If the owner of the coffee shop didn't feel wronged, why is the prosecutor still pressing charges?
Where are you getting that? The owner of the coffee shop charges non-customers for wifi access. Just because she didn't know that it was a felony doesn't mean she didn't feel wronged... no where does it say that the owner didn't want to press charges. In fact, the owner specifically said everything would've been fine "If he would have come in (to the coffee shop)".. meaning the owner was pressing charges.
I agree with you that in a perfect world where people blindly obey the letter of the law, then you should be able to leave your car running with the keys inside, and even $5000 in $100 bills on the passenger seat and not have to worry about it. However if you take your head out of the textbook for a second you will realize that a) if you do that, say goodbye to your cash and probably your car and b) YOU ARE A FOOL.
Foolish or not.. it doesn't magically mean that the guy who took the car and the money didn't break the law. He can't argue "the owner obviously gave me the car since he left it running"
Because that same sign says "For customers only". Why is this so hard for people to understand? In many states, it is illegal to connect to a wifi network you have not been given explicit permission to use. It doesn't matter if it is open or not.
Since this law evidently doesn't take criminal intent into account, its end result is clearly to make criminals out of ordinary citizens
Except he is a criminal.. he's stealing. That cafe charges wifi users who don't make a purchase. Every day he sits in his car and uses wifi so he doesn't have to pay for it.
When you buy a traditional wooden door from a hardware store, it doesn't come with a lock either. That's up to you (or your carpenter to install)
Even if I don't put a lock on that door.. it's still illegal for you to enter my house without my permission. How difficult is this to understand? We have multiple precedents set in multiple states.. you cannot connect to someone's wifi without their permission.
If the cafe didn't want people outside using the wifi, there are many ways to prevent it, from a sign stating the wifi is for customers only, a password of the day at the register, to sign-ins tied to their check (bill) number or something.
There was a sign stating the wifi is for customers only.
Yes, but it specifically targeted the Acid2 test Safari is better than IE in terms of CSS, but FF is even better than Safari, even though FF doesn't pass the Acid2 test.
IE, Firefox, and Opera all support DesignMode extensively. Safari is the odd man out, failing to support 90% of the execCommands, and failing to even return the proper return value.
IE, Firefox, and Opera all support XSLTProcessor. Safari is the odd man out, failing to support it at all.
It's disingenuous to say that FF, Opera and Safari are all pretty much equivilent and IE is the one with all the weird exceptions. In fact, it's more accurate to say Safari is the weird browser. Safari's javascript is at least 4 years behind all the others. Didn't even support Ajax until Safari2.
I generally despise all things Apple but I do respect that they don't force you to activate OS X.
That's because it only runs on Apple's hardware. They do force you to activate some software though.. like Shake. Even the demo version of Shake requires an emailed activation key.
Are you sure that wasn't just the Universal Upgrade DVD? It's not free.. it's just the software, you will need to purchase a license to actually install it.
Really, look around, do you see any Vista boxes? I don't, not nearly even a tenth of the number of Macs.
Funny, I looked around at home, saw 3 vista boxes and not one mac. I guess Apple should just call it quits since it's obvious they haven't sold a single computer.
It would be cool if there were a cheap analog to digital converter that you could plug into your console and play the notes on an actual electric guitar.
They used to make MIDI pickups. Clip it right above your bridge, and you get a MIDI interface on your guitar. I saw a local band use one before.. the guitarist was playing drum patches.. it was surreal.
Google for Roland Gk-2. I've been thinking about getting one and writing a guitar hero ripoff that uses tabs.
The normal behavior of the resize(+) button is to make the window just large enough to view all of the content in the window. Clicking that button again would resize the window to its original size.
In theory anyway. Try it in the finder. Every time you click + the finder chooses a different size.
In iTunes it toggles between a mini mode and the regular window.. hardly matching the spec.
Why does a trackball need external LEDs? (Logitech Trackman)
My laptop has 11 lights.. not counting the LCD.
One is on the power button. One is on some hardware button that is programmable. One is on the mute button, two are on the volume slider (to mark the ends). One is on the button that enables/disables the trackpad. Three are status lights on the front (including a duplicate power light, a harddrive light and a third which blinks for network traffic). There's a LED attached to the power jack, and finally, an LED attached to the slider that manually turns off wifi.
Every light is blue except for the mute button and trackpad button, which toggle between blue and red. It's pretty damn ridiculous.
