Actually, he was awarded a c. $1,500 bonus for each database he'd fixed which (x50) meant he received c. $75,000 well-earned dollars for two or three weeks most excellent work ... The rest of us got some kudos (but no bonuses) and his mum was very proud of his contribution. Coming back to my original point, I'd recommend anyone seriously to consider engaging the services of people with Asperger's in IT endeavours - whilst paying a fair wage - as, despite perhaps being a bit "odd" socially, they tend to be fiercely focused and extraordinarily fast and accurate in matters IT.

Seconded.

I worked with someone with Asperger's Syndrome as part of a large Government Y2K bug "fixing" team (and it was fixing, not checking). Senior management had prioritised the fixes based on how much each database was "worth" (i.e., how much they paid for it) rather than, more sensibly, on how much the databases in question would affect citizens were they not to be fixed.

The result of this was that three weeks before 1/1/2000, 50 databases critical for functions such as medical care, burials, garbage collection, liquor licences, care homes etc. had not been fixed. This work-experience chap with Asperger's who up until then had basically been the post room / tea-boy (as well as carrying out rudimentary IT tasks) offered to help.

We let him join the team and gave him all the database documentation to read just to keep him quiet as we were busy enough. He sat reading it for two weeks and we got on with our work and left him to it.

Then the tape arrived with a copy of all 50 databases on it for us to fix. Before we'd arrived for work that morning, he'd opened the post, loaded the tape and was fixing the databases one by one (having prioritised them well by importance without our intervention) at an unbelievably fast typing speed. Incredibly, as he finished the fixes for each database (which we obviously tested), it turned out that he had fixed it without error (so far as we could tell).

He finished fixing the 50th and last database on 30/12/1999. The "post mortem analysis" (as far as we could tell) in early 2000 was that he'd fixed all 50 databases perfectly within a week.

Actually, the Danish word "Specialisterne" includes a [plural] definite article in its suffix and can be translated into English as "The Specialists", or better translated as "The Professionals".

Agreed. In the event of the extradition going ahead (against the expressed wishes, not only of many of us here but also a clear majority of the UK population, including highly influential members of the [UK] government etc. (e.g., the Prime Minister's wife as reported here some time ago in the UK Press), ) the Anglo-American "Special Relationship" could be severely damaged. I concur with your advice that President Obama should close this issue down and issue a pardon or similar.

To use a real example: A Libyan intelligence agent placed a bomb on an airliner in Frankfurt (Germany) resulting in the murder of hundreds of (predominately) UK and US citizens, both in the air and on the ground, over Lockerbie (Scotland) and then scuttled back to Libya to hide. The UK government, working in conjunction with our US cousins / allies over the pond, eventually managed to arrange the extradition of the suspect from Libya such that he was tried and convicted under Scottish Law in a court within a Dutch military base which had temporarily been ceded to Scotland such that it was Scottish Territory for the duration of the trial. The accused was convicted and served IIRC c. nine years for the murder of these hundreds of people in a prison in Scotland before being recently released on compassionate health grounds ... Coming back to the main story, it seems as if the accused has been a bit of a "naughty boy" and has clearly embarrassed the US military authorities by exposing their, reportedly, woefully inadequate IT security. Arguably he's done them a favour by highlighting the IT security flaws they have (or had) - thereby saving them money (and helping them improve their IT security). Were I to be judging the accused, assuming he were found to be guilty, I'd think a good "slap on the wrist", along with a stern warning not to try such actions again along with twelve months supervised community service (in the UK - with him not having been extradited) would be an appropriate sentence.

Personally I blame the parents. They should have encouraged him to become an Enron executive or some sort of banker and if he then caused billions of dollars of damage, he would get away with anything (or at least spend less time inside and certainly not be sent to the chair).

Everyone gets this - it's called "Ryan Air Syndrome". It's especially exacerbated when you realise you've not got a spare quid to gain access to the in-flight "human excretion cubicle" after having been serendipitously allocated a seat next to a gorgeous blonde female human who's trying to chat you up whilst all you can think about is trying not to pee all over the seat.

This is a *feature* of, not a bug in, the "Windows for Warships" ethniccleansing.dll. http://www.windowsforwarships.com/

Obviously you don't live in the UK ...

Could we add Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch to the list too? Wales expects!

Yeah, but fps is more important for GTA.

If you're gonna speed, at least get to 88 so you can go back in time to erase the concept of speeding fines.

"It's the PRECIOUS, MY PRECIOUS! Keep it secret, keep it safe!" (Cue: Sounds of chairs being flung through the air).

It's called a wife.

Clearly God needs to deploy DRM to counter his omniscience bit so he doesn't get sued by the **AA.