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Spammer Robert Soloway Arrested
Mike writes "Yahoo is reporting that US prosecutors captured Robert Soloway, a prolific Internet marketer responsible so much junk e-mail they called him "Spam King." Soloway was arrested in Seattle, Washington, a week after being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of identity theft, money laundering, and mail, wire, and e-mail fraud. Soloway is accused of using botnets to disguise where e-mail originated and of forging return addresses of real people or businesses for his mass mailings. If convicted as charged, Soloway will face a maximum sentence of more than 65 years in prison and a fine of 250,000 dollars."
Why do you believe in rehabilitation if nobody has ever been able to do it, despite vast public expenditure, the best efforts of great minds, the concentration of man's greatest religions? Are you loopy?
The mass of criminality is 7/10ths genetic, 2/10th environment (unshared -- the kind we can't fix), and maybe 1/20th free will. It's unavoidable and unfixable.
Maybe I exaggerate. There is perhaps one way to do it, if you really want to stop crime. Invent a smart pill. Raise everybody's IQ by a standard deviation, and we'll probably be as docile as Asians.
65 years isn't enough. Lock him up for life. Better yet, solitary confinment without human contact. This kind of criminal needs to be stopped, harshly!
In Texas, we just shoot the criminals.
Athiesm is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.
Is spam worse than murder?
Yes. YES.
Your average murderer kills ONE person.
A spammer wastes the time of MILLIONS of people, and disrupts the lives of thousands who fall victim to scams.
Those seconds add up to countless lives in aggregate.
Spammers undermine people's trust in society in a way that isolated murders cannot. Spam is a calculated and rational attack on the rules of society --- the product of sociopathic cost/benefit analysis --- whereas murder is almost always driven by passion or desperation or stupidity, at least in the first world where law enforcement is strong.
Don't compare spam to murder... compare it to genocide.