No, we just wish he was incarcerated.

PS. I think the word you were actually looking for is "incarnate", but nice Freudian slip.

What if eventually any job you can do can be done better and more cheaply by an AI? What should happen to you then?

Then the job should be done by an AI, and you should train for a job that can't be so economically automated. It's not like this issue hasn't come up before with the advent of robotic assembly lines and, well, any kind of automation technology ever.

Or setting a precedent that just because some people are stupid/ignorant it's OK to mistreat them (see the electroshock proponents above).

We're not just talking about general ignorance/stupidity here; we're talking about someone's ability to do their job. If they lack that ability then they should be trained further or replaced. It's that simple.

Sure, if you take something which doesn't belong to you (and without permission of course) you are a thief.

However, making a perfect duplicate of something without diminishing the original is not the same as taking it.

Ditto, but the game was also released on the N64.

I don't think he meant that someone stole his serial, I think he meant that a while ago he installed it on a computer, but in trying to reinstall it, possibly on a different computer, EA denied his installation/validation.

i wish calling Lithium batteries "Li-on" (Li + ion) had taken root. Maybe we'll get it this time with Si-on.

It is also a principle of international law that you don;t kill civilians indiscriminately, a point you are clearly glossing over.

Yeah, but considering the nature of Borderlands, many of us didn't think there would be dedicated servers. Left4Dead proved the small coop dedicated server style viable, but I just don't see people hosting public dedicated borderlands servers. Just seems to be a different situation than your traditional shooters.

I think it's also worth emphasising that it was only the sale of in-game currency for cash which got Ricdic's account banned, not the actual theft. If he had kept the cash in-game, he wouldn't have been subject to sanctions from CCP at all.

Referencing the original BBC News article:

Ricdic has now been thrown out of the game as trading in-game cash for real money is against Eve Online's terms and conditions.

The rules governing play within Eve would not have sanctioned Ricdic if he had simply stolen the cash and used it in the game, nor if he had bought kredits with real dollars.

Of course the nature of this particular theft doesn't really relate to the RuneScape account theft since it occurred within the rules of the game in question; describing it as "similar illegal activity" is misleading at best.

If by "year-after-year" you mean two years* then yes, you are correct. However, I get the feeling that's not what you intended to imply.

* Or 5 years in terrorism-related cases

If you define "modern" as being built in the last two years or so, then surely most modern computers have either two or four.

And of course that's further assuming that "processors" correspond to CPU cores; include GPUs and the number varies even more widely.

Or you could ask a typical non-technical user who will tell you that the processor is the big box that the monitor plugs into, so of course they have only one.

Point is, "processor" is so vague a term that if you're really going to nitpick the number in a typical machine could be almost anything.