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From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Morris, the law, and his state of mind
Summary: if only we were more heavily computerized...
Message-ID: <841@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 13 Nov 88 17:25:21 GMT
References: <552@comdesign.CDI.COM> <1570@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> <Nov.11.20.58.13.1988.27835@topaz.rutgers.edu>
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In article <Nov.11.20.58.13.1988.27835@topaz.rutgers.edu>, clong@topaz.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) writes:
> OK, if you think he should be punished, what should the extent of the
> punishment be?

I'd recommend a punishment from an Isaac Asimov short story, I think called
"Perfect Fit."  A skilled programmer who embezzled funds electronically was
sentenced to a year during which he could not use any computer.  The society
posited therein was far more automated than ours--the convicted person had to
talk people in restaurants into ordering food for him.

		James Jones