news story: internet rapist caught

[BullyCanadian]

Originally posted by: lyssword
This is blackmail/e-terror, not rape..

That is rape. He is forcing them. Some people are f*cking sick.

Definitely they (parents and teachers) should be teaching/warning kids, telling them there are predators/sickos on the net (and not just online, but offline too) and the signals/signs they should tell their parents about.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: tami
so jeff7, your answer, while practical for a computer literate individual, is not practical for the young teenage girl who is just on the internet to socialize. i could also do "netstat -a" instead of "ipconfig /release." but what are these kids supposed to know?

But a computer is an electronic appliance. What do you do if an electronic appliance is really behaving badly? Pull the plug. I'd think that at least that would be common sense. That which runs on electricity will not run if it is not provided with electricity. I knew about this sort of thing when I was in elementary school. Before starting middle school, I could tell you that household current was 120V, alternating current, at 60Hz. I knew the voltages for various batteries, and I knew that alkalines couldn't be recharged, only lead-acid and nicad, at least at that time.
But then, I also liked playing with solar cells and electric motors, instead of GI Joes and Transformers and He-Man toys, and whatever else everyone else my age was playing with.

 

[Umberger]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage

Originally posted by: GeneValgene

Originally posted by: amdhunter
lol, sounds like he had them install subseven or similar trojan, claiming it was a piece of software or something...which isn't a bad idea. I doubt he hacked their computers or anything.

I might have to try this myself. This guy gets a :thumbsup:...

WTF?? are you an idiot?

ROFL! amdhunter for banned!

fixed. :frown:

 

[tami]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: tami
so jeff7, your answer, while practical for a computer literate individual, is not practical for the young teenage girl who is just on the internet to socialize. i could also do "netstat -a" instead of "ipconfig /release." but what are these kids supposed to know?

But a computer is an electronic appliance. What do you do if an electronic appliance is really behaving badly? Pull the plug. I'd think that at least that would be common sense. That which runs on electricity will not run if it is not provided with electricity. I knew about this sort of thing when I was in elementary school. Before starting middle school, I could tell you that household current was 120V, alternating current, at 60Hz. I knew the voltages for various batteries, and I knew that alkalines couldn't be recharged, only lead-acid and nicad, at least at that time.
But then, I also liked playing with solar cells and electric motors, instead of GI Joes and Transformers and He-Man toys, and whatever else everyone else my age was playing with.

that goes back to my original argument that they don't know what kind of crazy acts he'd have done if they pulled the plug on him. it's a mentality thing -- if someone hung up on me, i'd be vengeful. you don't want those moments of insecurity. you don't want to think of what he could be doing to make your life more miserable while you've disconnected yourself from him.

it's a very clever psychological tactic. and he did very well at it considering all his victims and how he flipped them out.

he had a stronghold of their emotions and their thoughts. he demonstrated that he could do crazy things. they probably thought that closing the door in his face would probably add fuel to the fire, not simmer it down.

 

[lyssword]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3Arape&btnG=Google+Search
Nothing about internet or pictures. I don't even think its possible to rape someone over the internet. Heck, the girl could have sent a .jpeg of a different, legal age nude girl and he wouldn't even know it.
Now he's a sicko, and deserves to go to jail for child pornography+extortion/mental abuse, but calling it rape is absurd.

 

[lyssword]

I think its the definition of rape that we don't agree on, I agree that he deserves to rot in jail, however..

 

[tami]

Originally posted by: lyssword
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3Arape&btnG=Google+Search
Nothing about internet or pictures. I don't even think its possible to rape someone over the internet. Heck, the girl could have sent a .jpeg of a different, legal age nude girl and he wouldn't even know it.
Now he's a sicko, and deserves to go to jail for child pornography+extortion/mental abuse, but calling it rape is absurd.

dude, the term the prosecutors used is internet rape because naturally, "rape" itself does not fit the description, and you've just proved that.