The Patriot Act Provisions

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The provisions are:

Section 201 -- Gives federal officials the authority to intercept wire, spoken and electronic communications relating to terrorism.

Section 202
-- Gives federal officials the authority to intercept wire, spoken and
electronic communications relating to computer fraud and abuse offenses.

Subsection 203(b)
-- Permits the sharing of grand jury information that involves foreign
intelligence or counterintelligence with federal law enforcement,
intelligence, protective, immigration, national defense or national
security officials

Subsection 203(d) -- Gives foreign
intelligence or counterintelligence officers the ability to share
foreign intelligence information obtained as part of a criminal
investigation with law enforcement.

Section 204 -- Makes
clear that nothing in the law regarding pen registers -- an electronic
device which records all numbers dialed from a particular phone line --
stops the government's ability to obtain foreign intelligence
information.

Section 206 -- Allows federal officials to
issue roving "John Doe" wiretaps, which allow investigators to listen
in on any telephone and tap any computer they think a suspected spy or
terrorist might use.

Section 207 -- Increases the amount of time that federal officials may watch people they suspect are spies or terrorists.

Section 209 -- Permits the seizure of voicemail messages under a warrant.

Section 212
-- Permits Internet service providers and other electronic
communication and remote computing service providers to hand over
records and e-mails to federal officials in emergency situations.

Section 214
-- Allows use of a pen register or trap and trace devices that record
originating phone numbers of all incoming calls in international
terrorism or spy investigations.

Section 215 -- Authorizes
federal officials to obtain "tangible items" like business records,
including those from libraries and bookstores, for foreign intelligence
and international terrorism investigations.

Section 217 -- Makes it lawful to intercept the wire or electronic communication of a computer hacker or intruder in certain circumstances.

Section 218
-- Allows federal officials to wiretap or watch suspects if foreign
intelligence gathering is a "significant purpose" for seeking a Federal
Intelligence Surveillance Act order. The pre-Patriot Act standard said
officials could ask for the surveillance only if it was the sole or
main purpose.

Section 220 -- Provides for nationwide service of search warrants for electronic evidence.

Section 223
-- Amends the federal criminal code to provide for administrative
discipline of federal officers or employees who violate prohibitions
against unauthorized disclosures of information gathered under this act.

Section 225
-- Amends FISA to prohibit lawsuits against people or companies that
provide information to federal officials for a terrorism investigation.


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Edward Castronova, an economics professor at Indiana University who has written a book on the subject, calculated that if you took the real dollars spent within "EverQuest "as an index, its game world, called Norrath, would be the 77th richest nation on the planet, while annual player earnings surpass those of citizens of Bulgaria, India or China.
Go to http://www.gameusd.com, an exchange-rate calculator for the virtual worlds, and do a search for the latest rates of virtual currencies against the U.S. dollar, and let your jaw drop open. The rates of some virtual world currencies are even better than that of the Iraqi Dinar! For instance, here is the recent exchange rate of several popular virtual currencies: Everquest Plat ($0.54/1K), EQ2 Gold ($0.17/gold), WOW Gold ($0.098/gold), SWG Credit ($4.40/1M), Lineage 2 adena ($2.80/1M), Guild Wars Gold ($0.12/1K), FFXI Gil ($17.89/1M), etc.

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They arrested a fourth grader in Gary yesterday... for counterfitting. I was looking at the bills on tv and MAN that kid is good. He told USSS that he made the money by himself on his home computer... turns out others were too... they ended up arresting a handful of boys and girls who were all doing this... the USSS says this is by far the youngest currency counterfitting ring they've ever stumbled upon.

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Man, Don Stuck has it rough... he goes to bed about 7 (but I mean... his show is awfully early on the X so ya know...) and I can't say much... I've been asleep by 8:30 the past week or so. Hrmm I missed his call to set up this lunch with Rupert so I have to call him back in the morning... but yeah lunch with Rupert Boneham and Stuck & Gunner sometime this week... should be interesting and entertaining.