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Old 09-08-2012, 07:47 AM
 
Location: Metro Washington DC
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I don't think any of those stores cares if a person does it. They would only care if lots of people were doing it. I don't see many others doing it.
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Old 09-11-2012, 09:14 AM
 
Location: Greensboro, NC
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Would I get arrested for parking somewhere and surfing the net on a 4G iPad?
Depends. If you're parked in my driveway using your 4G iPad, I'm calling the cops on you.
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Old 09-11-2012, 09:46 AM
 
Location: Greensboro, NC
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I don't think any of those stores cares if a person does it. They would only care if lots of people were doing it. I don't see many others doing it.
Here's a novel idea, why don't you actually ask store management if it's OK for you to use their internet without having to be a customer? Then all doubt is removed. After all, your assumption is that you don't think the stores care, but really don't know.
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Old 09-11-2012, 10:43 AM
 
Location: The Triad
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If you see an unsecured bike parked on public property, it would be both illegal and unethical
to use that bike without permission of the owner. The same applies to unsecured wifi.
Very bad analogy.
Far better is the garden hose left running and unattended at the end of the yard.
Or the radio with a song or the baseball game heard through an open window.

The benefits to these are there whether used or not...
and using them, listening to a song or or an inning of a game or having a sip of the water...
doesn't cost that homeowner anything not already being spent by them.
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Old 09-11-2012, 12:00 PM
 
Location: Metro Washington DC
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Depends. If you're parked in my driveway using your 4G iPad, I'm calling the cops on you.
I'll be sure not to park there!
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Old 09-11-2012, 12:03 PM
 
Location: Metro Washington DC
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Here's a novel idea, why don't you actually ask store management if it's OK for you to use their internet without having to be a customer? Then all doubt is removed. After all, your assumption is that you don't think the stores care, but really don't know.
Thanks for the idea. Really. If they don't want it done, then they can put a password on it. It's that simple. It works for so many others. Some of these places used to have that and then they opened it up to everyone.
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Old 09-11-2012, 01:21 PM
 
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Very bad analogy.
Far better is the garden hose left running and unattended at the end of the yard.
Or the radio with a song or the baseball game heard through an open window.

The benefits to these are there whether used or not...
and using them, listening to a song or or an inning of a game or having a sip of the water...
doesn't cost that homeowner anything not already being spent by them.
The water is so-so as you have to pick up the hose to get the drink, but the baseball game through an open window? No. That requires no effort on your part whatsoever. Using someone else's WiFi requires you to accept responsibility by forcing a connection to it.
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Old 09-11-2012, 04:25 PM
 
Location: The Triad
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Using someone else's WiFi requires you to accept responsibility by forcing a connection to it.
What force?
I open up my laptop and it's right there... like a canape on a silver platter.

The thirty or so people who believe they have something to lose can set their protocols to protect that.
Everyone else in the world has no loss from the courtesy.
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Old 09-11-2012, 05:18 PM
 
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The thirty or so people who believe they have something to lose can set their protocols to protect that.
Everyone else in the world has no loss from the courtesy.
Source?
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Old 09-11-2012, 05:40 PM
 
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What force?
I open up my laptop and it's right there... like a canape on a silver platter.

The thirty or so people who believe they have something to lose can set their protocols to protect that.
Everyone else in the world has no loss from the courtesy.
It's not there for you to freely use it. The connection is not automatic. You have to connect your wireless to it to use it. That is forcing. I'm sure you don't think so, but it is.
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