... that doesn't require a mobile phone like those Casio Data Bank calculator watches.

We may yet find out... most of the smarter escapees tend to wait until their deathbed to let something like that slip out.

I suspect that prison makes you learn a few things rather quickly...

They'd have to have kept those crimes to extremely petty ones at the most. Even though the 1960's didn't have facial recognition, the TSA (for what that's worth), instant background checks, widespread Social Security Number checking mechanisms, or any of the stuff we have today? They definitely had fingerprinting, and at least some semblance of a national fingerprint database of sorts to check against (the FBI would have had these guys' fingerprints after the break.)

They could have eventually slipped through the cracks even if they re-offended (e.g. it wasn't uncommon for, say, truck drivers to have multiple drivers' licenses from multiple states), but any crime beyond a misdemeanor would have had the local PD looking at some stranger (stranger in their town that is) and doing at least a cursory check, if only to build a rap sheet for the prosecution.

IMHO, if they made it, they likely hoofed it to Canada or Mexico (or perhaps further South) and built an assumed identity from which to live out the rest of their lives in as obscure a manner as possible. Over time, that new identity would become reinforced.

It wouldn't be the first time either... I recall a few instances in the '80s and even the '90s where some schlub or other escaped prison in that era (or before), got himself a new identity, and decades later did something stupid (IIRC, in one case the dumbass ran for a local public office, and a local reporter researching his background found the inconsistencies).

Atari, is that you? :P http://www.google.com/search?q..."do+the+math"

Did slashdot just die and silently come back up? I was getting 503's and "offline mode", logged in and out for ages, then suddenly its just working again. Anybody else experience anything like that?

Seriously, insightful?? Sarcastic, funny maybe, but I was definitely not being insightful! Next I'll be accused of having sock puppets!

Maybe the popular theaters will get hit instead?

I agree. It is hard to keep up too since I am an old fart. :/ I wonder what it would be like in 30 years.

Hackers should take down MPAA instead. :P

Or sexy. Eww!

You need to move all of those tables and chairs, I am trying to land...

I really, really hope apk will come on and tell me how "manly" I'm looking these days!