and you can take my fertility with it; no interest in children, thank you. On the other hand, I'll take 20 years (or more!) of my life back, thank you very much! It's grossly unfair that you spend half of your life learning to live it properly, then you start to (potentially) decline so that you can't enjoy it as much. I want to train for the Tour de France!
If you think "If I ignore it, it'll go away", then you're probably ignorant. If you're the President of the United States and you think to yourself, "If I ignore this official message sent here by the EPA, maybe it'll go away", then you're criminally ignorant.
What if you're six foot six inches tall or taller, and having a waist that little would be grossly unhealthy for you, or require you to magically have a smaller pelvic bone? What a bunch of short-sighted bullshit.
If the CEO of a company tells you that the world needs things that serve the purpose that his companys products can provide and you don't find something wrong with that, then you get a big fat "FAIL" tattooed across your forehead.
I can't recommend The Art Of Electronics enough, personally. It's written for non-electronics technically-inclined people who want/need to learn electronics, and it does a damned good job of it. It's the actual textbook they use for electronics courses at Harvard, how could you possibly ask for more?
And the 90 year old grandma down the road who doesn't understand the manual? Is it okay to use her wifi, then? Sure it's OK. She can get her 18-year-old grandson to come set it up PROPERLY for her.
So you won't have a problem if I see your front door open and I just walk in.. Not the same thing. You're eating my food. I'll kick your ass for that.
Seriously though, if I leave my house for the weekend, forgetting to lock the doors and windows, and someone gets in and robs me blind? Sure, I'll be pissed that someone came in and robbed me. But it's MY FAULT in this case for being personally negligent and NOT ensuring that I properly used the locking technology available to me in the doors and windows of my house.
Answer me this question now, mister shameless troll: Are you really trying to convince me that you're supposed to be able to leave your WiFi AP wide open when you COULD easily secure it, and it's entirely MY fault if I connect to it and use it? Or if ANYBODY uses it? Seems to me that you, just as I stated in my original comment are an idiot, and you get what you deserve. Really, sorry to burst your bubble Mary Poppins, but it's a big, bad world out there, with Bad People in it, and you can't leave your AP wide open any more than you can leave your house unlocked, or the keys in the iginition of your car with the windows down, without someone coming along and taking you for everything you're worth. So, you can shut the hell up and stop your whining, unless you can make an intelligent, convincing argument to me how you have ANY room to bitch and whine to me about someone like me "stealing" your internet bandwidth from you when you can easily and simply secure it against such "intrusions". Oh, and by the way, if you're so upset about invisible radio waves coming into your house "without your permission", then I guess you're the same sort that can't have different foods on your plate touching each other, and you lay awake at night terrified about the dust mites that live in your bed, eating your dead skin cells; I probably shouldn't tell you about all the critters living in your gut then, either -- and I especially shouldn't tell you about the gnomes invading your underwear drawer while you sleep. I recommend you enclose your house in a Faraday cage to keep the bad, bad WiFi signals out of your house; it works pretty much the same way your tin-foil hat works to keep the signals from the aliens out of your brain.
..or, conversely: You could secure your goddamned effing AP with simple WEP encryption, or even dog-simple MAC address filtering, and stop whining about everyone "stealing" from you. Otherwise, it should be interesting watching you (through the hidden cameras and microphones planted throughout your house, of course) deteriorate over time because of sleep deprivation, as you stay awake night after night knowing that I (or someone like me) has got a +19dBi parabolic antenna pointed directly at your house because we need to "steal your Wifi".
I get pissed off about this subject, as you can see.. but the fact of the matter is that this is something that can be cured by EDUCATION, but people don't want to be bothered to learn to properly use the technology they're purchasing -- then they wail and moan that people are "stealing" from them because of it.
Thank you -- I just called my representative to voice my opinion that she should vote AGAINST this bill. Never did that before -- and was rewarded by the LIVE PERSON who answered the phone, with ENCOURAGEMENT to call them with my opinions more in the future. VERY COOL!:)
Wireless Access Points all come with some form of encryption security, and all of them I've seen come with MAC address filtering. Additionally, you can configure the AP to not even broadcast it's SSID, and you can use static IP addresses on your private network instead of DHCP. ALL of these things come WITH even consumer-grade AP/gateway routers, and they ALL come with user's manuals that explain what these features do, and how to set them up. If you're too stupid to read the directions, too stupid to go get help if you don't understand them, or too stupid to do something to secure your AP, then you're too stupid to be using these technologies and likely shouldn't have them in the first place. On the other hand, if you really don't care who is connecting to your AP and/or think it's a cool idea to leave it wide open for your neighbors to use, then I say "good for you, and thank you".
