And I thought they were just gamers, a bit on the nerdy side ...

[uwe]

We could always ask Scorcese for some input re that fountain-of-youth CGI treatment he gave De Niro in The Irishman.



I still liked that movie.

[lowend1]

The guy looks like a kid they stuck into a uniform.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/13/who-is-jack-teixeira-the-man-arrested-over-pentagon-files-leak

21 year-olds aren't typically known for their judgement and common sense.

[uwe]

True. And he'll go to prison for it, the jackass, and be pardoned in a few years, hopefully not only an older, but also a wiser man.

Call me totally naive, but I wouldn't have considered it fathomable that anyone so young would have legal access to this stuff in an official capacity.

[lowend1]

True. And he'll go to prison for it, the jackass, and be pardoned in a few years, hopefully not only an older, but also a wiser man.

Call me totally naive, but I wouldn't have considered it fathomable that anyone so young would have legal access to this stuff in an official capacity.

That baffles me as well, but the government is not known for its judgement or common sense either. I just heard a former congressman say the other day that he knows for a fact that there are portions of the Pentagon that are still running on Windows 95. Even if that is an exaggeration, it wouldn't surprise me if they were using an outdated OS.