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."

In soviet russia...

[Anonymous Coward]

SCO bans you!!

Controlling the internet is easy.

[xerxesVII]

You just have to control the tubes.

Re:JUST from entering a search phrase?

[QuantumG]

Maybe he was searching for a crack :)

Re:Utahrds

[Anonymous Coward]

Utah, the moron state.

Opps, I dropped a letter from their slogan. Shame one me. Bad, bad AC. (But you were all thinking it too.)

Re:What needs to happen to SCO and their ilk

[Anonymous Coward]

Sfw?

Huh?

[davmoo]

Why would anyone take this nutbag seriously? The mere fact that he works for SCO shows he's got his head firmly stuck up his ass. Oh...wait...he was talking to politicians, wasn't he? One nutbag talking to a bunch of nutbags...they gather in flocks.

Re:oh no

[Ageing Metalhead]

Don't you think you might have the wrong vowel in your name calling? A.M

Re:Out of YOUR control

[Wandering Wombat]

"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'."

Re:Hyperbole much?

[Itninja]

Oh yeah. It's all about the hyperbole these days. Everybody knows that hyperbole is always a million times better that accuracy. All day long they know that.

Re:New Fantasy

[Excen]

Forget Judy Garland. I read Pornado and all I could think about was c. 1993 Helen Hunt playing naked Twister. That and an Oklahoma donkey show, because I'm always thinking about flying, copulating masses of women and burros.

Re:Utahrds

[Doc Ruby]

Hatch has been suggested over and again the past month or more to replace Gonzales.

He's also popular with Utahrds who keep voting him back into the Senate.

Re:Ah come on...

[TFGeditor]

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

Oh noes!

[xtal]

Boobies!

Good thing there aren't any worse problems in the world to concern ourselves with.

Re:Controlling the internet is easy.

[p0tat03]

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

Re:Hyperbole much?

[ArsonSmith]

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.

lol

[hurfy]

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 :)

Re:Out of YOUR control

[QuantumG]

or he was using a cracks search engine :)

What!!!!

[EmbeddedJanitor]

I thought they were messages from God, kinda like cyber age writing on the wall.

Light is out of control!

[tm2b]

Kids are able to just look at anything they turn their eyes towards, whether or not it's appropriate! They just look, look, look. All day long, even if their parents aren't present!

Studies show that most porn enjoyed by children is primarily through their eyes. Clearly, light is out of control. There ought to be a law.

If you ever ahve transmission trouble

[geekoid]

do NOT search for "Tranny"

also bad:
"Tranny fluid"
"tranny problems"
or
"Chicks with dicks."

Camaro TransAm

[Anonymous Coward]

do NOT search for "Tranny"

also bad:
"Tranny fluid"
"tranny problems"
or
"Chicks with dicks."

OK, I have a transmission problem in my Camaro Trans Am, how should I search this? "Tranny tranny problem"?

Re:Hyperbole much?

[jrockway]

> You misspelt "two".

You misspelled "misspelled".
 

Re:Huh?

[jonatha]

One nutbag talking to a bunch of nutbags...they gather in flocks.

I believe the technical term is "committee"...

Re:Camaro TransAm

[glittalogik]

"Tranny inside tranny oil-change"

Re:Out of YOUR control

[Trogre]

I guess he forgot to pay his $699 and was forced to use a lesser OS.

True story

[rantingkitten]

I'm watching youtube videos of Guns N Roses (shut up, I like them) and I'm being more and more amazed by Slash's guitar skills. I thought I'd like to see some of his solo stuff as well, so my dumb ass, not thinking, types "slash" into the search box and UNLEASHED UNSPEAKABLE EVIL!

medically speaking

[sacrilicious]

Chicks with dicks

They have a name for the medical operation of changing a woman into a man... it's called an "addedictomy".

Re:JUST from entering a search phrase?

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe he was searching for a crack :)

He has to pull his head out of it first.

Re:Ah come on...

[bh_doc]

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*

Re:As a Mormon from Florida living in Utah...

[PHPfanboy]

The first time I came to Utah was for the Missionary Training Center [wikipedia.org] experience in Provo.

I'm glad you posted that link, because I was googling for a Missionary position and you just wouldn't believe the type of stuff that started popping up on my screen.

(I enabled WEP on my wifi and now it's much better... )

Re:Ah come on...

[RealSurreal]

Indeed. Free sex is all well and good but it's basically just a hobby. If you want quality sex with proper support options you need to be paying a vendor for it.

Re:Ah come on...

[HTH NE1]

if you mix an match a lot of assumptions with some game theory what you get is that over time all politicians migrate toward the center and, ahah surprise, they end up looking the same no matter which party they belong to

John Jackson: I say your three cent titanium tax goes too far!
Jack Johnson: And I say your three cent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough!

Re:Ah come on...

[fyngyrz]

No need for sarcastic rudeness.

This cry for civility from the same person who said "In an ideal world, you'd just be held liable for being too stupid to secure your access point"?