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UK Parliament to ban DoS Attacks
Ian Hill writes "It seems that the UK government is not as technologically withdrawn as you may think.
This bill is an amendment to the Computer Misuse Act 1990 which bans Denial of Service attacks by name. It states that a person is guilty of an offence if they cause, or intend to cause, 'degradation, failure or other impairment of function of a computerised system.'"
now lemme get this straight... california wants to allow dos attacks, uk wants to ban dos attacks... where the hell is the damn consistency, damn it?! the fuckin' internet spans the whole fuckin' globe. so i think it shouldn't be governed at all!!!!!!111111 cuz no government agency could do the job, because everyone in government is stupid!!!!!!11111111 yeah, they can govern the sale of cabbage fine, but when it comes to cool things like internet, those jackasses in government are a bunch of boring old farts with gray hair and tires around their bellies and all they care about is fucking over every single person in the world in order to cater to the needs of huge fucking multinational corporations that want to implement the Mark of the Beast and turn us all to shit. because as the constitution says, "We the Corporations of the United States, in order to form a more perfect system of eternal perpetually increasing profits, hereby ordain and establish this Constitution..."