why cant there be a flux capacitor

See thats whats wrong - They needed to use some good ol Yorkshire Flux to clean out them there internet tubes before soldering.

There is - haven't you seen the films?

" . . .sensitive information stored in Internet Explorer to spare users the hassle of having to remember passwords . . "

Yeah, well -- it's like leaving yer car keys on a table in the hall. The door's locked but anyone with a wire coat hanger or long pole (ooh, err missus) gets the car. Once again M$ should be partly to blame for leading customers on about what they call 'Security'.

> and had items shipped to a vacant resident in the Cheyenne area.

Paris, because she was the "vacant resident" involved.. or should that have been "residence"? :-)

Send his @$$ to Singapore to serve his sentence; where he should get a daily caning for what he did.

It is time for the world's justice systems to mete out harsh punishments for these miscreants!!

Lucky he didn't do something really bad like help run a torrent site!

[quote=somefool]What he needs is some one to take him on as some kind of mentor and expand and direct his skills in somewhat more socially acceptable directions.[unquote]

You mean like the National Socialist Party helped Hitler redecorate the map of Europe?

The problem with that scenario is that you don't know what firm is waitng stage left, to take over residence when you leave.

Look who the landlord's agents Rostefelt and Crutchell let the place to for the next 50 years.

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: [after discovering Private Pyle's unlocked footlocker] Jesus H Christ. Private Pyle, why is your footlocker unlocked?

Private Gomer Pyle: Sir, I don't know, sir.

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Private Pyle, if there is one thing in this world that I hate, it is an unlocked footlocker! You know that don't you?

Private Gomer Pyle: Sir, yes, sir.

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: If it wasn't for %#@*heads like you, there wouldn't be any thievery in this world, would there?

Private Gomer Pyle: Sir, no, sir.

nuff said.

Too bad he didn't use his abilities and innovations to get a good job that would have done the sector some good and fattened his wallet much more than that petty theft.

Thumbs up for the Kubrick quote!

You want to send a 19 year old child prodigy into some of the least humane living conditions on the planet for doing little more than proving current investigative techniques for online crime fallible? $1500 is less than I earn in a month, and i'm bottom-rung tech suopport. He's hardly a MAFIAA-scale criminal mastermind.

I hope they stick this kid into a scheme where he can get a decent clue about life outside 'the box' and put his skills to more useful enterprises.

Granted it was the wrong way to to about getting notariety, but (speculatively) if his parents think he's just an anti-social nerd and his teachers at school mistook his reclusiveness for some learning disability and held him back, where else did he have to go?

Bill Gates Devil for the IE reference.

Steal music and you have Homeland Security and the FBI on your ass for supporting terrorism, with 10 years in jail. Actually steal identity and cause distress to people while getting rich and you get a maximum of 5 years in jail.

> For 19 years old this kid did some impressive stuff but he only stole1·5 k in goods?

Where does it say that he only stole $1500 of stuff? That was just an example of the type of fraud he committed.

The $74000 in restitution suggests he stole a lot more than $1500.

go for rape, likely you'll get a shorter sentence.. talk about out of proportion laws..

Well, rehabilitation doesn't seem to work, either. They're either already solidly against the system so that they'll just "bide their time" and go right back to business as soon as it's over or they're either so dense or so empty that anything you try to teach them either bounces off (the former) or passes right through (the latter).

Just proves how open our machines are and how much we want to use MSN and Limewire on a dialy basis.

To be honest, this kid should be praised and be working for those money making companies to secure the software even more.

Bit like Catch Me If You Can please!

Sean

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/19/teen_school_hack_charges/

this guy hacked his school results and got 38 years in jail

Meanwhile this other dude infects half the planet steels credit cards personal details and gets 5 ????

What is going on ?