GCC and even Samba is arguably more important then Linux, there are mature BSD kernels and that proprietary developers can fall back to if Linux goes GPL3.
For example, online someone has the capabilities of impersonating you and making, say, libelous claims about your person, which is not a luxury that your regular run-of-the-mill bully could accomplish.
Not so much. The lunchroom in your analogy in a public area, where personal ownership must be explicitly announced to be enforceable (like putting your name on your sack lunch in the fridge). I think the situation would be more akin to bringing donuts to work and then leaving them in an unlocked desk drawer.
Not so, the router is broadcasting all over the place, public street, neighbors houses, coffee shops, hotels, etc. You'd have to put donuts into other peoples drawers for the analogy to work.
but really at what point are people obligated to actually learn about basic computing skills and stop being shielded because of their willful ignorance?
I bet if you asked a signficant number of people that had open ap if they intended to make their internet connection to anyone and everyone in range, the numbers might sway a bit in the opposite direction.
If those same people had bothered to think twice about they would notice that their devices could connect without any authorization whatsoever. It's not even an open door, it's an open window with a TV running.
I mean, seriously, when you see arguments modded to +5 that say "it's legal because your access point gave me permission" you know that the discussion is going nowhere.
So you have explicit permission to access all the websites you use? Apache is open by default...
Here we're telling people that something with no warnings, no restrictions, and which actually assists you to gain access should be considered off limits. I don't know, I don't buy it.
Heck, there is a lot of stuff that will just connect to the strogest network, no questions asked. If a router can't give permission a device can not steal services, right?
Thus their actions are usually defended with lots of handwaving and arguments about how it really isn't illegal, or that only no one is actually being hurt, and other justifications.
Or maybe we just grew up with computers. Did you ask for permission to connect to slashdot.org? Because just as routers are open to the world by default so is Apache, think about it.
The world where criminals who train to fight can break into your home and kill you with no effort if you're not a trained fighter, or the one where everyone has a gun and you have a good chance of both deterring a conflict AND protecting yourself even if you're a fat computer nerd with aspergers?
The world in which I have a gun and the criminal doesn't. That's what you are describing anyway.
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Are downstream developers any less human? Stop the doublethink.
http://www.burningwell.org/
GCC and even Samba is arguably more important then Linux, there are mature BSD kernels and that proprietary developers can fall back to if Linux goes GPL3.
Last time I looked Latvia requires you to have written permission by the copyright holder. Basically someone bought a way to legale EULAs.
Unfortunately not true in all jursdictions. :-(
s/any system/any otherwise safe system/
http://musopen.com/
[benchmark needed]
It is however trivial to prove that CGI is CGI by the creator.
Matroska is a container format, not a video codec.
I'm convinced by you throwing around accusations without knowing me and all that. Or maybe I'm not.
Tell that to the people who argue that it's perfectly reasonable to do the router it's default thing and then complain that people connect to it.
But it does, customers get the expense of the locking mechanism passed on to them.
You mean like shareware?
Point tiny camera at screen, press button, hide camera.
We call the shiny widgets "Windows" and "Office" and they are not GPLed.
I'm quite sure malware has it's own update mechanisms.