There's a certain amount of learning with every keyboard. Pretty much every keyboard is slightly different. My statement could have been just as true with "I think if you actually learned how to use your Thinkpad's keyboard you'd like it better." But sure trot out the fanboy argument. Pretty sure if you look into my posting history it's clear that I'm far from a fanboy of anything.
I can guess why they didn't put those keys in. Possibly so that people don't hit them on accident. I know on some laptops I've had with them I've hit them on accident from time to time.
I'm primarily a vim user so I don't miss the insert key or delete, though I have used Fn+delete to get forward delete a handful of times.
The eject button works for me before the OS boots. It takes a bit before it's active but then it usually takes a bit before a hardware eject button works unless it's purely mechanical as a lot of laptop eject keys are.
Not sure about how the volume keys work. I haven't tried it and don't feel like rebooting right now to muck with it.
The newer Mac laptops replaced that second Enter with another alt key.
Fn + up arrow = page up, Fn + down arrow = page down
The swapping of the meta keys makes sense because the primary meta key you use is Command on the Mac.
Don't really see what's wrong with more meta keys on the opposite side of the keyboard. My think pad has more than one Ctrl and Alt. Considering that Command is the Mac equivalent of Ctrl it's exactly equivalent. Except my thinkpad has that silly menu key.
And virtually every PC has a hard eject button on the drive. So what?
Yup Delete is Backspace and if you want forward delete hold Fn+Delete.
I think if you actually bothered to learn how to use your Mac laptops keyboard you'd like it a lot better.
What long history of advertising on Slashdot? The guy opened the account yesterday as far as I can tell.
Apparently I missed the memo, people used to measure their egos with uptimes, no it seems to be the smaller your UID is the bigger your ego.
The ash from coal plants is radioactive. Coal has low concentrations of radioactive elements in it. When you burn the coal the radioactive elements are among the ash and are at a higher concentration of the ash than they are of the source coal.
Many people read the headline of that article and didn't really bother to read the article. The argument that Scientific American makes is that a coal plant puts more radiation into the surrounding environment than a nuclear plant. The nuclear waste is still obviously more radioactive than the ash. However, the nuclear plant carefully controls their waste and materials.
In both cases the radiation released is low and not a health risk.
Clearly the editors have a time machine and they knew that the 3rd explosion was going to happen. This also explains the constant dups due to editors becoming confused about the ordering as time as they zip around.
I don't know about the person you're responding too but I actually routinely get better latency via IPv6 tunneled via Hurricane Electric than IPv4 through my own ISP.
Fact of the matter is that IPv6 should be slightly faster since the routers don't have to recalculate a CRC for every hop. HE has multiple tunnel broker servers around the world. So you can pick one close to your network and the only CRC latency you'll eat will be the hops between you and the tunnel broker site.
Example:
--- leguin.freenode.net ping6 statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 205.932/215.147/262.156/16.624 ms
--- leguin.freenode.net ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 280.228/329.908/374.605/31.503 ms
And I just picked a random IPv6 host that I knew I could target the same machine via either network. I didn't dig around to find a machine that gave me better latency via IPv6 than IPv4.
Your analogy is nonsense. I deplore Apple's policies with respect to the iOS machines. So I choose not to use them. However, I do like my Macs. Apple has done absolutely nothing to stop me from using my Android devices. There are no bouncers trying to stop you from using your legitimate purchases from other vendors.
What the hell does Canonical have to do with this? It's not like Canonical invented sudo. They are hardly the only OS (Linux distribution or not) that prefers sudo over su.
ICE hosts The National IPR Coordination Center. The vast majority of their work is related to tracking down counterfeit goods that come in from other countries. Thus the reason why ICE hosts the coordination center. However, a variety of law enforcement agencies participate.
That's a fair critique. Perhaps he should have pushed harder for these things.
There is an equally valid counter argument to that though. He did get quite a few things done as of late. There's a risk had he pushed harder on the other things that he would have gotten nothing since he would have spent that time fighting for something his opponents would have fought equally hard against.
