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Possession of Cantenna Now Illegal?
Mad-Mage1 writes "The recent arrests in Florida and the UK of men who were accessing unsecured wireless hotspots has created a flood of articles that contain panic inducing rhetoric. "A small subset of computer-savvy hackers has the know-how and gadgets for more nefarious activities," claims the Sacramento Bee (via Techdirt). "They're (Pringles cans fashioned into antennas) unsophisticated but reliable, and it's illegal to possess them," quips Sacramento County Sheriff's Lt. Bob Lozito of the Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force." I hope they tell Fry's about all the illegal antennas they're stocking, too.
Damn, guess I better throw out my yagi and my omni.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
But sir, this is my TV antenna that I use with my WinTV PCMCIA adapter card.
No wonder why I got bad reception, its in the WRONG antenna jack!
Lets make windows illegal too, after all, it only *automatically* hacks into unsecured AP's.
I think that's called having the munchies. You're only in trouble if you have the grass with you still or you can be proven to be intoxicated.
I'll be your candy shop of infinite deliciousity if you'll be my discotheque of endless rump-shaking.
...end up in the can!
I liked the Cantenna band in Star Wars.
My Yagi out of my cold dead ... oh wait ... thats my gun ... sorry.
dit...dit...dit...
Today, sherif deputies in California unleashed a country wide 'Pringles can ring' bust, raiding over 22 seven-elevin stores. They managed to confinscate over 133 cans of Pringles before they had to cease activities. Apparently the commando-style raids all went smoothly, but an unnamed source in the sherrif's department stated the raids ceased because , 'We were full'.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
Geek chicks dig hackers. They pretend like they're all whitehats but you get em chattin' about hackers and you can tell they are down.
How we know is more important than what we know.
...their slang. Are they calling it Cantenna these days? And does that refer to the leaf form or the resin?
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
... it's illegal to possess a Heathkit 50-ohm dummy load?!? /dating myself //nobody else will
How is your pringles can use COMMERCE? How is it INTERTSTATE?
1865 called. They want their legal argument back.
Dahlmann tightly grips the knife, which he may have no idea how to use, and steps out into the plain.
Out of curiousity, what color is the sky on your planet?
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
"He admitted he was wrong, maybe we can cut him some slack?"
Mmm, probably not. But maybe he'll get lucky and the source story will be corrected by the time the dupe gets posted in a few hours.
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takes all that power and squirts it in one direction resulting in a higher signal strength in the desired direction .... that's why it works so well.
Sounds like an email I got earlier today...
Columbus, OH - State regulators are up in arms over an apparent physical law that allows photons to escape state boundaries, and leak into neighboring states, and even into Canada.
"This is clearly an issue for us." said Warren B. Crapola, director of Ohio's Department for Screwing People Over. "We simply cannot have our radio signals being lost to us, particular to backwaters like Michigan and Indiana."
Legislators are set to pass the Photon Restriction Act, and hope to have photons stopped at the state line by Fall.
"We're confident," says Governor Dolt Q. Nailbrain, "that not only will Ohio's photons be kept in the state, but that there's a potential revenue stream here as we tax crossborder photons. I hope that an amendment to the proposed bill will give us a grandfathering clause allowing us to tax photons back to 1965."
Neighboring Michigan is looking at a similar law that would ban neutrinos. "Are you aware," said Michigan's Attorney General, "that these beasties pass through your body. It's just plain indecent."
Not to be left out, Indiana hopes to redirect all unwanted X-rays directly into Ohio. "We feel destroying Ohio and turning it into a moltent, irradiated slagheap will bring us in line with Federal requirements, particularly the Patriot Act." said spokesperson Marylin Ipeenightly.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
But wouldn't that violate Federal law by mailing contraband (illegal) objects? :P
>>allowed to use isn't a crime. Although using it >>may be."
>Actually, yes, in some cases, it stupidly is.
Damn those feds and their limits on neighborhood nuclear weapons!
hawk
Ah yes....red capes were legal, blue tights were legal, red speedo and boots were legal, but posession of all four was "intent to impersonate Superman". The dumb part is that Superman is no more dangerous than any of the other superheroes, and it wasn't illegal to impersonate THEM!
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
You are completely correct.
;)
Mwahahahahhaaha....
-- There is no sig line, only Zuul.
Will this be the worlds first /. 'd snail mail box?
In other words, as soon as you finish eating Pringles, you've committed a crime. ... big-boned? :-)
The solution is simple; leave some Pringles in there. This is apparantly Pringles' intention too, taking the user interface into consideration.
Or are my hands just especially
sigs are hazardous to your health
It is now illigal to posses eyes. Just today, a man was caught sitting in his car watching a big screen TV his nieghbor had mounted on the rooftop. After he was arrest for "illigal tv viewage and theft" it was also found he had a pair of glasses at his home to help facilitate this new kind of information theft. The local sheriff's department suggests that people put their televisions inside their home, but note that if they are stupid enough to leave them outside, they'd be more than happy to arrest people looking at it anyways.