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SCO Chairman Fights to Ban Open Wireless Networks

cachedout writes "SCO's Ralph Yarro had the floor yesterday at the Utah Technology Commission meeting in front of Utah lawmakers. Yarro proposed that free wireless sites and subscribers should be held responsible should any porn be delivered to minors because hotspots are apparently where kids go to watch porn all day long. Yarro told lawmakers that open wireless access points should be made a crime because we have an Internet out of control."

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  1. Re:Out of YOUR control by Wandering+Wombat · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I'm thinking of re-painting the garage, and I wanted to find out if latex paint would bond to stucco, so I thought I would do a 'search' for, oh, I don't know... 'latex bondage'."

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  2. Re:Ah come on... by TFGeditor · · Score: 5, Funny

    1-900 numbers! We have a telephone system that is out of control! Won't somebody think of the children!

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  3. Re:Controlling the internet is easy. by p0tat03 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you suggesting that we tie the internet's tubes?

  4. Re:Hyperbole much? by ArsonSmith · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yea, who the hell looks at porn all day long. If I look for more than about 15 minutes I suddenly lose interest and move on.

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  5. lol by hurfy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then why click on the link to Nastyladies.com instead of sherwinwilliams.com ? Or perhaps "I Feel Lucky" doesn't mean what he thought it did ;)

    Now wtf did that have to do with wireless again? or was it about Wii? or was it about cellphones? Bah i lost track ;)

    bummer, no mod points today :(
    I suspect i get more than my share by NOT using them all :)

  6. Re:Hyperbole much? by jrockway · · Score: 5, Funny

    > You misspelt "two".

    You misspelled "misspelled".

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  7. Re:Ah come on... by bh_doc · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hi,

    If I could just have a moment of your time, are you aware of all the dangers faced by children in society these days? Simple things like colds and scrapes and growing pains, to the frightening reality of paedophiles, child molesters, apathetic parents and abandonment, gangs and violent computer games and widespread pornography on the internet. Don't you think something needs to be done about it all?

    I'm asking people to sign this petition I have here. I'm looking for signatures to convince the government to do something about all these problems once and for all. The solution is actually surprisingly simple, but our elected officials don't seem to have realised it, yet. All we have to do is ban children.

    Yes, ban children. It's guaranteed to work! Wait, don't go! It'll really work! All you have to do is get rid of all these bloody kids and then you won't have to think of the children ever again, because there won't be any more children to think of! Isn't that wonderful?!

    Oh shit, she's getting the cops! *runs*