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Russian Student Arrested For Revealing DirecTV Secrets
An anonymous reader writes "The Associated Press is reporting the arrest of Igor Serebryany, 19, of Los Angeles for industrial espionage under the Economic Espionage Act of 1996. Serebryany is accused of providing details of DirecTVs 'P4' card technology to a number of websites."
...The DirectTV P4 cards hand out information about you over the web.
We lock people up with mental problems all day everyday. We don't lock up insane people, thats entirely different. Insane is the inability to distinguish right fromw wrong. Mental problems are nervous twitches and inabilities to socialize with your neighbors.
Just because daddy beat you as a kid doesn't mean you get a walk on the assualt and battery of someone in a park. You don't get to become a serial killer and get away with it because mommy didn't love you.
The legal system is supposed to be cold, if it wasnt then every inmate in jail would have some cry baby story about mommy beating him with a broom and daddy fondling little Johnny's balls until he was 16.
We tried the liberal approach in law enforcement. It lead to the twinkie defence where a man got off for killing a mayor because he ate to many twinkies and the resulting sugar high made him legally insane.
more than one of him is called a Beowulf clusterfuck.