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Blaster Variant Creator Pleads Guilty

Posted by simoniker on from the blasted dept.

Hello Kitty writes "Robert Parson, the 18-year-old who modified and re-released a version of Blaster last year, is on his way to being made an example of, after pleading guilty Wednesday in a Seattle courtroom. According to AP, he can now look forward to 18-36 months behind bars and -- shades of Kevin Mitnick's phantom damages -- may be expected to pay millions in restitution. And then there's that lifelong 5cr1pt k1dd13 title. of course."

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  1. F . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    to the P

    Nothing to see here, move along...

  2. Re:This kid is no Mitnick by pyrrhonist · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Comparing this kid to Mitnick is like comparing Burt Ward to Bruce Lee.

    That's a bizarre comparison.

    Burt Ward and Bruce Lee actually worked together when the Batman series was used to launch The Green Hornet.

    Mitnick and Parson have probably never met.

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    Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
  3. Re:This kid is no Mitnick by Monkelectric · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yep, they don't call it the "Mitnick Attack" for no reason.

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    Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley

  4. Re:specialist? by acceleriter · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, ha ha, because prison rape is funny. Let's hope you're not someday on the end of that blunt instrument of state terror for some non-violent property crime like this guy is.

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    CEE5210S The signal SIGHUP was received.

  5. Time to get a job by glrotate · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    All I know about Bush is I had a job when Clinton was president.


    Dude that was almost 4 years ago. Isn't that excuse starting to wear a little thin down at the unemployment office?

    1. Re:Time to get a job by Kevin_Peters · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Have you tried to get a job, lately? They say the economy booms during times of war. I haven't seen a boom in anything except people "saying" the economy is getting better. Show me the proof.

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    2. Re:Time to get a job by Monkelectric · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Yep. In my town, 5000 people showed up for 400 *walmart* jobs. For people like myself with engineering degrees, theres just no hope.

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      Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley

  6. Meanwhile, OJ Simpson walks around free. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Talk about FUCKED UP PRIORITIES in this nation. A man who had been given the world sets out to kill and decapitate his ex-wife and her lover. These people suffered physically and emotionally, this was a brutal crime. To further compound matters, he then gets off due to racist friends and counsel. His sentence? A life of roaming the nation's golf fairways.

    Then some kid fiddles around with electrical patterns on a metal platter, and this person is going to serve hard time in a Federal prison.

    The moral of the story? Go ahead and kill someone, that's all right. But arrange bits on a hard drive? You're in a heap of trouble, boy.

  7. 10 millionth Slashdot post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Which user do you think will post the 10 millionth post to Slashdot? Who will hit the big 10000000?