Bill Nye, the cable guy

Erica Firment

I spent five fun-filled hours waiting for the cable guy to show up and give me Internet this afternoon. The next-door neighbor figured out that I’ve been freeloading her wireless, and locked down her router.

Curse you bittorrent! Curse your deadly allure and telling bandwidth consumption!

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4 Responses to “Bill Nye, the cable guy”

  • Kara Says:
    April 5th, 2007 at 10:53 pm

    Mmm… my router is always locked down. Am I un-neighborly? :)

  • venus Says:
    April 6th, 2007 at 6:43 am

    Hi,
    Here is a website called http://www.librariansworld.com , quite popular in India , Pakistan , far east etc.

    I would appreciate if you could please visit .

    Venus

  • mysti Says:
    April 6th, 2007 at 3:19 pm

    just fyi, freeloading another person’s wireless (without their consent) is a federal offense in the US. :) It goes along with someone using your router for illegal operations and getting you in trouble b/c it’s your router! Both of the routers in my house are not only password-protected but hidden so you have to know the username to even find the signal.

  • Erica Says:
    April 6th, 2007 at 3:47 pm

    mysti: Whatevs. So’s sodomy. They can come and get me.