Twisted Musings

I am angry.  Not just pissed angry.  I mean mayhem angry.

Last week, my computer became infected with a virus called

ThinkPoint.  It took control of my computer in all aspects, and

the more I tried to get rid of it, the more the infection spread.

I won’t bore you will all the different steps I took trying to

recover, but I will say that in the end I had to reformat the

computer and lost everything I had stored on it over the past

8 years.  And have spent hours upon hours in the process.

What gets me really going is knowing that somewhere, in some

dark room loaded with thousands of dollars of computer equipment,

some beady-eyed low-life bastard son-of-a bitch who had never had

a date and can’t maintain a relationship with other humans, is

jumping with glee that he’s caused thousands of people to lose

their computers.

And what further pushes me over the edge is that when these

hackers are occasionally caught, they are given probation and

a small fine.  I don’t get it…..if you steal a man’s wallet with $3

in it, you get a prison sentence, but when you cause millions of

dollars in damage to individuals and businesses you get a slap

on the wrist.

So, I think it’s time to return to vigilantism.  What is needed is

a crack squad of computer geeks to track these hackers down.

And then we need another commando squad to apprehend these

weasels and mete out appropriate punishment.

As for punishment, I thought of beheadings, or perhaps burying

them up to their necks in sand and stoning them, but these

punishments are just not brutal enough.  No, they need something

a little more drawn out.  Like, maybe, chaining them up in a room

with a scantily-clad female trained in the martial arts, and

everytime they respond to her whiles, they get the crap beat out

of them.  Or better yet, lock them in a dark, dank room with no

food or water; just a computer that controls a lock on the door.

And 12 numbers.  They can free themselves by entering the correct

combination.  Only, each time they hit the 12th number, if the

combination is incorrect, they get a 220 volt zap.

Or maybe someone has a better idea.