Teknoids

It makes you wonder if the Texas legislators even thought to ask:

"Hey, who's going to fix my e-mail now that we put the PC service
industry out of business for three years?"

Let's see how well the wheels of government turn without e-mail!

Of course there will probably be a huge upturn in the bicycle messenger
business!

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Scott A. Clausnitzer
Director of I.T. Services
Atlanta's
John Marshall Law School
1422 W. Peachtree St NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
P: 404-872-3593 x104
F: 404-873-3802
E: sclausnitzer@johnmarshall.edu
W: http://www.johnmarshall.edu
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-----Original Message-----
From: teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu
[mailto:teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Brothers,
Robert A
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 12:55 PM
To: Teknoids
Subject: RE: [teknoids] Did you break the law today ??

Hi, thank you for your message, but unfortunately I am currently out of
the office. I am away participating in my mandatory three year
apprenticeship to receive my private investigators license to continue
to service computers and should be back in the office as of August 14th
2011.

During this time, please submit all computer help requests to the
computer help desk, we will respond in the order they were received once
we are back in the office in 2011.

If this is an IT emergency, I can be reached at the corner of Washington
and Heights Blvd, I will be in the unmarked black van with the camera
participating in surveillance. Just knock five times on the window, it's
cool.

If this message is regarding a new adultery investigation, please
contact the office of "We fix computers too" at 713-555-5555 and speak
with the receptionist.

Thanks,

Rob

Robert A. Brothers
Director of User Services
University of Houston Law Center
Legal Information Technology
(713) 743-2260
rbrothers@uh.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu
[mailto:teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of
sclausnitzer
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:04 AM
To: teknoids@ruckus.law.cornell.edu
Subject: [teknoids] Did you break the law today ??

According to this article (
http://www.ij.org/first_amendment/tx_computer_repair/6_26_08pr.html )
any IT Pro who "repairs" a PC in Texas without a Private Investigators
license will be doing just that.

This leads to other serious questions for our Texas brethren:
- Will this apply to in-house repairs?
- Will your school pay for such licensing?
- Will you throw away every computer at it's first BSOD for the next
three years?
- Will this allow PC techies to carry guns?

With penalties up to $4,000, 1 year in jail, and civil liability up to
$10,000 for both the tech and the customer, it looks like Texas may soon
be forced into "outsourcing" computer repairs.

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Scott A. Clausnitzer
Director of I.T. Services
Atlanta's John Marshall Law School
1422 W. Peachtree St NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
P: 404-872-3593 x104
F: 404-873-3802
E: sclausnitzer@johnmarshall.edu
W: http://www.johnmarshall.edu
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