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...contemplating the creation of a firewall, a barrier that would prevent outside computers from accessing data on student computers. The firewall might help reduce the traffic that has been slowing and destabilizing the network for months, but it is vital that any firewall be designed to give students the maximum degree of flexibility in their network...
...Elliott, director of the child protection group Kidscape in London. "You would get a longer sentence for accumulating masses of parking tickets or for burglary." The judge didn't have much choice because the defendants pleaded guilty and cooperated with prosecutors. British law has since been changed to permit maximum sentences of 10 years rather than three for distributing indecent images of children...
...government approved a decree that offered some protection to the bankers. If the decree gets through the legislature and becomes law by the deadline this month, banks won't be crippled by enormous rebates to customers. But the decree also gave borrowers the right to renegotiate loans at a maximum rate of 12.2% for individuals and 12.7% for businesses...
Harvard played its best game of the season, with every player on the ice giving the maximum effort to gain victory over the top team in the nation. In the end, two individual efforts shone above the rest...
...amount owed the traveler depends on the price of the ticket and the length of delay in eventually arriving at the destination. If the airline gets you home more than two hours after you were due, for example, the compensation is double your fare, up to a $400 maximum...