On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 01:50:34PM -0500, Kat wrote:

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Major Variola (ret.) wrote:

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http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=312492004

Kinda raises teh question of, is grooming an underaged chatbot illegal?

Apparently, yes: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2490497.stm It's nice that war on drugs, fighting terrorists and pedophiles have become great markers for rabid anti-freedom campaigns. In other news, over two days 800 individual homes in Germany were searched for the crime of media and program "piracy", culminating 2-year criminal investigation, a service publishing just p2p links (no content hosted) to moviez was shut down in Switzerland, the 25-year-old operator quite likely to be issued a stiff criminal penalty, digital smartcard ID is about to be issued for 2006 to any employed warm body (very likely with a RFID as well) in Germany, and biometrics (EU-wide, but quite likely to interoperate with NA and other usual suspects). Business as usual, in other words, with zero awareness on the side of the governed. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]