Funny. I drive around my city (population over 1 million) and see plenty of big houses with large windows. not everyone in the world is packed in to tight town houses row by row. People like to be able to see out of their windows around here. A window that is stuck shut and a window cannot be opened are two different things. For the windows that do open, the screen is only on the part that opens, like one of those 2 parters where the bottom lifts up. Why you'd cover non-moving glass is beyond me. That's got nothing to do with upkeep and all to do with pure idiocy. It ruins your view, serves no functional purpose, and is a waste of materials and money. What's a picture window got do with birds? I see plenty of apartments that have glass in them with no screen over the glass too.
You know what's even better? Go nuts finding lots of houses in your city without screens covering every square inch of window:http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=Minn eapolis+house&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2
I suggest you take a look outside your house. Maybe visit some show homes, maybe a homedepot, maybe go for a drive around town. Its quite common for homes to have windows which do not open. If the window doesn't open, who puts a screen on it? Why would you need a screen? Try not to let your head explode with the absurdity of the fact that some people have fixed windows in their house. http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=bay+window& btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2
have you ever heard a picture window? or say any window which doesn't open? Actually have you ever seen a house to be honest? I don't think I've ever seen one which has 100% screened windows.
No, and we don't really need one for most "addictions", since in reality the problem is usually the person will get addicted to something, anything.
Once again the Simpsons have covered it for us in the episode where Marge thinks she drove drunk, and says something to the effect of (about a rehab place): "I don't this place is working, the drinkers are smoking, the smokers are drinking, and the junkies (I think) are having sex with anything that moves".
It speaks more to general psychological need than a specific addiction.
walking past inkjet island in the mall and realizing they have a giant price sheet which is cheaper than what you pay for the real thing doesn't make you sophisticated. I've seen many people in line there which are the very definition of unsophisticated.
Yes of all the franchises out there, The Sims looks like its the most likely to lose momentum. They've cross-branded the crap out of this franchise and you can't blink without tripping over a new expansion pack, or port to a new system.
They have the female demographic pretty much wrapped up. between teeny boppers and bored housewives you couldn't print money this fast.
I keep my apartment door locked... not because I'm afraid of people but because the girl upstairs has gotten confused, gotten off on the wrong floor and somehow timed it so that she's walked in on me naked, fresh from the shower, twice. I forgive her because I was coming home tired one day and didn't notice that my floor wasn't pushed, got off thinking it was my floor, and stumbled to the end of the hallway and tried my key in her door. Big building, identical hallways, easy to get confused.
I have the k790 myself, but I have a friend with the w800i, the "walkman" that came with the 4GB memory card free. At 1.5 GB of music it was already fairly useless. I know she was going about actually filling it to 4GB I wanted to ask her how it was. The more music she put on it the slower it became. Switching a song (manually) literally took 30 seconds and froze the phone at that point.
The only problem I could see would be wireless devices which aren't made to use A (because A isn't as popular and buying an A access point is more expensive, home users want cheap). For example I'm not sure if the Wii and DS support A or not. While a desktop or laptop you could just go get a card for, you might end up having to run a dual band access point, I think linksys sells an A + G though I'm not sure if they can run at the same time, to satisfy any devices you have which are locked with no chance of expansion.
Actually A, because of the frequency length has a harder time penetrating walls, which actually makes it ideal for apartments because while it operates well within your own, the signal degrades faster the more walls it hits. Outside with no interference A and G have similar ranges.
No there isn't, but already we've seen court cases of people getting nailed for something illegal going on on their wireless access points. It still remains to be seen if they'll win.
Its just as ignorant to ignore the current political climate and go ahead with what you want to do because you think thats the way it should be. Its much more intelligent to work to change things before hanging it out there.
The open wireless connection is still an untested defense, and while it may potentially get you off in a criminal trial, it may not suffice in a civil trial where the burden of proof is lessened.
Why don't you take some time and look up what "inviting" means under the law and see how that applies to a wide open access point vs one where someone has at least tried to put security on it.
