If it gets denied, we've all (okay, *most* of us) had a good laugh, sort of like along the "OMFG the gubbermint wants to tax email!!!". jokes. Please cease and desist further use of the following trademarks:
Trekkie Monster was right! Can't wait for the first time a flight attendant has to ask a customer to stop surfing for porn. Even better: airpwning everyone. Think "the first intercontinental plane crash directly attributable to Goatse".
Admittedly if it's loud, it's annoying, but what's so different about a fart in the bathroom to a face to face fart? If I farted on my girlfriend's face, she'd be pissed.
Only if you name your access point "FREE WIFI", or by some other means convey that it is free, since a website is implied to be public by default, and an access point is implied to be private by default, even if there isn't a password.
Uhm. My public network is not named "FREE WIFI". It's a Linux box with a Prism2 card doing HostAP, and it's free to anyone in range. In the interests of brevity, suffice it to say that I've put a lot of work into it.
So, if my network is intentionally left easily accessible, why do you say that "linksys", "NETGEAR", or "default" network isn't there because that's how they wanted it? Because the essid is factory default? I had a Netgear wireless router once. Nice piece of equipment, IMHO, but overpriced. I routed it through the Linux box I had handling that sort of thing at the time and left the access point itself unsecured (except the admin password, obviously). Basically the same setup as now, but less complex. I left it that way so that my neighbors could get online through me.
Am I the exception to the rule?
Stealing WiFi REALLY IS stealing, because you are depriving somebody of the bandwidth they are paying for when you use it without permission I'm sharing it. Willingly. Right now. Know why I didn't include traffic shaping in either of my descriptions of my current or previous setups? Because I never needed to. Besides that, if I'm just doing the usual browsing, it's not like it takes up a lot of bandwidth. Slashdot? Oh no. A couple of seconds where the connection drops below 153k/s. I'd be more worried about sbcglobal going down for a few hours again. One of the outages lasted so long, I wrote a system to gnuplot how often and how long my connection went down.
That you think anything unknowingly left unprotected is fair to steal illustrates your lax morals. Would you steal somebody's car if they left it unprotected without knowing it? Well then why would you steal somebody's wifi if they left it unprotected without knowing it? That you equate "open wireless" with "anything" illustrates your warped version of reality, and that you equate stealing wireless with stealing a car indicates that you, sir, with all due respect, are a complete idiot.
If you don't want someone accessing your network, fine. Enable encryption. I'll stay off of it. Most other people will, too.
But with Linux, you could make "Lapbuntu" that would contain a set of apps that were modified to aggressively avoid using the disk unless it's already spun up by patching existing software. What, like laptop mode?
only because that's how everyone keeps asking for my resume. (Just for grins, I sent a.odt to someone a few days ago. They sent me back "could you please send your resume in MS Word format, I can't open this".)
They use all the other services -- in particular, using the emergency room without paying for it has actually resulted in the closure of some hospitals.
t is generally a good browser, but the unfortunate choice of name has made this piece of software invisible to Google searches --can you imagine searching for "links" on the web? Every single existing web page on the web will turn up. It doesn't help to add the keywords "web" or "browser". Really?
Slashdot Mirror
I believe you can do the same thing with DHCP.
option pop-server ip-address [, ip-address... ];
The POP3 server option specifies a list of POP3 servers available to
the client. Servers should be listed in order of preference.
and
option smtp-server ip-address [, ip-address... ];
The SMTP server option specifies a list of SMTP servers available to
the client. Servers should be listed in order of preference.
I don't know how well Windows clients would support these, and I had to write scripts to get my Ubuntu box to care, but they're there.
For those who don't know.
So, if my network is intentionally left easily accessible, why do you say that "linksys", "NETGEAR", or "default" network isn't there because that's how they wanted it? Because the essid is factory default? I had a Netgear wireless router once. Nice piece of equipment, IMHO, but overpriced. I routed it through the Linux box I had handling that sort of thing at the time and left the access point itself unsecured (except the admin password, obviously). Basically the same setup as now, but less complex. I left it that way so that my neighbors could get online through me.
Am I the exception to the rule? Stealing WiFi REALLY IS stealing, because you are depriving somebody of the bandwidth they are paying for when you use it without permission I'm sharing it. Willingly. Right now. Know why I didn't include traffic shaping in either of my descriptions of my current or previous setups? Because I never needed to. Besides that, if I'm just doing the usual browsing, it's not like it takes up a lot of bandwidth. Slashdot? Oh no. A couple of seconds where the connection drops below 153k/s. I'd be more worried about sbcglobal going down for a few hours again. One of the outages lasted so long, I wrote a system to gnuplot how often and how long my connection went down. That you think anything unknowingly left unprotected is fair to steal illustrates your lax morals. Would you steal somebody's car if they left it unprotected without knowing it? Well then why would you steal somebody's wifi if they left it unprotected without knowing it? That you equate "open wireless" with "anything" illustrates your warped version of reality, and that you equate stealing wireless with stealing a car indicates that you, sir, with all due respect, are a complete idiot.
If you don't want someone accessing your network, fine. Enable encryption. I'll stay off of it. Most other people will, too.
Can you put organize a LUG for the slug and the bug?
"Alphanumeric keyboard" and "computer mouse"?
only because that's how everyone keeps asking for my resume. (Just for grins, I sent a .odt to someone a few days ago. They sent me back "could you please send your resume in MS Word format, I can't open this".)
Though PDF might not be a bad idea...
Your work sucks.
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Present your proof, anonymous coward.
You got mine, but you missed his. His was more informative.
By the way: we both missed the drug traffic. I'm not going to make a mountain out of a molehill (?), but it's at least a factor.
They use all the other services -- in particular, using the emergency room without paying for it has actually resulted in the closure of some hospitals.
I swear, she said she was 18!
My money says he could probably have gotten what he needed from the Medibuntu archives.
Weeeee are the Fooools who say.... CAPITAL!
Now go get me a shrub.