if the problem is greater than blocking their IP range, could you not setup a passive system that only allowed requests on a specific port, by a specific application, and the other requests ttl before leaving your home network?

being a decade old in the early 90's, i grew up loving music from the 70's+, i was trendy enough to get into the backstreet boys, spice girls, snoop dogg, soundgarden. recently, ive found myself still loving music from the 60's+ and detesting both audio-ly and visually. my "new thing" is "chicks that sing". that has opened me up to bypassing cultural/familial prejudice in music, and has enveloped a real enjoyment for country music. Lindsey Stirling (sp?) is up there on enjoying music that mixes genre. i still crank "the momma's and the pappa's" or bob dylan when i hear them. my biggest concern for people experiencing music is not having the resources (friends or knowledge) to really experience music.

where i grok and empathize with all the complaints about government surveillance, i am just left wondering how if they can spy on us so easily, why can they not provide us with better regulations for life. i mean with all the data analytics and voice/video/txt information, you think they would at least provide us with better standardized living.

The epic privacy browser has been a godsend for my "poor" internet browsing. i almost forgot what popups look like.

For a reference point, i would recommend researching NLP or NeuroLinguisticProgramming. An Adage i have adopted is that if it works in one thing, it works in everything, or it does not work. How that can relate to your personal interactions, if to find a relative example, be it baking a cake, dissassembly of an engine, or how how the internals of your HDD resemble information/music being recorded and/or played on a record player. The trick to communication is 2fold. you have to share an experience for familiarity/trust and you have to present in a manner that can be translated. intro/extro we are all verts and by utilizing the skills we are already more than proficient at, we can display groking of anyevery other thing.

Have you thought about using a range booster or cantenna? Hackaday has several builds and might provide better signal over greater distances. http://hackaday.com/2009/07/07/various-cantenna-builds/

chronotrigger, and a real sequal.

2003 sounds about right. i see no reason to pay for a service that has poor customer service and only 10 channels out of hundreds that i will watch. i prefer word of mouth for new shows, a streaming site like hulu or veoh etc. failing that, nothing beats a torrent.