All that being said, if I find an AP in reach of my devices that's wide open and allows me to connect, I'm going to assume one of the two above scenarios -- and go merrily on my way guilt-free, because it's not my fault in the least if you're a moron, and it's not illegal in the least if someone chooses to share their internet connection with whoever is in reach of the signal. Note here that I'm not cracking WEP/WPA keys to hack into someone's private network; if it's OPEN, then it's OPEN, and if I need it, I'll use it, guilt-free.
Oh, and to all you asshats out there who are going to cry to me, "You're stealing the service I pay for, you awful person you!", I say STFU, read Paragraph 1 of this post AGAIN -- because it's obvious that you're one of the morons that either can't understand how to secure your AP, or are too stupid to CARE -- yet you're going to cry foul at me for your own stupidity. Suck it up, read the directions.
Is there a point to this "challenge"? While I've wasted my time on pointless things in the past just because I thought they were "cool", this sounds like so much self-flagelation to me -- especially on the part of the so-called "founder".
So you think just because I install your crapware on my computer, that you have the right to cripple MY PROPERTY at a whim? You, you, fuck you, you fuckin' FUCK, you, I say, and GOOD NIGHT, SIR! The first time I detect this sort of shenanigans occurring on any computer in my posession is the moment when I uninstall said software (or OS for that matter!) and seek a complete and full refund of any monies paid -- if not legal reparations in civil court. Fuck that noise! Again, some asshats are borrowing pages from the RIAA's playbook apparently, thinking they can get away with whatever they want. I beg to differ! Put these asshats in front of me, face to face, when they try to pull this crap, I swear I'll punch them in the nose!
If nobody is trying to take credit for the snippets of news stories they're quoting (i.e. claiming they're the original authors) then the AP can just suck it up and stop being crybabies about it. For fuck's sake, if that's the case then if my own journal was public instead of friends-only, I'd be in court for the remainder of my life fighting off dozens of news sources! More utter, complete bullshit, I say; the AP must be borrowing pages from the RIAA's playbook.
That was NOT offtopic. Crude of me perhaps, but not offtopic. I suspect that the federal judge in question is in Bush's "good old boy" network -- therefore they may as well be performing oral sex on each other.:p
It's a legitimate concern if you ask me. How the heck do they KNOW if these bugs are genetically stable or not? Imagine this: dust mites suddenly mutate into something that feasts on LIVE skin cells, instead of DEAD skin cells..
So are these microbes genetically stable? They're not going to mutate in a few years into something dangerous? Can they properly contain said microbes, and have their finger on a sure-fire "killswitch" to annihilate the entire population of them if something goes wrong? Extremist questions I'm sure, but if you're in engineering and don't believe in Murphy, then you're a fool.
Let's remove gender from the subject completely for a moment.
I've never been paid to write code, but I know how. If you're going to write code that nobody other than yourself is ever going to see or have to modify, then you can get away with not embedding comment text and generally being sloppy. You can also be as obfuscated and cryptic as you want, because again nobody else is ever going to have to try to decipher it. But seriously, if you're getting paid to code you have to assume somebody down the road is going to have to deal with how your source is written. If nothing else, your boss may want to look it over, and if your boss can't make heads or tails of it without a sherpa guide, then you're not going to be viewed favorably, are you? In a nutshell, I think writing clear, concise code, with clear, concise commenting, is the professional way to do the job.
Now let's put gender back into the equation: I wouldn't be surprised if the ratio of male to female professional programmers is 1000:1, if not 10000:1 or higher. The few women coders out there HAVE to be more professional, HAVE to do a quantum level better job than their male counterparts, if they want to be taken seriously, don't they? It's a sad commentary on humanity in general that we have to see this sexist bullshit attitude day in day out in this world, but that's what they have to contend with, so that's the only way they, as professionals, can handle it.
Gee, how come that sounds so much like extortion? Isn't that ILLEGAL??!? I'm surprised that people don't find their cat, dead, on their doorstep, with a note attached that says, "Pay up or else".
