Script Kiddie Jeffrey Parsons, who adapted the Blaster Worm to go after Microsoft's Windows update site, was sentenced to 18 months in a low security prison.

Prosecutors had asked for about three years.

Parsons is now 19, but the judge took pity on him, and instead blamed his parents, who let him stay in his room. Oh, she also blamed the Internet. "(The Internet) has created a dark hole, a dungeon if you will, for people who have mental illnesses or people who are lonely," is the way Judge Marsha Pechman is quoted by CNN.

Dark hole? Dark hole is where fat boy should have been stuffed, not in some "Club Fed" where he can hobnob with bank executives and other white collars.

But he didn't get that. Because he didn't have a motive? Because he's not very bright? (What crook is?) And the medium gets the blame for this?

Maybe I'm an old fogey, but I'm not impressed. Stupid kid is no excuse, and I'm sorry doesn't count on a federal rap.