the best punishment would be a year or so in prison with the most violent and vicious criminals our society has to offer. If that doesn't discourage him from his black-hat activities then nothing will. A few before and after pictures (of both his face and anus) posted online should do the trick.

You sir are simply a sadist.

Even without experiencing the horrible torture you propose, you are already as cruel and depraved as if you had.

Fuck these guys.

The media companies do NOT compensate artists with any of the money collected, so their principal reason for getting this money is invalid.

As for their lost profits, study after study proves that file-copying actually increases their sales.

Screw them, we need to get rid of these leeches.

I wouldn't put it past China to outright cheat.

If Einstein were alive he'd be laughing too

More like Linux still doesn't have the market share to warrent spending significant time developing malware for it.

Right...

Linux runs on more computers than Windows worldwide.

You know, all those servers, phones, appliances and clouds that make up the Internet? Those.

It may not be on most desktops but its on everything else and it far outnumbers Windows.

It's not more secure because it's more obscure, it's more secure because it's better.

That it runs Windows 8 nearly-acceptably

There is historical evidence of miners in Africa using weed to do their work and being able to do the brutalizing, back-breaking work without complaint for long shifts.

I knew it.. Windows terrible design is based off weed!

No, if it were weed, it would be incomplete.

The pattern resembles caffeine more than weed.

There's a famous study that was done about the effects of drugs on the ability of spiders to spin webs.

Web-spinning resembles coding to a degree, both are engineering tasks, both have to be completed in a timely manner or the author starves.

What they found was caffeine made the spiders very productive, but rather sloppy. That sounds like Windows to a T.

Weed on the other hand made the spiders do very detailed, ornate work, but they seemed to have wandering minds, get bored and leave their webs unfinished. I don't know what OS that would correspond to.

LSD had the effect of the spiders becoming very parsimonious with their effort. Webs constructed by LSD-spiders are typically minimal but very elegant. This makes me believe that Unix was probably dreamed up by some acid-heads.

The study
http://www.trinity.edu/jdunn/spiderdrugs.htm

Spend the 400$ on a computer-forensics investigator, find out who is doing this then contact law-enforcement.

God is angry at Stephen Harper

you can more often use plain strings, rather than having to construct a regex.

Sounds like pandering to the lowest-common denominator.
Why don't you switch to programming in VB while you're at it?

You're right, it is less barbaric if you're actually using it for warfare and to prevent loss of life.

But the far more common use of this will be to sabotage competitors or nuisances without killing anyone so that there is no public outcry.

You're absolutely right.
This new technology will never be misused or fall into the wrong hands, unlike every technology that came before it.

Welcome to the age of industrial terrorism.