This is true. And this is why there are penalties. Some here believe it is the physical injury aspect only, when in fact the computer crime can have an impact on thousands, and their families, and their cities, and their customers.

So maybe a stern lecture would be sufficient enough?

As for crimes in which someone kills another, there is a whole laundry list. Which one is the one you are referring to?

A non-complete list has:

Involuntary Manslaughter

Manslaughter

Negligent homicide

Depraved indifference murder

Second Degree murder

First degree murder.

And an array of punishments as well. Everything from a few years to life to the death penalty. This is by design, because accidentally killing someone is different than torturing someone, then killing them and documenting your process. Sometimes accidentally killing someone won't even get a trial.

I'm drifting off topic here, but I'm curious. In the US, there is a marked disparity in sentences depending on sex and "race". Does any such problem exist in Germany? (here women get the least, and African origin males get the most)

Not to belabor the obvious, but sentence disparities exist by sex and "race". Women get the least, white males more, and males of African origin get the most. So it's comparing apples and oranges.

I'm not all that interested in the password against the total cost thing. As you point out there are other things involved.

In the place I retired from, there were regular meetings with shakers and movers with a high burn rate. Stop one of those, and you can lose millions in a short time.

A Unicorn on SlashDot! I'd make a guess that most people here see Schultz as a hero, and have wet dreams about doing the same to their employer.

But yeah, There are reasons he was fired, and his willingness to turn to crime is probably one of those reasons.

There is a fix for this sort of thing happening to people, Don't commit the crime.

I know this is slashdot, where a lot of people cheer people like Schultz on as a hero. But What do you think should happen to him. A stern lecture? A reward?

I'm pretty intelligent. While I don't have problems with determining which problems to solve, I do tell people that what I am good at, I'm up there with the best. My hyper analytic nature has worked great for me. But some things I'm not good at all with. The wife has to point me in the right direction in the morning. I have to not "talk shop" with normal people. My memory is a huge problem for most people, so I let them lie to me. Hint, calling out people every time they lie is difficult. Most people lie constantly.

But all of this is something that can be adapted to get by in life.

I had a friend who was operating on yet another level. A professor of acoustics, most considered him "Einstein level". and one of the nicest people you'd ever want to meet - when he retired it was a mega tear fest for the staff assistants.

Couldn't figure out things like how to dress or put a view foil on the projector the right way. His wife ended up fixing the dress problem. She bought him 5 identical suits, ties, shirts, and shoes. A different group for each day of the week. He could grok the logic in that, so just put on the group she laid out for him in the morning.

The US has long had highly intelligent people come here. It has worked to our advantage. There is a reason many do not wish to go back to their country of origin, as you note. As for the situation you allude to - this too will pass.

Exactly. While the propagandists some of the media, and insecure would have the world believe else wise, the USA is a pretty good place to live.

Fibnally, the Bell curve advocate shows up. Willkommen, Freund!

There is one big issue with your thesis. China, the most intelligent country on earth, is only now becominga "highly developed country"?

Seems like the most intelligent people on earth would not have to become a highly developed country recently.

Funny how the Bell curve and its sycophants can look at a person, and know how intelligent they are.

I prefer the method of talking to a person, after a while you find out that there are intellectually challenged members of all so-called races, and there are average members, and there are geniuses in each "race"

To me, that's an indictment on the users. I've gone there a few times, and it seems like a place the viewer needs what they are looking at repeated a hundred times before it sinks in.

Of course, many people have attention spans of a goldfish.

Here is the place to watch them go nuclear, a European physicist telling the truth about our superiors,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?....

Oh heck - I'm here Q. what is the difference between countries that use Metric and US type measurements? A. One of them landed men on the moon, and returned them. The other never did.

Oh heck - did they know, the Metre, the standard of the universe, is measured by a fraction? Not even an SI unit, but a fraction. I'll be at -1 troll any moment now - the Truth upsets them - after all, Europe is the home of "The Big Lie". The metre is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium.

When are we going to metric time? I mean, that 24 hours, 60 second minutes, 60 minute hours. Damn, sounds like something a stoopid 'Murrican made up!

And let us not forget the reason NATO exists. Remember Uncle Vlad is still interested in the so called buffer states, which his mentor Joe Stalin tried to do after WW2.

How far will Vlad go to get those buffer states. Europe sometimes seems to hate those who help them. My advice - Learn Cyrillic. If this is how you treat the people who saved you from uncle Adolf, I suggest next time, you get out of your mess all by yourselves. It's what you want.

Had to get clear down here to find an on-topic post, what with the TDS people and even a metric uber alles posting.

The plight of the monarch is very interesting. That we can track individual's movements is even more amazing.

A few years back, there was a large concern about habitat/milkweed loss. One response was people planting milkweed in their back yards.Here in the Pennsylvania mountains, gas lines often run along back roads. Some people have taken to trowing milkweed seeds along the easement, providing a many miles long smorgasbord for the little critters. even heading the right direction (northeast/southwest)

Another strange point. I take the Cape May-Lewes Ferry pretty often, which traverses the Delaware Bay. I've seen Monarch butterflies catching a draft off the back of the ferry to cross the bay. That has to be a great energy saver.

Slashdot being Slashdot, I'll probably be modded offtopic for posting about Monarch Butterflies in a story about Monarch Butterflies

How odd. I haven't had a non-metric car since the late 80's. My whole shop is metric. I work in metric. So many of us here in the USA do.

But I also have the old school tools as well. I make parts on my metric lathe that are measured in inches. I make parts that are metric on one side and standard on the other.

Getting a rageboner about this whole thing is silly, It is just different sizes. But it seems to enrage some eurocentrics.

And acting like Americans are stupid isn't much of a flex when you can only do one measurement system. If you want your parts sized in Barleycorns I can make it for you, and I won't cry about it (hint - 1 barleycorn = 0.846667 centimeters)

Exactly.

Fed by greed and criminal activity, it is the world you dive into with coin.

Add in the ostentatious tools who want to brag about their money or coin, well expecting criminals to not go after you is naive.

It's best for everyone to maintain a low profile in this money grubbing, pop culture world. But what fun would that be for people who grub for money and worship pop culture icons? I use my money to do stuff, they use theirs for some weird clout.