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Comment Re:This happens more then you think... (Score 1) 211

by Dimmer on Wednesday May 28, 2008 @01:18PM (#23572879) Attached to: NASA Employee Suspended For Blogging At Work

I'm pretty sure he was liberal. Besides the fact that he was ostensibly well educated and working in the sciences - there have been lots of violations of the hatch act in the Bush Administration (example) - and as far as I know - no firings. If he were Republican - this would be the first.

Congress May Outlaw 'Attempted Piracy' 768

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday May 15, 2007 @10:03AM from the i-see-what-you-were-trying-to-do-there dept.

cnet-declan writes "Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is asking Congress to make 'attempted' copyright infringement a federal crime. The text of the legislation as well as the official press-release is available online. Rep. Lamar Smith, a key House Republican, said he 'applauds' the idea, and his Democratic counterpart is probably on board too. In addition, the so-called Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007 would create a new crime of life imprisonment for using pirated software in some circumstances, expand the DMCA with civil asset forfeiture, and authorize wiretaps in investigations of Americans who are 'attempting' to infringe copyrights. Does this go too far?"

SCO Chairman Fights to Ban Open Wireless Networks 343

Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 19, 2007 @06:26PM from the but-i-thought-the-internet-was-*for*-porn dept.

cachedout writes "SCO's Ralph Yarro had the floor yesterday at the Utah Technology Commission meeting in front of Utah lawmakers. Yarro proposed that free wireless sites and subscribers should be held responsible should any porn be delivered to minors because hotspots are apparently where kids go to watch porn all day long. Yarro told lawmakers that open wireless access points should be made a crime because we have an Internet out of control."

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