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Comment Re:This is just a stupid idea. (Score 1) 449

What I am most worried about is that it would look at the road with 1/2 an inch of snow on it and decide that driving is not safe today. Or worse, we are driving in winter weather and it pulls off to the shoulder and parks because the snow is too thick.

Yes, many people can not drive in winter conditions, but I don't want to wait on the side of the road for two days for the road surface to clear

Comment Re:So.. I doubt you're actually,really getting DOS (Score 1) 319

I am not sure about DSL networks but there is another possibility I have seen on other types of networks. Is it possible there is a broken/infected computer/hardware on the same subnet at the ISP?

The user changes the mac address and gets a new DHCP assignment from the ISP. which changes the IP address each time but is in the same subnet because it is in the same local geographical area . Whenever the router wakes up it finds out that everything on the subnet is getting slammed. The ISP should be able to figure this out.

Wireshark also should help but I would be tempted to do a live boot from CD to a machine that is only connected to the DSL modem then run it from there. Get everything else know off the system.

lots of DSL modems now have wireless access built in. if that is being abused by a neighbor that could also be the problem. Check that out and clamp it down if there is wireless there.

it could also just be a bad modem,

Comment Re:The Blame Game (Score 2) 1532

there were more total votes for democrats in the house than total votes for republicans. Both sides use gerrymanders to protect seats of incumbents, I used to live in a district that was essentially broken into two large pieces connected by a strip that ran down the center of an interstate highway. the strip was only about 10 feet wide and at least a couple of miles long,

Comment The problem is political (Score 1) 736

Since the Luddites were first in vogue the number of hours has gone down, the retirement age began to mean something, and we could afford social welfare programs. Employment back then was miserable.

If you lost your job and did not get work again decades ago it was because you were not willing to do some types of work.

Now we have all this Ayn Rand crap being spouted all over the place and anyone who wants to see continued progress is being labeled a communist.

Most of the jobs that practically anyone could do now do not provide a living wage. You are expected to work 2+ jobs if your skills are not unique.

People who are older than 50 are particularly being damaged by this. Extending Social Security to older and older ages can not continue. It is causing many more valid disability claims.

Listen to the Tea Party people carefully. They want to return to a feudal society.

The problem will eventually solve itself with protests, strikes and perhaps violence. I hope it does not go that far, but I don't see much hope in the short term.
 

Comment writing a book and need screen shots? (Score 1) 413

If the screens and features do not change, why call it a new release? Screen shots in a book that may be incorrect or that say "preview" on them don't impress publishers.

People who do support work for a living and can not play with the real thing before it goes out to the real world look really dumb.

Comment Re:lock it down (Score 1) 884

go to your local 2nd hand store and buy 10 barely working routers and configure them randomly with as tight security as you can. Do not hook any of them to the internet but hook them to some of those timers they sell for people who go on vacation but want there lamps to turn on and off. but with the same MAC address (if possible) and same hidden SSID They will all be POS routers that in addition to power cycling randomly will be crashing every so often. you might be able to set them up with MAC filtering on all mac addresses if you really want to have fun. Or install a version of an open source wireless router OS but edit the code first so that it is deliberately broken and install on a router.

If you have a spare computer you can set up a web server that only serves a copy of the Google home page. Or perhaps the FBI computer fraud page to any http request on these routers.

Ideally though, you need to stop this guy before he attracts the authorities to you through your service provider by doing some thing illegal. even if that means shutting down all wireless networks or setting up shielding.

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