"Judge Andrew Goymer decided against sending McElroy behind bars as he had not accessed classified material on the network and had not intended to cause harm."
This is quoted from the article, but in my opinion, I dont care what your intentions are, you hack into a place like that you should be thrown in jail even if its just to show everyone else how serious you are.
I just read the article and I obviously dont know the facts outside of the article, but even though nobody was seriously hurt (as said in the article), did the US know that when they got started in this whole fiasco or do you think they would have done it anyways if there was the potential for many (as in hundreds) people to get hurt/killed? If hundreds of people got hurt, it would have been easy to figure out who was behind it and this could have escalated the tension greatly.
What is everyone in the Slashdot crowd gonna do? On one hand you dont want to get spammed, but on the other hand you NEED your pr0n. However, i think this will take care of itself because eventually people will be too busy deleting spam to look at pr0n online, reducing the amount of spam....Ok, i'm half kidding, but i really do think this is an ingenius way of spammers getting around certain barriers. Say what you will, but spammers have shown/proven that they can overcome many obstacles to continue their spamming.
I'm in shock that the NYT carries this article because it states something so ridiculously obvious: that if you misspell your listing, people may not find it. Its the same reason why when you search for a "labtop computer" on e-bay, you dont find anything. Maybe its just a slow news day?
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Why do i get the feeling that when Howard Dean needs tech support on this system, he'll be put through in 0.05 seconds :)
"Judge Andrew Goymer decided against sending McElroy behind bars as he had not accessed classified material on the network and had not intended to cause harm." This is quoted from the article, but in my opinion, I dont care what your intentions are, you hack into a place like that you should be thrown in jail even if its just to show everyone else how serious you are.
I just read the article and I obviously dont know the facts outside of the article, but even though nobody was seriously hurt (as said in the article), did the US know that when they got started in this whole fiasco or do you think they would have done it anyways if there was the potential for many (as in hundreds) people to get hurt/killed? If hundreds of people got hurt, it would have been easy to figure out who was behind it and this could have escalated the tension greatly.
What is everyone in the Slashdot crowd gonna do? On one hand you dont want to get spammed, but on the other hand you NEED your pr0n. However, i think this will take care of itself because eventually people will be too busy deleting spam to look at pr0n online, reducing the amount of spam....Ok, i'm half kidding, but i really do think this is an ingenius way of spammers getting around certain barriers. Say what you will, but spammers have shown/proven that they can overcome many obstacles to continue their spamming.
I'm in shock that the NYT carries this article because it states something so ridiculously obvious: that if you misspell your listing, people may not find it. Its the same reason why when you search for a "labtop computer" on e-bay, you dont find anything. Maybe its just a slow news day?
This went on for quite a while, i'm surprised that the number isnt much higher (like in the 75k range).