Utter and complete bullshit, and what's really sad is that I'm not surprised. Being sued, right or wrong, shouldn't be about how much money you have to defend yourself, damnit, especially when you're faced with a terrorist organization like the RIAA. Fucking bastards!
Ever notice that Google sometimes does squicky, evil things, but then they turn around and take the side of Net Neutrality and spend time and effort on a project like this? Interesting..
I'd have to say no. If you're an author and are writing a book about the problem of child pornography, it's still illegal for you to download and/or posess child pornography, for instance.
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Aren't there valid arguments that say that this is just a cyclic phenomenon linked to solar activity?
and you can take my fertility with it; no interest in children, thank you. On the other hand, I'll take 20 years (or more!) of my life back, thank you very much! It's grossly unfair that you spend half of your life learning to live it properly, then you start to (potentially) decline so that you can't enjoy it as much. I want to train for the Tour de France!
Why not just get your VoIP through Comcast? They'll have no problems throttling your bandwidth for you for no extra charge.
If you think "If I ignore it, it'll go away", then you're probably ignorant. If you're the President of the United States and you think to yourself, "If I ignore this official message sent here by the EPA, maybe it'll go away", then you're criminally ignorant.
What if you're six foot six inches tall or taller, and having a waist that little would be grossly unhealthy for you, or require you to magically have a smaller pelvic bone? What a bunch of short-sighted bullshit.
If the CEO of a company tells you that the world needs things that serve the purpose that his companys products can provide and you don't find something wrong with that, then you get a big fat "FAIL" tattooed across your forehead.
I can't recommend The Art Of Electronics enough, personally. It's written for non-electronics technically-inclined people who want/need to learn electronics, and it does a damned good job of it. It's the actual textbook they use for electronics courses at Harvard, how could you possibly ask for more?
So you won't have a problem if I see your front door open and I just walk in.. Not the same thing. You're eating my food. I'll kick your ass for that.
Seriously though, if I leave my house for the weekend, forgetting to lock the doors and windows, and someone gets in and robs me blind? Sure, I'll be pissed that someone came in and robbed me. But it's MY FAULT in this case for being personally negligent and NOT ensuring that I properly used the locking technology available to me in the doors and windows of my house.
Answer me this question now, mister shameless troll: Are you really trying to convince me that you're supposed to be able to leave your WiFi AP wide open when you COULD easily secure it, and it's entirely MY fault if I connect to it and use it? Or if ANYBODY uses it? Seems to me that you, just as I stated in my original comment are an idiot, and you get what you deserve. Really, sorry to burst your bubble Mary Poppins, but it's a big, bad world out there, with Bad People in it, and you can't leave your AP wide open any more than you can leave your house unlocked, or the keys in the iginition of your car with the windows down, without someone coming along and taking you for everything you're worth. So, you can shut the hell up and stop your whining, unless you can make an intelligent, convincing argument to me how you have ANY room to bitch and whine to me about someone like me "stealing" your internet bandwidth from you when you can easily and simply secure it against such "intrusions". Oh, and by the way, if you're so upset about invisible radio waves coming into your house "without your permission", then I guess you're the same sort that can't have different foods on your plate touching each other, and you lay awake at night terrified about the dust mites that live in your bed, eating your dead skin cells; I probably shouldn't tell you about all the critters living in your gut then, either -- and I especially shouldn't tell you about the gnomes invading your underwear drawer while you sleep. I recommend you enclose your house in a Faraday cage to keep the bad, bad WiFi signals out of your house; it works pretty much the same way your tin-foil hat works to keep the signals from the aliens out of your brain.
STFU, fucking troll. REPUBLICAN troll.
I get pissed off about this subject, as you can see.. but the fact of the matter is that this is something that can be cured by EDUCATION, but people don't want to be bothered to learn to properly use the technology they're purchasing -- then they wail and moan that people are "stealing" from them because of it.
Thank you -- I just called my representative to voice my opinion that she should vote AGAINST this bill. Never did that before -- and was rewarded by the LIVE PERSON who answered the phone, with ENCOURAGEMENT to call them with my opinions more in the future. VERY COOL! :)
All that being said, if I find an AP in reach of my devices that's wide open and allows me to connect, I'm going to assume one of the two above scenarios -- and go merrily on my way guilt-free, because it's not my fault in the least if you're a moron, and it's not illegal in the least if someone chooses to share their internet connection with whoever is in reach of the signal. Note here that I'm not cracking WEP/WPA keys to hack into someone's private network; if it's OPEN, then it's OPEN, and if I need it, I'll use it, guilt-free.
