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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."

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  1. Foist for Eugenia! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Another Night Defender post!

    Claim this first with straight troll fiction!

  2. bah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    okayyyyyyyy

  3. first post or slow-arse page updating? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that is the question

  4. Live Free or DIE! by tedgyz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dammit!

    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. :-b

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  5. The Night Defender! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sweating and farting nervously on the verge of mental meltdown, ELQ reloads each of her precious OSNews pages, making sure all is well. Fifty Internet Explorer windows are open in Windows XP, it's grinding the hard drive to death. ELQ's cable modem and NIC activity LEDs are nearly solid from the raw frenzy of almost constant browser reloading. Eugenia's eyes twitch rapidly from window to window with Mercurial speed to make sure that any rogue comments do not escape her attention, always hitting her refresh buttons with pinpoint accuracy. No logical order for checking, purely random and impulse driven by raw Mediterranean temper, stopping for the occasional savage bite from a pork loin still affixed to the bone, Eugenia's eyes never leave the monitor.

    "N-n-n-n NO! No TIME for Dance Dance Revolution, oh but it's been so long! I cannot allow the BASTARD flooders' comments to be seen. MY DOMAIN IS SACRED!"

    Hair is frizzled and days unwashed, ass-crack just barely half wiped in a frenzy to return to her monitor, having taken a large shit earlier. No time to flush! Her armpits are over-ridden with pubic hair, her fat flaps reek of B.O. and yeast from days of neglect and hour upon hour of sweating. Relentless sweating.

    "Cannot to be keeps up this pace! I may be need to go to hospital for exhaustions" she pants in desperation, wiping the sweat from a matted hair lock with her week-old t-shirt offering.

    The hour of judgment approaches! Comment number 45 in thread 374 is clearly of anti-Greek sentiment! It reads "Eugenia continues to post yet another story that's simply ripped off from other websites. How much longer can this continue? It's my opinion that she has poor editorial skills. I think they should be revoked."

    "YOU BASTARD FUCK!", Eugenia erupts in raw hatred, simultaneously ripping a 120 decibel-at-1-meter fart into the back of her chair. "Nobody is to be attack my site!" Eugenia blasts away at 10 words per minute in a barely-coherent broken English. She's on a mission. After several hours, the words on the screen are completely shattered and in disarray, they make no sense. Eugenia is impressed with her English progress and submits her lousy retort. Relaxing only for several seconds to savor the rush, she continues her patrol, sleepless into the night.

  6. Java, Python, C++, Perl sucks. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Only use brainfuck assembly lanuage.

  7. Clarification by msheppard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

    M@

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  8. Live Free Or Die. by otis+wildflower · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Works for me...

    (Too bad there aren't any tech jobs in NH :/)

  9. Re:Legalize it? by usotsuki · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    .sig LOL *g*

    (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...

    -uso.

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  10. Damn! by frank_adrian314159 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    How are we going to catch terrorists now!?!??

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