RTFA, he was ordered to pay restitution too. And has a period of supervised release, in lieu of a longer jail sentence.
If this were something he could have done accidentally, or non-maliciously, he'd probably be eligible for some sort of probation. But it's pretty clear that this was QUITE malicious and was done knowing full well that it was wrong. You don't grant probation to people like that.
In other news, the TSA has banned the presence of all humans from airplanes.
"Them buggers are just too damn unpredictable for us to worry about the threat anymore. This move should make flights MUCH safer!" quotes a source at the TSA who commented on condition of anonymity.
And exactly how are people on these "prioritized" networks supposed to reach the "open" Internet?
Oh yeah. Through their prioritized network's traffic-prioritized peering point.
I summon Picard. Patron Saint of the Facepalm.
The answer to not liking those who apply such a technical response to a financial situation is NOT always "make another one that's separate and free". Sometimes it is "remove the financial incentive" for those that do.
Honestly, I don't necessarily know that the sentence was "excessive".
Frost admitted using the compromised machines to spread malware and harvest data from the compromised systems, including user names, passwords, credit card numbers, and CVV security codes, and for the purpose of launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on computer systems and Internet websites.
Some people might simply sniff and look the other way for "unauthorized access". But the minute you bring "stealing credit cards numbers" into it, hackles rise faster than a septugenarian OD'ing on Viagra.
And contrary to myth, counteracting the effects of a DDoS attacks is not a cost-free proposition. It's work and people need to be paid for it. Just as the affected providers need to be compensated for the wasted bandwidth.
The former student also admitted initiating denial of service attacks against University of Akron computer servers on or about March 14, 2007, which caused the entire University of Akron computer network to be knocked off-line for approximately 8-1/2 hours, preventing all students, faculty and staff members from accessing the network. The University claimed that response and remediation efforts to restore network services cost over $10,000.
I'm familiar with similar cases. And his sentence is more or less in-line with the severity of his transgressions.
Because NOTHING says "fair and open discourse" like blowing people whose opinions you dislike off the net in a great gale of "Shut The Fuck Up".
I'm not saying I agree with some of these people he DOS'ed, hell, some of them I dislike INTENSELY. But these are the actions of someone who has so little confidence in their own point of view that they have to try and make sure theirs is the ONLY one available.
The differentiation between RISC and CISC simply ceased to have any real meaning years ago, and people still drawing this pointless distinction would do well to stop living in the past. Most of the chips some poor, benighted "RISC purist" would identify as CISC are, in fact, hybrid chips implementing technologies from both RISC and CISC architectures.
Yup. Because the PC is dying man! It's been dying for THIRTY FUCKING YEARS NOW! You'd think it'd have the good grace to have kicked off long ago and made way for a more compact, less powerful, less configurable, less open, complete cluster-fuck of a platform like smart phones or something. You know, something that can be locked down against their own users. Something you can charge through the nose and out the ass for development tools and support for.
Steve Jobs did this, Steve Jobs did that. FUCK STEVE JOBS! FUCK HIM AND HIS LITTLE CULT OF PERSONALITY!
Seriously, Mac, while VERY popular, is an insignificant fraction of the PC market. As such, they're utterly irrelevant when it comes to talking seriously about truly widespread SSD adoption.
Yes, in another few years, barring the hitting of some natural ceiling for the technology, they'll eventually overtake spinning platter-based drives.
Right now they're not there yet. Price drops and size boosts or not. And until we see parity in drive capacities and pricing, to go SSD rather than conventional drives, you're not going to see any sort of massive movement. Thus far, we're still several years out from such an incentive.
Regardless of whether some toy computer salesman tells you they're ready or not.
If you happen to add something that is both true and well sourced, if someone doing the editing and/or monitoring doesn't like it, it gets whacked for "neutral POV" or "unsupported" or some similar BS reason and gets, if you're lucky, reverted. If they're being especially douche-y, they even remove your edit.