I'm not in a position to say how strong the opposition to these initiatives were.
who's broken enough campaign promises (close gitmo! Stop military tribunals of suspected terrists! Get out of Iraq! End welfare for the rich!) to lose 3 re-election bids.
Has he?
He's trying to close gitmo but first he had the issue of figuring out where to move the prisoners nobody wants them. The nobody wants them issue exists on two fronts. There are the prisoners we want to release but we can't send them back to their country of origin due to likelihood of torture or that country doesn't want them. This group is likely largely innocent but nobody will take them anyway. Then there is the group of people we want to continue to hang onto. He's tried moving them inside the country but has met resistance with local governments as to location of the prisoners.
As far as stopping the tribunals, he's also tried to do this. However, Congress is trying to block funding for moving the prisoners out of Gitmo which makes it difficult to try them in a normal criminal court. This also makes it hard to close gitmo.
We're drawing down troops in Iraq. At this point we officially only have military advisors to the Iraqi's there. Even these advisors are slated to leave unless the Iraqi's ask us to stay. They've signaled they have no intention of doing that. So I think it's pretty safe to say this is largely a promise kept. Maybe it isn't on the time frame you'd like but it is in progress.
As to your last complaint about ending welfare for the rich, I'm not aware of where he promised that. Nor is it really clear what you mean by that. It could take on many different meanings.
Now if you want some legit things to complain about here are some things to point at Obama that he is actually responsible for:
Indefinite detentions using Afghanistan as opposed to Gitmo.
Ordering assassinations of US Citizens without trial.
Supported the immunity for telcos for spying (technically while he was a Senator but his administration is continuing to uphold this).
There are legitimate arguments to make that Obama hasn't been as great as many people would have hoped, but as far as I can see he has largely upheld his campaign promises to the degree that he has been able to carry them out in spite of active efforts on the part of Congress to prevent them.
Who is covered by FLSA is not just about the work they do. There are of course jobs that are automatically considered exempt.
Even IT guys can be exempt from FLSA. http://www.flsa.com/coverage.html
They can hold their annual meeting anywhere they desire. Their bylaws say as much. That has nothing to do with where they are based.
I grew up in Kansas. I moved to the Seattle area. Identifying myself as a Kansan after living here for 13 years would be ridiculous.
If UPS still had major operations here outside of the same sort of operations they have anywhere else I think you'd have a case to call them a Seattle company, but they don't.
Boeing moved to Chicago, but a pretty good case can be made to call them a Seattle company in that they still have a very large operations here.
However, if 80 years from now Boeing has no production facilities here and only have a similar support infrastructure that they have at various airports around the country. Has moved their corporate headquarters 3 times since leave Seattle. Then I'd say you're just as absurd calling it a Seattle company as you are for calling UPS one.
If you're insistent on calling UPS a Seattle company, then I guess we'll just have to disagree.
UPS is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Atlanta. Except for history pre-1930 UPS has no more connection to Seattle now than they do to anywhere else they deliver packages.
Sure, but it's not simple to ask the IRS for a list of everyone in Washington making more than X dollars. You have to account for joint filings, potential differences between state tax law and federal tax law (the initiative ties this to federal tax law, but this sort of tying rarely stays in place for long).
I'd imagine that the IRS would be willing to share information but probably isn't willing to do the number crunching for you. So I'd guess the state tax agencies will need to build resources to process the federal information, figure out who should be filing and go after them.
This is far more complicated than figuring out which businesses have business licenses but are not filing their B&O returns. Given that you can't open a bank account for the business without the UBI number you get from having the business license, it's pretty darn hard to operate an effective business without filing your B&O returns.
There are probably some small proprietorships that fly under the radar but the state already has a small business write off credit that makes these businesses have no B&O tax. So the only advantage they get saving themselves the bother of the paperwork. At the cost of a potentially hefty fine for not having the business license.
The business of course could lie about their business activity, but that's why we have audits and there is no difference between the B&O versus an income tax in this respect.
So in my opinion it is much more difficult to enforce an income tax.
I'm not making enough money to have to pay this tax, I live in Washington State and I'm opposed to this. Why? Washington State has no income tax at all right now. Unless you require everyone to file you will have low compliance.
