. "We won't change you for another half hour though, cuz your diaper can hold it. Ok?" "Yeah that otay, me like wet squishy didees.

    We went throughout the mal to different stores. We even stopped at a toy store. As we were going through the toy store a lot of kids and their parents were staring at me. Some of them asked how old I was. They thought it was kind of cute that I was still so baby-like.

    "Me want that pink bunny wabbit!" I shouted as I saw this huge stuffed bunny on a rack. "Oh my goodness, that bunny is bigger than you are!" Tammy said. "Me want him, pweez?" "Oh ok sweetie." They took the big pink bunny and sat him in the stroller with me as we walked down a few more isles just looking around.

    I wet my diaper some more and I asked to be changed. "I don't know where the bathroom is here" Tammy said. "Well hey let's go back to the back of the store and over in that corner behind the rack with the beach balls. We can change her in the stroller. I'll be the lookout and keep people from coming back there." Kimmie said. "Oh ok sure that'll work. They pushed my stroller to the back corner of the store. Tammy took the bunny out of the stroller and sat it on the floor next to it. Kimmie was blocking people's view by standing on the other side of the rack with the balls in it. Tammy got my pants down and slipped off the diaper and was wiping me. As my hiney was in the air, some kid and his mommy came towards us. "Um can you give us a minute, We're changing a diaper back here real quick." The kid couldn't see because he was short but his mommy could see past Kimmie and saw my hiney being wiped and then a diaper being put on me. "Wow isn't she a big baby?" "Yeah she's eight." "Eight? And still in diapers?" Kimmie nodded. Tammy finished diapering me and put the bunny back in the stroller with me and we left to go pay for it.

    They pushed me in the stroller around the mall some more with my cute pink bunny. Finally we left and went home around 4pm Kimmie left soon after that. Tammy put me down for a nap with my new pink bunny rabbit. Mom woke me for dinner and then after dinner I was on the living room floor playing with some toys. I fell asleep on the floor and so Tammy got me ready for bed and tucked me in.

    It was good that I was going to bed early because we had to get up early for church the next morning. I was excited because it was the last day of our revival services. I said a prayer for Laura to get better and then Tammy read me a story and I dozed off again.

  5. GET VOYAGER OFF VIDEO by Voyager+Sucks+Ass · · Score: -1

    Specifically, get Voyager off the video screen in my fucking living room. I'm sick of watching those whiny faggots meander from place to place in the fucking Delta quadrant, each episode encountering another lamely-written, half-baked excuse for a plot.

    Jesus fucking Christ. Half the time they don't even leave the fucking ship, and we get a feel-good episode about how that human-sized pussy otherwise known as the doctor has some sort of personal growth, or learns some bullshit about what it means to be human.

    I don't want to learn some pseudo-philosophical shit about the inner workings of humanity, I want naked lesbian alien chicks fucking each other with a three foot long double-headed dildo, while Seven of Nine gets her teeth fucked out by WWF's the Rock.

  6. I was watching a video about this on FRONT LINE!!! by Alarmabad · · Score: -1

    Trains, planes, cars, rockets, telescopes, tires, telephones, radios, television, electricity, atomic energy, computers, and fax machines. All miracles made possible by the minds and spirits of men with names like Ampere, Bell, Caselli, Edison, Ohm, Faraday, Einstein, Cohen, Teller, Shockley, Hertz, Marconi, Morse, Popov. Ford, Volta, Michelin, Dunlop, Watt, Diesel, Galileo, and other "dead white males."

    All reports indicate that we have a booming economy right now, but few understand why this is so. I hate to disappoint my friends on the radical left, but it has nothing to do with Bonnie and Clyde Clinton or the Democratic Party, or with any other party for that matter. What Im about to say is tantamount to blasphemy in this politically correct day and age; yet truth is truth. How long are we going to pretend that origins play no role in our world, the origins of the inventions, science, technology, and economics of the world in which we live?

    Our present economic boom is due to the revolution in electronics and computer technology. But saying this is not enough, for these things didnt just spring into existence by themselves. They have traceable origins. And all of our "booms," throughout history, have the same origins as this one. Its no mystery. Just look at the list of names in your history books, and their national origins.

    The great majority of "booms" past and present have been brought about by the genius and inventiveness of that most "despicable" of genders, the dreaded white male, or, to be exact, by specific, individual white males. This is not to discredit the many contributions coming from non-whites, but fact is fact. Our most important and consequential inventions have come almost exclusively from white males.

