Wait a second. It's the phonebook. Who's giving up anything? I assume that they've already got your name and address and phone (assuming you have a land line). They are, after all, a list of names with phones and addresses. You'd be giving up your email, according to the online form, but throwaway accounts would deal with that.
OTOH . . . I suppose if you only have a wireless phone, and never had landline service -- at least at your current address -- you might not be listed in their database. So mobile users could be subjecting themselves to more junk mail, spam and do-not-call violations.
Then there's the truly unfortunate soul, the person with no phone number at all. From the opt-out site:
A valid telephone number is required in order to process and verify opt-out requests. Incorrect or omitted information may prevent us from honoring your request.
Which is truly bizarre when you think about it, since that's the guy who'd have the least use of a telephone directory of anyone!
Does the House GOP caucus have a minimum stupidity requirement?
Although I hate to be fair to Republicans, I'm going to point out that some pretty unqualified people can get elected to state legislatures regardless of party. In a heavily Republican (or heavily Democratic) district, a candidate might actually run unopposed. It can be hard for even the majority local party to recruit a good candidate. Not just anyone can get their boss to give them 2 or 3 months off to serve in the statehouse. So you just might end up with an unemployed loon getting in by default.
I'd suggest that book it dated if it's giving advice like that.
These days, asparagus can be grown in a single season. In yestayear, it would have taken two. I've grown some lovely spears myself and they take no more work than any other type of vegetable. Maybe slightly more space is needed, but not that much.
Even if it grew in one season, asparagus isn't very high in calories. The hypothetical man trying to consume 2000 calories of it would need something like 10 kg/day! And can you imagine the "asparagus pee" you'd get from that?
Anyway -- where did you find this single-season asparagus? I've never planted it just due to impatience (and need to move every so often). Is it a new variety, or is there a successful way of raising it to maturity in a greenhouse/nursery before transplanting to a garden?
What is remarkable about this exchange is not that bike riders are enhanced CO2 producers, but that a republican legislator has acknowledged the CO2 needs to be recognized as a greenhouse gas, which in excess is bad.
It is a start...
You've got to be the most optimistic commenter on Slashdot today.
It's somewhat indirect. It's added to the cost of your fuel. You can test this by using farm diesel in your on-road truck. (By "test," I mean see what the authorities think.)
How exactly switching to any other DNS would help? Unless they subvert only data on the DNS that's handed over via DHCP but leave all other port 53 traffic, queries will be mangled just the same. There's little you can do there other than tunnelling all DNS somehow.
Hell if I know. Switching to a statically defined DNS fixed the problem, so I didn't investigate further. Curiously, Chrome browser wasn't affected. Other browsers, ping, traceroute, etc. were. Maybe Chrome bypasses the DHCP-assigned DNS, I dunno.
They probably hijack your DNS, or do deep packet inspection, and return their page as the answer. Not sure if NoScript will help you with that.
Time Warner had already been screwing around with DNS results for me, and I had to switch to Google's DNS. I wasn't even attempting anything naughty, as far as I knew.
Relax, corporations are people in nearly every way. They just can't vote.
They were this close in Montana. Well, not that close, really. They hardly even discussed it before tabling the bill, but there's still hope next year.
I should have mentioned that my above comment refers to the New Hampshire case. In the Texas case, the bill says "unmanned vehicle or aircraft". Assuming that that's interpreted as "unmanned vehicle or unmanned aircraft," then riding in the balloon shooting photos vs. operating it remotely would seem to be OK.
Unless I can't understand Texas legalese, which is entirely possible.
If by "empty," you mean "not containing people or 'man made' objects," then you'd be jake. Or form an LLC and employ yourself to watch from your balloon for some regulatory violation of your -- well, your company's -- choice.
So you can't get coverage in your location without booster, and you need to call your provider to ask permission to turn the booster on, but you can't get signal to make the call? What then, telegram?
Why do you try so hard to keep "your" net just for you, it's not like you are going to "run out" of it? I mean if it's really a big dent in your monthly budget just go to the guy and suggest to share its cost, if it's not, then just let him leech it, what the big problem with it?
From the original question, it sounds like the perpetrator is up to more than just wifi leeching. There are less secure wifi setups in the neighborhood, why keep cracking the tough nut? And the evil twin? Just to get a wifi key? Something worse than bandwidth sharing is happening here.
Wouldn't a leech just look for an open access point? One with a fast connection would be a bonus.
Your interloper would seem to be doing something more nefarious. Why does a simple leech need an evil twin?
