] "
] WASHINGTON--A last-minute addition to a proposal for a
] Department of Homeland Security bill would punish
] malicious computer hackers with life in prison.
]
] The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday evening
] voted 299 to 121 to approve the bill, which would reshape
] large portions of the federal bureaucracy into new a
] department combining parts of 22 existing federal
] agencies, including the Secret Service, the Coast Guard,
] and the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center."

This better not even make it to a vote.

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