    Curse me, or all white males, if you wish, that changes nothing. But if you call me a liar, youll have to come up with the proof that Im wrong. Remember, I didnt say there were no important contributions by non-whites; I said the overwhelming majority. Of course, I know about such things as the Chinese and gunpowder, but they didnt take it much beyond firecrackers and pyrotechnics. And I know about the pyramids and masonry of South America and the zero of the Arabs.

    Would we have atomic physics and electricity if it hadnt been for the ancient Greek philosophers who, for example, had the idea that all matter consists of tiny atoms? Aristotle (5th century, B.C., 25th century pre P.C.) used electric charges to treat gout! Archimedes perceived the center of gravity of solids, cylinders, and spheres. From the basic discoveries of Greek civilization it went to the Romans and after the fall of Rome, it passed to later Europeans who expanded on this scientific knowledge. In modern times these ideas were developed by such Europeans as Volta, Ampere, Watts, Bell, Edison, and Einstein, who provided the basis for most of the technical wonders of today. All of them dreaded white males.

    Maybe you got your enlightenment from one of the Ivy-League institutions of dis-education. Maybe they taught you that its all the result of white racism and oppression. That every time a potential Einstein, Edison, or Ford popped up in the Third World, a White hit-squad would swoop down and eliminate him before he had a chance to prove himself. Or maybe their schools refused to teach him in the Ebonics of his day. Or maybe they didnt have proper daycare facilities. Or maybe our would-be innovator came from a "dysfunctional family."

    But the facts tell us that many of the great men pursued their genius at great personal risk--like the astronomer Galileo, who proved that the earth revolves around the sun. He and other men of genius and courage refused to be suppressed even if it meant their lives. They would permit no race, gender, group or class to keep them from their pursuit of truth and excellence whatever the cost.

    If you eliminate, suppress, or debase the while male, you kill the goose that laid the golden egg. If you ace him out with "affirmative" action, exile him from the family, teach him that hes a blight on mankind, then bon voyage to our society. We will devolve into a turd-world cesspool. Where has there ever before in history been a group of human beings who have brought about the likes of the Magna Carta, the US Constitution, and the countless life-saving and life- improving inventions that we now enjoy?

    Now it is certainly true that China did lead the world in technology and commercial inventiveness about 1,000 years ago. They had great coal-mining operations, gunpowder, six-masted sailing ships, and intense commercial enterprise. But it all collapsed because the elites, the long-nailed Mandarins, centralized control--1,000 years before Mao--and crushed the expansion and inventions.

    Does this mean we should sit back and let ourselves be governed by someone just because hes a white male? Of course, it doesnt. It means simply that we shouldnt suppress anyone, including white males. Let our God-given gifts run free in a free and just society, free from the oppression and tyranny of social engineers. If anyone has gifts beyond our own, be he a white male or other, be grateful. Maybe we have gifts that in some small way can contribute something of value as well. One way or another, were all in the same boat. Few of us have truly outstanding gifts. And most of us have to humbly accept that there are others around who are more gifted than we are. In a democratic society its not for Big Brother to decide who shall thrive and who shall struggle in the hive.

    Wah. Wah. Cry wah. Fuck you commie. You leftish shit. Lets make the doors out of paper to let the burgulars in, give a big hug and try to kiss and make friends lalalalalal.

    This thread is making me sick, and all the commie leftist biased shit going on makes me even more sick.

    There are those few people here which have said some conservative sense to these leftists that would teach gay love to young boys for the sake of diversity.

    No one holds a gun to your head to eat that fuckin' McDonalds. NO ONE. These third world saps suck up American culture because they are busy chopping clitorises off of women, suppressing ethnic minority groups though genocide or some other bull shit.

    People are way to young and don't read much history. Ask Tibet how it likes China's takeover. Ask the Chinks how they like the Japs when they killed 100,000's during the occupation of Manchuria. Ask any of the down trodden eastern Europeans how it felt to have the long spear of the Soviet Ramrod up their asses during the cold war days? How bout a nice day in a GOULAG? How about making bomb shelters in Iraq near legit military targets to get "bad lefty communist like Christiana AMAPOUR to report civvie deaths even though Hussein is at fault?" How about starving Iraqi "children" aka terrorists in training starving to death because their leader is spending upwards ot 50B/year in WMD research. How about Canada and France selling No. Ko. reactor parts, great fuckin friends we have. How about getting the death penalty in Singapore for smoking a joint? How about giving the Middle East nations the oil fields back (after we built huge oil platforms for them, because the tent dwelling cretins were too fucking retarded

    FUCK TIHS ANTI AMERICAN shit. all the foreigners who get here legally stay for a fucking damn good reason. And I welcome you, so long as you pay taxes do what you fuckin want.

