MattyJ wrote: > > Do you put locks on your trashcan? Let's say a neighbor of yours is > cheap and refuses to pay for municipal services, so they do not have a > trashcan. You only fill yours half way each week, so they simply put > their trash in your unsecured trashcan on trash night. You're telling > me you don't feel this is any kind of moral violation, not one little > bit? Unused trash bandwidth is just up for grabs because it's on the > same curb that everyone has access to? The neighbor's trash didn't > accidentally find itself in your trashcan any more than live network > links magically connect to your computer. It's trivial to connect, > yes, but it does take effort to scan for networks and connect to them, > which indicates some level of forethought. You *know* you're doing > something you shouldn't be doing and you're simply taking advantage of > a neighbor's ignorance. Congratulations on being a good neighbor (or, > at least in this moral tale, taking the side of the scoundrel.) >
My what a can of worms I opened on this one. I have to jump back in here and say that if my neighbor produced so little trash that it would easily fit in my unused can space, I would have absolutely no problem with him putting it there with or without my knowledge or permission! If I'm walking down the street drinking a soda and I finish it, I will drop it into the next person's can that I see, is that stealing? And for what it's worth, I have to actively try not to connect to any network on startup. Ubuntu and its network manager program automatically connect to the strongest open network, unless you have specifically told it not to. So your argument seems a bit, um, what's the word???? Oh yeah, WRONG! Tyrion -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
