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Old February 16th 19, 07:56 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Rene Lamontagne
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On 02/16/2019 11:59 AM, 123456789 wrote:
On 2/16/2019 9:33 AM, nospam wrote:
123456789 wrote:


an acoustic coupler *is* a modem, just one that's acoustically coupled
versus hardwired.


Of course. But Roger and I were talking about a particular kind of modem
that we once used many years ago: The acoustic coupler. If Roger and I
were talking about the convertibles we had in our youth (and they were
fun) would you gripe because I didn't use the word car?
I just slipped one coupler cup on the phone's mouthpiece, the other on
the phone's earpiece, and I was good to go. 20 seconds max. No moving
hotel furniture, no attacking spiders, no screwing around (literally).


a screwdriver and an rj11 jack are a lot smaller, with both fitting in
a pants pocket


Putting the coupler in a suitcase was not a big burden when I traveled.
Much like I take a laptop or tablet along today.

connect it once when first arriving and remove it before checking out.


As I said YMMV. With my luck the hotel room cleaning person would spot
the unauthorized electrical trespass and report me. Then I'd be out on
my ear... 8-O

and if you're staying in a hotel with attacking spiders, you have other
problems than worrying about getting online.


You and Arlen need to work on your sense of humor...


They are like a pair of demented Parrots. (maybe they are and not just
like).

Rene

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Old February 16th 19, 09:17 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 2/16/2019 11:22 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
123456789 wrote:


Roger and I were talking about a particular kind of modem
that we once used many years ago: The acoustic coupler. If Roger and I
were talking about the convertibles we had in our youth (and they were
fun) would you [nospam] gripe because I didn't use the word car?


That is one of them rethorical thingies, isn't it!?


I agree. This is getting complicated isn't it.

If I had just added "I don't remember what speed my acoustic coupler
was" I could have saved myself a spam attack...
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Old February 16th 19, 09:17 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 2/16/2019 11:15 AM, nospam wrote:
123456789 wrote:


Putting the coupler in a suitcase was not a big burden


...you would have needed a laptop back then anyway.


Oh for the good old days. Nowadays on trips I often carry 2 tablets, a
laptop, 2 phones, 7 chargers, a power strip, and a 15 foot extension
cord cause you never know where the hotel outlets will be (whew)...

With my luck the hotel room cleaning person would spot
the unauthorized electrical trespass and report me.


they aren't paid enough to care, assuming they even notice


You've been to every hotel and interviewed every service worker then?

no such thing as 'electrical trespass'.


Electrical: Something with wires.
Trespass: Going somewhere where you're not authorized to be.
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Old February 16th 19, 09:23 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 2019-02-16, Tim Slattery wrote:
We had a party line when I was 8 years old or so. A LONG time ago.


This was around 1983, a long time ago but modern enough times that
it came to me as a surprise that a private line was not available.

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Old February 16th 19, 09:54 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Buffalo wrote:

Hehe. http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/toys.html for my past and
current stuff. Yeah, these days I use ancient stuff like my
decade old PCs. I care not for the newer stuff anymore.

Nice link.
Thanks,


You're welcome.
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Old February 16th 19, 10:15 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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123456789 wrote:
On 2/16/2019 11:15 AM, nospam wrote:
123456789 wrote:


Putting the coupler in a suitcase was not a big burden


...you would have needed a laptop back then anyway.


Is this/he for real!?

When you were using/carrying the acoustic coupler around, did you
have/use a *laptop*!? It was most likely a 'portable computer', FSVSVO
'portable'. ('Mine' had to be carried by two people and that was only
the computer, never mind the peripherals.)

BTW, I couldn't find an introduction date for RJ11, but I'm quite sure
that our acoustic coupler didn't have it.

Oh for the good old days. Nowadays on trips I often carry 2 tablets, a
laptop, 2 phones, 7 chargers, a power strip, and a 15 foot extension
cord cause you never know where the hotel outlets will be (whew)...


Same here (but probably one less tablet, one more phone and several
more chargers because of 240VAC/12VDC power).

With my luck the hotel room cleaning person would spot
the unauthorized electrical trespass and report me.


they aren't paid enough to care, assuming they even notice


You've been to every hotel and interviewed every service worker then?

no such thing as 'electrical trespass'.


Electrical: Something with wires.
Trespass: Going somewhere where you're not authorized to be.


Still hard of hearing, aren't you!? If he says there's no such thing
as 'electrical trespass', then there isn't! Capiche!?

And then that other guy! What's his name? Wolf something? Thinks that
a word can have more than one meaning! Yeah right, pull the other one!
  #22  
Old February 16th 19, 10:50 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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In article , 123456789
wrote:

Putting the coupler in a suitcase was not a big burden


...you would have needed a laptop back then anyway.


Oh for the good old days. Nowadays on trips I often carry 2 tablets, a
laptop, 2 phones, 7 chargers, a power strip, and a 15 foot extension
cord cause you never know where the hotel outlets will be (whew)...


yikes.

