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War Driving To Be Protected In NH
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."
Dammit!
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Born 'n bred in Cow Hampshah.
Until recently, you could also drink and drive - that is, you could be sipping a beer while driving your car, as long as you were not legally drunk. Me? I prefer to get all my drinking done ahead of time so I don't spill my beer.
"No matter where you go, there you are." -- Buckaroo Banzai
The law doesn't protect war driving. NHPR has a better version of the story which states:
If an operator doesn't take steps to lock down a wireless system, he or she could find it difficult to prosecute anyone who either deliberately or inadvertently gets access to the network.
Come on people, stop reading so much into things.
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Works for me...
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(Too bad there aren't any tech jobs in NH
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(As if you could actually run Windows on a C64. It goes to show you that Windows is so much more of a hog than *X...there is actually a *X clone for the C64!)
Okay, yeah, I'm off-topic, yadda yadda yadda...
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How are we going to catch terrorists now!?!??
That is all.