Still arguably breaking the law. You'd also most likely need more access than just FTP to do that so that so that would involve having to break into a shell or something.
It would difficult to know what to do in these situations because your choices are going to be limited to doing nothing and letting them get away with it or going vigilante and possibly exposing yourself to legal risk.
You could inform law enforcement but they are likely to either do nothing or decide to arrest you instead (I knew someone who had the police come to his house and confiscate his computer for over a year because a fellow student saw him using DOS prompt on a school computer and decided to report him for "hacking").
I find this very hard to believe (the last part). With any confiscation, you can argue in court. 1 year without a computer was his fault. I'd slap that agency with a lawsuit.
I'm sure he could have got his computer back much sooner if he was sensible but he was a dumb kid, I imagine he just waiting for the police to give it back to him (probably low on their list of things to do).
He had a habit of rubbing people up the wrong way, bragging about being having 'leet' computer skills (he didn't) and doing idiotic things like mass net sends at school so I'm sure it was in many ways his fault. Does show how paranoid the police can be about "hackers" though.
When did the "DOS Hacking" happen ? I did the same thing in middle-school (launched tracert from DOS) and was caught by a professor but didn't get reported to police luckily.
Why?
1) Lower Barrier to building Nuclear reactors (No Not-in-my-backyard in China)
2) Government fast-mover advantage. China's government can ram through approvals in a year for what would take a decade in the USA.
3) Highest DEMAND. Energy consumption is SKYROCKETING in China.
4) biggest environmental benefit- shift coal burning heaters to electric, reducing pollution.
5) Stabilize region energy competition. The more renewable/sustainable energy available, the less likely they are to conflict over resources with neighbors or the global market.
While I like Khan Academy in general for their Math lectures, the selection of CS lectures leaves much to be desired IMO. What they call "Computer Science" I call "Intro Programming".
"You are the company that names your beta builds after candy, ice cream, and sugared cereals. Apple names their betas after things that will eat your things along with the tasty human wrapper that eats that crap. Do you honestly think anyone can take you seriously?"
Really? That's his biggest dig against Google is that they like to have fun with their beta names?
Or you have a "networked" light socket in each room and a discovery protocol to figure out what room to route the data to. More work on the initial infrastructure side, but then you don't have to worry about mesh- your room is covered.
You'd network your light sockets to get around the room-to-room issue. Each room would have a light bulb "port". Some simple communication could then figure out which room your in (similar to access-point hopping used in large wifi distributions)
I can see this as a potential technology for sideband data: stream the video over the light, but the control data would still go through WiFi (and then you wouldn't bog down your wifi with torrent downloads)
Yeah, I think so. So now you have to wire your house with a wired network, and when you want to watch TV or use your computer you have to turn the lights in all the rooms on.