Its not hard for someone to spin a theory (Individual X left his access point open to cast reasonable doubt on any crime committed via his equipment, for all we know he has a portable device that we were unable to recover which had the kiddie porn on it). Even if the trial is a load of crap you've seen what the US can do to people even remotely suspected of a sex crime. Costs them a crap load of money, their life is often ruined, and when found innocent, its a footnote on a napkin in a gas station bathroom. (See Nancy Grace and Duke)
You want things to change, change em. Leaving your wireless access point open and leading by quiet obscure example isn't going to do a thing.
I didn't say you're required to lock it up like fort knox. The law would look more favourably on you for attempting a reasonable level of security then not. Not attempting any leaves your connection looking inviting. If they don't find any evidence you have the child porn in either case, they could potentially be harder on you if your access point is open. It is much like a gun. If you don't properly secure it, and your child gets a hold of it and shoots someone (accidentally or otherwise) they're going to be pretty hard on you if you left it loaded on the couch. If your kid has to bring in a safe cracking team to break into something to get the gun, they're not likely to be anywhere near as hard on you (if at all). The fact that people can use open access points to commit a crime isn't a state secret. If you really want to run that risk, go nuts.
I'm all for open access points all over the place, but you have to recognize the climate of fear and overreaction and ignorance that exists in some areas. If you want to remove that, work to do so, before you go around leaving yourself open for a new bed mate.
Don't buy a residential device? If you want to do advanced set up, pony up the bucks and go purchase a device to do it. As mentioned FON is a cheap solution to do that, it puts out 2 SSIDs, a shared one and a private encrypted on, and you can use the web interface I believe to rate limit people on your open shared line.
Otherwise go buy a high quality business device with more than one available AP and set it up to do whatever you want. Cisco has tons of devices that can deliver you that kind of setup. So the answer is, its already there. Go nuts.
This is the real reason why it should have a modicum of security enabled. To show you made an effort. It might not be long before you're held accountable for what your neighbour did on your connection, even with a complete lack of evidence. It sounds like great way to deny an IP crime, "My wireless access point was unsecured, anyone could have done it". It takes a small law attached to a wheat bill to say that people are required to take reasonable steps to secure their wireless connections, and you're spending 20 years in jail for facilitating child pornography, you'd probably even be required to register as a sex offender.
But hey, its all good. While bubba has you bent over the bed, you can feel awesome about how you let complete strangers use your connection in a pinch.
This seems fairly unrealistic. The apartment company may become liable if someone does something illegal across the connection (whether or not we feel that is right, the law could go whichever way on it), or the person whose name the connection is in could be held accountable as well.
not to mention the more devices connected, the slower the service. Wireless bandwidth is not unlimited. Not to mention, what if the device has an issue at 3 am? Do you want to wake up whoever owns it to fix it? In the case of an apartment company, they won't want to be woken up at 3 am to have a worker go reset the device if necessary.
While interesting, a much friendlier suggestion would be to use that paint/wallpaper that blocks wireless signals. Put it on your exterior walls and ceiling. Encourage your apartment company to do it in all suites. Or at least your downstairs neighbour so you can be fairly insulated. Not only do you free up your air space for your wireless access point so you can get good speed to the device, you also reduce the interference on any 2.4 GHz phones you might have/want to use.
As you pointed out above, you are only competing with a whopping 7-10 networks. If you can't manage to function in that environment you might want to move to the middle of nowhere. Some lonely 2 acre island in the middle of the pacific. With 65 networks crowding my apartment I have no problem running a Wii, 2 laptops (one with Vista, one with XP) and a media center using one of those little linksys USB wireless boxes. None have ever had a connection issue in the 3 years they've been in that environment.
