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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.)
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Penis explodes during sex
Doctors in Romania are treating a 28-year-old whose penis exploded while he was making love to his girlfriend.
Ilarie Coroiu was taken to hospital in the Transylvanian town of Cluj after his girlfriend, Magdalena, 18, "felt something strange" and noticed that the bed was covered in blood.
Dr Angela Domocos, head of the accident and emergency department at Cluj General Hospital, said: "It is very rare for this to happen. We call it an exploded penis because it happens when the blood cavities in the penis burst.
"I don't know what this couple were playing at, but there must have been tremendous pressure inside the penis to make this happen."
Mr Coroiu is now recovering after an operation to stop the bleeding.
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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Last time I checked, my penis makes the laws around here, not this Senator, not even me.
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.
Yeah well i found out about this long after the fact. Still sucked, he was being an idiot and racing. blew his motor up redlining it, they just did an arse-about job of the repair anyway.
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he came out on top though. got a 2nd hand motor from a rear-end crash-test car for $2.5kAU that had only done 300km.
Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know when your gonna get food poisoning.