This initiative may be cost neutral by getting rid of the Washington Business and Occupation tax, which means the resources directed toward that can be used for processing the income tax returns. It does not require that all citizens file. Instead it only requires those that would actually have to pay the tax to file.
I think it's clear where this is going. The state will end up generating less revenue than expected due to this non-compliance. It will then either have to raise the tax or extend the filing requirement to more people to identify the people who are not complying.
Finally, it is very likely that this income tax will expand beyond the limits that it has now, either by no action on the part of the legislature as inflation raises the amount of money that people earn over time or by direct action of the legislature to raise more funds.
Rather, as a former business owner in this state and a citizen I support the state simply effectively enforcing the Business and Occupation taxes we have now. Microsoft has been avoiding paying this tax on a huge proportion of their revenue by running the revenue through an office in Nevada. I'm sure there are other companies in the area that have been evading this tax.
If the state is unable to force a large and very well known tax evader to comply with tax law, it's unlikely that they'll be able to force a large number of individuals to comply when they don't even have the information to determine who they are.
The Kansas Department of Health has had their systems offline for nearly a month due to a hard drive failure. As a result nobody can get birth certificates.
I fail to see how this is a problem. If you don't want to be running an open access point then don't. The scope of data collection shouldn't be relevant. It's worth pointing out that Google is by far not the only company collecting access point locations. It's also worth pointing out that while the companies are providing services that use this information, not a single one has published a list of which access points are where. They have no interest in doing so since doing so gives the data to their competitors. Building the software to do the location is a hell of a lot easier than collecting the data to actually do it. So it's a good bet they will never do something like this.
There are open wifi points just about everywhere. More and more of them open and intended for public use. I just don't see how the world having access to where they are as some sort of huge issue.
This whole issue isn't about google mapping wifi spots anyway, it's about them saving payload data while mapping wifi. You'll note nobody is having a fit about skyhook, which was mapping the same information. Why? Because skyhook hasn't admitted to saving payload data.
At the time all the features of the pay version were in the unlocked version. So I got to play around with the profiling features. I have since paid for the app.
This is what I discovered. The Sprint apps don't do jack if you never use them. The only app that actually runs despite me having no need for it is the voicemail app because I don't use Sprint's voicemail.
What people don't understand is that Android loads applications into memory on the idea that you might use them. Which applications it thinks you might use is based on what you actually use. So when you first get the phone and it doesn't have any history and not many applications loaded on it. There's a very good chance that the Sprint apps are going to be the ones getting cached. The cached apps use no CPU time. They're just in memory in case you decide to run them.
I've stopped using a task killer, my battery time hasn't gotten worse. Nothing about my phone has really changed.
In short, yeah it sucks you can't remove those apps and they're taking up space, but they're not hurting performance. They're not even running unless you run them.
Seriously, who thinks this info is private? We're talking about payload data from unsecured wifi. For that matter we're talking about payload fragments.
Obviously, Google shouldn't have collected this. Obviously, Google shouldn't disclose this information to anyone, including governments.
The data should be destroyed and everyone should move on.
Google didn't collect anything that someone with a wifi card and some easily obtained software couldn't obtain.
Simply put, if you're concerned about privacy secure your wifi because without some encryption you really don't have any privacy.
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There's a certain amount of learning with every keyboard. Pretty much every keyboard is slightly different. My statement could have been just as true with "I think if you actually learned how to use your Thinkpad's keyboard you'd like it better." But sure trot out the fanboy argument. Pretty sure if you look into my posting history it's clear that I'm far from a fanboy of anything.
I can guess why they didn't put those keys in. Possibly so that people don't hit them on accident. I know on some laptops I've had with them I've hit them on accident from time to time.
I'm primarily a vim user so I don't miss the insert key or delete, though I have used Fn+delete to get forward delete a handful of times.
The eject button works for me before the OS boots. It takes a bit before it's active but then it usually takes a bit before a hardware eject button works unless it's purely mechanical as a lot of laptop eject keys are.
Not sure about how the volume keys work. I haven't tried it and don't feel like rebooting right now to muck with it.
The newer Mac laptops replaced that second Enter with another alt key.
