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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:14:45 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Ari Ollikainen <Ari () OLTECO com> Date: August 17, 2004 10:57:14 AM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Re: [IP] Hard time? Not for cyber criminals
OS X SUMMARY Hard time? Not for cyber criminals By Declan McCullagh CNET News.com August 16, 2004, 6:13 AM PT URL:COMMENTARY--Jeffrey Lee Parson pleaded guilty last week to unleashing part of the MSBlast worm attack that wreaked havoc on the Internet a year ago. He got off easy....Compare Parson's sentence with the far stiffer penalties that the government metes out to marijuana "criminals," who harm nobody and cause no property damage. For the 2001 fiscal year, the average sentence for a marijuana offense was 38 months in prison, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
I'm now convinced that OS X's summarization is a failure. Since the article was about punishment for cyber criminals, specifically Parson's versus others', the key sentence that set up the rest of the article was left out by the summarizer: "Prosecutors say that the deal they cut means that Parson, who is 19 years old, will be sentenced to between 18 and 37 months."I agree. There must be a better summarization/abstracting capability on the net
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