Peter, where does this guy spend his days? Does he magically develop an immunity to these effects during the day since it only mentions there's any issue when he needs to sleep? I suppose, if he works, there are no WiFi "hot-spots" within a similar distance to his place of work as his neighbor's house is to his? Come on man, it may not be impossible that some are sensitive to this but if sensitivity is only at night then that's enough to be suspect of his story.
As far as not being able to stay at a hotel is also a fib, there are plenty hotels out there not offering WiFi, or even wired internet for that matter. I also suppose cellphones were just invented yesterday!! Get a grip!
Not knowing the location of the coffee shop location, strip mall, shopping center, is the parking lot necessarily the property of the coffee shop? Depends how far away he was parked, maybe he was parked in front of the neighboring dry cleaner...
Well, obviously that guy is no expert. Not only can you see the ip address assigned to the connecting computer (if you are using DHCP) but you can also see the MAC address, time lease was started and all kinds of information. You just need to know where to turn logging on in your router, and most log this info without you having to do anything. A suggestion to keep your WiFi at home more secure. Don't broadcast the SSID, don't use DHCP (inconvenient if using a laptop at work and at home), use MAC filtering allowing only your hardware to connect, CHANGE DEFAULT SETTINGS (if your router is 192.168.1.1 from the factory, change it to 192.154.24.20 for example), change the password, ENABLE ENCRYPTION. Now, not only would an intruder have to guess your SSID and your network address, he would also have to spoof your MAC address. While not impossibe to hack, you've certainly eliminated the average freeloader from attaching to your WiFi node.
This is the only way liberals (far left) can get anywhere these days. Hope their name calling, hateful rants get traction and brainwash the younger generation. Thankfully, most people still have a brain of their own and shuts the nonsense out. Keep going libs, the dem's are successfully shooting themselves in the foot almost every day.
Of course, this is often how you get new business. Taking the Dead as an example, how good do you think the quality of most live recordings at these shows were? Great novelty value and sentimental value, but many of these people would go and buy the album to get the quality sound. In the IT industry we constantly throw in free functionality in order to get the big account - seems like human nature to me - what's wrong with enticing prospective customers with some free stuff? Glickman is off his rocker as usual.
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Peter, where does this guy spend his days? Does he magically develop an immunity to these effects during the day since it only mentions there's any issue when he needs to sleep? I suppose, if he works, there are no WiFi "hot-spots" within a similar distance to his place of work as his neighbor's house is to his? Come on man, it may not be impossible that some are sensitive to this but if sensitivity is only at night then that's enough to be suspect of his story.
As far as not being able to stay at a hotel is also a fib, there are plenty hotels out there not offering WiFi, or even wired internet for that matter. I also suppose cellphones were just invented yesterday!! Get a grip!
Re: Knee-jerk reactions?
Not knowing the location of the coffee shop location, strip mall, shopping center, is the parking lot necessarily the property of the coffee shop? Depends how far away he was parked, maybe he was parked in front of the neighboring dry cleaner...
Re: The Joys of Fear-Mongering
Well, obviously that guy is no expert. Not only can you see the ip address assigned to the connecting computer (if you are using DHCP) but you can also see the MAC address, time lease was started and all kinds of information. You just need to know where to turn logging on in your router, and most log this info without you having to do anything. A suggestion to keep your WiFi at home more secure. Don't broadcast the SSID, don't use DHCP (inconvenient if using a laptop at work and at home), use MAC filtering allowing only your hardware to connect, CHANGE DEFAULT SETTINGS (if your router is 192.168.1.1 from the factory, change it to 192.154.24.20 for example), change the password, ENABLE ENCRYPTION. Now, not only would an intruder have to guess your SSID and your network address, he would also have to spoof your MAC address. While not impossibe to hack, you've certainly eliminated the average freeloader from attaching to your WiFi node.
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This is the only way liberals (far left) can get anywhere these days. Hope their name calling, hateful rants get traction and brainwash the younger generation. Thankfully, most people still have a brain of their own and shuts the nonsense out. Keep going libs, the dem's are successfully shooting themselves in the foot almost every day.
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Of course, this is often how you get new business. Taking the Dead as an example, how good do you think the quality of most live recordings at these shows were? Great novelty value and sentimental value, but many of these people would go and buy the album to get the quality sound. In the IT industry we constantly throw in free functionality in order to get the big account - seems like human nature to me - what's wrong with enticing prospective customers with some free stuff? Glickman is off his rocker as usual.