    This is historically unfounded. We get over our vices and inconsistencies fast here. USA makes mistakes, but the Sudanese still have slavery, we don't. We got over slavery damn quick compared to the rest of the world. We came a long way on suffrage (the right to vote to all the bleeding heart commies who have yet to pay much into the system yet). We may not be perfect yet, but shit, its far from shit. very far.

    I hate the commie shit socialists who want the least common denominator for everyone.

    FUCK YOU. Id rather nuke your ass and suck up some nice radiation I paid for that share my home with you fucking lazy un-working vermin.

    I'll never worry about losing the cure for cancer by nuking dumps like Iraq, because these defunct shithead countries will never make one.

    There is so much trash going around on this thread, it makes me laugh. Pseudo educated suppressed homosexuals (not that homosexuality is bad, but suppressing it, geeze you liberal fucks should spread the cheeks and get it done with, you spit your wad a lot harder when the person fucking your ass has a towel on his head) eructating puerile shit.

    I'm glad we are planning to make it possible to put me into bondage. I would rather die than be in bondage to these shitty subversive chinks or commies or morally bankrupt suppressive shitass Islamic Towelheads.

    We have said for 40 years plus, you do it, you think about it, and you are gone. the red button gets pressed, the red telephone gets slammed on the receiver.

    The Japs did well surrendering to us. They are the second or third largest economy in the World, jeeze, the USA really sucks to surrender to , huh? You tools need to think - you really think the US didn't do them a favor by burning down that house? They made off with our car industry for Christ's sake, and boy, I do love driving my Japanese car - its great. And I fucking paid it off in 9 months, $33,000 bucks. And not, its not public property, you cant have a ride, fuck off , its mine I PAID FOR IT. None of this commie shit.

    John Walker scume floating around Marin. Bezerkelyite fuckers with Barney Telletubbie view of the world scumballing their shit subversive agenda.

    I must say, piss on John Asscraft for being a fascist shit. I may hate you leftist fuck commies, but this right wing fascist shit sucks too.

    Really, really. What is going on? There are circles of power, some leaning left, some leaning right, some existing for themselves. They divide the people of the world, always focusing on what makes us different! Are you a fag or not? Are you black or white? Are you left or right? Are you a fat fuck? You know what I dont give a shit what you are, and thats still my fucking car. The circles of power want us to fight amongst ourselves while the prance off with all the fucking money and power.

    Everyone wants a nice Japanese import car, real medical care (not socialized shit, like that shit in the UK where if you reach a certain age you entitlement to care is GONE, like if you get dialysis, hit age 65, they PULL THE FUCKING PLUG, because they are commie shits), they want halfway decent schools, freedom to think etc. We got all that here. I live it. You fall on your face here because you are lazy, not a caste system.

    Tactical nukes are appropriate, and we had the finger on the button the last 50 years, we just want to remind the world, hey, have a wet dream, and well have a coupla kilotons of force to save us some money.

    Appeasing Hitler landed Neville Chamberlain in the historical doghouse, and it took Winston Churchill to show the world the right way. To quote Churchill, "'Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others,'"

    All high and mighty EU, they armed these fucking countries. Half the Islamic nations shit came from French military hardware, roundly supplemented by the zipper heads. The I hear some leftist shit in this thread quote MAO the DUNG on the US being the "paper tiger". HAH. Nice life expectancy in China there, Mao Tse Dung. Nice going, harvesting organs from political prisoners for the highest bidders and government dignitaries.

    Commies say big business is evil. Hah. The "Evil" Big Business: Doesn't exist like you think it does. I am in a small business. My small business was created from money from big business to innovate new technology to stop Internet DDOS attacks. The innovation would be a B2B service for medium and small businesses. I get my health care, dental, paid vacation and education subsidy either directly or indirectly from Big "Evil?" Business. One could way to make things work better would be to give outright tax credits to companies doing good things in their communities, like building schools or repairing roads or bridges. I'm sure HP could negotiate a better price for the "NEW BAY AREA BRIDGE" than the cabal of stupid idiots running Oakland and San Francisco. Now that I think of HP, I think of a huge company that has built several hospitals and given BILLIONS of dollars in charity through the "David and Lucille Packard Foundation" - established 1964. General Electric was run by a bottom-to-top rags-to-riches engin

    Point: Be angry at the media for sucking, be angry at the government for wasting your money. Unless we get a western version of Mohandas Gandhi, be angry with every single Congressman, Senator whatever else. They step on your heads everyday.

