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Miami, FL | ! *Yawn* So what's new? | |
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Richmond, VA | and..... so you post it here so that more people can go and abuse this? Nice work.....
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Richmond, VA | Re: and..... I'm not complaining at all....just trying to figure out the purpose behind it. Hey, I just found an ATM that is spitting out 20's.....let me post it on BBR so more people can do it.
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00000 | Re: and..... said by yahtzee:I'm not complaining at all....just trying to figure out the purpose behind it. Hey, I just found an ATM that is spitting out 20's.....let me post it on BBR so more people can do it. Teach me wise man! The 20's way of life!
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Richmond, VA | Re: and..... said by NJxxxJon:said by yahtzee:I'm not complaining at all....just trying to figure out the purpose behind it. Hey, I just found an ATM that is spitting out 20's.....let me post it on BBR so more people can do it. Teach me wise man! The 20's way of life! You obviously dont own a business.
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1 edit | Re: and..... I dont own a business ripping off ATM's machines as a side hobby - If thats a way to put it. | |
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San Francisco, CA | As of this morning I tried this hack, but they required Active-X during login. | |
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|  nixenRockin' the BoxenPremium
join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA | said by yahtzee:so you post it here so that more people can go and abuse this? Nice work..... Had they forced you to install some form of Active-X control (or whatever) that actually verified the OS, they wouldn't have had this problem. This was less about restricting access than raising product awareness. Neither side lost anything. If anything, BBR publishing this "hack", simply furthers Microsoft's goals.
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Bellingham, WA | Why bother? There are literally a hundred other coffee shops in town that not only offer free wifi to any wifi enabled device (not just PC's running Vista) but most of them serve better coffee than Starburnt too. | |
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| | | Re: Why bother? Starbucks sucks. I hate their coffee. And why the hell is it lukewarm? For $6 you would think it could be HOT! Drink Orange Juice. Better for you anyway. In Atlanta, these morons had 2 starbucks on the same street. Right across from each other.
Considering these morons can't make HOT coffee, I doubt these morons can secure a wi-fi network either. | |
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join:2000-12-03
Richmond, VA | Re: Why bother? Starbucks coffee isnt $6. If you are paying $6, then its some type of other drink which most likely isnt served piping hot anyway. Also, a large cup of Dunkin Donuts coffee costs more than a large cup of Starbucks coffee.....
I also would imagine that it's T-Mobile that is responsible for the WiFi service at the Starbucks locations......what did you think? "Can i have a grande latte and while you're back there, can you reboot the AP"?
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Bethlehem, PA | Re: Why bother? said by yahtzee:Starbucks coffee isnt $6. If you are paying $6, then its some type of other drink which most likely isnt served piping hot anyway. Also, a large cup of Dunkin Donuts coffee costs more than a large cup of Starbucks coffee..... A large DD coffee here is $1.90 I believe - is Starbucks cheaper? We don't have any around here so I don't know.
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| | | | | | Re: Why bother? said by furlonium:said by yahtzee:Starbucks coffee isnt $6. If you are paying $6, then its some type of other drink which most likely isnt served piping hot anyway. Also, a large cup of Dunkin Donuts coffee costs more than a large cup of Starbucks coffee..... A large DD coffee here is $1.90 I believe - is Starbucks cheaper? We don't have any around here so I don't know. Roughly the same price. And that's for the tall size. It's not expensive at all. Where it gets expensive is when you want more than "just coffee" or "just tea". Fraps are insanely priced as are lattes and other specialty drinks. But the regular coffee and tea are reasonably priced. I don't drink the regular coffee, but I will have a Shaken Iced Green Tea every now and then. 2 bucks is not breaking anyone's bank people. | |
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| | | | | | | Re: Why bother? LOL... a "tall" at Starbucks is the smallest size: quite a bit smaller than Dunkin Donuts'. | |
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| | | | | | | | Re: Why bother? When I say "tall" I'm referring to the "Venti" size. I just hate their naming convention and choose not to use it. | |
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Jacksonville, FL | mo·ron (môr'ŏn', mōr'-) pronunciation
n.
1. A stupid person; a dolt.
2. Psychology. A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational education. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
[From Greek mōron, neuter of mōros, stupid, foolish.] | |
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Seriously taking advantage of a companies mistake is priceless. | |
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Pittsburgh, PA | said by kyramilan: In Atlanta, these morons had 2 starbucks on the same street. Right across from each other. It's because people are either too lazy or too busy to cross the street or go a block. Starbucks ain't the morons, their customers are. | |
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Monterey, CA | Re: Why bother? Starbucks ain't the morons, their customers are.
Hi umm Pot...I would like to introduce you to my friend Kettle... | |
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join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | Wooooooohoooooooo! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
free Wi-fi!
I got 9 open APs without even coming out of my house!
I guess the really cool thing is being able to stick it to microsoft.
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Palmdale, CA | it's not easy to change your user-agent string someone correct me if I'm wrong, but in internet explorer, there's absolutely no way to change your user-agent string at all, and I'm not sure if firefox has this ability, as I don't use it. Assuming it does not though, the only utilities I know of that can change a user-agent string to whatever the user desires is the wget download tool, and the lynx web browser mainly on linux systems. I'd be amazed if there was anything that could do this for windows, and even if there were, no average person would know how to do this, or would even care. | |
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Tulsa, OK | Re: it's not easy to change your user-agent string a number of tweak tools can do this in seconds | |
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Los Angeles, CA
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1 edit | Re: it's not easy to change your user-agent string I just did it, it took me about 30 seconds. But I can get several APs near me that give 2x to 3x the speed and no security. I need a compelling reason to get out of my warm bed and drive to a Kinkos just for this.
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I just done it, real easy to do. I didn't bother signing up because I live in Canada and don't take my laptop anywhere outside the house | |
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kudos:1 | its a trial Its a trial folks, its going to be gone soon, its just a promotion, doesnt matter if people cheat. Personally, I dont bother with WIFI, not worth the waiting time, bad APs, no DHCP addresses, no connection to internet, and all the other crap i get on WIFI, EVDO is so much better even though its slower. | |
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|  SpyderCKEWe call that the Dennis Miller RatioPremium
join:2000-10-26
Milwaukee, WI | Re: its a trial Reading further, you still need to dl an ActiveX that checks for Vista.. | |
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join:2003-05-19
San Luis Obispo, CA | Meanwhile...I'm at my local Starbuck's,Boarders, ect...using T-Mobile's WiFi with no problems at all(using a T-Mobile MDA PDA/Cell phone). Granted T-Mobile's WiFi offering is part of my $29.95 monthly data package(GPRS/EDGE), I also use my MDA's WiFi with my personal router at the home. Waiting time? Try over 1Mbs download at the home. DHCP issues? None that I deal with-either with T-Mobile's hotspot or my WiFi at the home. No connection to the internet? That's YOUR problem, sport. I HAVE no problems at all. Have a nice day...
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kudos:2 | Nice wording... "Grab free"? So if I use a fake ID/badge to impersonate a McDonald's employee, go into the back, and take some food, I'm just "grabbing free" food? | |
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| Is it ripping T-Mobile off or not? There is absolutely nothing illegal about making a change to your browser's agent string and doing so does not constitute "theft of service". Rather it comes under the legal principle of the "unshielded window": if i leave my window shades up and you're not physically trespassing on my property you can stare in and see what you will for as long as you want, or until I lower the shade.
T-Mobile's window shades are up for three months!
Instructions on changing your user agent are here: »www.scanmybrowser.com/change_ua.html
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