Fn + up arrow = page up, Fn + down arrow = page down
The swapping of the meta keys makes sense because the primary meta key you use is Command on the Mac.
Don't really see what's wrong with more meta keys on the opposite side of the keyboard. My think pad has more than one Ctrl and Alt. Considering that Command is the Mac equivalent of Ctrl it's exactly equivalent. Except my thinkpad has that silly menu key.
And virtually every PC has a hard eject button on the drive. So what?
Yup Delete is Backspace and if you want forward delete hold Fn+Delete.
I think if you actually bothered to learn how to use your Mac laptops keyboard you'd like it a lot better.
What long history of advertising on Slashdot? The guy opened the account yesterday as far as I can tell. Apparently I missed the memo, people used to measure their egos with uptimes, no it seems to be the smaller your UID is the bigger your ego.
The ash from coal plants is radioactive. Coal has low concentrations of radioactive elements in it. When you burn the coal the radioactive elements are among the ash and are at a higher concentration of the ash than they are of the source coal.
http://www.epa.gov/rpdweb00/tenorm/coalandcoalash.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1997/fs163-97/FS-163-97.html
A lot of the commentary about radioactivity and coal plants come from this Scientific American article:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste
Many people read the headline of that article and didn't really bother to read the article. The argument that Scientific American makes is that a coal plant puts more radiation into the surrounding environment than a nuclear plant. The nuclear waste is still obviously more radioactive than the ash. However, the nuclear plant carefully controls their waste and materials.
In both cases the radiation released is low and not a health risk.
Clearly the editors have a time machine and they knew that the 3rd explosion was going to happen. This also explains the constant dups due to editors becoming confused about the ordering as time as they zip around.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/world/asia/15nuclear.html
I don't know about the person you're responding too but I actually routinely get better latency via IPv6 tunneled via Hurricane Electric than IPv4 through my own ISP.
Fact of the matter is that IPv6 should be slightly faster since the routers don't have to recalculate a CRC for every hop. HE has multiple tunnel broker servers around the world. So you can pick one close to your network and the only CRC latency you'll eat will be the hops between you and the tunnel broker site.
Example:
--- leguin.freenode.net ping6 statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 205.932/215.147/262.156/16.624 ms
--- leguin.freenode.net ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 280.228/329.908/374.605/31.503 ms
And I just picked a random IPv6 host that I knew I could target the same machine via either network. I didn't dig around to find a machine that gave me better latency via IPv6 than IPv4.
Your analogy is nonsense. I deplore Apple's policies with respect to the iOS machines. So I choose not to use them. However, I do like my Macs. Apple has done absolutely nothing to stop me from using my Android devices. There are no bouncers trying to stop you from using your legitimate purchases from other vendors.
What the hell does Canonical have to do with this? It's not like Canonical invented sudo. They are hardly the only OS (Linux distribution or not) that prefers sudo over su.
At least pipe it to view: curl http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/14/2357242/ | view -
Or you could use -R on vim (but view is the same thing): curl http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/14/2357242/ | vim -R -
So you don't get bitched at to save it when you're done.
ICE hosts The National IPR Coordination Center. The vast majority of their work is related to tracking down counterfeit goods that come in from other countries. Thus the reason why ICE hosts the coordination center. However, a variety of law enforcement agencies participate.
http://www.ice.gov/iprcenter/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intellectual_Property_Rights_Coordination_Center
Built by Andrew Carol who is an engineer for Apple.
He had a website about his building complex lego machines at: http://acarol.woz.org/
And specifically information about this one at: http://acarol.woz.org/antikythera_mechanism.html
Unfortunately, the site seems to be down but Google still has a good cache:
http://google.com/search?q=cache:acarol.woz.org/antikythera_mechanism.html
http://google.com/search?q=cache:acarol.woz.org/acarol.woz.org
There is an equally valid counter argument to that though. He did get quite a few things done as of late. There's a risk had he pushed harder on the other things that he would have gotten nothing since he would have spent that time fighting for something his opponents would have fought equally hard against. I'm not in a position to say how strong the opposition to these initiatives were.
who's broken enough campaign promises (close gitmo! Stop military tribunals of suspected terrists! Get out of Iraq! End welfare for the rich!) to lose 3 re-election bids.
