CYA and Sotomayor Overturned

So I was out waiting for my boy to punch through another half hour of speech. It was also the first day I had my laptop with me.the down side though, is that I was sitting in the middle of of a preschool playground. So, being the tech type-person I am, I decided to see what networks were available. I found 6-7 networks at most within range. 2-3 of those were unsecured. I could tell you also that one was a linksys rotuer, and a second was a Belkin MIMO router. Everyone else had a named network. So I was able to connect to one of the unsecured networks.

Naturally, I observed my common-sense rules of not putting out too much personal info, because I don't know who is connected to the network. Although I could (but in reality never would) have downloaded kiddie porn and the owner of the network in question wound have know nothing until the cops came a'bustin' on the door. This is because the clueless bastard connected their router and didn't cover their ass by securing it.

Now my parents don't have a secured network, but for someone to get on it, they'd have to drive up in front of the house (which is 1/4 mile from the next closest house) and connect. And if you look at mine, it's technically unsecured (but locked down by MAC address, so no computer can connect until I enter their info (gotta love small towns)). But for anyone with neighbors to leave their network wholly unsecured, you're asking for nothing but trouble. So if you have broadband Internet (and you probably do), a router (which if you're wireless you do), and neighbors you could hit with a rock, then get in there and do some securing (if you're clueless, email me your router model # and I'll tell you how to do it).

But, not all CYA measures are a good thing.
Ricci v. DeStefano - Despite my earlier defense for the logic that Judge Sotomayor would have employed to reach the decision, I agree wholeheartedly that there's no justification for discriminating against one race because you're afraid of getting sued for possibly discriminating against another, despite a good-faith effort not to do so.

So with this, we come to another question: How will this affect Sotomayor's nomination? In reality, she's going to have to explain her reasoning and more specifically her brevity. It had better be more than the one-paragraph unsigned opinion the court originally rendered.

So the moral of the story is that it's important to cover your ass. But breaking a law to cover your ass doesn't really cover your ass at all.