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Goal: to break highest record of 40 unique hits in a day by visiting my blog myself. 5 unique hits by myself this morning.

KNN, no time to press ctrl+R, although got time to blog and read comments and comment on others' blogs. Eh, click Refresh or type my own URL very boring you know! Anyway I don't really have time to blog also. So I type the keywords here, you all figure out yourself.

White pigeon; forest man; motion sickness on bridge.

Did you all read the papers today about a 17 year old boy charged for tapping onto somebody else's wireless internet access? It's completely ridiculous! I was quite enraged when I read it. Look, if that person don't want others to tap onto his/her own internet, then for goodness' sake lock it with a password! Tapping on other's wireless internet is very common, though it is against the law. It won't be easy trying to stop everybody from doing so, especially when almost every other person on the street has done it before. In my opinion, the best way to stop this from happening is to set a bloody password on your wireless so that nobody else can access it except you. Not having a password is tantamount to having your house door wide open when you leave the house, or when you do not leave the house, for that matter. Furthermore, at least for a house you have neighbours who can look out for you and if a person steal anything, he will leave some evidence behind. For internet however, except for knowing when the person is using it, I don't think you can tell who accessed it when the person has left nor who or where the person is accessing it from when he is accessing it. Correct me if I'm wrong.

You are right if you say that even if the door is open a person should not enter the house either, but you are talking about not entering a house in a society where entering a person's house is common, or widely accepted as a norm. What I mean is if you stop a person on the street and ask if you think it is ok to use another person's wireless, there is a high probability that the person will say it's ok to use for a while, or even that it's ok to use because it's just there and that others use it as well. The presence of a law makes no difference unless you can change the mindset/set of norms that the ordinary citizen holds. I am not saying that social norms are always right, in fact sometimes they are horribly wrong. But what matters is not whether it is right or not, but whether everybody else views it as right or wrong. This is what is social norm. I just think that boy is unlucky. Of all people of all ages who taps onto the wireless of others at so many different times, his neighbour chose to report him.

So if you don't want others to use your wireless without your permission, more importantly don't want them to be using your wireless for illegal things, please for goodness' sake, SET A FUCKING PASSWORD!

1) People seem to be getting dumber
2) The law seems to be getting dumber