[P1] Hot Spots in the U.S.

[viaoddbrainstorm]

On Friday, Jan 31, 2003, at 22:58 US/Central, Jack Rodgers wrote:

> On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 09:04  PM, viaoddbrainstorm wrote:
>
>> If you were watering your lawn on a hot day and  the neighbor kids 
>> ran through your sprinkler would you posit that  the children were 
>> stealing the coolness of the water?  I was just wondering?
>
> Some examples can be rather silly...
>
> In this case one might consider their legal responsibility if those 
> kids step in a hole, trip over something and then require expensive 
> medical treatment which becomes your responsibility even though they 
> are trespassing.
>
> Now if your neighbor were hooking up his hose to your water outlet and 
> watering his lawn, filling his pool, washing his car or found someway 
> to wire into your electrical box to run his household or even more to 
> the point, hot wired your phone line and was making phone calls or 
> using your password to log onto the internet when you weren't 
> home...that would be a better example.
>
I think you missed my point.  How about watching a neighbors pay 
television through an uncovered window  from  the street.  Surely if 
the neighbor didn't want you to watch their television they could close 
their drapes.  Similarly anyone with a wireless network transmitting 
into a public space using public airwaves who doesn't take steps to 
insure their privacy really shouldn't be bothered by someone launching 
an e-mail app and retrieving their mail wirelessly.  That is hardly 
analogous to tapping phone lines or breaking into a password protected 
network; both of which are wrong (unless of course one is operating 
under the protections of the Patriot Act, then I suppose it would be 
for the good of America, and by consequence world citizens alike).

David