[holymoly]

IMO The sentence should have been harsher, and included a life-time ban on using a computer (other than perhaps a Commodore VIC-20).

[Servant of the 9]

His community service should be to go personally to every person whose computer was infected, get down on his knees and beg forgiveness.

So9

[Servant of the 9]

Is his hair cut into a mullet and then waved and bleached?

He looks like a Jerry Springer guest.

SO9

[drc43]

Well, this is a small start.

I think the stocks or pillary or public flogging should be minimum part of any sentence

[BlessedBeGod]

Wow, that really sends a message. 18 whole months. Woohoo! < /sarcasm >

Maybe it should have been a number of years at hard labor.

[Bring Back Old Sparky]

Hey! My first computer was a VIC! Pick on something else! :O)

I hope this young man-child finds a new boyfriend in prison.

[Dacus943]

"judge took pity on the teen, saying his neglectful parents were to blame for the psychological troubles that led to his actions"

Then JAIL the Neglectful Parents also!!!

[camas]

yes, that is how i feel.

[yooling]

Acute lead poisoning would be acceptable! IMHO

[gjpino]

Big daddy?

[ishabibble]

Hang him. Nothing less. I'm serious and very angry because this little miscreant caused me no end of time and trouble, never mind the money spent fixing his "worm".

Domestic terrorism in the form of one fat deluded geek.

OOPS, Hanging's too good for him!

[CGTRWK]

If someone went across the country, physically entered 48,000 homes and businesses and intentionally disabled tens of millions of dollars of computer equipment with a sledgehammer, we would lock them up and throw away the key.

This man did exactly the same thing remotely, and he is getting a slap on the wrist.

I think a good sentence would be horsewhipping on the courthouse steps followed by spending all his weekends for the next 10 years cleaning virii off the computers of the computer illiterate as a public service.

[FDNYRHEROES]

Looks like the worm has turned for that kid...

[QuiMundus]

He'll be sharing a cell with this guy...

[popdonnelly]

That's too light, considering the extent of the damage that could be done. If you don't punish these guys, every idiot hacker in the country will be doing it.

[Windsong]

A life-time ban? How would they implement that sort of punishment? You cannot ban something like that. Governments rise and fall..and what not.