Refreshing a webpage is a FELONY

[Newby]

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.

[Ergot]

Not my fault they couldn't handle the amount of users :\.

[CrAz3D]

STUPID.
Since when is refreshing a webpage technology? ::)

[Ergot]

iago... don't report me to the authorities T_T!!

[ZeroX]

STUPID.
Since when is refreshing a webpage technology? ::)

'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?

[leet_muffin]

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.

[Ergot]

STUPID.
Since when is refreshing a webpage technology? ::)

'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

[iago]

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. 

[Blaze]

ddos, browser style! :)

[Newby]

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.

[iago]

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. 

[Joe]

This belongs in ROFLCOPTER!~

That is funny++.

[Newby]

WHY THE FUCK IS THIS LOCKED?

[trust]

I agree with punishing him.

[GameSnake]

iago... don't report me to the authorities T_T!!

Get everyone to refresh the page than ask him again. muahha