Oh, and to all you asshats out there who are going to cry to me, "You're stealing the service I pay for, you awful person you!", I say STFU , read Paragraph 1 of this post AGAIN -- because it's obvious that you're one of the morons that either can't understand how to secure your AP, or are too stupid to CARE -- yet you're going to cry foul at me for your own stupidity. Suck it up, read the directions.
Is there a point to this "challenge"? While I've wasted my time on pointless things in the past just because I thought they were "cool", this sounds like so much self-flagelation to me -- especially on the part of the so-called "founder".
So you think just because I install your crapware on my computer, that you have the right to cripple MY PROPERTY at a whim? You, you, fuck you, you fuckin' FUCK, you, I say, and GOOD NIGHT, SIR! The first time I detect this sort of shenanigans occurring on any computer in my posession is the moment when I uninstall said software (or OS for that matter!) and seek a complete and full refund of any monies paid -- if not legal reparations in civil court. Fuck that noise! Again, some asshats are borrowing pages from the RIAA's playbook apparently, thinking they can get away with whatever they want. I beg to differ! Put these asshats in front of me, face to face, when they try to pull this crap, I swear I'll punch them in the nose!
If nobody is trying to take credit for the snippets of news stories they're quoting (i.e. claiming they're the original authors) then the AP can just suck it up and stop being crybabies about it. For fuck's sake, if that's the case then if my own journal was public instead of friends-only, I'd be in court for the remainder of my life fighting off dozens of news sources! More utter, complete bullshit, I say; the AP must be borrowing pages from the RIAA's playbook.
That was NOT offtopic. Crude of me perhaps, but not offtopic. I suspect that the federal judge in question is in Bush's "good old boy" network -- therefore they may as well be performing oral sex on each other. :p
Boo! Hiss! *cough cough BLOWJOB!!! cough cough*
Square feet of space? Let's talk cubic feet of space instead, please?
It's a legitimate concern if you ask me. How the heck do they KNOW if these bugs are genetically stable or not? Imagine this: dust mites suddenly mutate into something that feasts on LIVE skin cells, instead of DEAD skin cells..
So are these microbes genetically stable? They're not going to mutate in a few years into something dangerous? Can they properly contain said microbes, and have their finger on a sure-fire "killswitch" to annihilate the entire population of them if something goes wrong? Extremist questions I'm sure, but if you're in engineering and don't believe in Murphy, then you're a fool.
I've never been paid to write code, but I know how. If you're going to write code that nobody other than yourself is ever going to see or have to modify, then you can get away with not embedding comment text and generally being sloppy. You can also be as obfuscated and cryptic as you want, because again nobody else is ever going to have to try to decipher it. But seriously, if you're getting paid to code you have to assume somebody down the road is going to have to deal with how your source is written. If nothing else, your boss may want to look it over, and if your boss can't make heads or tails of it without a sherpa guide, then you're not going to be viewed favorably, are you? In a nutshell, I think writing clear, concise code, with clear, concise commenting, is the professional way to do the job.
Now let's put gender back into the equation: I wouldn't be surprised if the ratio of male to female professional programmers is 1000:1, if not 10000:1 or higher. The few women coders out there HAVE to be more professional, HAVE to do a quantum level better job than their male counterparts, if they want to be taken seriously, don't they? It's a sad commentary on humanity in general that we have to see this sexist bullshit attitude day in day out in this world, but that's what they have to contend with, so that's the only way they, as professionals, can handle it.
Utter and complete bullshit, and what's really sad is that I'm not surprised. Being sued, right or wrong, shouldn't be about how much money you have to defend yourself, damnit, especially when you're faced with a terrorist organization like the RIAA. Fucking bastards!
Ever notice that Google sometimes does squicky, evil things, but then they turn around and take the side of Net Neutrality and spend time and effort on a project like this? Interesting..
"Fnord." to you, too.
I'd have to say no. If you're an author and are writing a book about the problem of child pornography, it's still illegal for you to download and/or posess child pornography, for instance.