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    Guy Busted for Stealing WiFi at NYC Library — to Play Halo

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    Image of CrazyStorm CrazyStorm
    08/27/09

    In reply to Guy Busted for Stealing WiFi at NYC Library — to Play Halo
    My wife is a librarian.

    Her thought on this is: "As long as he is in a library, I'm okay with it".
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    Image of Phydeaux Phydeaux
    08/27/09

    @CrazyStorm: Honestly, it seems more libraries have "game nights" and the like, which I encourage. I don't want people to lose sight of the resources a library provides, but, much like the youth center I worked in way back in the day, you do what you can to get bodies in the door and let them decide if they're going to hang around or not.
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    Image of RageKage RageKage
    08/27/09

    In reply to Guy Busted for Stealing WiFi at NYC Library — to Play Halo
    ""some nerd fighter game"

    I would love to see that
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    Image of Showmeyomoves! Showmeyomoves!
    08/27/09

    @RageKage: *slaps RageKage in the face*

    There. Want to play some more?
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    Image of mordennight mordennight
    08/27/09

    In reply to Guy Busted for Stealing WiFi at NYC Library — to Play Halo
    He probably just got kicked out cause of the yelling. Playing a game using their wifi seems pretty harmless. Could be a LOT worse.
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    Image of Psychopathic Assassin Psychopathic Assassin
    08/27/09

    In reply to Guy Busted for Stealing WiFi at NYC Library — to Play Halo
    I don't see where this is wrong. Unless he was disturbing other people by cussing out people on xbox live or just talking too loud.

    Unless maybe it is a college library and they want it to be used solely for studing purposes. But even with that, how many of the college students do other things on there for stuff other then studing. Like facebook, and myspace bullshit waste of time stuff. No one needs to socialize, espcially with total strangers......What am I doing here?
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    Odin promoted this comment Psychopathic Assassin was starred Psychopathic Assassin was unstarred
    Image of Odin Odin
    08/27/09

    @Psychopathic Assassin:
    Likely when he was "yelling out instructions" he was pissing other people off. Probably no one would have cared if he was quiet.
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    Image of Showmeyomoves! Showmeyomoves!
    08/27/09

    In reply to Guy Busted for Stealing WiFi at NYC Library — to Play Halo
    "What the fuck you fucking noob I'll fuck you up your asshole motherfuck-- What? No, I'm just reading the New York Post... this economy just gets to me sometimes..."
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    Image of InconspicuouslyConspicuous InconspicuouslyConspicuous
    08/26/09

    In reply to Guy Busted for Stealing WiFi at NYC Library — to Play Halo
    Bummer... what a really dumb mistake, the whole yelling part...
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    Image of Tch0rT Tch0rT
    08/26/09

    In reply to Guy Busted for Stealing WiFi at NYC Library — to Play Halo
    I don't see a problem with this as long as he wasn't disrupting other guests of the Library.

    10 years ago when I went to college and used the computer lab there was always some asshole looking at porn in public and no one ever said a thing about it. I rather see someone playing Halo than looking at porn at public terminals.
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    Image of NightMystic NightMystic
    08/26/09

    @Tch0rT: I'm actually a supervisor for my college's computer labs and last summer at the annual training someone brought up the question of pornography watching because there was a guy who would come in and watch. Apparently he has all right to watch. It's not illegal unless he is watching child pornography, which then we have to call the cops for.

    We were told if there were any complaints that we should ask the person watching the material to relocate to another computer away from the location or not watch in the labs.
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    Image of Altima NEO Altima NEO
    08/26/09

    In reply to Guy Busted for Stealing WiFi at NYC Library — to Play Halo
    Whyd they kick him out?
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    Image of Knoxximus ver. 5.66 Knoxximus ver. 5.66
    08/26/09

    In reply to Guy Busted for Stealing WiFi at NYC Library — to Play Halo
    Geez...if you're gonna leech off of a library's wi-fi...play something single player, you fucking toolbox...not something that requires you to communicate with other people through a headset because before you know it you are YELLING IN THE FREAKING LIBRARY!