    Time to go read about some new scientific discoveries or new information about open source software or something interesting. Politics suck.

    God I love those Krauts too. The fucking purified leftovers from the National Socialist party. Fuck you krauts. You started two god damn world wars. This Eurotarded Eurotrash Union is a suck bag quagmire of shit.

    And these Towelheads and their newfound love for Palestine. Keep in mind these Palestinian vagrants have been booted out of every ISLAMIC nation they try to infect. They are hooligan vagrants , and if you replaced Israel with lets say, a pro Towel regime like France, they would be next on hit list of all the adjacent Arab nations. No one wants to pay for these tent toting Neanderthalic holdovers from the 3rd century. May as well kill them. We wont have to in the long run, the morally bankrupt Islamic nations will mop them up for us when they have expired their usefulness to their twisted cause.

    And everyone blames DUBYA, like one person runs the fucking country. Meanwhile, the Congress and Senate make all the fuckin laws, the only power W gets is a big fat Veto. There isnt much the legislative branch can't override. DYBYA has an big administration, so of it is typical Right wing special interest trash, some of it is true blue pro the future of America. Shit, these people have to have some notion of self preservation. Every single Bush family relative isnt surviving WWIII, fuck, I'd be willing to be that 90% of everyone in that administration's extended families would be dead as doornails if there was an all out nuclear conflict. No one wants an extended nuclear conflict, but I would pay front row admission to see bin Towelheads skin get baked off by a tactical nuke dropped off by a Predator or some shit. You dont eve have to aim.

    The geopolitical situation in the world is not solely exacerbated by the US. It is bullshit to think that this country control the world's direction. People want what we have and arent willing to adopt our ways. We get what we want by worshipping our own dollar, more than POWER or RELIGION. Its only natural cretins dont catch on to this and feel like trying to defeat us "imperialists." Hey, quick secret you fuckers who hate us - STOP BUYING AND SELLING SHIT TO US, STOP USING OUR CURRENCY. I would be willing to bet that most of the world printed US currency isnt even in the US. Out of many one, e plurbus unum. Printed on the fucking money. I dont buy trickle down doesnt work either, our success trickles down. People think we should have the upper hand after we invent all this shit and create a venue for success because they are failures in life and have to resort to communism or socialism to make up for the fact they need Viagra to get it up, another American invention.

    I love how America is seen as this pretty glass castle, and the rest of the serfs plowing the fields for a fair wage all start tossing rocks because they or their culture or their family failed to give the intellectual tools to succeed. Yeah, thats our fault.

    I dont think an Islamic person will ever set foot off this planet, because anything not of the planet or Mecca or any aliens are probably UNCLEAN, UNHOLY and vile, and they MUST BEND to ALLAHS will. I cant believe people still believe in this superstitious bullshit.

    Hey lefty, youll get extra credit for your shit clas at Berkelely - its called the SUNDANESE CULTURAL CLASS, 101, learn to carve a girls clitoris off! 4 CREDITS!

    Bread gets moldy, turns to black.

    Lots of things turn dark, moldy and brown with age.

    Your kitchen floor was white at some point but you slovenly self had created a swampy quagmire of festering shit.

    Black or darkness is an archetype for ignorance in literature, because in the very early days, darkness of the night was a preclusion of the world that was known.

    White light is the presence of all the colors in the spectrum, black is the absence of all color.

    Your tird-world ape nations have a lot to learn from the crackers. Us whiteys. Us honkies. Us stupid and intellectually inferior (being very facetious here) crackers.

    We can cure you. We can. We can dilute your Arab stupidity, we can breed out your nigger sickle cells, we can wane your Asiatic elitism, we can eliminate your Pakistani desire to sell carpets and stink like body odor. We can probably not ever fix the lazy spics and mulattos of the south Americas, but maybe. We have to fuck your women. Let us come in droves and cure you of the animal genes that are mixed in there. Given that you apparently have a cerebral cortex, the animal nigger genes must be recessive.

    We can help. Help me help you. Find your wife, and let me knock her up.

    1. Take off car's gas cap.

    2. Hump the hole furiously.

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    Islam is Death, Death to Islam.
  7. DVD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So when is it coming out on DVD?

    ^

  8. Screw Mitnick. by billn · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Make no mistake about it: Kevin Mitnick is a criminal, and a repeat offender.

