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Federal Judges Take a Stance Against Workplace Monitoring

Posted by michael on from the showing-some-backbone dept.

parvati writes: "The NYTimes is reporting that federal judges on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (the largest of the 12 regional circuit courts) disabled software on their office computers that monitored downloading of music, streaming video, and pornography--software that had been installed by the Washington-based Administrative Office of the Courts after a survey showed that 3-7% of the judicial computer traffic included streaming video and the like. The judges say that they are concerned about "the propriety and even the legality of monitoring Internet usage." The AOC is not pleased."

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  1. Your sig is one inefficient motherfucker, sir by szomb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    find / -name '*your_base*' -exec chown us.us {} \;

    s/exec/print | xargs

    One chown process for a gazillion files instead of one for each file. Yours reminds me of people who do 'cat filename | grep pattern' instead of 'grep pattern files'. YOU SUCK!

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  2. Need an article mirror... by chrisvdp74656 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...'cos ya need a New York Times login to view it, and we don't need more spam.

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  3. No spam from NYTimes by Big+Nothing · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You don't even need a live email addy: fake@email.com will do just fine. Stop being so fu*kin paranoid and start living your life, dude.

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    1. Re:No spam from NYTimes by DrSkwid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      that's fraud and therefore illegal

      it's not a Free registration.

      the price is a legitimate email address

      it's like using fake coins in the newspaper dispenser

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  4. The judges wear no clothes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Before you start cheering the move as proof that the American legal system is still primarily concerned with Justice, read this.

    http://www.guerrillanews.com/cocakarma/

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