Is your local constabulary at all competent in this sort of matters, or are they the kind that go around wardriving for open access points? Because it's gonna suck to try to explain the problem if they don't have a clue, but something's up, and to me it sounds like something leaning toward the criminal.
I think I'd get the directional antenna. Maybe you're dealing with the neighbor's 12 year old, so just alerting the parents could do the trick. If it's your local psycho, that's another story.
Um, no it is just another government shakedown for cash.
Given the size of fines in this sort of case, it's more like "shaking down" the couch Google was sitting in and picking up the change that fell out of its pockets.
Besides, PayPal is sufficiently optional across the entire web with very few exceptions (beyond eBay, I'm not sure of anything of note that requires PayPal).
Organizations and firms that require PayPal to conduct business with you aren't as rare as you might think. Or as rare as I used to think. This past year, I've dealt with 3. In two of those cases, I went ahead and did the deal. The third had viable non-PayPal-requiring alternatives. None were any sort of eBay (or auction) thing at all.
Actual problem: there's too many people, using too much land, and not only can nature not keep pace through renewing resources, but we're eliminating the habitats of species. The solution is to have fewer people, which requires we rethink our concept of "freedom," and to focus on cradle-to-grave handling of technology to reduce pollution.
That's taboo.
Do you mean discussing population decimation, or product life cycle? Because drawing straws for the suicide booth would be a touchy subject. Even a reproduction lottery or other birth reduction program is a pretty hard sell, given our human history.
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It is not the address people object to giving out, it is the other fields they demand to have. Name, phone number, email and the rest.
They only need address, nothing else.
If you've got a landline, you're not giving the phonebook anything they don't already have -- if you know about throwaway email addresses.
Maybe the whole idea is to cheaply build a database of cellphone users without having to pay the mobile operators for their customer lists . . .
Wait a second. It's the phonebook. Who's giving up anything? I assume that they've already got your name and address and phone (assuming you have a land line). They are, after all, a list of names with phones and addresses. You'd be giving up your email, according to the online form, but throwaway accounts would deal with that.
OTOH . . . I suppose if you only have a wireless phone, and never had landline service -- at least at your current address -- you might not be listed in their database. So mobile users could be subjecting themselves to more junk mail, spam and do-not-call violations.
Then there's the truly unfortunate soul, the person with no phone number at all. From the opt-out site:
A valid telephone number is required in order to process and verify opt-out requests. Incorrect or omitted information may prevent us from honoring your request.
Which is truly bizarre when you think about it, since that's the guy who'd have the least use of a telephone directory of anyone!
These days, that's how my Mom drives. Wish I could use the joke tag.
I wonder if I should call her up and tell she's being replaced by robots.
Does the House GOP caucus have a minimum stupidity requirement?
Although I hate to be fair to Republicans, I'm going to point out that some pretty unqualified people can get elected to state legislatures regardless of party. In a heavily Republican (or heavily Democratic) district, a candidate might actually run unopposed. It can be hard for even the majority local party to recruit a good candidate. Not just anyone can get their boss to give them 2 or 3 months off to serve in the statehouse. So you just might end up with an unemployed loon getting in by default.
I'd suggest that book it dated if it's giving advice like that. These days, asparagus can be grown in a single season. In yestayear, it would have taken two. I've grown some lovely spears myself and they take no more work than any other type of vegetable. Maybe slightly more space is needed, but not that much.
Even if it grew in one season, asparagus isn't very high in calories. The hypothetical man trying to consume 2000 calories of it would need something like 10 kg/day! And can you imagine the "asparagus pee" you'd get from that?
Anyway -- where did you find this single-season asparagus? I've never planted it just due to impatience (and need to move every so often). Is it a new variety, or is there a successful way of raising it to maturity in a greenhouse/nursery before transplanting to a garden?
What is remarkable about this exchange is not that bike riders are enhanced CO2 producers, but that a republican legislator has acknowledged the CO2 needs to be recognized as a greenhouse gas, which in excess is bad.
It is a start...
You've got to be the most optimistic commenter on Slashdot today.
Anyway, one should point out that biking produces less CO2 than walking or using any other vehicle, for a given distance.
I produce more CO2 when I bike than when I ride in a car.
The car itself is another story, though.
No one pays 'road tax', at least in US.
It's somewhat indirect. It's added to the cost of your fuel. You can test this by using farm diesel in your on-road truck. (By "test," I mean see what the authorities think.)
How exactly switching to any other DNS would help? Unless they subvert only data on the DNS that's handed over via DHCP but leave all other port 53 traffic, queries will be mangled just the same. There's little you can do there other than tunnelling all DNS somehow.
