My rule is to write about decisions in the last couple of months and quite often I stick with the last couple of days, but the passing of Doctor Joyce Brothers has inspired me to get in the way-back machine and dust off Bank of Stockton v.

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This action followed a letter to state officials from a couple who, on their way back toward Boston on Christmas Eve, noticed a "young man pointing a life-sized machine gun" at a video game inside the Massachusetts Turnpike's plaza in Charlton, about 100 miles from Newtown.

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Essentially, when it detects an intruding piece of malware, the program follows the virtual trail left behind back to the attack's source -- disabling every machine it encounters along the way.

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