On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 09:01:19AM -0500, Daniel Taylor wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Mike Horwath wrote: > > Any implication otherwise could be taken as a personal > affront, but given the medium I will not take offense. > This time. Get thicker skin. Really. > > > 2: I am reluctant to share positively identifying information > > > with people that have a demonstrated tendency to abuse it. > > > > Then you are part of the wrong group. > > Excuse me, but I have noticed noone in this group who > has a demonstrated tendency to abuse such information. > Collect it uninvited, yes, but not abuse it. You are assuming that the people here are going to abuse it. I do not assume such, my address is below, I do not try to hide. > If you _know_ of such people in this group, with _certainty_, > it would be irresponsible to withold such information. Why? I am not your father trying to protect you from someone who will bully you. > > > I would rather trust the entire student body of the highschool near > > > my house than a single Cable exec with access to my network. > > > > Then you live in a world shaded blue. > > Um, Mike, I know you have been around this business a long > time, but I didn't think that prolonged exposure to computers > caused brainrot. It doesn't. Do you really think a cable exec cares about you at all? I don't. While a HS kid might, you have valuables, you have a hot daughter, you have a car that is sweet. Why do you think you rate so highly with cable execs anyway? > I can take measures to keep my AP from external abuse, > like not running it when I'm not around to use it. Running > on low power so my access footprint is not much (any?) > larger than my lot. I'll only run a public AP when I have > means and method to do so practically. Since WEP is a farce (yes, I use it as well), any AP is an open issue, just like running any type of server on the 'net in general. Don't think that turning the power down protects you. Kind of like saying: I am on DSL, why would anyone want to steal bandwidth from me? Answer: Because they can. > I can NOT protect myself from people who can cut off my > upstream connectivity based on suppositions of my possible > activities based on my membership in one group or another. > Except by not participating in such groups. Okay, and? > I live in a broadband-limited area. The last round of DSL > provisioning changes might have me eligible for 256K ADSL. > Maybe. If I'm lucky. That would be wonderful. DSL kicks booty, it is the best thing I have seen for home and small business use ever. Sure, cable is faster, but you have no choice in ISP or extra services. DSL may not have the speed...but it has everything else you would want in a beer, and less! > So I'm stuck on cable. You aren't stuck on cable...you just said otherwise above. -- Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau at Geeks.ORG Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period.