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NYS Senator Suggests Criminalizing Spyware
putch writes "New York State Senator Michael Balboni has introduced legislation to make the dissemination of spyware a criminal act. You can read the full bill text here. Is this a good thing? It defines spyware as software that transmits personal information or computer usage data without obtaining explicit approval from the user. It would seem to me (IANAL) that it would be quite unenforceable, but may send the right message to spyware outfits. Also interesting is that it requires any 'legitimate' spyware to disclose any bandwidth it may consume and requires the disclosure to be in bits per second." The bill is quite short and readable. (This might remind you of the recently introduced anti-spyware bill in the U.S. Senate.)
with the poor theatre major in her advanced trig class?
Trig class? Have you ever actually met a theater major?
Oh, wait. Sorry, you're right. I thought that a few credits in the mathematics department were required for nearly everything.
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1) Convince the US goverment this is a multi billion dollar reveneue source that is untaped. This would pass in a heart beat.
2) Create Balastic Armor for this occurance. Simular to explosive charges on some tanks. When it pop up, it terminates the popup and send a legal Hard Drive data eating viris back to the host system.
3) Or when I click on "Ok". They agree to deposit 10,000,000,000 per month in that user bank acount for the next 10 years. All comging from a escrow fund.
4) They must fund a cleanup fund that would pay to have there junk removed.
I get so sick of seeing the count on Ad Away and others go triple and one in a while go 4 digits due to this junk working on computer that have either slowed down or crash.