Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
 ·Qwest.net
| Re: AWESOME! very funny  , but if he doesn't want leechers why doesn't he just secure his system.
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dscl
join:2001-07-15
Suwanee, GA
| Re: AWESOME! said by Transmaster  :very funny , but if he doesn't want leechers why doesn't he just secure his system. What fun is that! 
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"My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet access. I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun." | |
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Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
·Qwest.net
| Re: AWESOME! said by dscl :said by Transmaster :very funny , but if he doesn't want leechers why doesn't he just secure his system. What fun is that! Quote from the page "My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet access. I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun." You have a good point
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GlennAllen
join:2002-11-17
Richmond, VA
 ·Verizon FIOS
| Re: AWESOME! Is it really "stealing" if you open your door (don't secure your signal), invite people in (you're the one broadcasting the signal), and they don't actually take anything belonging to you that you didn't invite them to take (like, you know, files or something on your network)? Eh, whatever. Have your fun while you can. | |
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ptrowski
Got Helix?
Premium
join:2005-03-14
Putnam, CT
clubs: | Re: AWESOME! Oh god, not the open door analogy again! Next comes the unlocked car analogy! | |
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GlennAllen
join:2002-11-17
Richmond, VA
·Verizon FIOS
| Re: AWESOME! Would you like some cheese with that whine?
Just asking a question, not trying to make an analogy. Here's another question:
If my neighbor's kid tosses a ball around, and it winds up in my yard, and he leaves it there instead of retrieving it, should I throw it back into his yard or should I just throw it into the trash?
(This, too, is a rhetorical question.) | |
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join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO
| Re: AWESOME! With either question your stupidity and point is clear.
You in a round about way are trying to say the guy is at fault because he did not "secure" his airwaves. Just because it is there you are not "in the right" to assume it is there for your use.
I and many more, will argue we are not obligated to "lock" our router. It is your responsibility to make sure you can use the things that you do not personally own. If you don't know if you can, then it is your obligation to seek that permission. If you can't seek that permission because you don't know who to ask then you are to continue to assume you are not invited to use it. | |
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fireflier
Coffee. . .Need Coffee
Premium
join:2001-05-25
Limbo
 ·Skype
| Or take a more direct route and simply have it serve up a page that says "HEY PARASITE: GET YOUR OWN #%#$& INTERNET ACCESS!"
At least that way they'd be immediately aware he knows they're leeching off of him. Depending on who's doing it, they're liable to be so stupid they don't realize he's screwing with them and they're bugging Dell tech support and asking them why their "internet is upside down".
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bear73
Metnav... Fly The Unfriendly Skies
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join:2001-06-09
Grand Forks Afb, ND | Re: AWESOME! I'd rather the stoopid leach users to just get the upsidedown page and get frustrated! ha!
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insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN | Or just set up WPA, if you really don't want to share the connection. Otherwise leaving it open means you do want to share it. | |
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