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Funny. I drive around my city (population over 1 million) and see plenty of big houses with large windows. not everyone in the world is packed in to tight town houses row by row. People like to be able to see out of their windows around here. A window that is stuck shut and a window cannot be opened are two different things. For the windows that do open, the screen is only on the part that opens, like one of those 2 parters where the bottom lifts up. Why you'd cover non-moving glass is beyond me. That's got nothing to do with upkeep and all to do with pure idiocy. It ruins your view, serves no functional purpose, and is a waste of materials and money. What's a picture window got do with birds? I see plenty of apartments that have glass in them with no screen over the glass too.
n eapolis+house&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2
You know what's even better? Go nuts finding lots of houses in your city without screens covering every square inch of window:http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=Min
I found at least 3 on the first page.
I suggest you take a look outside your house. Maybe visit some show homes, maybe a homedepot, maybe go for a drive around town. Its quite common for homes to have windows which do not open. If the window doesn't open, who puts a screen on it? Why would you need a screen?& btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2
Try not to let your head explode with the absurdity of the fact that some people have fixed windows in their house.
http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=bay+window
Why would you install a screen on the backside of a picture window? Kind of defeats the purpose doesn't it?
have you ever heard a picture window? or say any window which doesn't open? Actually have you ever seen a house to be honest? I don't think I've ever seen one which has 100% screened windows.
Most people don't have every single window backed by a screen.
No, and we don't really need one for most "addictions", since in reality the problem is usually the person will get addicted to something, anything.
Once again the Simpsons have covered it for us in the episode where Marge thinks she drove drunk, and says something to the effect of (about a rehab place):
"I don't this place is working, the drinkers are smoking, the smokers are drinking, and the junkies (I think) are having sex with anything that moves".
It speaks more to general psychological need than a specific addiction.
As soon as apple gives me a free phone and 1 year subscription for testing purposes.
walking past inkjet island in the mall and realizing they have a giant price sheet which is cheaper than what you pay for the real thing doesn't make you sophisticated. I've seen many people in line there which are the very definition of unsophisticated.
Yes of all the franchises out there, The Sims looks like its the most likely to lose momentum. They've cross-branded the crap out of this franchise and you can't blink without tripping over a new expansion pack, or port to a new system.
They have the female demographic pretty much wrapped up. between teeny boppers and bored housewives you couldn't print money this fast.
No Maxis was absorbed last year and their logo scrubbed from everything.
I thought the betamax issue was about sony trying to be to anal with the format thus turning off other companies.
I wish they'd do that again..
I keep my apartment door locked... not because I'm afraid of people but because the girl upstairs has gotten confused, gotten off on the wrong floor and somehow timed it so that she's walked in on me naked, fresh from the shower, twice.
I forgive her because I was coming home tired one day and didn't notice that my floor wasn't pushed, got off thinking it was my floor, and stumbled to the end of the hallway and tried my key in her door. Big building, identical hallways, easy to get confused.
Torontonians..just for future reference...n tertainers.htm (title of the page)
http://www.toronto.ca/toronto_facts/famous_arts_e
And those who didn't understand it but guessed anyway were just as rewarded...
I have the k790 myself, but I have a friend with the w800i, the "walkman" that came with the 4GB memory card free. At 1.5 GB of music it was already fairly useless. I know she was going about actually filling it to 4GB I wanted to ask her how it was. The more music she put on it the slower it became. Switching a song (manually) literally took 30 seconds and froze the phone at that point.
A lot of us have been saving that comic strip for 8 years now, just waiting for the perfect moment, kudos on getting to it first.
The only problem I could see would be wireless devices which aren't made to use A (because A isn't as popular and buying an A access point is more expensive, home users want cheap). For example I'm not sure if the Wii and DS support A or not. While a desktop or laptop you could just go get a card for, you might end up having to run a dual band access point, I think linksys sells an A + G though I'm not sure if they can run at the same time, to satisfy any devices you have which are locked with no chance of expansion.
Actually A, because of the frequency length has a harder time penetrating walls, which actually makes it ideal for apartments because while it operates well within your own, the signal degrades faster the more walls it hits.
Outside with no interference A and G have similar ranges.
No there isn't, but already we've seen court cases of people getting nailed for something illegal going on on their wireless access points. It still remains to be seen if they'll win.
Its just as ignorant to ignore the current political climate and go ahead with what you want to do because you think thats the way it should be. Its much more intelligent to work to change things before hanging it out there.
