The "person=IP address" issue bothers me. When I lived in Germany, I was using a family friend's car and drove too fast through a speed trap camera. The owner got the bill, being the owner of the car, but I was the guilty party. Lame. This is lazy law-enforcement at it's best....errrr..worst, and I see Person=IP Address going down the same slippery slope.
It's sizable because it's too many to arrest. Who said anything about being arrested? It's illegal for me to do 85 on the highway, but last time I got pulled over they didn't ARREST me for it.
Then there's the whole point that wi-fi leeching isn't automatically, universally accepted as being illegal in the first place.
The gate is a flawed analogy. Saying it is ok to piggy-back, as long as you don't steal or do illegal things is not flawed, and probably would survive legal muster.
I see nothing wrong with a) or b) in this case, as a person is legally covered in b) by a). (Please, spare the "ignorance is no excuse" lines).
You'd be a specially gifted prosecutor if you were able to convict ME of illegal activity that my neighbor was conducting. If anything, I see an open access point as an alibi moreso than a liability. The burden of proof would be on the prosecution to prove I was doing something illegal (and not just my ip address) AND a trial by my peers would empathize with my technical ignorance.
I remember in one of the contracts that I had with an ISP, it was in no uncertain terms, you were not allowed to share your connection with another. Are they gonna come out to my house and set that up for me, for free? Otherwise, I'll use the default settings, thanks.
Sigh.. more explanations. The only "sigh" worthy of your story was the fact that it was tagged as "funny".
You can live with your intellectually superior wold-view as long as you like, but there isn't anything really that shocking about the woman's behavior. Had she understood she was piggy-backing off her neighbor in the first place, but still didn't know why she no longer had access, that would be sigh-worthy.
Not everyone is a geek, and that's not a bad thing. Would you rather of not had the business in the first place?
If I ask your girlfriend to give me a bj, and she says yes, what's the problem? Errr, nothing (outside of Alabama fornication laws)? Perhaps if they were legally married there could be some legality issues.
So maybe it's a bit like reaching into the free bin of newspapers and pulling out a NY Times. I see it differently. It's like reaching into the free bin and getting a free copy of the paper, but somebody else complains about you getting something for free so they try to make it illegal to give away free papers.
People use locks and keys all the time for their home, car, office, filing cabinet, safe deposit box... all things of value they wouldn't want to have stolen. How is your private, personal network any different ? I I agree with your sentiment, but I can tell you how it is different to me. My "private, personal network" has no monetary value. You can have all the baby pictures and episodes of The Office that you like. It costs me $35 month to have Internet access regardless if my neighbors are "stealing" from it or not. Even if they do "steal" it, I still have it, so I don't really care.
You make the assumption that it is universally accepted as a form of stealing in the first place, when it obviously isn't (considering how long these type of threads will go back and forth).
No, it's just that just when I'm ready to endorse Joe Biden (or another politician) they do/say something so insulting to my intelligence, that they lose all credibility right there on the spot. In Biden's case, he falls more in line with the "those who are nearly consistently idiots" bit.
As much as I'd love to register as a Democrat, it's boneheads like Biden that keep me from doing so. When I read the DNC platform I get excited. When I hear Joe Biden, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, et. al. pontificate, I remain registered as a Republican (in the RHINO or Southpark sense only).
I had a "digital diary" long before blogs (ca. 1993). It never caught on. I even have the original banner graphic I created for it called, "Digital Diary" of all things. I stopped making entries because a) nobody read it, and b) it was stupid. One article I wrote rated the uniforms of College football teams. Another discussed the benefits of Apple switching to PPC processors, but was poorly written with bad info. I gave up realizing I was polluting the 'net. I wish more people would do the same.
By finding people with similar tastes, and showing you things they liked (well, more complex than that, but you get the idea). There are a lot of things I like, but don't usually state so in public because I don't want to be bundled into stereotypes that I don't fit. For example, I like NASCAR, yet I'm so far from the average NASCAR fan, you'd never know it. Being a musician, I also like American Idol, even though as a musician I can see right through the transparency of the singing "talent". As a trained classical musician with short hair and no tattoos, most people would be surprised to learn that I'm fond of Metal.
