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House Passes Spyware Bills

Posted by samzenpus on from the listen-to-the-law dept.

stinerman writes "Today the house passed two bills aimed at stopping spyware / adware and unauthorized use of computers. H.R. 29 makes it 'unlawful for any person who is not the owner or authorized user of a protected computer to engage in deceptive acts or practices'. H.R. 744 (I-SPY Act) prohibits accessing a protected system via code copied on to the system to, among other things, disseminate personal information. Both bills sailed through the house and are expected to be passed by the Senate."

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  1. so... by sbeam.dk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    now all spyware companies is gonna outsource to india instead?

    1. Re:so... by treff89 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      (1) There should be no space between 'fragment' and the comma, and this should be a fullstop anyway; (2) 'till' should not be captialised, there should be a space in between 'spelling' and '(your'; (3) 'your' should be 'you've' as in 'you have misspelt 'grammar', and 'Grammar' should not be capitalised; (4) 'tongue' is spelt thus. Correctly written, this statement should be written: ""Dude!" is a sentence fragment. Until you learn correct grammar and spelling (you misspelt 'grammar'), I think you should bite your tongue before correcting others." -- Said statement obviously applies to the AC himself. I'm not going to post anonymously, just pointing out some irony.

    2. Re:so... by Simon+for+$1 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      When will people learn to just let the grammar errors go? I know it's hard, but just ignore it.

      BTW, "Dude!" could also be an interjection and it's just fine, although I'll agree with you on the total waste of a post.