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If you're reading this, you have too much time on your hands.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) suggested Tuesday that people who download copyright materials from the Internet should have their computers automatically destroyed.
But Hatch himself is using unlicensed software on his official website, which presumably would qualify his computer to be smoked by the system he proposes.
The senator's site makes extensive use of a JavaScript menu system developed by Milonic Solutions, a software company based in the United Kingdom. The copyright-protected code has not been licensed for use on Hatch's website.
While the problem has since been correct and his current site has the copyright in the source code, Google cache shows the truth of his original violation.
Neil T. said on 06/21/03 @ 12:32 PM: And Milonic Menu isn't all that good anyway - search engines can't spider it.
Jake Ortman said on 06/21/03 @ 01:30 PM: Search engines can't spider it? Hell, I can barely translate what it's doing, I can only imagine what a search engine has to do with it.