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obtuse wrote:

My only point is that you refused to clarify if the sites visited were actually illegal or just against your neighborhood regulations.  I would have been more than willing to help catch a criminal.  But I have no interest in helping catch some guy looking at porn.  You certainly could have been a bit more helpful in that regard.

I could have been and most likely (damn you 20/20 hind-sight) should have been. I only felt at the time that I did not want to be too forthcoming with info due to legal reasons. I was wrong.

obtuse wrote:

My only point is that you refused to clarify if the sites visited were actually illegal or just against your neighborhood regulations.  I would have been more than willing to help catch a criminal.  But I have no interest in helping catch some guy looking at porn.  You certainly could have been a bit more helpful in that regard.

Ya. I've been all round this great big world and I've seen all kinds of girls, but I've never seen a "child porn site." That smurf just don't happen. Child porn is really only found on in the dark corners of usenet, not websites with names like kiddieporn.com or naked15yos.gov. The rest is all "barely legal" stuff which is really just horny code for of-age girls in short plaid skirts and knee socks. My biggest problem with this thread is that I have yet to hear proof of any illegal activity. I seems Regular Joe's whole basis for kicking this person out of his community is some sort of moral superiority.

I will fight, to the pain, my right to look at a consenting young woman's shaved beaver and pert young titties. Screw your morals. He's your God. You burn in hell.

Regular Joe wrote:

Everyone, enjoy you lives of mediocrity.

Mediocrity? Your gated community is mediocre compared to the compound where I live, with its soldiers and machine gun nests and barbed wire and video cameras and concrete barriers to keep the riff-raff out.

On the other hand, I live in one of the sh*ttiest crap-hole cities in the world, so I guess we're even.

Regular Joe wrote:

Your manner in which you express these opinion, with the typical "American" attitude of "we are right you are wrong" is incredibly offensive.

"We are right, you are wrong" has nothing to do with being a US citizen and everything to do with the kind of people who write long posts on internet message boards.

I've live and worked in the US for many years and found most people and most places to be exceptional  but as always, a vocal minority spoil the bunch.

Ah, so I guess that means you're going to apologize for this line:

PS, there's a definite reason you're the most hated country in the world and it's not jealousy. It's you pompous, arrogant, holier than thou attitude.

RJ, please take my advice. If you have a bookmark to this thread, delete it, and let the discussion die. I, for one, will not consider you to have admited any kind of defeat, moral failing, etc.

pottymouth wrote:

a consenting young woman's shaved beaver...

mmm...  beaver...

Hey, so did anyone ever bother to answer the question?

I have a situation similar to the originator of this thread in that I can't enable WEP (my fiancee's WinXP machine just can't handle it.) I'd like to block users based on their IP addy or some other way than by WEP.

Oh, yeah and ... FTP, hand peodophiles by their genetalia, compounds are best when inhaled, and SMURFS?! WTF?!

Whew.

Most decent routers will let you block everything but the machines you specify by MAC address. Not Mac, MAC. Even the PC will have one. If you've got 2 computers, you enter 2 MAC addresses and nobody else will be able to use it.

pottymouth wrote:

Most decent routers will let you block everything but the machines you specify by MAC address. Not Mac, MAC. Even the PC will have one. If you've got 2 computers, you enter 2 MAC addresses and nobody else will be able to use it.

Untill they sniff it and clone your MAC addy.

2ELpH3 - WinXP should be able to handle WEP in its sleep. If not, first thing you should do is update the firmware on the router, the second is update the card's drivers, the third is double check your configuration. I'm serious - it really should be fairly easy to do - the router's documentation should have come with directions specifically for WinXP, since that's what most folks use.

If none of that works, buy your GF a mac - you'll probably get some nookie out of it.

Why was this thread resurrected?

Malkin wrote:

dvpierce wrote:

Why was this thread resurrected?

To torture all of us.

My first thought was "oh crap!"

Oh my hell!  This is hilarious!  I almost p!ssed myself laughing so hard at this!  The funny thing is.... I found this thread by googling "somebody else's wireless. . " to try to figure out how it is that I"m able to access a wireless network without having a wireless router!  -- My new laptop was set up to access wirerless networking in our office building - I brought it home for the weekend expecting to have to plug my cable modem into it - and I found I'm able to get on the internet without plugging in a cable modem!  - My laptop automatically searches out wireless networks - it found three - two of them are not secured?  Am I "stealing" bandwidth or am I merely using what is being offered up freely by generous neighbors?  I live in an (ungated but nice enough) neighborhood of older single family homes - The houses are about as far apart as any homes in a 35 year old neighborhood. 

My real reason for coming to this site - was to find out if my pc is in danger of being hacked if I use this connection, if I should bother to buy my own wireless router, if I can actually access somebody elses pc over this wireless network ( trust me - I'm not nosey or dangerous - I really have no interest in accessing my neighbors pc's - when I house sit for them I never even peek in their underwear drawers!)   My real reason for wondering if I can access their pc is because I"m concerned that somebody can access my pc.  If I use this 'gift" to access my email - will the real subscriber be able to read my email? 

  I'm actually not looking for anybody's opinion of the right or wrong of my  using this connection which I feel is being offered to me freely  AND I have every intention of eventually buying my own wireless router - if that's what I need - I'm new at this but I thinnk it would be bad to get dependent on this connection- only to have the generous neighbor figure out how to password protect his router.  Technically, is my use doing them any harm or is this more like pirating cable tv?  I like to compare  this connection  to the part of my yard that gets watered by my neighbors sprinkler.

Joe - you must be very proud of having your neighbor's 17 year old visitor arrestsed.  I suggest you start a campaign that gives all members of the community the right to approve or disaprove all future visitors  -- maybe hold panel interviews to determine the worthiness of the visitor -  that should cut back on the curious 17 year olds and maybe even a few poor relations with  leaky cars  that might  ruin the asphalt!  You better get outside right now - there might be somebody parking  on the wrong side of the street or putting up an unauthorized lawn ornament!  PS - I chose not to spell check - I thought you might have fun circling my miskeys!

BlondeStranger wrote:

My real reason for coming to this site - was to find out if my pc is in danger of being hacked if I use this connection, if I should bother to buy my own wireless router, if I can actually access somebody elses pc over this wireless network ( trust me - I'm not nosey or dangerous - I really have no interest in accessing my neighbors pc's - when I house sit for them I never even peek in their underwear drawers!)   My real reason for wondering if I can access their pc is because I"m concerned that somebody can access my pc.  If I use this 'gift" to access my email - will the real subscriber be able to read my email?

It would be illegal for you to use someone's wireless internet access without permission - it would be no different than jacking into their wires and accessing their internet connection that way.

If someone has unwittingly left their wireless connection open without any security, then it is likely that they also lack the tech savvy to protect their comp and left themselves vulnerable to attack. Likewise, if you are a n00b, then you might want to read up a bit about securing your comp (firewall in system prefs, to start) - it's not rocket science, and a little can help a lot.

In theory, using an unknown wireless connection can be risky to yourself. It is possible that the owner of the router could be logging data that flows through his connection - logins and passwords to whatever websites you might log into could be compromised.

Of course, this is a somewhat unlikely scenario, but so is credit card fraud, and that has happened to myself and several people I know.

I wouldn't wanna live in a community that doesn't let me look at pr0n.

Did I just say that out loud? Phew.. I only typed it..