Fiction: I can grab a sniper rifle and shoot people in the head. I can also get shot and killed. It will suck if the latter happens.
Reality: There's an invisible man who live IN THE SKY and is going to damn us all to an eternity of fire and agony. BUT HE LOVES US!
(Thank you George Carlin!)
Fiction: I can exercise fantastic powers, magic, superstrength, etc, etc, etc when I play a game.
Reality: If I'm of a suitable age, and a priest asks me to play a game, it's "hide the salami".
Now I know which one *I* would have a preference for (fiction)!
Fiction: When I'm done with a game, or I decide I don't like it, I can turn it off.
Reality: When you have the church preaching abstinence as the only way, that birth control is "bad", and you have girls popping out kids like clockwork, leeching off the public teat, killing each other over interpretations of what God is, etc, etc, we just have to live with it.
Yup. The lapsed Catholic in me can see how it'd be REALLY tough to distinguish fantasy from reality.
Bah. While there's no doubt that, at one point, unions served a vital purpose in protecting workers from abuse, nowadays, they're merely another expensive middle-man cost. Paid for by the protection racket^H^H^H^union dues and ultimately by the consumer.
Slashdot Mirror
Welcome back to reality newbs!
Who, ANYPLACE, promised you prejudice-free surfing on any site on the Internet?
And did you buy a bridge from them?
RTFA, he was ordered to pay restitution too. And has a period of supervised release, in lieu of a longer jail sentence.
If this were something he could have done accidentally, or non-maliciously, he'd probably be eligible for some sort of probation. But it's pretty clear that this was QUITE malicious and was done knowing full well that it was wrong. You don't grant probation to people like that.
In other news, the TSA has banned the presence of all humans from airplanes.
"Them buggers are just too damn unpredictable for us to worry about the threat anymore. This move should make flights MUCH safer!" quotes a source at the TSA who commented on condition of anonymity.
Two massive chunks of suck on the internet are in danger of collapsing into a suck-singularity!
And exactly how are people on these "prioritized" networks supposed to reach the "open" Internet?
Oh yeah. Through their prioritized network's traffic-prioritized peering point.
I summon Picard. Patron Saint of the Facepalm.
The answer to not liking those who apply such a technical response to a financial situation is NOT always "make another one that's separate and free". Sometimes it is "remove the financial incentive" for those that do.
Honestly, I don't necessarily know that the sentence was "excessive".
Some people might simply sniff and look the other way for "unauthorized access". But the minute you bring "stealing credit cards numbers" into it, hackles rise faster than a septugenarian OD'ing on Viagra.
And contrary to myth, counteracting the effects of a DDoS attacks is not a cost-free proposition. It's work and people need to be paid for it. Just as the affected providers need to be compensated for the wasted bandwidth.
I'm familiar with similar cases. And his sentence is more or less in-line with the severity of his transgressions.
When was the last time CNN tried to DDOS MSNBC?
When did Fox decide to DDOS Reuters?
Because NOTHING says "fair and open discourse" like blowing people whose opinions you dislike off the net in a great gale of "Shut The Fuck Up".
I'm not saying I agree with some of these people he DOS'ed, hell, some of them I dislike INTENSELY. But these are the actions of someone who has so little confidence in their own point of view that they have to try and make sure theirs is the ONLY one available.
Oh for the love of Moore's saggy left...
The differentiation between RISC and CISC simply ceased to have any real meaning years ago, and people still drawing this pointless distinction would do well to stop living in the past.
Most of the chips some poor, benighted "RISC purist" would identify as CISC are, in fact, hybrid chips implementing technologies from both RISC and CISC architectures.
Well, if they're technically suing the kid (and not the parents), then just have the kid declare bankruptcy.
Right wrong or otherwise, after seven years, he'll still only be in his early teens and won't need to use credit for anything for another 3-5 years.
And if this isn't allowable, they've just set a precedence for essentially allowing the return of indentured servitude.
Okay, a pair of four year olds on their bikes. Accidentally hit an old lady.
