[governsleastgovernsbest]

I bought a new laptop this week (Averatec 3200 series, about $1,000, like it a lot).

Anyhow, within 10 minutes of setting it up, it got infected with Sasser, and it took me about 30 frustrating minutes to install the patch because it kept on shutting down during the install process.

Serious question: given the untold millions of dollars of damage and lost hours he's caused, what do people think would be a fair punishment? I'd say 10 years.

[DoctorMichael]

Wire him up to monitors, stick him in a sealed room and keep shutting off the oxygen at random times until he passes out, at which time the oxygen gets turned back on automatically.

A year or two of this ought to evoke a certain level of penance.

[brityank]

I was told that if you go to Start -- Run -- and put in shutdown -a in WinXP that stops the reboot so you can patch it. My Win2K doesn't have that option, so I struggled getting the cleaner and patch out of my memstick.

Fair punishment? Why foist him on the taxpayers -- chop off both hands.

[night reader]

Serious question: given the untold millions of dollars of damage and lost hours he's caused, what do people think would be a fair punishment? I'd say 10 years.

In all seriousness, how about a class action law suit? Even if each plaintiff got only five or ten dollars, he'd be working the rest of his life to pay it off. In this event, could he be prevented from declaring bankruptcy and just walking away? This civil suit, of course, would be in addition to any criminal prosecution.

[eleni121]

Yup ten years at hard labor fixing people's computers for free.