Anyway, back on topic, I could careless about what other people who like some of the things I like are doing, because they probably are nothing like me.
how this information can (and I think will) be used against them in the adult world later on, when trying to get jobs, loans, and possibly other things that will increasingly use the internet/search for background information. Anyone foolish (and young) enough to do this gets what the deserve. Some may say it's part of growing up, but not everyone made stupid life-affecting choices when we were younger. Those people doing this stupid behavior in their 20s will be doing the same sort of things through their 30s and 40s as well.
Bachelors in EE : Masters in Education:: Masters in Education : Working at McDonalds. BA German (music minor): MA Education:: Making 6-figures as a Software Training Developer in the Defense Industry.
Maybe it DOES matter where you went to school? Then again, probably not (University of Oregon and, cough, University of Phoenix Online).
First, HR departments don't care where your degree is from. Well stated. With the right experience, most HR departments don't even care WHAT your degree is in.
Companies tend to get many more applicants than they can reasonably interview, so some amount of cheap (however unfair) filtering is necessary. I work for a software company and we can't find enough programmers. The Austin, TX area has something around 1500 unfilled "software developer" positions. Basically, if you have a CS degree from ANYWHERE and are willing to work in Austin, you have a job.
Give very, very serious thought to going to the liberal arts school. Uhh...why? The overwhelming majority of jobs I've looked at over the years (two decades worth) don't really care what your degree is in, only that you HAVE a degree. I wish I would have spent 15 months at University of Phoenix online. I would have saved thousands of dollars and been on the job market twice as fast.
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The "person=IP address" issue bothers me. When I lived in Germany, I was using a family friend's car and drove too fast through a speed trap camera. The owner got the bill, being the owner of the car, but I was the guilty party. Lame. This is lazy law-enforcement at it's best....errrr..worst, and I see Person=IP Address going down the same slippery slope.
Then there's the whole point that wi-fi leeching isn't automatically, universally accepted as being illegal in the first place.
The gate is a flawed analogy. Saying it is ok to piggy-back, as long as you don't steal or do illegal things is not flawed, and probably would survive legal muster.
You'd be a specially gifted prosecutor if you were able to convict ME of illegal activity that my neighbor was conducting. If anything, I see an open access point as an alibi moreso than a liability. The burden of proof would be on the prosecution to prove I was doing something illegal (and not just my ip address) AND a trial by my peers would empathize with my technical ignorance.
Just curios, what are the other three?
You can live with your intellectually superior wold-view as long as you like, but there isn't anything really that shocking about the woman's behavior. Had she understood she was piggy-backing off her neighbor in the first place, but still didn't know why she no longer had access, that would be sigh-worthy.
Not everyone is a geek, and that's not a bad thing. Would you rather of not had the business in the first place?
You make the assumption that it is universally accepted as a form of stealing in the first place, when it obviously isn't (considering how long these type of threads will go back and forth).
Well that's a good guess, but I'm really only interested in wheeled-vehicle racing (and running races).
No, it's just that just when I'm ready to endorse Joe Biden (or another politician) they do/say something so insulting to my intelligence, that they lose all credibility right there on the spot. In Biden's case, he falls more in line with the "those who are nearly consistently idiots" bit.
As much as I'd love to register as a Democrat, it's boneheads like Biden that keep me from doing so. When I read the DNC platform I get excited. When I hear Joe Biden, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, et. al. pontificate, I remain registered as a Republican (in the RHINO or Southpark sense only).
I had a "digital diary" long before blogs (ca. 1993). It never caught on. I even have the original banner graphic I created for it called, "Digital Diary" of all things. I stopped making entries because a) nobody read it, and b) it was stupid. One article I wrote rated the uniforms of College football teams. Another discussed the benefits of Apple switching to PPC processors, but was poorly written with bad info. I gave up realizing I was polluting the 'net. I wish more people would do the same.
Anyway, back on topic, I could careless about what other people who like some of the things I like are doing, because they probably are nothing like me.
What's a Facebook? I guess that makes me #3?
"LOLZ" and "pwnage!"
Worse yet, all my real news will be replaced with Celebu-tard news, thanks to Perez Hilton and his ilk
Maybe it DOES matter where you went to school? Then again, probably not (University of Oregon and, cough, University of Phoenix Online).