For the same reason it took so long for people to adopt CDs and DVDs. Previous mediums have the advantage of already being established and thus more cost effective in the short term, and when you are talking about huge amounts of money, that point stands even more. Eventually the long term cost effectiveness or capability of the new medium may prove its worth.
Although it may not be possible, I can imagine a similar process only reversed for giving blood would really increase donors. Many people don't give blood for the simple reason that they don't like needles.
Not only that, but he linked to the person's site multiple times, telling us to go to it, thus creating MORE page hits, and thus MORE money for him....
"1% of federal prisoners are serving time for sex offenses, 3% for homicide, aggravated assault, or kidnapping, 4% of a prison population of 180,000."
This is misleading...you have to remember that a lot of times the system knows they can't get the evidence to convict someone of the violent crimes they've committed, so instead they find something else, such as a drug violation. The court then looks at the character of the defendant and decides to give them jail time and a long sentence instead of the typical probationary period many get for drug charges. Think about Al Capone and how they convicted him of tax evasion when they knew he was a violent criminal running a major syndicate, they get the people off the streets however they can. I would wager that the majority of the 54.1% of those in the fed pens for drug charges were involved in other crimes as well, it's just that they couldn't convict them of those crimes.
Since the "crime" of wardriving is effectively similar to trespassing, we should look at it from the same point of view. In order to be charged with trespassing in most states, one must be made explicity aware (ie: by signs, verbally, etc.) and then disregard those warnings. Thus, the third person involved in this case who was convicted of a misdemeanor charge for checking his email on the network, shouldn't be held accountable since there was no warning or security system in place to keep him out.
I doubt they had the expertise to crack the network had it been properly secured, and almost certainly would not have bothered, so maybe they should sue Lowe's or at least the IT admin in charge of the wireless network for making it possible to commit the "crime".
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I think the bulding is trying to communicate to me via the lights with morse code!
For the same reason it took so long for people to adopt CDs and DVDs. Previous mediums have the advantage of already being established and thus more cost effective in the short term, and when you are talking about huge amounts of money, that point stands even more. Eventually the long term cost effectiveness or capability of the new medium may prove its worth.
Although it may not be possible, I can imagine a similar process only reversed for giving blood would really increase donors. Many people don't give blood for the simple reason that they don't like needles.
Not only that, but he linked to the person's site multiple times, telling us to go to it, thus creating MORE page hits, and thus MORE money for him....
Imagine, if you will, a slashdot where people read the article mentioned before they comment....
"1% of federal prisoners are serving time for sex offenses, 3% for homicide, aggravated assault, or kidnapping, 4% of a prison population of 180,000."
This is misleading...you have to remember that a lot of times the system knows they can't get the evidence to convict someone of the violent crimes they've committed, so instead they find something else, such as a drug violation. The court then looks at the character of the defendant and decides to give them jail time and a long sentence instead of the typical probationary period many get for drug charges.
Think about Al Capone and how they convicted him of tax evasion when they knew he was a violent criminal running a major syndicate, they get the people off the streets however they can.
I would wager that the majority of the 54.1% of those in the fed pens for drug charges were involved in other crimes as well, it's just that they couldn't convict them of those crimes.
Since the "crime" of wardriving is effectively similar to trespassing, we should look at it from the same point of view. In order to be charged with trespassing in most states, one must be made explicity aware (ie: by signs, verbally, etc.) and then disregard those warnings. Thus, the third person involved in this case who was convicted of a misdemeanor charge for checking his email on the network, shouldn't be held accountable since there was no warning or security system in place to keep him out.
I doubt they had the expertise to crack the network had it been properly secured, and almost certainly would not have bothered, so maybe they should sue Lowe's or at least the IT admin in charge of the wireless network for making it possible to commit the "crime".