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Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the is-that-a-bandwidth-in-your-pocket dept.

Michelle Shildkret from Time wrote in to tell us about a story about "the ethics of stealing Wi-Fi. Many of us been guilty of the same crime at one point or another — according to the article, 53% of us at least. But how guilty do we really feel? As it is officially a crime to steal wi-fi (Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 47 of the United States Code, which covers anybody who 'intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access')."

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  1. Re:It *is* unethical to steal wi-fi by jbash · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    To the moderators -- the fact that you disagree with something does NOT make it a troll (which is what I see my post was modded). Slashdot's definition of "troll" is "a prank comment intended to provoke indignant (or just confused) responses."

  2. Re:You forgot to add... by Ferzerp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ok, I'll be a pedant again. The jokes that use 127.0.0.1 are using it as a substitution. As such, a name that resolves to 127.0.0.1 would fit the theme (a substitution). Technically, 127.0.0.1 is the loopback, but all mainstream os's that I know of by default resolve localhost to 127.0.0.1 as well. Either will work, and I definitely meant localhost (though loopback works as well).

    The point is, it should say something like I'm not at ~ right now, or there is no place like ~. Definitely not there is no place like 127.0.0.1 though.