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Threatening someone over the computer will now be a crime under a new Connecticut law. Connecticut is the third state to ban online acts that intend to harass, annoy or alarm another person. Several other states are considering such legislation. Although some fear that the wording of the new law is too vague, giving the government too much power to determine what kind of speech is acceptable, state lawmakers say it just extends legal prohibitions against harassment to computer communications. "This simply takes existing law into the 21st Century," says the law's sponsor, Representative Patricia Dillion...
...From government officials, who are concerned that Microsoft has developed a choke hold on a critical industry and who view with alarm the prospect of Microsoft's moving into banking, telecommunications, publishing and entertainment...
Nguyen, the sole survivor of the attack, heard Tadesse's alarm clock go off at around 8 a.m., according to Murphy...
This was the first time that the Cambridge Savings Bank has ever alerted the fire department to a suspected blaze, employees said. After the alarm, the bank resumed normal business...
...reflect a general indifference to the issue. But it's difficult to organize a protest on a nonissue, and Jewett's announcement that he was reviewing a process that has more or less been continually reviewed for the past five years was not in itself a cause for alarm...