Hell if I know. Switching to a statically defined DNS fixed the problem, so I didn't investigate further. Curiously, Chrome browser wasn't affected. Other browsers, ping, traceroute, etc. were. Maybe Chrome bypasses the DHCP-assigned DNS, I dunno.
They probably hijack your DNS, or do deep packet inspection, and return their page as the answer. Not sure if NoScript will help you with that.
Time Warner had already been screwing around with DNS results for me, and I had to switch to Google's DNS. I wasn't even attempting anything naughty, as far as I knew.
Relax, corporations are people in nearly every way. They just can't vote.
They were this close in Montana. Well, not that close, really. They hardly even discussed it before tabling the bill, but there's still hope next year.
Pollution leaking into a river will inevitable cross property lines. It is also pollution in the drinking water. Thus affects everyone.
It's not leaking . . . It's overflowing.
By empty field, I meant farmhouse. :P
Are you in Texas? Is the farmhouse on fire?
I should have mentioned that my above comment refers to the New Hampshire case. In the Texas case, the bill says "unmanned vehicle or aircraft". Assuming that that's interpreted as "unmanned vehicle or unmanned aircraft," then riding in the balloon shooting photos vs. operating it remotely would seem to be OK.
Unless I can't understand Texas legalese, which is entirely possible.
If I take a picture in a hot air balloon of a sunset and happen to capture an empty field that I do not own, am I guilty?
What about drones require special treatment v.s. existing peeping tom laws? http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/peeping-tom.aspx
If by "empty," you mean "not containing people or 'man made' objects," then you'd be jake. Or form an LLC and employ yourself to watch from your balloon for some regulatory violation of your -- well, your company's -- choice.
The way you do it is you elect a Congress that is willing to enforce the law, and you get them to impeach the judges who won't enforce the law.
OK. So it's the civil disobedience thing, then.
Lath and plaster has the same problem.
Then wrap it in aluminum siding, just to be sure.
So you can't get coverage in your location without booster, and you need to call your provider to ask permission to turn the booster on, but you can't get signal to make the call? What then, telegram?
Why do you try so hard to keep "your" net just for you, it's not like you are going to "run out" of it? I mean if it's really a big dent in your monthly budget just go to the guy and suggest to share its cost, if it's not, then just let him leech it, what the big problem with it?
From the original question, it sounds like the perpetrator is up to more than just wifi leeching. There are less secure wifi setups in the neighborhood, why keep cracking the tough nut? And the evil twin? Just to get a wifi key? Something worse than bandwidth sharing is happening here.
Wouldn't a leech just look for an open access point? One with a fast connection would be a bonus.
Your interloper would seem to be doing something more nefarious. Why does a simple leech need an evil twin?
Is your local constabulary at all competent in this sort of matters, or are they the kind that go around wardriving for open access points? Because it's gonna suck to try to explain the problem if they don't have a clue, but something's up, and to me it sounds like something leaning toward the criminal.
I think I'd get the directional antenna. Maybe you're dealing with the neighbor's 12 year old, so just alerting the parents could do the trick. If it's your local psycho, that's another story.
If you were allowed to call your lawyer, would you know who to call?
Hmm. Now I have an actual reason to consider a tattoo, since a "legal alert" bracelet -- if they existed -- could be taken away.
Um, no it is just another government shakedown for cash.
Given the size of fines in this sort of case, it's more like "shaking down" the couch Google was sitting in and picking up the change that fell out of its pockets.
No one is forced to use Google. If you don't want them to do things with your data, don't give it to them.
As with facebook, the only winning move isn't to not play, but to not exist.
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Besides, PayPal is sufficiently optional across the entire web with very few exceptions (beyond eBay, I'm not sure of anything of note that requires PayPal).
Organizations and firms that require PayPal to conduct business with you aren't as rare as you might think. Or as rare as I used to think. This past year, I've dealt with 3. In two of those cases, I went ahead and did the deal. The third had viable non-PayPal-requiring alternatives. None were any sort of eBay (or auction) thing at all.
Actual problem: there's too many people, using too much land, and not only can nature not keep pace through renewing resources, but we're eliminating the habitats of species. The solution is to have fewer people, which requires we rethink our concept of "freedom," and to focus on cradle-to-grave handling of technology to reduce pollution.
That's taboo.
Do you mean discussing population decimation, or product life cycle? Because drawing straws for the suicide booth would be a touchy subject. Even a reproduction lottery or other birth reduction program is a pretty hard sell, given our human history.