URL: http://boingboing.net/#85534626
Date: Not supplied
After discovering an open wireless net available from his sofa, Steven
"Hackers" Levy interviewed lawmen, academics and WiFi activists about the
legality and ethics of using open wireless access points.
I downloaded my mail and checked media news on the Web. When I confessed
this to FBI agent Bill Shore, he spared the handcuffs. "The FBI wouldn't
waste resources on that," he sniffed. Now I know that if it did, it would
be hard to argue that I broke a law. What's more, I certainly didn't feel
illegal. Because—and this is the point of all that war-driving and
-chalking and node-stumbling—when you get used to wireless, the experience
feels more and more like a God-given right. One day we may breathe
bandwidth like oxygen—and arguing its illegality will be unthinkable.
Link[1] Discuss[2] (_Thanks, Steven[3]!_)
[1] http://www.msnbc.com/news/816606.asp
[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/f5ZpuJU5975K
[3] http://www.echonyc.com/~steven/

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* This Week on perl5-porters (9-15 September 2002)
| New Perl Mongers Web Site                                          |
|   posted by KM on Monday September 16, @08:41 (groups)             |
[0]davorg writes "Leon Brocard has been working hard to update the
[1]Perl Mongers web site. We're still going thru the process of cleaning
up the data about the Perl Monger groups, so if you see something that
isn't quite right then please [2]let us know."
| Java vs. Perl                                                      |
|   posted by pudge on Monday September 16, @11:15 (java)            |
It seems the older Perl gets, the more willing people are to believe that
it sucks, without any reasonable facts. [0]davorg writes "You may have
seen the article [1]Can Java technology beat Perl on its home turf with
pattern matching in large files? that there has been some debate about on
both #perl and comp.lang.perl.misc today. One of the biggest criticisms
of the article was that the author hasn't published the Perl code that he
| This Week on perl5-porters (9-15 September 2002)                   |
|   posted by rafael on Monday September 16, @16:17 (summaries)      |
This was not a very busy week, with people packing for YAPC::Europe, and
all that... Nevertheless, the smoke tests were running, the bug reports
were flying, and an appropriate amount of patches were sent. Read about
printf formats, serialized tied thingies, built-in leak testing, syntax