I think thats unlikely because you should keep in mind that:
a: you dont get that much bounty for turning in a virus writer, in this case only 250000 $.
b: some years of jail isnt the worst that happens, instead I'd fear the sue for damages by companies worldwide, which will probably ruin that guy by being several millions of $.
In germany the maximum jailtime for computer sabotage is 5 years. However the guy arrested was not yet 18 when he released his viree, so he might get away with much less, especially since neither NetSky nor Sasser did have an intentionally aggressive damage-function on the target hosts, and penalties do not add up for each infected system or something like this. Maybe he even gets released on parole.
However the financial damage private companies might go to sue of him does add up for every infected computer. (Where the question remains how much joint guilt is to be searched on microsofts side and admins that didnt patch their systems)
according to this news (german) the 18 year old guy they arrested confessed having coded and released Sasser and several NetSky variants, when his home was searched by the authorities.
However I guess the guy who betrayed him by sending MS code fragments might be in trouble, too, because if he did know the author was coding a virus and he didnt inform the authorities to prevent release, but afterwards reported to MS to take the bounty, he might have acted slightly illegal, too. (german authorities seem to have gained knowledge by US authorities who gained knowledge from Microsoft - a little bit indirect if u ask me)
To leave earths atmaosphere AND its gravitational force you just have to be accelerated above escape-speed (look in any physics school-book about that one) and the impact of a meteorite is likely to speed some rocks up enough. On the other side to enter an orbit you need less than escape speed, thats correct, but you have to look what the characteristics of an orbit are. its an elypsical path around another object in space (or better the combined center of gravity) where the object passes through the same point in space (relative to each other) every circulation.
So if a rock is accelerated on impact with less than escape-speed, one of this points is the origin, which happens to be on te planet surface, which means on circulation later (or more likely much sooner since it will approach from the other side) it will hit it again -- boom -- end of orbit -- recombination !
To enter a real orbit you have to get distance between you and your planet, and then gather up speed sideways, to not hit it again - for example by rocket thrust or another collision (very unlikely)
The only case where this doesnt happen (and the only case of past-impact-matter being in a stable orbit i know) is when the "rock" getting thrown out is so huge, that its mass inflics the whole planets movement itself, splitting one planet into 2 literally. They say earths moon was created that way by impact of a 3rd planet several thousend kilometers in diameter.
google and babelfish translate some stuff wrong, but mine is far from perfect - due to my incompetence with judical english and the fact that it is really difficult to translate the complex german sentence structure into halfway-readable english. (I tried nevertheless)
SCO Germany has to pay 10.000 EUR penalty fine.
This ruling of the district court Munich 1 is based on an interim injunction of the Tarent corporation and the "LinuxTag" organisation against SCO Germany. Subsequently the company must not claim that linux would contain illegimate aquired intelectual property of SCO. SCO ought to have infringed upon that on their homepage, wherefore Tarent had applyed for a "order law-suit???" in June.
According to a statement of the Tarent GmbH the court accuses SCO of "negligent behaviour" when operating their company-homepage. There ought to have been readable the "End-users, who use the linux software could be hold liable for violations of intellectual property of SCO"-claim, even after the interim injunction against that.
Tarent-attorney Till Jaeger sees himself confirmed with this court decision, that the claims of SCO are to be seen as "massive ???business-hurting??? expressions", which affect an "extremely sensible domain". ???With un-proven claims there would be made business at the expense of peoples fear.??? Nobody is reachable for a statement at SCO Germany right now. Hans Bayer, CEO of SCO germany emphasized against c't (a computer magazine of heise.de) about the apply for an "order law-suit???" in early June: "Our intention was, to act conform." and the approach against the interim injunction would not have been intentional. (anw/c't) (translation - Corvus)
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I think thats unlikely because you should keep in mind that:
a:
you dont get that much bounty for turning in a virus writer, in this case only 250000 $.
b:
some years of jail isnt the worst that happens, instead I'd fear the sue for damages by companies worldwide, which will probably ruin that guy by being several millions of $.
In germany the maximum jailtime for computer sabotage is 5 years.
However the guy arrested was not yet 18 when he released his viree, so he might get away with much less, especially since neither NetSky nor Sasser did have an intentionally aggressive damage-function on the target hosts, and penalties do not add up for each infected system or something like this. Maybe he even gets released on parole.
However the financial damage private companies might go to sue of him does add up for every infected computer.
(Where the question remains how much joint guilt is to be searched on microsofts side and admins that didnt patch their systems)
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/47217
according to this news (german) the 18 year old guy they arrested confessed having coded and released Sasser and several NetSky variants, when his home was searched by the authorities.
However I guess the guy who betrayed him by sending MS code fragments might be in trouble, too, because if he did know the author was coding a virus and he didnt inform the authorities to prevent release, but afterwards reported to MS to take the bounty, he might have acted slightly illegal, too.
(german authorities seem to have gained knowledge by US authorities who gained knowledge from Microsoft - a little bit indirect if u ask me)
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This is plain wrong. Quite the opposite is true.
To leave earths atmaosphere AND its gravitational force you just have to be accelerated above escape-speed (look in any physics school-book about that one) and the impact of a meteorite is likely to speed some rocks up enough.
On the other side to enter an orbit you need less than escape speed, thats correct, but you have to look what the characteristics of an orbit are. its an elypsical path around another object in space (or better the combined center of gravity)
where the object passes through the same point in space (relative to each other) every circulation.
So if a rock is accelerated on impact with less than escape-speed, one of this points is the origin, which happens to be on te planet surface, which means on circulation later (or more likely much sooner since it will approach from the other side) it will hit it again -- boom -- end of orbit -- recombination !
To enter a real orbit you have to get distance between you and your planet, and then gather up speed sideways, to not hit it again - for example by rocket thrust or another collision (very unlikely)
The only case where this doesnt happen (and the only case of past-impact-matter being in a stable orbit i know) is when the "rock" getting thrown out is so huge, that its mass inflics the whole planets movement itself, splitting one planet into 2 literally.
They say earths moon was created that way by impact of a 3rd planet several thousend kilometers in diameter.
google and babelfish translate some stuff wrong, but mine is far from perfect - due to my incompetence with judical english and the fact that it is really difficult to translate the complex german sentence structure into halfway-readable english.
(I tried nevertheless)
SCO Germany has to pay 10.000 EUR penalty fine.
This ruling of the district court Munich 1 is based on an interim injunction of the Tarent corporation and the "LinuxTag" organisation against SCO Germany.
Subsequently the company must not claim that linux would contain illegimate aquired intelectual property of SCO.
SCO ought to have infringed upon that on their homepage, wherefore Tarent had applyed for a "order law-suit???" in June.
According to a statement of the Tarent GmbH the court accuses SCO of "negligent behaviour" when operating their company-homepage.
There ought to have been readable the "End-users, who use the linux software could be hold liable for violations of intellectual property of SCO"-claim, even after the interim injunction against that.
Tarent-attorney Till Jaeger sees himself confirmed with this court decision,
that the claims of SCO are to be seen as "massive ???business-hurting??? expressions", which affect an "extremely sensible domain".
???With un-proven claims there would be made business at the expense of peoples fear.???
Nobody is reachable for a statement at SCO Germany right now.
Hans Bayer, CEO of SCO germany emphasized against c't (a computer magazine of heise.de) about the apply for an "order law-suit???" in early June:
"Our intention was, to act conform." and the approach against the interim injunction would not have been intentional. (anw/c't) (translation - Corvus)