    The last time he got caught, it's because he was STUPID. He stole credit card info, and BRAGGED about it. He is not some innocent script kiddie who thought DoS attacks were harmless.

    Before anyone gets off on a 'Free Kevin' rant, keep this at the forefront: He was tried, convicted, and put in jail on more than one occasion. He was released, and then violated his parole.

    That said, "Fuck Kevin". Don't get your grassroots panties in a wad over some seemingly oppressive violation of his rights until you've read the entire mess of data on the matter.

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    - billn
    1. Re:Screw Mitnick. by HobbitGod42 · · Score: 0

      I agree hes not an innocent kid... maybe the first time he coulda gotten away with that. but not after repeating it. thats almost like saying 'I killed 2 ppl then I went out and killed the judge and jury in my case but I am still innocent.'

    2. Re:Screw Mitnick. by Glytch · · Score: 2

      I agree that he's no innocent bystander, but he was denied his rights to a speedy trial. He was held in custody without trial for years. It was a terrible violation of basic civil rights.

    3. Re:Screw Mitnick. by billn · · Score: 2

      Is it possible he might have waived that right? Or under some circumstance of state or federal law, as a repeat offender, it didn't apply?

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      - billn
  9. Unjust punishment by L-Train8 · · Score: 2
    Kevin Mitnick broke into computer systems, he copied a bunch of data that he was not authorized to copy. He made a bunch of cell phone calls without paying.

    What he did not do was use any of that data (including credit cards) for any fraudulent purposes (other than the free cell phone calls). He did not physically hurt anyone. He did not publish any trade secrets.

    And he spent 5 years in jail. For comparison, I checked out some standard sentencing guidelines for my home state of Washington. Crimes for 2nd time offenders that warrant less than 5 years in prison include:
    • Robbery
    • Vehicular Homicide
    • Arson
    • Manslaughter
    • Possesion with intent to deliver Heroin or Cocaine
    • Drive by Shooting


    I don't dispute that Kevin did something wrong. But what he did and the punishment he got were unbeleivably out of proportion. By portraying Kevin as some sort of super-hacker, the prosecution was able to get away with quite a bit courts with technically illiterate judges.

    Also, the police used questionable tactics to find and arrest him, including lying to a judge to obtain a warrant and illegally tapping cell phones. These actions should have been enough to get Kevin's case thrown out.

    Call me a "Mitnick apologist" if you want, but in this case, justice went overboard, and made a scapegoat out of a Kevin.
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    Don't forget that Friday is Hawaiian shirt day.
    1. Re:Unjust punishment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I checked out some standard sentencing guidelines for my home state of Washington. Crimes for 2nd time offenders that warrant less than 5 years in prison include:
      * Manslaughter


      Unjust punishment? You're telling me! 5 years for mans-laughter? Five years for laughing? And only if you are an adult male? That's outrageous!

  10. blatant cut-and-pastes rampant in slashdot by juju2112 · · Score: 2

    Why in the hell do the editors constantly accept story submissions that are blatant cut-and-pastes from the story itself? Do peopl have no creativity at all? No words of their own??

    1. Re:blatant cut-and-pastes rampant in slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      you have one too many "e"'s in your post.

  11. The evils of Punishism by JCCyC · · Score: 2

    Amen to that brother. It seems people can't get the notion that there is such a thing as just punishment, and then by definition any punishment greater than that is too much. They give in completely to anger, and whenever something bad happens to the person they don't like, they say, "Fuck Person X! If he didn't want to be punished he should have obeyed the law!" I can almost see the foam forming on the lips.

    Someone should ask Jack Valenti, "How much fine/jail time would be too much punishment for copyright violation?" Or to the Drug Czar (whoever it is now), or John Ashcroft, "How much jail time for marijuana possession would be too much?"

    1. Re:The evils of Punishism by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 2

      Geeze, don't ask those people those questions! They would both say: "The death penalty is too good for them, and a life sentence is way too short."

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      If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
  12. blatant cut-and-pastes rampant in slashdot by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 2

    Why in the hell do the editors constantly accept story submissions that are blatant cut-and-pastes from the story itself? Do people have no creativity at all? No words of their own??

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    If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
  13. Mod Up by egg+troll · · Score: -1

    Mod this up. Its definitely not offtopic, unless offtopic means "truthful". Kevin Mitnick got what he deserved. By tying him into other legitimate grievances (ie: DMCA, DeCSS, etc) you only hurt your cause by lumping them in with that Mitnick turd.

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  14. Where to get DIVX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Information wants to be free, please post links to sites where we can download DIVX version.