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Congrats! I guess were gonna lose ya at 3 gun,to the long rangers at aedc Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.
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Comcast wifi free for the masses on your dime
Dustbuster replied to Dustbuster's topic in General Chat
Kind of like cell service providers. people freak over the idea of their phone being tracked. Read line 56023 on page 8915 of your contract, the one that's in the book that we throw out about cell phone safety. The catch phrase is location based services with random quality assurance. Don't think for a minute demographic and customer use info is not being sold to marketing whiz bangs that sell that crap to highest bidders. Like the ones that wanna know where to build a new walmart or mc d. Comcast wants to squeeze every dime out of their copper and customers. ATT gave up on copper and doesn't want to support it period it or build new. AT&T will be on the bandwagon with screwu verse and it's fiber network Like the last thing a redneck says before riding that shopping cart off the roof: Hey y'all watch this shit!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling. -
Looks good!! I love home brew custom work!!! Awesome!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.
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Work safe for sure!! Adams cor ultralight on top Dolobuster home brew on the bottom 3 gun ready! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.
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20 pushups for mis spelling a staff nco's title!
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congrats, cmon down to the range so we can pin that extra star and stripe on when its time! hooah
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Interesting read, anyway they can make money on that copper, and off customers: Comcast, a perennial champion in the “Most Hated Companies†surveys, has now figured out a way to have me pay to help construct a nationwide network of public WiFi hotspots, using equipment inside my house. Comcast plans to offer public access to the WiFi network inside my house for rates starting at $2.95 an hour. Here’s how it works. Like most Comcast customers, I rent my cable modem from Comcast for $7 a month. The cable modem has within it a wireless internet radio transmitter, which allows me to create my home WiFi network. When a friend visited last week and wanted to connect his computer to my wireless network, he asked me which network to use: WeaselNet, my private network, which required a password, or XFINITY WIFI, a public network that did not require a password. Both showed four-bar signals, the strongest WiFi signals in the house. A bit of poking around revealed that the mysterious new XFINITY WIFI public network signal was so strong inside my house because it was actually inside my house. In fact, it was in the same Comcast router that operates my private home network. Okay, I’m a bit slow. Simple research reveals that Comcast started testing the XFINITY WIFI service in a handful of cities last year. Comcast is now expanding the scheme, equipping all of its new cable modems – they call them “wireless gateways†— with this dual-network WiFi capability. But it didn’t hit home until it hit my home. The second, public network is created by default. The network’s SSID (Service Set Identifier, the code that allows computer, tablets, phones and other devices to connect to the wireless network) is broadcast to the world. Comcast does not ask permission to set up a second, public network inside my house, using the bandwidth that I’m paying for. It does not ask permission to route the data traffic of strangers through the same router that handles my private network. No, Comcast is The Honey Badger. Comcast calls this a “feature enhancement.†A Comcast spokesman said, “The wireless gateways rent for $7 a month and there’s no additional charge for enabling the public networks.†IT’S A FEATURE, NOT A BUG Me: Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup. Comcast: Don’t worry sir. No extra charge. Me: Waiter, there’s also a strange man sitting at my table. Comcast: You have an extra chair at the table, and he’s paying to eat whatever soup you have left over. There’s no extra charge to you for the companionship. Me: Whoa. Now there’s a big snake. He looks scary. Comcast: He’s renting the other chair, waiting for the fly. No extra charge. It’s a brilliant strategy: Comcast doesn’t have to spend a dime to build out a nationwide mesh of wireless hotspots. Instead, it has its customers pay for both the hardware and the bandwidth. Comcast then generates megabucks in new profits by re-selling access to the hardware and bandwidth. If people squawk, Comcast merely points out that it, not the customer, owns the box. If the customer doesn’t like it, they can switch to another broadband provider. SWITCH? Oops. Silly me. There isn’t another broadband provider in most towns, if you use the same definition of broadband that the rest of the world uses. If the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger is approved, there will be even less competition. So let’s add up the pros and cons, starting with the pros. As long as I remain a paying Comcast customer, I get free access to the public wireless network when I’m out of the house. Instead of using up my data allowance on 4G wireless telephone carrier networks, I can freeload on some other Comcast sucker’s home WiFi network. The next time I buy a tablet computer, I might decide not to pay extra for the 4G radio and monthly telephone company wireless service fees, because Comcast will soon be a nationwide monopoly and half the broadband households in America will be open hotspots. I live in the last house on a dead-end street in a small town, so the chances of weirdoes parking in front of my house to use my broadband connection are minimal. And now the cons. Despite Comcast’s assurances to the contrary, I’m unconvinced that increased network traffic will not slow down my home broadband service. Comcast says there is more than enough capacity on the feed into my house to accommodate any extra traffic. If that’s the case, why do my network speeds so often fall woefully short of the speeds I’m paying for? Why does my system slow to a crawl on Friday nights when all the neighbor kids are streaming movies and playing online games? Comcast says: “The broadband connection to your home will be unaffected by the XFINITY WIFI feature. Your in-home WiFi network, as well as XFINITY WIFI, use shared spectrum, and as with any shared medium there can be some impact as more devices share WiFi. We have provisioned the XFINITY WiFii feature to support robust usage, and therefore, we anticipate minimal impact to the in-home WiFi network.