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War Driving To Be Protected In NH

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the baby-steps-in-the-right-direction dept.

AllMightyPaul writes "A big article on Wired.com talks about the new House Bill 495 that would legalize the innocent stumbling upon open wireless networks. Basically, it put the burden of securing a wireless network on the owner of the network and allows people to connect to open networks that they believe are supposed to be open. This is excellent news as I'm sure we've all tried to connect to one wireless network and ended up accidentally connecting to another one. Being from NH, now I can finally drive through Manchester and connect anywhere I want with little worry, but not until after January 2004, and that's if the bill passes the Senate."

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  1. New Hampshire by Enzondio · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is what we should expect from New Hampshire

    Live free or die!

  2. Where is NH? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Where in the world is this place?

    1. Re:Where is NH? by JimmyBigFish · · Score: 2, Funny

      Longitude: 70 37'W to 72 37'W
      Latitude: 42 40'N to 45 18'N

      What, do you drive a Jeep?

  3. Shouldn't this be... by carou · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shouldn't this article be on unwired.com?

  4. Wow by Snowspinner · · Score: 4, Funny

    The government passing reasonable digital rights legislation?

    Come on, April Fool's was almost a month ago now.

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    Philip Sandifer's academic website
  5. In these uncertain times... by fobbman · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...it seems like you can apparently get most anything passed if you attach the word "War" to it. Even the theft of bandwidth.

  6. You mean... by Faust7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "That was your network I had Kazaa, WinMX, and Grokster running full-steam 24/7 on? I had no idea, honest. Hey, OW."

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    The coolest voice ever.
  7. Re:I love my NH by daveo0331 · · Score: 2, Funny

    2^64 gold coins would weigh 522.97 trillion Kg, and would take up 2.86 cubic lightyears.

    Assuming the volume of a gold coin is 31.36 quintillion cubic miles, and the mass is 28.6 milligrams, yes.

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    Remember the days when Republicans were the party of fiscal responsibility?