Using up someone's bandwidth may not be polite. However, I use my connection at home for downloading, web browsing, etc. But when I am out and I need to download something, I jump on the closest network and remote into my computer at home to download whatever it is that I want. That way once I start it and disconnect from my home computer, I am no longer using there bandwidth. Using someone elses network is just a convenience thing for me like checking my email on the go. If you are causing problems by using the open network, such as hacking, then yeah, put them away, but if you just need to check a last minute auction on Ebay, or your email, I can't think of anyone that I know who would care if you use their open network. And if they do care, they probably have it locked anyway.
What you need to do is observe your surroundings a little more. To teach you a little more about UIUC, go ahead and follow the steps below in Internet Explorer.
Click on Help --> About Internet Explorer
Then read the textbox that comes up.
"Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."
The original web browser started there.
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Using up someone's bandwidth may not be polite. However, I use my connection at home for downloading, web browsing, etc. But when I am out and I need to download something, I jump on the closest network and remote into my computer at home to download whatever it is that I want. That way once I start it and disconnect from my home computer, I am no longer using there bandwidth. Using someone elses network is just a convenience thing for me like checking my email on the go. If you are causing problems by using the open network, such as hacking, then yeah, put them away, but if you just need to check a last minute auction on Ebay, or your email, I can't think of anyone that I know who would care if you use their open network. And if they do care, they probably have it locked anyway.
It's Mosaic, seperate from Windows.
What you need to do is observe your surroundings a little more. To teach you a little more about UIUC, go ahead and follow the steps below in Internet Explorer. Click on Help --> About Internet Explorer Then read the textbox that comes up. "Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign." The original web browser started there.