Taz The Spaz

...Nonetheless, whether he does or not... he will still die, like all the rest of us, regardless of who may be at his bedside, alone in his head: alone. By himself. No one there to mitigate the pain, to be telling him how important he is, to make what's happening okay in any way whatsoever. He will cross the bar alone. And there is nothing he can do to stop it.

Nothing he can do with the science we have in this day and age will change that. Nothing invented in the next twenty, thirty, *fifty* years, will change that.

Is he a schmuck? Yes. Is he vastly wealthy and powerful (in the in-this-life mode) beyond the dreams of almost all of us? Yeah, sure!

Will it avail him at the moment when, eventually, beyond any ability of his or those he's paid to keep it running, his breath stops? NOPE.

...The comfort associated with this may be a bit on the chilly side. But (leaving aside folks' personal beliefs about what happens on the far side of the Last Breath) all his personal bullshit in the physical world will swiftly come to nothing.

Let's wait our time. I may not see it: but some of you will, and will be able to say, "Well THAT's over, finally."

(sigh)

Their mother picked up after them. They were not required to take plates the kitchen or do the dishes or anything like that.

My mother, who would tell you she is for equality, came home one day, sighed at the mess of dirty dishes scattered about, and said, "Gayle, help me pick up."

"Those aren't my dishes," I said. "I picked up my dishes."

My mother sighed again. "Just help me pick up."

"No," I said again. "I didn't make that fucking mess."

She never approached my brothers and said, "Boys, in this house, you take your dishes to the kitchen." She did not tell our dad, "Hey, tell the boys they need to pick up after themselves."

It was, "Gayle, pick up the dishes."

And when I refused because it was not my fucking mess, I got lectured about being difficult.

See also: My brothers--in a classic dick-move of all siblings--figured out they could pop the lock on the bathroom door and throw it open, and I would freak out because I was in the shower and trying to get five fucking minutes of peace.

When I tell people this, they always, ALWAYS, assume I have sisters. They say shit like “oh I’d love to do that, but I have boys” and when I tell them I only have brothers, “oh you must have eaten a lot of burned dinners then!”

Like, no. To both of those statements. Sure we burned stuff when we were younger but we all learned to cook before 13, that was just the age where it became a scheduled chore. You know who did burn everything? My MOM. My Boomer dad did all the cooking because my mum didn’t want to and he was the one to help when we needed it, though my mum did help with prep/chopping things.

Fast forward to now, middle brother can make the best risotto I’ve ever had and my youngest brother is vegan and makes almost all his own meals because his partner isn’t and he doesn’t expect her to make two meals so he can eat.

The worst part of this social conditioning is how bullshit it is. I know this is not ingrained, I know people are teaching their sons to be assholes, and I look at my middle brother in his immaculate apartment with tasteful decor that he picked out himself and I look at my youngest brother who does all the clothes shopping for him and his partner because she struggles with it and it makes me want to just start biting people.

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Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.

Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.

And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?

--Arion was sentenced by a judge. Not Rockstar.

--he'd already been deemed mentally unfit to stand trial for other charges when this happened. That was not Rockstar's doing.

--while he was out on bail, he physically injured people and committed random property damage. This is a large factor in him being considered dangerous to the public.

--he committed blackmail.

--he hacked into the London Police CCTV. You may wonder why this is a big deal. Easy answer: imagine what a stalker could do with one of the most comprehensive surveillance systems in the world. That footage is heavily restricted for a reason.

--he is not in "a prison hospital." He is in a psychiatric rehabilitation center that's designed for detention. I know that probably sounds like splitting nails to make tacks to some people reading this, but there's actually a very big difference between the two--psych rehab aims to actually help people get better while keeping other civilians safe, rather than just tossing somebody into lockup.

--a fellow hacker who was only involved in the Rockstar hack, and who is autistic as well, got 18 months in youth social rehab.

In doing so, the charge actually changed from 'hacking with criminal intent' to 'hacking'. Because he admitted to having intent.

He also hacked into BT (our largest broadband provider), and EE and Orange, two large mobile data networks, and stole customer data.

Reuters article with additional information.

He was sentenced by a Judge.

"The court heard that Kurtaj had been violent while in custody with dozens of reports of injury or property damage."

He hacked Rockstar while on bail, using an amazon firestick, his hotel TV, and a mobile phone. He is highly skilled.

In the same period of time in September 2022 he hacked Revolut and Uber

He broke into Rockstar's slack messaging system and threatened to release source code if they did not contact him.

He'd previously been convicted of hacking BT Group, EE, and Nvidia.

He previously admitted to an offense related to the hacking of London Police cloud storage.

Doctors deemed Kurtaj unfit to stand trial due to his severe autism so the jury was asked to determine whether or not he committed the alleged acts - not if he did so with criminal intent.

A jury found that he commited 12 offenses, including three counts of blackmail, two counts of fraud and six charges under the Computer Misuse Act

The 17-year-old who worked with him on the Nvidia and BT/EE hacks was sentenced to a youth rehabilitation order with 18 months supervision.

I cannot find any article claiming he was sentenced to anything but "life in hospital prison". Furhter research does seem to indicate that means a "high-security psychiatric hospital"

As someone who is active in the cybersec world: the 10M number is not "stolen money" as much as it's the cost of overtime hours and hiring security companies to a) make sure he's out of the system and b) all the leaks are fixed, possibly the purchase of new software and/or overhauling the security infrastructure. For big companies with a lot of network infra this gets real expensive real fast. It's also the combined number for Uber, Nvidia and Rockstar so I can't call it super unrealistic. A bit inflated, maybe.

@prismatic-bell is mostly correct. The physical injury and property damage were in custody, not on bail. The hacking was on bail. He hacked into london police cloud storage, not live CCTV cams.