I put my phone number on both the Massachusetts and Federal DNC lists, and since then I've gotten exactly one unwanted call (okay, besides the ones from my senile grandmother):
Me: "Hello?" Him: "Yes, you indicated your interest about in July, and provided this phone number. Are you still interested?" Me: "Uh, no." Him: "Oh, sorry. Thank you for your time.".
I was quite confused about this for the rest of the day. But it was the politest telemarketer I'd ever met.
My other favorite was the salesperson who called me my first week of college, and asked if I had a visa or mastercard. When I answered no, she asked if I had any sort of credit card at all. After I said no, she said "Uhm... thanks" and hung up.
Not true. Most of the time, a certain group or building gets the block 18.y.x.z (where y is fixed). The static IPs usually get a certain amount of that (e.g. x = 0-8) and the DHCP server gives out IPs out of another block (e.g. x = 9-12). In my dorm (I'm a course 18 undergrad), for example, the statics come out of x = 0 or 1, and the dynamics come out of x = 5 or 6. (this is sort of sick, given that my dorm has only 93 residents).
Sometimes, if a "community" computer needs renewing, or if you're using it on a network on which it hasn't previously been used, you'll just throw in your information to get it working again. This may well be what happened to the person in question, although I'll certainly think twice before doing it again myself.
Really, they ought to tell them who is using it now, as they just forced all computers who use DHCP to re-register (and wouldn't let them register before they closed certain ports -- a response to the security holes).
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I put my phone number on both the Massachusetts and Federal DNC lists, and since then I've gotten exactly one unwanted call (okay, besides the ones from my senile grandmother):
.
Me: "Hello?"
Him: "Yes, you indicated your interest about in July, and provided this phone number. Are you still interested?"
Me: "Uh, no."
Him: "Oh, sorry. Thank you for your time."
I was quite confused about this for the rest of the day. But it was the politest telemarketer I'd ever met.
My other favorite was the salesperson who called me my first week of college, and asked if I had a visa or mastercard. When I answered no, she asked if I had any sort of credit card at all. After I said no, she said "Uhm... thanks" and hung up.
Not true. Most of the time, a certain group or building gets the block 18.y.x.z (where y is fixed). The static IPs usually get a certain amount of that (e.g. x = 0-8) and the DHCP server gives out IPs out of another block (e.g. x = 9-12). In my dorm (I'm a course 18 undergrad), for example, the statics come out of x = 0 or 1, and the dynamics come out of x = 5 or 6. (this is sort of sick, given that my dorm has only 93 residents).
Sometimes, if a "community" computer needs renewing, or if you're using it on a network on which it hasn't previously been used, you'll just throw in your information to get it working again. This may well be what happened to the person in question, although I'll certainly think twice before doing it again myself.
Really, they ought to tell them who is using it now, as they just forced all computers who use DHCP to re-register (and wouldn't let them register before they closed certain ports -- a response to the security holes).