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Comment: Re:lock it down (Score 1) 884

by maxwells_deamon (#42964619) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech?

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.

Comment: Re:Do you use the start menu often? (Score 1) 570

by maxwells_deamon (#42829967) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Buying a Laptop That Doesn't Have Windows 8

you can quickly build shortcut buttons for the desktop to do reboot and shutdown (google is your friend) then you can add them to the start screen as well by browsing to the shortcut and selecting pin to start (or something close to that).

Should this be in a standard install, of course, but it is easy to fix.

Comment: continuity be damned (Score 1) 735

by maxwells_deamon (#42686447) Attached to: J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars VII

Who ever does continuity and science consistency checks for Abrams should be banned from all future creative work. I think he should be voted most likely to reboot the script and not reshoot what is already in the can.

I can see it now: people dying after getting sucked into the vacuum of space but others without spacesuits saving them by doing mouth to mouth while waiting for the airlock to cycle.

Comment: Re:Randomized passwords are the best (Score 5, Insightful) 193

by maxwells_deamon (#42641119) Attached to: Bad Grammar Make Bestest Password, Research Say

I don't have a different phone number for every person I call. People I call do not make up rules like my phone number must be at least x characters long, must have a special character in it, can not have a special character in it, must not begin with an upper case letter, must begin with a character, must begin with an emoticon ;-)
and I don't know what other crap they are about to come up with...

Comment: Re:About time but is it enough (Score 1) 53

Kaiser is now much harder to work with.

They will not request medical records to be transferred from your old doctor. As far as I can tell, you must request them directly from your old doctor on paper (this generally means paying for copying costs at a jacked up per page rate) then the fun really begins.

You can't just take the copies of the records to Kaiser and ask them to put them in the system, you have to take them to the doctor (in that department) with an appointment and have the doctor designate what is important to be entered into your local records. Multiple conditions has meant multiple doctors get the information.

It is usually easier just to let them order new tests/x-rays

The attitude you are left with it that they do not trust other doctors.

Comment: Make sure your age is not obvious (Score 1) 232

by maxwells_deamon (#42497941) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Advice For Getting Tech Career Back On Track

If you are looking for work and your resume shows anything over 15 ago (or even sometimes 10 years ago) most HR departments will blackball it. If it is your current job they might look at it but otherwise flush. I have even been told by a well known contract firm that they don't look at anything related to the current position they are trying to fill if it is over 1 1/2 years ago,

Comment: I wonder how much the water in the air factors in (Score 3, Interesting) 133

by maxwells_deamon (#41690171) Attached to: How Hair Can be Used To Track Where You've Been

Having lived in very dry places. (It frequently gets below 5% humidity in the summer outdoors) I know that with low humidity you can dry out fairly quickly. In Phoenix you are allowed to carry water into most sporting events because you need to replace the water that evaporates and everyone does it in the summer.

When you are in someplace that is humid, you do not dry out as quickly because the water is being replaced by water in the air (yet I know there are other factors),

It would be interesting to strictly control the isotope content in diet/drink for a month but in two different regions and then do a comparison.

If you look like your driver's license photo -- see a doctor. If you look like your passport photo -- it's too late for a doctor.

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