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Comment evercookie (Score 1) 152

It would be trivial to write a script that just gave you a new MAC address every hour.

You'd also have to write scripts that clear out all the stored objects used by the evercookie library. Even if you abstain from Flash, Java, and Silverlight, there are plenty of persistence mechanisms in both HTTP itself and JavaScript.

Comment How to find such a friend? (Score 1) 940

You can't tell me that living with a friend would be a crime. I'm not talking about a lease, I'm talking about charity.

Then how does one go about finding such a friend willing to offer such charity? Perhaps it appears easy to you, but a lot of people remain homeless because they lack certain social skills. This could result from autism spectrum disorder, schizophrenia, past abuse, or any of several other conditions.

So, kind of like "no one stays in shelters; there's too many people there."

Yeah, obligatory Yogi Berra, I know, but let me rephrase: No one can rely long-term on staying in shelters because it is too likely that on a given night, there are too many people there.

Setting foot in a different country is a crime? You'll need to explain that one a little more.

The Wikipedia article titled "Illegal immigration" should serve as a convenient starting point.

I was assuming, though, that one could find another city with different laws. Where I live, there are sit/lie laws. There are a half-dozen cities in the region that don't have them, and they become known as places with lots of homeless people around.

And I was assuming that the lack of sit/lie laws in those half-dozen nearby cities would not last forever because those half-dozen nearby cities would want to try to shake that perception.

In the U.S. at least, there aren't national laws outlawing being homeless; those are usually left to cities, and those laws vary place-to-place.

Then how should somebody who is already homeless go about researching which nearby cities both A. lack a sit/lie law and B. are highly unlikely to adopt one in the next twelve months?

Comment It's how the mode is worded (Score 1) 207

The problem is not the existence of a low power mode but the fact that it isn't called "Low power mode".

[X] Low power mode
Reduce the power of the gateway's Wi-Fi radio. This causes the radio to interfere less with other nearby devices and can limit ability to connect from outside a building or from a neighboring apartment. A weaker signal is also believed to reduce harm to an unborn child.

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