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Throwback Thursday

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Since I’ve been journaling so very much I’ve got a lot of memories stored up in my Journal. Here’s a slice of my life for the past September 25th’s:

2003 – Refilled toner cartridges are all the rage, and I put a kibosh on them because they are a terrible idea. Working on other peoples computers proves to be a gory biological hazard at every turn. Grand Theft Auto 3 makes kids kill. Moonies make a surprise return and surprise everyone with their bigotry. Congress did something! They passed the FTC Do Not Call List.

2006 – Jerry Falwell referred to Hilary Clinton as worse than Lucifer. Tee Hee!

2007 – I got my first iPod Touch. What a long wonderful journey it has been with Apple, man, the memories. 🙂

2008 – I was enjoying a good ten-minutes hate on Microsoft and Java. At work I started interviewing S3’s.

2009 – I was drinking quite heavily to cope with my awful days. Drop.io was still around, and OIT was making it difficult to use, what a shocker. I started thinking about drugs like Xanax to help me cope with my difficult days. Work issues abound, failures left and right. Some sort of Jazz Ensemble at a local eatery tortured out some music.

2010 – Legend of the Guardians in the movies, enjoyed it quite a lot. Lots of noisy twitter noise.

2011 – SyFy asked what shows we liked, all the ones they cancelled. LOL.

2012 – Resistance using the Help Desk Ticketing System shows up. Search for S3 internally falls flat on it’s face, not really surprised. Love for Waze, enjoying social navigation. Closet hanger in Hobbiton failed, I fixed it, after a while of battling with it.

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Rather Than Fix The CFAA, House Judiciary Committee Planning To Make It Worse… Way Worse | Techdirt

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Rather Than Fix The CFAA, House Judiciary Committee Planning To Make It Worse… Way Worse | Techdirt.

This is wretched and wrong. The TL;DR here is that there is a law already on the books called the Computer Fraud And Abuse Act and this bill is seeking to amend the law on the books and take it in very wrong and upsetting new directions. One of the biggest things that I spotted on that really has me upset is the redefinition of talking about an offense as equal to actually completing that offense. If you say you are going to do something that breaks this law, save your bus fare, you’re already guilty of committing the crime! The other part is even more insidious and that is even if you are given authorization to access a machine, if you use it for a different purpose, then the authorization is void and you are committing a crime.

This makes my work more complicated. Now I have to be careful about what I say, as this bill, if passed would curtail my first amendment rights to free speech and then that second bit would legally prevent me from noticing anything else wrong with a computer if I was just fixing something adjacent or unrelated to the original problem.

What a mess. Encourage your congress-critter to vote no on this bill!