With my luck the hotel room cleaning person would spot
the unauthorized electrical trespass and report me.


they aren't paid enough to care, assuming they even notice


You've been to every hotel and interviewed every service worker then?


don't need to.

no such thing as 'electrical trespass'.


Electrical: Something with wires.
Trespass: Going somewhere where you're not authorized to be.


putting together unrelated words does not create a legal term.
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Old February 16th 19, 10:50 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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In article , Frank Slootweg
wrote:

Putting the coupler in a suitcase was not a big burden


...you would have needed a laptop back then anyway.


Is this/he for real!?

When you were using/carrying the acoustic coupler around, did you
have/use a *laptop*!? It was most likely a 'portable computer', FSVSVO
'portable'. ('Mine' had to be carried by two people and that was only
the computer, never mind the peripherals.)


that would not have fit in his suitcase

BTW, I couldn't find an introduction date for RJ11, but I'm quite sure
that our acoustic coupler didn't have it.


no reason why it would have one.
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Old February 16th 19, 11:00 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 16 Feb 2019 21:15:14 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:
123456789 wrote:


Nowadays on trips I often carry 2 tablets...


Same here (but probably one less tablet...


I'm in a mixed marriage. Her tablet is iOS, mine Android. So either
both tablets go or I leave her home. Hmmmm, let me think about that
for a minute...
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Old February 16th 19, 11:05 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 2019-02-16, Frank Slootweg wrote:
When you were using/carrying the acoustic coupler around, did you
have/use a *laptop*!?


For a while I had a TI "Silent 700", a portable hardcopy terminal with
built-in 300-baud acoustic coupler.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_700

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Old February 16th 19, 11:05 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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nospam wrote:
123456789 wrote


no such thing as 'electrical trespass'.


Electrical: Something with wires.
Trespass: Going somewhere where you're not authorized to be.


putting together unrelated words does not create a legal term.


It's not a legal term. It's what you did...
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Old February 16th 19, 11:09 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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In article ,
123456789 wrote:

no such thing as 'electrical trespass'.


Electrical: Something with wires.
Trespass: Going somewhere where you're not authorized to be.


putting together unrelated words does not create a legal term.


It's not a legal term. It's what you did...


there is no trespass of any sort for a paying customer.
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Old February 17th 19, 12:25 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 2/16/2019 3:09 PM, nospam wrote:
123456789 wrote:


no such thing as 'electrical trespass'.


Electrical: Something with wires.
Trespass: Going somewhere where you're not authorized to be.


putting together unrelated words does not create a legal term.


It's not a legal term. It's what you did...


there is no trespass of any sort for a paying customer.


Trespass is defined (among other things) as an offense, sin, or wrong. I
imagine that when you check in as as a paying customer that if you asked
the manager if you could remove an panel, enter an electrical box, and
mess with the wiring he might say "No, that is just wrong!!!". Unless of
course it was a church in which he would probably say it was a sin...
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Old February 17th 19, 12:54 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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In article , 123456789
wrote:

no such thing as 'electrical trespass'.


Electrical: Something with wires.
Trespass: Going somewhere where you're not authorized to be.


putting together unrelated words does not create a legal term.


It's not a legal term. It's what you did...


there is no trespass of any sort for a paying customer.


Trespass is defined (among other things) as an offense, sin, or wrong. I
imagine that when you check in as as a paying customer that if you asked
the manager if you could remove an panel, enter an electrical box, and
mess with the wiring he might say "No, that is just wrong!!!". Unless of
course it was a church in which he would probably say it was a sin...


trespass has a legal definition:
https://definitions.uslegal.com/t/trespass/
Trespass is entering another person's property without permission
of the owner or legal authority. In order to recover damages for
trespass, some damage, no matter how slight, must be caused.

as a paying guest, you have permission, and if you put everything back
the way it was, there's no damage.

just don't steal the soap. they don't like that.
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Old February 17th 19, 01:20 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 2/16/2019 4:54 PM, nospam wrote:
123456789 wrote:


no such thing as 'electrical trespass'.


Electrical: Something with wires.
Trespass: Going somewhere where you're not authorized to be.


putting together unrelated words does not create a legal term.


It's not a legal term. It's what you did...


there is no trespass of any sort for a paying customer.


Trespass is defined (among other things) as an offense, sin, or wrong. I
imagine that when you check in as as a paying customer that if you asked
the manager if you could remove an panel, enter an electrical box, and
mess with the wiring he might say "No, that is just wrong!!!". Unless of
course it was a church in which he would probably say it was a sin...


trespass has a legal definition:


I said (above) I wasn't using the legal term.

as a paying guest, you have permission, and if you put everything back
the way it was, there's no damage.


As a paying guest you still don't have permission to mess with the
wiring or plumbing. Even if you put it back. Call any hotel and ask
them. I can guarantee the answer.

But since you don't like the term electrical trespass how about we just
use the term electrical sin. Works for me...
 




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