Has he?
He's trying to close gitmo but first he had the issue of figuring out where to move the prisoners nobody wants them. The nobody wants them issue exists on two fronts. There are the prisoners we want to release but we can't send them back to their country of origin due to likelihood of torture or that country doesn't want them. This group is likely largely innocent but nobody will take them anyway. Then there is the group of people we want to continue to hang onto. He's tried moving them inside the country but has met resistance with local governments as to location of the prisoners.
As far as stopping the tribunals, he's also tried to do this. However, Congress is trying to block funding for moving the prisoners out of Gitmo which makes it difficult to try them in a normal criminal court. This also makes it hard to close gitmo.
We're drawing down troops in Iraq. At this point we officially only have military advisors to the Iraqi's there. Even these advisors are slated to leave unless the Iraqi's ask us to stay. They've signaled they have no intention of doing that. So I think it's pretty safe to say this is largely a promise kept. Maybe it isn't on the time frame you'd like but it is in progress.
As to your last complaint about ending welfare for the rich, I'm not aware of where he promised that. Nor is it really clear what you mean by that. It could take on many different meanings.
Now if you want some legit things to complain about here are some things to point at Obama that he is actually responsible for:
Indefinite detentions using Afghanistan as opposed to Gitmo.
Ordering assassinations of US Citizens without trial.
Supported the immunity for telcos for spying (technically while he was a Senator but his administration is continuing to uphold this).
There are legitimate arguments to make that Obama hasn't been as great as many people would have hoped, but as far as I can see he has largely upheld his campaign promises to the degree that he has been able to carry them out in spite of active efforts on the part of Congress to prevent them.
Who is covered by FLSA is not just about the work they do. There are of course jobs that are automatically considered exempt.
Even IT guys can be exempt from FLSA.
http://www.flsa.com/coverage.html
They can hold their annual meeting anywhere they desire. Their bylaws say as much. That has nothing to do with where they are based.
I grew up in Kansas. I moved to the Seattle area. Identifying myself as a Kansan after living here for 13 years would be ridiculous.
If UPS still had major operations here outside of the same sort of operations they have anywhere else I think you'd have a case to call them a Seattle company, but they don't.
Boeing moved to Chicago, but a pretty good case can be made to call them a Seattle company in that they still have a very large operations here.
However, if 80 years from now Boeing has no production facilities here and only have a similar support infrastructure that they have at various airports around the country. Has moved their corporate headquarters 3 times since leave Seattle. Then I'd say you're just as absurd calling it a Seattle company as you are for calling UPS one.
If you're insistent on calling UPS a Seattle company, then I guess we'll just have to disagree.
UPS is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Atlanta. Except for history pre-1930 UPS has no more connection to Seattle now than they do to anywhere else they deliver packages.
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9NDU4NTF8Q2hpbGRJRD0tMXxUeXBlPTM=&t=1
UPS hasn't been headquartered in Seattle since 1930. You might want to update your facts.
I'm opposed to this but this initiative actually removes the B&O tax and lowers propert taxes by about 20%. So no it would not double your tax burden.
I just don't think income taxes are a reasonable way to pay for government. It seems ridiculously inefficient and prone to non-compliance.
The B&O tax on the other hand seems rather fair to me.
Sure, but it's not simple to ask the IRS for a list of everyone in Washington making more than X dollars. You have to account for joint filings, potential differences between state tax law and federal tax law (the initiative ties this to federal tax law, but this sort of tying rarely stays in place for long).
I'd imagine that the IRS would be willing to share information but probably isn't willing to do the number crunching for you. So I'd guess the state tax agencies will need to build resources to process the federal information, figure out who should be filing and go after them.
This is far more complicated than figuring out which businesses have business licenses but are not filing their B&O returns. Given that you can't open a bank account for the business without the UBI number you get from having the business license, it's pretty darn hard to operate an effective business without filing your B&O returns.
There are probably some small proprietorships that fly under the radar but the state already has a small business write off credit that makes these businesses have no B&O tax. So the only advantage they get saving themselves the bother of the paperwork. At the cost of a potentially hefty fine for not having the business license.
