http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/01/06/2140227.shtml?tid=123&tid=95
Or at least, asking lots of kids to do so is.
I hope the cocksucker who is charging him with this dies.
On a side note, the school's webpage was SDDoS'd (Slashdot Denial of Service :)) so it's all good. The kid got what he wants.
Not my fault they couldn't handle the amount of users :\.
STUPID.
Since when is refreshing a webpage technology? ::)
iago... don't report me to the authorities T_T!!
Quote from: CrAz3D on January 06, 2006, 09:40:59 PM
STUPID.
Since when is refreshing a webpage technology? ::)
Quote'This new technology has created a whole wave of crimes, and we're just trying to find ways to solve them.'"
Since when is refreashing a new technology?
ROFL @ how easily corruptable this country is. Now, I can't refresh a page. In USA, you don't need to be any member of the legislative branch to make a law, you just have to be someone who can abuse something well. Example: Want to make a fun, recreational, good time such as a potato gun a felony? Here's what you do, put it in the hands of a LA gangster, and tell him to rob a liquor store with it. He will. He'll get caught. Potato guns will become a felony on posession. Now, lets look at that, what is wrong about potato guns? Well, put in the wrong hands, they can become weapons as deadly as guns. Why not just use guns? Don't have an answer to this one, maybe cost. But if a gangster were truly dedicated to robbing the liquor store, he would buy a real gun. If you are going to outlaw potato guns, why not outlaw guns? 'Tis a part of the constitution, not to mention, with the current senate, the bill wouldn't be passed. Per say guns were illegal, anyone who was actually going to do anything big would get their hands on a gun, meanwhile everyone who just wants to play around and shoot stuff can't. I don't see the point in such laws.
Quote from: ZeroX on January 06, 2006, 09:48:11 PM
Quote from: CrAz3D on January 06, 2006, 09:40:59 PM
STUPID.
Since when is refreshing a webpage technology? ::)
Quote'This new technology has created a whole wave of crimes, and we're just trying to find ways to solve them.'"
Since when is refreashing a new technology?
Since you lived in a third-world state. Slashdotters must be really scared now, they take down sites all the time :O
I think the key here is intent.
If he was doing it with malicious intent, trying to bring down the site, then yes, he should be punished. He could be blocking access to important services, I don't know about there but some schools here (including my university) use the network to transfer marks, assignments, and other things. If somebody is trying to bring down the site, data and productivity could be lost. So it's understandable that, if he was trying to do damage, then he should be punished.
If he was joking around, and wasn't trying to damage anything, then he shouldn't be.
It really depends on the situation.
ddos, browser style! :)
Quote from: iago on January 06, 2006, 10:20:19 PM
If he was joking around, and wasn't trying to damage anything, then he shouldn't be.
He said he was joking. The prosecutor said (and this is what makes me hate him), "We show him how we handle these types of jokes."
What a cunt, seriously. A school isn't the fucking airport. Next time I'm in a computer class I'm gonna shout out bomb.
Of course he's going to SAY he's joking, afterwards. They have to look at the actual situation.
If somebody was doing a DoS on our network from inside (when I was in Government), we'd probably cut their net access off and hand the problem to Human Resources, and they could lose their job. It's the same idea, basically.
This belongs in ROFLCOPTER!~
That is funny++.
WHY THE FUCK IS THIS LOCKED?
I agree with punishing him.
Quote from: Ergot on January 06, 2006, 09:42:38 PM
iago... don't report me to the authorities T_T!!
Get everyone to refresh the page
than ask him again. muahha
I seriously don't understand how accusing someone with charges this serious could result from such a negligible crime.
The cost of all these legal fee's could have easily paid for a new internet line upgrade.
Police shouldn't even go along with it and arrest the kid in the first place. Much less the school be such morons.
I can understand because I was handcuffed for being a "runaway" when my mom called the cops on me for being pissed and going into my room. (If anyone remembers that from a while back.)
People take things WAY over the line, regaurdless of what the kid's intentions were, you don't press charges against a student for technically not even doing anything (yet, atleast).
By far, the most ridiculous thing I've read today.