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Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by el_benhameen on Thursday September 28, 2023 @12:57PM (#37692419)
I think the spirit of the comment was “here’s an interesting technical question” versus “how can I get eight bucks of free shit”.
Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by arcanemachiner on Thursday September 28, 2023 @01:03PM (#37692516)
Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by acka on Thursday September 28, 2023 @03:48PM (#37694813)
"Oh no, not again..." quoted from (not stolen, not infringing any copyright because of fair use) from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

This nonsense has to stop. Copying a movie, or using the internet on someone else's plan is not piracy is not theft.

Quoting from memory from my old Webster's dictionary which I have owned since I was a student a long time ago:

Theft: The act of taking property and removing it so that the rightful owner is no longer in possession of it.

Piracy: the practice of attacking and robbing ships at sea.

Equating copyright infringement or violation of terms of service with theft or piracy is completely unwarranted messing with definitions of terms that have served their purpose for centuries.

Worse yet, the abuse of these terms in recent times misdirects people's attention away from the underlying flaws: artificial scarcity and the inability to enforce restrictions on use; you can not steal data (unless you steal the physical medium the data is stored on) nor can you pirate a service.

Making unauthorized copies or violating the terms of use of a service may be deemed objectionable but these actions are most certainly neither theft nor piracy.

Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by jstarfish on Thursday September 28, 2023 @12:58PM (#37692445)
Hahaha. Reminds me of a savings "hack" my brother once shared at the dinner table with a straight face:

Just take any adhesive label off of the "clearance" meat at the supermarket, and apply it to the cut you wanted to buy. Instant savings!

Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by lapetitejort on Thursday September 28, 2023 @01:16PM (#37692680)
"Wait, why did my Amazon account get banned?"
Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by capableweb on Thursday September 28, 2023 @01:24PM (#37692803)
Or: Hey, why did my AWS production server for my startup suddenly go down and I cannot access my account anymore?
Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by pmarreck on Thursday September 28, 2023 @06:42PM (#37696895)
This is probably the least-intelligent comment on this entire page. I would literally buy downvotes to bury this obnoxious stupidity into oblivion.

There's a significant contextual, moral and ethical difference between "exploring a lock" and "opening it and stealing whatever it's holding from you".

Also, you're another one who apparently needs to read the domain name of this site aloud to yourself again.

Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by renewiltord on Thursday September 28, 2023 @08:14PM (#37697724)
> I would literally buy downvotes to bury this obnoxious stupidity into oblivion.

How much will you pay me to delete it? I can send you an Ethereum address.

Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by pmarreck on Friday September 29, 2023 @07:40PM (#37711414)
/eye roll emoji