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PCs Posted No Trespass

Posted by Zonk on from the you're-not-welcome-here dept.

FreeLinux writes "USA Today has a story about a federal court ruling stating that Spyware can constitute illegal trespass. From the article: 'A federal trial court in Chicago has ruled recently that the ancient legal doctrine of trespass to chattels (meaning trespass to personal property) applies to the interference caused to home computers by spyware. Information technology has advanced at warp speed with the law struggling to keep up, and this is an example of a court needing to use historical legal theories to grapple with new and previously unforeseen contexts in Cyberspace.'"

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  1. Good one by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Made me chuckle. :)

    Still have to get around to the slightly scary prospect of partitioning this baby up so I can put Linux on it. I've been long overdue to playing around with it.

  2. Re:partitioning this baby up for Linux by Anomalyst · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is absolutely painless. OpenSuse http://opensuse.org/ and probably most other distros, will automatically detect how much free space is in the current NTFS/FAT partition and allow you to resize it, I'd recommend creating around a 10G partition for a full install (90 min). Opensuse has a DVD ISO for a swapfree install,and a easy install time KDE/GNOME GUI selection. Opensuse is anexcellant distro for 1st-time dabblers.
    HTH

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  3. Re:first irony by rdoger6424 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    then why are you posting as an AC

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