And they're going to sue the four year olds?
Okay guys. It really IS time to kill all the lawyers.
*Grabs a gun*
Yup. Because the PC is dying man! It's been dying for THIRTY FUCKING YEARS NOW! You'd think it'd have the good grace to have kicked off long ago and made way for a more compact, less powerful, less configurable, less open, complete cluster-fuck of a platform like smart phones or something. You know, something that can be locked down against their own users. Something you can charge through the nose and out the ass for development tools and support for.
Steve Jobs did this, Steve Jobs did that.
FUCK STEVE JOBS! FUCK HIM AND HIS LITTLE CULT OF PERSONALITY!
Seriously, Mac, while VERY popular, is an insignificant fraction of the PC market. As such, they're utterly irrelevant when it comes to talking seriously about truly widespread SSD adoption.
Yes, in another few years, barring the hitting of some natural ceiling for the technology, they'll eventually overtake spinning platter-based drives.
Right now they're not there yet. Price drops and size boosts or not. And until we see parity in drive capacities and pricing, to go SSD rather than conventional drives, you're not going to see any sort of massive movement. Thus far, we're still several years out from such an incentive.
Regardless of whether some toy computer salesman tells you they're ready or not.
The fuck they don't!
If you happen to add something that is both true and well sourced, if someone doing the editing and/or monitoring doesn't like it, it gets whacked for "neutral POV" or "unsupported" or some similar BS reason and gets, if you're lucky, reverted. If they're being especially douche-y, they even remove your edit.
I'm laughing at the "superior" product.
But please, let someone tell me why they're hitching themselves to this boat anchor.
So long as you conform to the opinions of the moderators there, right, wrong, or otherwise, you can get along.
Even MORE of a reason for me to never ever use the productivity virus that is Facebook.
Even *I* didn't think that was possible.
Ain't life funny that way sometimes?
Only after it actually ships.
You are not pushing the people's anti-nuke agenda! More fear mongering! More misinformation! MORE MORE MORE!
"It nearly turned the Earth into another Sun!" has a much NICER ring to it!
Now conform or your opinions are invalid! ;-)
Try to regulate your physician into seeing patients if he doesn't get paid.
Good luck with that.
Fiction: I can grab a sniper rifle and shoot people in the head. I can also get shot and killed. It will suck if the latter happens.
Reality: There's an invisible man who live IN THE SKY and is going to damn us all to an eternity of fire and agony. BUT HE LOVES US!
(Thank you George Carlin!)
Fiction: I can exercise fantastic powers, magic, superstrength, etc, etc, etc when I play a game.
Reality: If I'm of a suitable age, and a priest asks me to play a game, it's "hide the salami".
Now I know which one *I* would have a preference for (fiction)!
Fiction: When I'm done with a game, or I decide I don't like it, I can turn it off.
Reality: When you have the church preaching abstinence as the only way, that birth control is "bad", and you have girls popping out kids like clockwork, leeching off the public teat, killing each other over interpretations of what God is, etc, etc, we just have to live with it.
Yup. The lapsed Catholic in me can see how it'd be REALLY tough to distinguish fantasy from reality.
I would have to kill seventy trillion boars instead of forty trillion?
Not really sure why the level cap keeps getting bumped. It's just more grind.
Yeah! I just spent twelve months grinding this guy to level *insert here* and getting him all the best stuff! Nothing can kill him now!
*Expansion*
*Die!*
*THUD!*
Yeah. Real fun.
Call me when the game isn't a boring single-path grindfest.
Bah. While there's no doubt that, at one point, unions served a vital purpose in protecting workers from abuse, nowadays, they're merely another expensive middle-man cost. Paid for by the protection racket^H^H^H^union dues and ultimately by the consumer.
Thank you, no.
Will we rate multiple oodles in binary or standard method? Kilooodles or Kibioodles? Megaoodles or Mebioodles? Gigaoodles or Gibioodles?
INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW!
But I feel fine!