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Teen Sentenced for Releasing Variant of Blaster Worm
ScentCone writes "Minnesota teen Jeffrey Lee Parsons got a year and half for releasing a Blaster variant. The lightweight sentence was due, said the judge, to the parents' neglect. Quoting the judge: 'It's not a healthy thing to lock yourself in a room and create your own reality.' Which means most slashdotters basically have a get out of jail free card."
I resent this sterotype that I "lock myself in my room and create my own reality".
Im playing World of Warcraft: surely thats Blizzards trademarked reality?
Don't forget MMORPG players, masturbation addicts and D&D fans...
Who is more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows?
He going to have an interesting "first date"
...his first girlfriend experience will not work out as planned?
"Jeffrey Lee! Stop writing malicious code and get a life!"
"And take out the trash!"
I try to lock myself in a room with my computer, but my wife keeps getting in.
Web Design Tips
"Which means most slashdotters basically have a get out of jail free card."
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<head>
<voice id="Homer Simpson">
WooHoo!
</voice>
<voice id="Mr. Burns">
Excellent!
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<voice id="Ralph Wiggum">
I think I broke my wookie.
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Sugapablo
You knew this was coming as soon as you saw his picture...
Behold the comparison.
I should have known they'd be good for something. Too bad I had them killed all those years ago.
...if he got sentenced for violating the copyright of the original myDoom...
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18 months sucks from a loss of life perspective, but you won't be totally obsolete when you get out.
1. The Web will still not even have even half the sites HTML 4 compliant, XHTML compliant sites will still be less than 10% at best.
2. Java will still be slow, cumbersome and buggy. Most Java programs will still abort with exceptions (what good is exception handling if you just crash) much of the time.
3. GNOME will still be siphoning mindshare from KDE. (the license wars are over, join forces with KDE already!)
4. Software will still be bloated.
5. CPUs will just be faster versions of the ones today, but never fast enough.
6. Apple will still be expensive, Apple users will still be elitist.
7. There will still be plenty of lawsuits going on.
8. Same with patents.
9. IPv6 still won't be available to most of the Internet.
10. People will still worship XML and web services, but not actually have a use for them.
11. There will still be many sites which only work in IE.
12. There will still be many sites that need Active X.
13. Same for windows only plugins.
Mid 2006 will be a lot like today.
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
WAIT A MOMENT.
You've got a woman, and you're locking her out?
I mean, I try, and try, and try, and for some reason I can't even get one to step in my house.
And you're locking her OUT....I am so confused....
"18 months in a Minnesota prison may only seem like 2000 years."
Yet oddly enough 18 months in a Minnesota prison will seen alot like 18 months in Minnesota.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
Windows? Man, what a poor choice for an analogy in this situation. :)
On the other side of the coin, Longhorn will have been releas.... Oh wait, never mind. It's a one-sided coin. - sm
Yeah but the difference between a virus writer and Bill Gates is... eh, forget it.
"Parson, 19, of Hopkins, Minn., pleaded guilty in August to one count of intentionally causing or attempting to cause damage to a protected computer." Protected computer? I thought his virus went after a Microsoft O/S?
"Versions of the Blaster worm, also known as the LovSan virus, crippled computer networks worldwide. The government estimates Parson's version inundated more than 48,000 computers."
That proves the efficience of Microsoft Service Packages.