    What an idiot. -_-
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    Image of ToastyUterus ToastyUterus
    08/26/09

    @Knoxximus ver. 5.66: but if your going to play single player you dont need to steal any wifi.

    and second, you arent exactly REQUIRED to to talk to your teamates, yoiu just have to be stupid enough to do it in this situation
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    Image of Beefsnibit Beefsnibit
    08/26/09

    @Knoxximus ver. 5.66: If he was going to just play something single player in the first place, why would he need to steal WiFi? :\
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    Knoxximus ver. 5.66 promoted this comment Edited by Beefsnibit at 08/26/09 10:06 PM Beefsnibit was starred Beefsnibit was unstarred
    Image of Xagest Xagest
    08/26/09

    @Knoxximus ver. 5.66:
    Why would you need wifi for singleplayer? >_>
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    Image of NeVeRMoRe666 NeVeRMoRe666
    08/26/09

    @Knoxximus ver. 5.66: lol. Sorry, that was funny...
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    Image of Knoxximus ver. 5.66 Knoxximus ver. 5.66
    08/27/09

    @Xagest: Oh, I dunno...leaderboards? Vs games that don' require talking (i.e. SF4, Burnout Paradise, Bomberman, Madden 10, etc) to coordinate? He coulda just downloaded some new demos/XBLA titles...just sayin'...
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    Image of BoredomFighter BoredomFighter
    08/27/09

    @Knoxximus ver. 5.66: I'm sorry but that comment is golden. Especially the last three words.
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    Image of Polite Society Polite Society
    08/26/09

    In reply to Guy Busted for Stealing WiFi at NYC Library — to Play Halo
    I suspect he probably got kicked out for making too much noise more than anything else. :P
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    Image of Neko_Tech Neko_Tech
    08/26/09

    @Polite Society: Every game that uses some sort of communication for teamwork (mostly used for smack talk) people just can't keep quiet.
    I can't believe that people can't put 2+2 together on the situation and figure it out themselves.
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    Image of -MasterDex- -MasterDex-
    08/26/09

    In reply to Guy Busted for Stealing WiFi at NYC Library — to Play Halo
    You can steal free wifi?

    How can it be stolen if it's free?

    Also, nice to see Joe public still not having the slightest clue about video games. "Some nerd fighter game" ROFL!
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    Image of dowingba dowingba
    08/26/09

    In reply to Guy Busted for Stealing WiFi at NYC Library — to Play Halo
    The woman to the left of him in the picture is Lashonda (sp?) from Jackie Brown.
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    Image of KefkaXI KefkaXI
    08/26/09

    In reply to Guy Busted for Stealing WiFi at NYC Library — to Play Halo
    Sad, desperate attemp to use public *education* resources for nefarious gaming.

    Pretty tame compared to my experience though. About two years ago I was in my local University Library doing work for the University. As I crossed through the computer cluster, I spied an older fellow sitting at a station with the video display of an attractive woman undressing herself, item by item. He occasionally typed something into the chat bar at the bottom of the screen, and whatever he was requesting the girl was complying with.

    I couldn't believe what I was seeing here. Nobody else but me seemed to notice. And with this University in particular, the letter of the law is the most important thing to them, so was this 'cool' with the Lib rules? The guy didn't make a sound, not even a breath. Weirded me right out.
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    Image of teeuwen teeuwen
    08/26/09

    In reply to Guy Busted for Stealing WiFi at NYC Library — to Play Halo
    how exactly does someone play three games in two minutes?
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    Image of Project_J187 Project_J187
    08/26/09

    @teeuwen: I presume he started with Halo, realized it sucks and moved to COD4.

    While playing COD4 for 20 seconds he realized that auto-aim is built into the game engine and since he is a real man he shut that off quick.

    Finally he got to quake, realized how awesome it is and was then kicked out for being too awesome in the library.

    Or maybe the writer was exaggerating.
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    Image of CHEEZCOLA CHEEZCOLA
    08/26/09

    In reply to Guy Busted for Stealing WiFi at NYC Library — to Play Halo
    I feel bad for this guy. It is obvious that he needed a gaming fix and not only that he cant get it. He was kicked out.

    We need to stick together agints these "media" assholes. Head up player! Hope you found wireless somewhere else.
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