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IT Worker's Revenge Lands Her In Jail 347

Posted by samzenpus on Friday December 10 2010, @01:19PM
from the bad-idea dept.

aesoteric writes "A 30-year-old IT worker at a Florida-based health centre was this week sentenced to 19 months in a US federal prison for hacking, and then locking, her former employer's IT systems. Four days after being fired from the Suncoast Community Health Centers' for insubordination, Patricia Marie Fowler exacter her revenge by hacking the centre's systems, deleting files, changing passwords, removing access to infrastructure systems, and tampering with pay and accrued leave rates of staff."

8-Year-Old Receives Patent 142

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday November 30 2010, @10:54AM
from the young-inventor-society dept.

Knile writes "While not the youngest patent recipient ever (that would be a four year old in Texas), Bryce Gunderman has received a patent at age 8 for a space-saver that combines an outlet cover plate with a shelf. From the article: '"I thought how I was going to make a lot of money," Bryce said about what raced through his brain when he received the patent.'"

3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession 804

Posted by samzenpus on Monday May 10 2010, @10:10AM
from the step-away-from-the-candy dept.

theodp writes "A third-grader in a small Texas school district received a week's detention for merely possessing a Jolly Rancher. Leighann Adair, 10, was eating lunch Monday when a teacher confiscated the candy. Her parents said she was in tears when she arrived home later that afternoon and handed them the detention notice. But school officials are defending the sentence, saying the school was abiding by a state guideline that banned 'minimal nutrition' foods. 'Whether or not I agree with the guidelines, we have to follow the rules,' said school superintendent Jack Ellis."

Comment: Re:Missing Option (Score 1) 658

by SiO2 on Friday June 26 2009, @10:37AM (#28483503) Attached to: Michael Jackson's death affects me ...

How about this option? The world is a safer place for little boys everywhere.

Come on. Somebody had to go there.

SiO2

Comment: Re:More bullshit (Score 1) 505

by SiO2 on Wednesday June 24 2009, @11:04PM (#28462687) Attached to: Tesla Nabs $465M Government Loan To Build Model S

Somebody has way too much time on their hands.

SiO2

Comment: Re:Nissan? (Score 1) 505

by SiO2 on Wednesday June 24 2009, @10:27PM (#28462477) Attached to: Tesla Nabs $465M Government Loan To Build Model S

You're stating the obvious and missing the point.

SiO2

Comment: Re:Nissan? (Score 1) 505

by SiO2 on Wednesday June 24 2009, @06:24PM (#28460529) Attached to: Tesla Nabs $465M Government Loan To Build Model S

Thank you. You know how slashdot goes. I always assume the worst.

SiO2

Comment: Re:Nissan? (Score 3, Insightful) 505

by SiO2 on Wednesday June 24 2009, @06:21PM (#28460475) Attached to: Tesla Nabs $465M Government Loan To Build Model S

I've been to Europe, so, yes, I have seen and used the public transportation system. (Props to the Netherlands and Germany!) The U.S. just needs to take a look at its infrastructure and wonder whether all of that stimulus might be spent on other endeavors that have a greater impact on the greatest amount of people. We should not be so concerned with keeping the car companies alive for the short term. Let us thing in the long term.

SiO2

Comment: Re:Nissan? (Score 1) 505

by SiO2 on Wednesday June 24 2009, @04:21PM (#28458935) Attached to: Tesla Nabs $465M Government Loan To Build Model S

I appreciate your points. However, I'm more than a little bitter thinking that the money I have paying into the system for so many years is going to a foreign company, especially when I'm having such a hard time finding a job in my home country. Nobody is hiring.

I apologize if I offended you.

Oh, and one more thing. We don't need more cars. We need decent freakin' public transportation in this country. In Europe, it's everywhere. Here, you have to live in a "major" city and even then it's shaky at best.

I don't mean to sound like a conspiracy-theorist but the U. S. car companies have been fighting against public transportation for years. Woodward Ave. in Detroit used to have a decent trolley service that was heavily used in the city and surrounding suburbs. Henry Ford killed that fairly quickly.

SiO2

Comment: Nissan? (Score 1, Troll) 505

by SiO2 on Wednesday June 24 2009, @03:51PM (#28458459) Attached to: Tesla Nabs $465M Government Loan To Build Model S

"...Nissan received $1.6B under the same program."

Nissan? Why is the United States government giving money to Nissan? Shouldn't the Japanese government do that and not the U. S. taxpayer?

I know that I'm going to catch hell for this and probably get modded a troll. So be it. However, as a currently unemployed U. S. citizen who has had a job and paying into the system since I was twelve, I have to wonder where the hell is my federal government bailout money? State unemployment doesn't pay hardly anything. The U. S. government gave over a billion dollars to a foreign company, but a hard working citizen like myself, who really wants to work, gets next to nothing.

I apologize for the rant.

If anybody is looking for a systems/network administrator, who has over twenty years of solid experience, in the NE Ohio area, let me know.

SiO2