Roads are owned by the government, and thus are public.
Fighter jets are owned by the military, which is a part of the government, and thus are public.

That's all true, but there is nothing in the use of those services that could be a significant threat to public safety; driving a car irresponsibly could be a significant threat to public safety, thus why a license is required to use one.

I truly don't understand your confusion.
From what I wrote:

And your analogies:

In case you're still confused by the bolding: in one situation, the person has not been given permission to access to a system, and in both of your scenarios, the person has been given permission.

FTFA: Using her password, he accessed her Gmail account and learned she was having an affair.

He did not have authorization to access gmail's computer system using her credentials.

So what you're telling me is that Paul didn't pay attention to when Jesus converted perfectly good water into wine? Man, that Jesus, what a heretic, right?

You know what puts a person in a painful and distracting situation? Not masturbating. But nooooooo, can't do that, Jesus says that masturbation is adultery: "Matthew 5:28 – “You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who has looked a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”"

It's interesting that the Bible doesn't actually ban any drugs or alcohol. Hell, Jesus was such a lush that he couldn't pass a glass of water without turning it into a fine chianti. Word on the street is that if he happened upon a pretty little thing having a casual sip of water, he'd miracle it into wine as it was falling down her esophagus. Crazy! I know! But probably justifiable since Genesis says that every plant on the earth was made for us to eat:
Genesis 1:29 - Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
I mean, literally, God is saying "Did I hear someone say pot brownies? Pass the plate, man."

Dude, you live in a world in which eating shellfish is an abomination that will cast you into hellfire and that slaves are Bibically told to obey their masters. Anyone who doesn't seek out a life of pleasure before they're cast into eternal damnation is just being practical.

So God loves and forgives and will remove people from the things they can't leave on their own, yet you know people who have ruined their lives due to drug addiction? Those two sentences contradict eachother. Please spend the rest of the holiday season visiting kids in terminal cancer wards and telling them that God loves them. See how far that goes to consoling their families when the kid can't overcome the tumors that are overtaking his body. "Thank" God; I'm sure that'll go over real well.

So in your world, this makes sense?

"DON'T include a clearly defined method to restore all user data, a single user's data, and individual items"

"DON'T instrument the system so that we can monitor more than just, "Is it up or down?""

"DON'T tell us about security issues." "DON'T use the built-in system logging mechanism"

Yeah, it sounds like you could do well with just one: "DON'T give advice: you clearly have no idea what in the hell you're talking about."

If he doesnt have a large number of devices, AND he doesnt add new devices with any frequency, then adding a few address to a MAC list isnt a bad idea.

The problem is that the scenario involves a neighbor who has gone through the effort of breaking WEP; anyone using the tools to break WEP already has the tools available to see the MAC addresses of whitelisted clients, and thus can just spoof a valid MAC address.

Considering that the creation story was being dictated to people who had no concept of relativity, it's pretty damned safe to assume that when they were told that an event occurred within "a day", that that "day" was the 24 hours that said people were familiar with. These people couldn't even comprehend that their pork wasn't creating maggots via spontaneous generation, and you're trying to tell me that the almighty was all "fuck those guys, I'll tell'em all this shit happened in a day cause that's just how I roll?"
god could have just as easily said "a billion years", so what's the logical choice of not doing so? As an omniscient being, you'd think he'd be, I dunno, aware of the issue this would pose to us 2010 earthly inhabitants.

Incorrectimundo! The bible codifies slavery, the invasion of foreign lands and murder of non-believers, and capital punishment toward homosexuals. The holy scripture of the 3 major religions purport the above to be the commandment of God.

The book is purported to be the word of god; why is god speaking in metaphor? Why was man created too stupid to comprehend the true creation story? Where's the magic decoder ring that tells us which of the other stories are metaphor and which are not (those that purport to describe a "chosen" race; those that accept slavery as a moral act; those that enforce homophobia as a commandment)? And even as a metaphor, why is Genesis such a poor and internally inconsistent metaphor: man is eternally punished for committing an act of evil at a time in which the story tells us that man literally doesn't have the capacity to understand evil; why is the Serpent making the rounds in the Garden of Eden, how is it "paradise" if el Diablo is roaming around being all "what's up, shitheads?" Why is the omnipotent creator unaware of what's about to unfold?

You need the username and password of the gateway in order to run: "arp -a" from a computer that's connected to it?

Easy answer: you wouldn't.

That only works if you're also fine with local users having the privileges to install software on their workstations. So you're only trading one security issue for another.

So a login script (or in a Microsoft environment, an AD group policy) that distributes the certificate automatically to each computer meets your definition of "manual distribution?"
Really? That's what you're saying? "Automatic" and "manual" are synonyms in your universe? wow.

After all, it's much warmer where I am right now than it was at the same time 4 years ago. 4 years ago in my region, we had a blizzard on Thanksgiving. This year, it's about 50F. Clearly, the globe is warming uncontrollably, and since we all know CO2 emissions are causing climate change, CO2 emissions must have gone up. (No, I'm not being serious)

While you're not being serious, you are being wholly dishonest and wholly inaccurate in your portrayal of the argument presented by global-warming proponents. It's akin to the Fox News assholes gleefully commenting on the storm that hit DC last winter, stating that Al Gore had been proven wrong, because it snowed. In D.C.. In the winter.