The open wireless connection is still an untested defense, and while it may potentially get you off in a criminal trial, it may not suffice in a civil trial where the burden of proof is lessened.
Why don't you take some time and look up what "inviting" means under the law and see how that applies to a wide open access point vs one where someone has at least tried to put security on it.
Its not hard for someone to spin a theory (Individual X left his access point open to cast reasonable doubt on any crime committed via his equipment, for all we know he has a portable device that we were unable to recover which had the kiddie porn on it). Even if the trial is a load of crap you've seen what the US can do to people even remotely suspected of a sex crime. Costs them a crap load of money, their life is often ruined, and when found innocent, its a footnote on a napkin in a gas station bathroom. (See Nancy Grace and Duke)
You want things to change, change em. Leaving your wireless access point open and leading by quiet obscure example isn't going to do a thing.
I didn't say you're required to lock it up like fort knox. The law would look more favourably on you for attempting a reasonable level of security then not. Not attempting any leaves your connection looking inviting. If they don't find any evidence you have the child porn in either case, they could potentially be harder on you if your access point is open. It is much like a gun. If you don't properly secure it, and your child gets a hold of it and shoots someone (accidentally or otherwise) they're going to be pretty hard on you if you left it loaded on the couch. If your kid has to bring in a safe cracking team to break into something to get the gun, they're not likely to be anywhere near as hard on you (if at all). The fact that people can use open access points to commit a crime isn't a state secret. If you really want to run that risk, go nuts.
I'm all for open access points all over the place, but you have to recognize the climate of fear and overreaction and ignorance that exists in some areas. If you want to remove that, work to do so, before you go around leaving yourself open for a new bed mate.
Don't buy a residential device? If you want to do advanced set up, pony up the bucks and go purchase a device to do it.
As mentioned FON is a cheap solution to do that, it puts out 2 SSIDs, a shared one and a private encrypted on, and you can use the web interface I believe to rate limit people on your open shared line.
Otherwise go buy a high quality business device with more than one available AP and set it up to do whatever you want. Cisco has tons of devices that can deliver you that kind of setup. So the answer is, its already there. Go nuts.
This is the real reason why it should have a modicum of security enabled. To show you made an effort. It might not be long before you're held accountable for what your neighbour did on your connection, even with a complete lack of evidence. It sounds like great way to deny an IP crime, "My wireless access point was unsecured, anyone could have done it". It takes a small law attached to a wheat bill to say that people are required to take reasonable steps to secure their wireless connections, and you're spending 20 years in jail for facilitating child pornography, you'd probably even be required to register as a sex offender.
But hey, its all good. While bubba has you bent over the bed, you can feel awesome about how you let complete strangers use your connection in a pinch.
This seems fairly unrealistic. The apartment company may become liable if someone does something illegal across the connection (whether or not we feel that is right, the law could go whichever way on it), or the person whose name the connection is in could be held accountable as well. not to mention the more devices connected, the slower the service. Wireless bandwidth is not unlimited. Not to mention, what if the device has an issue at 3 am? Do you want to wake up whoever owns it to fix it? In the case of an apartment company, they won't want to be woken up at 3 am to have a worker go reset the device if necessary.
While interesting, a much friendlier suggestion would be to use that paint/wallpaper that blocks wireless signals. Put it on your exterior walls and ceiling. Encourage your apartment company to do it in all suites. Or at least your downstairs neighbour so you can be fairly insulated. Not only do you free up your air space for your wireless access point so you can get good speed to the device, you also reduce the interference on any 2.4 GHz phones you might have/want to use.
As you pointed out above, you are only competing with a whopping 7-10 networks. If you can't manage to function in that environment you might want to move to the middle of nowhere. Some lonely 2 acre island in the middle of the pacific. With 65 networks crowding my apartment I have no problem running a Wii, 2 laptops (one with Vista, one with XP) and a media center using one of those little linksys USB wireless boxes. None have ever had a connection issue in the 3 years they've been in that environment.