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Passive-Aggressive Wi-Fi Hotspots

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'll-show-you dept.

the digital nomad writes "If you've had enough of your neighbor stealing your Wi-Fi connection or letting his dog s#%t on your lawn, there is now a better solution than suffering in silence with your brooding anger: leave your neighbor 'a message!' Passive-Aggressive Wi-Fi Hotspots let your networks say what you cannot. And if you're looking for some great name for your Hotspot, make sure to read this post by Gizmodo."

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  1. Re:Or. by BlueTrin · · Score: 2, Informative

    The above poster is referring to this link in the article.

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  2. Re:Or. by TheLink · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not as fun as this:

    http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html

    You might even purposely not secure your wifi ;).

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  3. Re:Best way to deal with this is good old Cat5. by Abcd1234 · · Score: 2, Informative

    But seriously I agree with you. If you're in a fixed place like your home, it makes more sense to just plug into a nearby jack (in my case - a phone jack).

    Sure... assuming you have ethernet jacks sprinkled about your walls everywhere. Oh, and an ethernet jack on your laptop. And carry ethernet cable around with you. And you don't plan to get up and move around anywhere.

    So, yeah, assuming all that, wires make way more sense...

  4. Re:Other issues by snspdaarf · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't like my neighbours because they leave passive-aggressive notes as their SSID. I AM NOT A HOSEPUNCHER! I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT IS.

    That's the guy that take normal garden hose and makes sprinkler hose out of it by punching tiny little holes from one end to the other. The previous job description, "leak maker", has been deprecated.

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  5. Not passive-aggressive by michaelmalak · · Score: 3, Informative
    Sending messages over SSIDs is not passive-aggressive, it's avoidant. It could be considered passive-aggressive in a contrived example, such as if a neighbor makes lewd comments to your wife, your wife demands that you talk to the neighbor about it, but instead you decide to communicate over SSID. In that case, you have a responsibility set up by an authority of sorts, and you have ducked that responsibility by fulfilling its terms perhaps by letter and certainly not in spirit.

    "Passive-aggressive" is a catch-phrase that has been broadened in pop psychology, in part because the Internet has permitted so many more avoidant behaviors and people need a name for it and use the one that has enjoyed more use in the popular (primarily entertainment) media.