The business of course could lie about their business activity, but that's why we have audits and there is no difference between the B&O versus an income tax in this respect.
So in my opinion it is much more difficult to enforce an income tax.
I'm not making enough money to have to pay this tax, I live in Washington State and I'm opposed to this. Why? Washington State has no income tax at all right now. Unless you require everyone to file you will have low compliance.
This initiative may be cost neutral by getting rid of the Washington Business and Occupation tax, which means the resources directed toward that can be used for processing the income tax returns. It does not require that all citizens file. Instead it only requires those that would actually have to pay the tax to file.
I think it's clear where this is going. The state will end up generating less revenue than expected due to this non-compliance. It will then either have to raise the tax or extend the filing requirement to more people to identify the people who are not complying.
Finally, it is very likely that this income tax will expand beyond the limits that it has now, either by no action on the part of the legislature as inflation raises the amount of money that people earn over time or by direct action of the legislature to raise more funds.
Rather, as a former business owner in this state and a citizen I support the state simply effectively enforcing the Business and Occupation taxes we have now. Microsoft has been avoiding paying this tax on a huge proportion of their revenue by running the revenue through an office in Nevada. I'm sure there are other companies in the area that have been evading this tax.
If the state is unable to force a large and very well known tax evader to comply with tax law, it's unlikely that they'll be able to force a large number of individuals to comply when they don't even have the information to determine who they are.
The Kansas Department of Health has had their systems offline for nearly a month due to a hard drive failure. As a result nobody can get birth certificates.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iWdp8MfL7qrxjB8X8UWvKYC8Jw-AD9HRDAI00
I fail to see how this is a problem. If you don't want to be running an open access point then don't. The scope of data collection shouldn't be relevant. It's worth pointing out that Google is by far not the only company collecting access point locations. It's also worth pointing out that while the companies are providing services that use this information, not a single one has published a list of which access points are where. They have no interest in doing so since doing so gives the data to their competitors. Building the software to do the location is a hell of a lot easier than collecting the data to actually do it. So it's a good bet they will never do something like this.
However, other people have already produced mapping data of wifi:
http://gwifi.net/
http://v4.jiwire.com/search-hotspot-locations.htm
There are open wifi points just about everywhere. More and more of them open and intended for public use. I just don't see how the world having access to where they are as some sort of huge issue.
This whole issue isn't about google mapping wifi spots anyway, it's about them saving payload data while mapping wifi. You'll note nobody is having a fit about skyhook, which was mapping the same information. Why? Because skyhook hasn't admitted to saving payload data.
When I first got my EVO i bought into this. Then I downloaded SystemPanel:
http://android.nextapp.com/site/systempanel
At the time all the features of the pay version were in the unlocked version. So I got to play around with the profiling features. I have since paid for the app.
This is what I discovered. The Sprint apps don't do jack if you never use them. The only app that actually runs despite me having no need for it is the voicemail app because I don't use Sprint's voicemail.
What people don't understand is that Android loads applications into memory on the idea that you might use them. Which applications it thinks you might use is based on what you actually use. So when you first get the phone and it doesn't have any history and not many applications loaded on it. There's a very good chance that the Sprint apps are going to be the ones getting cached. The cached apps use no CPU time. They're just in memory in case you decide to run them.
I've stopped using a task killer, my battery time hasn't gotten worse. Nothing about my phone has really changed.
In short, yeah it sucks you can't remove those apps and they're taking up space, but they're not hurting performance. They're not even running unless you run them.
See also this explanation from the developer of the SystemPanel app as to why automated task killing is a bad idea:
http://android.nextapp.com/site/systempanel/doc/autokill
Seriously, who thinks this info is private? We're talking about payload data from unsecured wifi. For that matter we're talking about payload fragments.
Obviously, Google shouldn't have collected this. Obviously, Google shouldn't disclose this information to anyone, including governments.
The data should be destroyed and everyone should move on.
Google didn't collect anything that someone with a wifi card and some easily obtained software couldn't obtain.
Simply put, if you're concerned about privacy secure your wifi because without some encryption you really don't have any privacy.