†Comcast’s customer service reps were unable to answer my questions: Does XFINITY WIFI run on the same channel as my private home network, in which case my network performance will definitely suffer? Or does it run on a separate channel, in which case it will probably interfere with my private home network? Wireless networks are notoriously hard to secure. I simply don’t believe Comcast when it says there is no risk in allowing a stranger to directly connect to the router that controls my private home network. Once on the public network, the proverbial 14-year-old hacker would have little problem hijacking the router and taking control of my private network, where he or she could intercept all my user names and passwords, etc. If I’ve allowed sharing on the network, the hacker would have access to the files on every shared device. Let’s go to Comcast’s XFINITY WIFI FAQ: A DISCOUNT? Q. Is Comcast going to give me a discount? [Hysterical laughter] Okay, I made that one up. But the next two are verbatim: Q. How do I disable/enable the XFINITY WIFI Home Hotspot feature? “We encourage all subscribers to keep this feature enabled as it allows more people to enjoy the benefits of XFINITY WIFI around the neighborhood. You will always have the ability to disable the XFINITY WIFI feature on your Wireless Gateway by calling 1-800-XFINITY. You can also visit My Account at http://customer.comcast.com/, click on “Users & Preferences,†and then select “Manage XFINITY WIFI.†Q. What happens if I choose to disable the Home Hotspot feature? “We encourage all subscribers to keep this feature enabled as it allows more people to enjoy the benefits of XFINITY WIFI around the neighborhood. You will always have the ability to disable the XFINITY WIFI feature on your Wireless Gateway by calling 1-800-XFINITY. You can also visit My Account at http://customer.comcast.com/, click on “Users & Preferences,†and then select “Manage XFINITY WIFI.†I guess Comcast doesn’t want me to disable the XFINITY WIFI network. And if Comcast doesn’t want me to do something, it goes to the top of my To Do list. I’m now shopping to buy my own cable box. Comcast can’t force me to create a public wireless network on a box that it doesn’t own. And then maybe I’ll set up my own open public network – after hiding my private SSID and firewalling the hell out of it – under the Open Wireless Movement, because a free, open, nationwide, wireless broadband network is a good idea. 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We've lost another true hero. I had the honor of shaking this mans hand and thanking him several years ago. His story is too important and must be shared...rip old warrior!! Chester Nez, the last original Navajo Code Talker, has passed away in his Albuquerque home. Nez was recruited with 28 other Native Americans by the U.S. Marines to create a code the Japanese couldn't crack during World War II. Nez went into kidney failure Wednesday morning. He was 93. "Many people have met him," said Judy Avila, a friend and author of Nez's memoir. "When you meet him, you're charmed by him." He was the last living member of the group. "There were a lot of people and naysayers who said, 'How can these young Navajo men help us?' But it turned out to be the only unbroken spoken code in modern warfare," said Avila. After Avila wrote the memoir, so many people showed up to a 2011 book signing in Albuquerque that the store sold out. "I'm just happy that all these people reading (the memoir) will know what my Navajo people did for this country," said Nez. After the success of the original 29 code talkers, more were recruited. Avila believes about 400 Navajos were enlisted. The original 29 Code Talkers were given the Congressional Gold Medal in 2001. When then-President George W. Bush stuck out his hand to congratulate Nez, he stood at attention and saluted the commander-in-chief. Mobile users: Click HERE to watch Royale's full on-air report All flags on the Navajo Nation will be flown at half-staff until June 8 in honor of Nez. Nez's public viewing will take place June 9 from 5-8 p.m. at French Mortuary, 10500 Lomas Blvd. NE. A mass will be held June 10 from 10-11:30 a.m. at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church, 4020 Lomas Blvd. NE. A graveside service will be held at the Santa Fe National Cemetery from 1:30-2:15 p.m. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.
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First hoarding 22 ammo from Wally World,now this.....all fun aside, inside job......by someone the store owners knew.... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.
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Funny read, I think I saw the talking bears do something close to that. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.
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Diane Feinstein used the plane as a toothpick to pry old important business out if her rectal cavity Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.
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Gun related toilet humor ! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.
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I hear ya on the flipside I guess if I ate a good steak I could get hit by a bus leaving the restaurant so the trade-off is moot. Plutonium sushi doesn't even sound good blah back to Logan's it is ! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.
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I love sushi and Asian cuisine in general. Chinese I don't care for too much but u didn't do too bad. 12 or 13 bucks for a roll isn't unusual anymore. The only thing I'm eeeeky over is radioactive fish from japan hitting our markets... Am not into fish w night sights.... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.
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Hahahahhaha good one!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.
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Here's my favorite!!! Post yours to show your pride!!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.
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Roflmao that's funny I like how he puts the knife next to a bowl of: FRUIT Loops hahahahaha Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.
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Please delete all of the above as shown in this post.. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.
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Call ITT tech electronics class in nashville they may fix it depending on class schedule Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.
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What a blast!!! Shotgun central today!! Thanks guys!!! Best one yet! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.
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Funny how he laughs at " liberals". Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.
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My thoughts exactly can't go wrong w a sig 40. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.
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Wilderness line is excellent Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.
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Does this 3 percent actually vote at the polls every election? Davidson Co has 223000 registered voters last election only 22000 people voted,,.... The one big reason were stuck with the worthless leader we have is because last 2 elections, voters literally crawled out from under the bridges, and out of dumpsters to vote, a lot more than 3 percent. If the 3 percent are the watchmen or gatekeepers, I like it. If the 3 percent can't generate physical action, it may be nothing more than a circular Facebook campaign....all meme's from couch taters.... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.
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Which handgun platform do you like and why? (1911 not included)
Dustbuster replied to JKGlock17's topic in Handguns
And when it does look out! when ya get bit by the sig bug, whats in youre wallet becomes a serious issue! LOL