But they failed with ADB, NuBus, Firewire, ADC, and PCI-X to name a few. Apple has far more misses than hits when it comes to introducing the "new standard".
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Where are you getting that? The owner of the coffee shop charges non-customers for wifi access. Just because she didn't know that it was a felony doesn't mean she didn't feel wronged... no where does it say that the owner didn't want to press charges. In fact, the owner specifically said everything would've been fine "If he would have come in (to the coffee shop)".. meaning the owner was pressing charges.
Foolish or not.. it doesn't magically mean that the guy who took the car and the money didn't break the law. He can't argue "the owner obviously gave me the car since he left it running"
Because that same sign says "For customers only". Why is this so hard for people to understand? In many states, it is illegal to connect to a wifi network you have not been given explicit permission to use. It doesn't matter if it is open or not.
And if your neighbor did that, you would *STILL* be arrested for stealing cable.
Except he is a criminal.. he's stealing. That cafe charges wifi users who don't make a purchase. Every day he sits in his car and uses wifi so he doesn't have to pay for it.
Use your head. I bet you're the type of guy who has a trunk full of cups from different fast food restaurants so you can go get your "free refills".
Any reasonable person would infer that you can only use the wifi if you buy something... if you leave and come back, you need to buy something else.
Even if I don't put a lock on that door.. it's still illegal for you to enter my house without my permission. How difficult is this to understand? We have multiple precedents set in multiple states.. you cannot connect to someone's wifi without their permission.
You've never seen a company put books outside on tables? You think that implies they're free?
Using your logic, it's not illegal to send spam, and it's not illegal to call people on the do not call list.
There was a sign stating the wifi is for customers only.
So you think it should be legal for me to send you spam all day? After all, I say "Can I send you an email?" and your mail server says "sure!".
So you think you could just go sit down in a coffee shop and relax, read the paper, without ordering anything?
That's impossible. You must buy a 2 year cingular contract with the iPhone.
So is foresight in this case. MS banned modded versions of the original xbox from live. It's not a surprise that they'd do the same with the 360.
Yes, but it specifically targeted the Acid2 test Safari is better than IE in terms of CSS, but FF is even better than Safari, even though FF doesn't pass the Acid2 test.
From the CSS selectors tests:
Firefox passes 357 tests
Safari passes 336 tests
IE7 passes 330 tests
IE, Firefox, and Opera all support DesignMode extensively. Safari is the odd man out, failing to support 90% of the execCommands, and failing to even return the proper return value.
IE, Firefox, and Opera all support XSLTProcessor. Safari is the odd man out, failing to support it at all.
It's disingenuous to say that FF, Opera and Safari are all pretty much equivilent and IE is the one with all the weird exceptions. In fact, it's more accurate to say Safari is the weird browser. Safari's javascript is at least 4 years behind all the others. Didn't even support Ajax until Safari2.
That's because it only runs on Apple's hardware. They do force you to activate some software though.. like Shake. Even the demo version of Shake requires an emailed activation key.
Are you sure that wasn't just the Universal Upgrade DVD? It's not free.. it's just the software, you will need to purchase a license to actually install it.
Funny, I looked around at home, saw 3 vista boxes and not one mac. I guess Apple should just call it quits since it's obvious they haven't sold a single computer.
They used to make MIDI pickups. Clip it right above your bridge, and you get a MIDI interface on your guitar. I saw a local band use one before.. the guitarist was playing drum patches.. it was surreal.
Google for Roland Gk-2. I've been thinking about getting one and writing a guitar hero ripoff that uses tabs.
In theory anyway. Try it in the finder. Every time you click + the finder chooses a different size.
In iTunes it toggles between a mini mode and the regular window.. hardly matching the spec.
That's just one aspect. How about how some apps quit when the last window was closed, and others don't?
My laptop has 11 lights.. not counting the LCD.
One is on the power button. One is on some hardware button that is programmable. One is on the mute button, two are on the volume slider (to mark the ends). One is on the button that enables/disables the trackpad. Three are status lights on the front (including a duplicate power light, a harddrive light and a third which blinks for network traffic). There's a LED attached to the power jack, and finally, an LED attached to the slider that manually turns off wifi.
Every light is blue except for the mute button and trackpad button, which toggle between blue and red. It's pretty damn ridiculous.
And your standard goatse: (EO3)
But they failed with ADB, NuBus, Firewire, ADC, and PCI-X to name a few. Apple has far more misses than hits when it comes to introducing the "new standard".