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   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:00:14 +0100, Ed Cryer   
    wrote:   
      
   >Chris wrote:   
   >> micky  wrote:   
   >>> In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:41:26 -0400, micky   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Watching the video (I like these shows and used to tape the People's   
   >>>> Court, but not anymore) I see that on this show, the seal of the state   
   >>>> of Florida is in the background.   So I'm sure they use Florida laws.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Although since there is no appeal, because the parties agree to that, if   
   >>>> a judge made a mistake, you'd probably be stuck.  Read the contract.   
   >>>   
   >>> I didn't know there were still places in the USA that didn't just sell   
   >>> unlimited internet.   
   >>   
   >> Irrelevant to the case. The neighbour was using a service he didn't pay for   
   >> and had no right to use it.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   >My ISP (BT, in the UK)   
      
   Does no one speak in words anymore!   
      
   > has hotspots all over the place. These are simply   
   >other people's routers, which have been pre-configured with a public   
   >channel on a standard SSID.   
   >They're pretty loud; I've used a few. You login with your usual BT ID.   
   >   
   >It is possible to remove the public channels, but very few do that, not   
   >knowing how.   
   >   
   >My personal opinion is that I like it; very sociable. But I can see how   
   >some asshole might find it good fun to monopolise his neighbour's wifi   
   >with massive downloads.   
   >   
   >Ed   
      
   Here, Xfinity (Comcast) has something like that.  It's mostly for their   
   own customers and I forget how it is for others.  I have a tendency to   
   go on out of town trips without taking the address of where I'm going,   
   and 10 or 20 years ago I drove to Pennsylvania and had to find some   
   hotspot like that to look up where the hamfest was.  It must have been   
   before smartphones.   
      
   This past March, I was away for a week and in a parking lot at Walmart   
   in Florida and I had time to use my computer for the first time, and   
   before I had turned on hotspot on my phone, the laptop downloaded my   
   email using an unlocked xfinity hotspot (even though I still don't have   
   that).   When I turned on my hotspot I could see that it worked at 3x   
   the speed or more.   Walmart lets people park over night, even in   
   campers.  This lot had about 100 cars there all night, in a lot that   
   held 800 or 1000.  Some must have been workers working inside the store,   
   but at least a couple, plus me, were sleeping in their  car.  I don't   
   know who the other cars belonged to.   
      
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