Rolly & Wells: Booze board better watch its language

Rule makers at Utah's Department of Alcohol Beverage Control apparently are too foul-mouthed to get their e-mails past the state's censor patrol.
A proposed rule change dealing with private clubs was posted earlier this week by the Division of Administrative Rules. The rule was not sent to subscribers, however, because it was blocked by the Division of Information Technology Services, which is programmed to automatically eliminate messages containing offensive words.
Division Director Ken Hansen said the problem has been solved and the rule was resubmitted on the electronic highway. The offensive words: "sexually oriented adult entertainment."

Orrin Hatch pisses me off, and it's not only that I agree with him on very few issues. It's his arrogant in your face attitude. I send him an email expressing my distaste for his current position, it happens all the time, and he responds in one of three ways. He writes that he only responds only has time to respond to his constituents. He must mean only constituents that agree with him, or he sends me the form notice telling me he appreciates my opinion but oh so sorry I've made up my mind. I've even received an email thanking me for supporting his position when my email to him took exactly the opposite view. So I was more than a little amused when I read this story in the Salt Lake Tribune this morning. You remember it is Hatch that is going to destroy your computer you copyright infringing bastards naughty people. Ooops

Hatch site in breach of software's terms

Sen. Orrin Hatch, who seeks stealth technology to remotely fry recalcitrant Internet pirates' computers, learned Thursday his own Web site contained questionable software.
The revelation -- unveiled on the "Amish Tech Support" Web log run by an unemployed Houston systems administrator -- set off an international scramble for answers.
Laurence Simon said he became curious about Hatch after reading his Tuesday comments -- and a Wednesday clarification -- suggesting means should be developed to remotely destroy the personal computers of those who persist in illegally downloading copyright music, movies and software.
"What he said prompted me to visit his site. I liked it, and when I see something really neat on a Web site, I always look at the source code," Simon said.
A Web development hobbyist of 10 years, he said he was surprised to find Hatch's site (http://hatch.senate.gov) was built around a copyright Java- Script menu system developed by Milonic Solutions Ltd. of Birmingham, England.
In an e-mail interview, Milonic's Andy Woolley said his $900 menu code is made available free for personal or nonprofit use -- the latter a category under which Hatch probably could qualify.
However, the senator's site clearly was "in breach of our terms and conditions" even in the latter case, he said.
Woolley said nonprofit use requires the Web site designers to include a link to his commercial Internet location (www.milonic.co.uk), and leave all imbedded copyright information unchanged. Finally, users are asked to inform Woolley of how they will use his menuing code.
None of those requirements was met before the site went up in August, he said, noting he had not had any contact with Hatch's office or his Web site developer, GSL Solutions of Tampa, Fla., over the matter until after Simon's revelation.

Good news, Orrin is now in compliance. I guess he was worried he'd have to destroy his own computer.