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That'll scare them
Triple zero is still zero.

If you don't believe you're going to get caught, the penalty is academic. As it is, computer-crime convictions already draw more hard time than violent crime.

Now, me, I have a hard time considering this kind of crime more serious than murder or rape. Apparently, so do most people (Don's favorite "95 percent") who don't consider malware to be important enough to use a more secure system.

So, putting two and two together, the "string them up" crowd seems to rate their own minor inconvenience as more serious than someone else's life. That's a persuasive moral argument if ever there was.
Posted by: Yagotta B. Kidding   Posted on: 10/18/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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You know why they continue?  Doink | 10/18/04
That doesn't make sense  voska | 10/18/04
You haven't been reading the news lately...  BitTwiddler | 10/18/04
Sure I have  voska | 10/18/04
Not quite..  d_jedi | 10/18/04
I disagree  vferrara | 10/18/04
I agree completely.  Kamikaze_Ohka | 10/19/04
They will use fresh fruit  Taz_z | 10/18/04
BBC 3 TV announcer:  Yen_z | 10/18/04
Thanks!  ejhonda | 10/18/04
Burma!  sbenson@... | 10/18/04
There is a very good reason  Bill4 | 10/18/04
Organised crime methods  Robert Carnegie | 10/18/04
Big talk from a bunch of cowards.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/18/04
Perhaps..  Jeff Spicoli | 10/18/04
Perhaps.. but you'll need some proof to convince me..  d_jedi | 10/18/04
what point are this freaks trying to make  V Sanders | 10/18/04
That'll scare them  Yagotta B. Kidding | 10/18/04
exactly  Jeff Spicoli | 10/18/04
OK.. I should just leave this alone, but I'm going to reply..  d_jedi | 10/18/04
You SHOULD have left it alone, son..  Jeff Spicoli | 10/18/04
Maybe I should have, but not for the reasons you give..  d_jedi | 10/18/04
I could give you reasons to have left it alone.  The King's Servant | 10/19/04
Falling into the classic "religious" trap  Jeff Spicoli | 10/19/04
Re: King  d_jedi | 10/19/04
Re: Jeff  d_jedi | 10/19/04
They are in essence stealing life  Doink | 10/18/04
Almost like what Americans are doing in Iraq right now..  Jeff Spicoli | 10/18/04
Accepting your argument  Yagotta B. Kidding | 10/18/04
I agree. Seven years for cruelty to a man's cat...  The King's Servant | 10/18/04
Forget about MyDoom  Doink | 10/18/04
What? I haven't got my Longhorn machine yet!  The King's Servant | 10/18/04
Time to recognize virus writers as cyber terrorists..  d_jedi | 10/18/04
A man such as myself should not be saying such things  The King's Servant | 10/18/04
Time for AVs to release a bot or such  FilledOut | 10/20/04

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