Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:
- Bill criminalizing WiFi leeching shot down, and rightly so
If you use someone else's WiFi signal without permission, you're a thief. That's the conclusion of a bill introduced into the Maryland General Assembly last week. Sponsored by Delegate LeRoy E. Myers, Jr., the legislation would criminalize the unauthorize - The Internet? Bah!
HYPE ALERT: WHY CYBERSPACE ISN'T, AND WILL NEVER BE, NIRVANA - Robot reports for security duty in Atlanta
Bar owner Rufus Terrill has built what he calls the Bum Bot 2000, a remote-controlled device to chase loiterers away. Homeless advocates object. - A Public Official Actually Shows Common Sense in Wireless ‘Piggybacking’ Debate
A state legislature has apparently introduced legislation that would make it a crime punishable by up to three years in jail to "steal" a neighbor's open wireless connection (found via Slashdot). The legislator claims that his goal in passing this legisla - Dell Response – SSD Failure Rates Fails to Include the Facts
Sometimes we have to react to information that has no basis in reality. That's what we're dealing with here. A recent analyst document from Avian Securities incorrectly stated that Dell is seeing high return rates (20 – 30%) due to performance issues and - Doctors Remove Wrong Kidney
A surgical team at Park Nicollet Heath Services in Minnesota removed the healthy kidney from a patient last week, and left behind the possibly cancerous kidney. We were going to make a dumb joke about this is why you should draw a giant X over your good b
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