[IP] more on Hard time? Not for cyber criminals
Begin forwarded message:
From: Ari Ollikainen <Ari@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 17, 2004 10:57:14 AM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] Hard time? Not for cyber criminals
OS X SUMMARY
Hard time? Not for cyber criminals
By Declan McCullagh
CNET News.com
August 16, 2004, 6:13 AM PT
URL:
COMMENTARY--Jeffrey Lee Parson pleaded guilty last week to unleashing
part of the MSBlast worm attack that wreaked havoc on the Internet a
year ago. He got off easy.
...Compare Parson's sentence with the far stiffer penalties that the
government metes out to marijuana "criminals," who harm nobody and
cause no property damage. For the 2001 fiscal year, the average
sentence for a marijuana offense was 38 months in prison, according to
the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
I'm now convinced that OS X's summarization is a failure. Since
the article was about punishment for cyber criminals, specifically
Parson's versus others', the key sentence that set up the rest of
the article was left out by the summarizer:
"Prosecutors say that the deal they cut means that Parson,
who is 19 years old, will be sentenced to between
18 and 37 months."
I agree. There must be a better summarization/abstracting capability on
the net
djf
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