After a secret conviction you may end up in a secret prison.

A secret warrant.
From a secret court.
Under authority of secret laws.
Or alternately secret interpretations of secret laws.
The secret warrant has a secrecy requirement to gag anyone from telling of the warrant's existence.
Breaching the secrecy can result in secret arrests in the middle of the night by secret agents of agencies that must remain secret.
Any secret trials may use secret evidence and secret testimony that the defense is not allowed to see or refute.


But at least a warrant will be required. Whew! I feel safer already.

I would feel guilty about giving it away and taking advantage of their generous 'unlimited' offer. My point is that there are people who would abuse it. There always have been. Always will be. But that is not a reason to gouge WiFi prices or prevent customers providing their own WiFi devices.

Brain implants are the next major innovation that will usher in a new utopia for mankind.

Just imagine.

Whenever you see or hear anything copyrighted, the brain implant can automatically charge your credit card. Now that's convenience!

This will be good for all. Everyone knows that protecting content is the highest goal and priority of mankind. Pirates are lawbreakers. Lawbreakers should not be allowed* to break the law.

Your fiends at the MPAA and RIAA.


* only the MPAA and RIAA should be allowed to do that

There are no Billion year old civilizations because the First Ones have all gone beyond the rim leading to the Third Age of mankind.

No. They cannot. Only people such as you and I can be charged with a crime. Rich people only need to have one of their minions write and publish an apology.

The Technical manner of Marriott's jamming is less important than the Legal fact that they are doing it.

If I used a stupid protocol trick to jam your tv signal, but without radio jamming, it would be no less a violation of the law.

Rather then try to make up the difference from loss of in-room movie sales by gouging WiFi, maybe hotels should simply ban people from bringing their own pr0n into the hotel.

Think of how well that would work out.

OMG! You're right! The sky would fall.

Also imagine what would happen if someone were also giving away their free electricity! Or water from the expensive to construct indoor plumbing!

And about that jerk who refills other people's cups with a beverage! Horrors! I'm sure that next to nothing cost colored sugar water is going to break the hotel -- because the hotel charges an artificially high price for it!

Does it really matter? Some people will always be pricks. But not most people.

It is not about security. If the hotels were concerned for security, they would make their secure WiFi free (even if it required a password) so that everyone could securely use their secure network.

It's a money grab.

Oh, but the hotels argue: it costs money to build and operate a WiFi network!

I would point out that those hotels do not charge an extra fee for other things that have a substantial cost to build and substantial operating cost:

• Indoor Plumbing
• Electric Lighting
• Electrical outlets
• Air conditioning
• Heating
• Cable / Satellite TV

Why aren't the hotels charging fees for those other things that have a substantial cost to build and operate?

Wake up dinosaurs, it's the 21st century.

Everything historical would suddenly have some alien connection. Aliens led Moses and Israel through the desert and provided manna from heaven. Aliens built the pyramids. (Oh, wait, people already say that) But these aliens built the pyramids, even if the aliens expressly deny it. There would be endless talking head pundit know everything's feeding us all kinds of manure about the aliens.

There would probably be precious little talking to the aliens themselves. Except for those looking at how to take advantage of the aliens. Or how to use the aliens to take advantage of or obtain mastery over other people.

If you don't know what is going on in a zone of privacy, then how do you know that it is lawless?

Why is it any of your business to know what goes on in private?

Windows blinds also create a Zone of Lawlessness! In the State of Arizona, for example, Windows Blinds would allow people to unlawfully have more than the state mandated maximum of two dildos per household! The sky will fall I tell you! Something must be done!

Look Eric, the internet, like electricity, will fade into the back of people's minds and everyone takes it for granted. Until . . . it fails. When the electricity is out for only a couple of hours, you become keenly aware of how much you depend upon it.

Comcast pledges to keep the internet at the forefront of people's minds.

Please remember the words of your younger, wiser self. If it is free, then it must not have any value.

Or will it only run GNU/Linux?