Fucking Lame
 

So last nite I was playing Counter Strike: Source when my roommate brought over 5 of his friends from University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and they crashed in the room for a while. Well then I leave to go to my friend's dorm to hang out then head out for the nite.

Well right after I leave those bastards use my desktop...to watch Beerfest. They streamed it through 4 parts, and U of I only allows 750 megs of bandwidth usage per day and they fucking used like 400 in 2 hours. WITHOUT ASKING ME! I checked my bandwidth this morning and my Firefox history and came to this conclusion.

I texted my roommate and called him out. He lied about it and said he was showering the whole time and didn't know. But...the whole movie is like 2 hours. And the bandwidth showed it skyrocketed over a 2 hour span. Fucking liar. This is the first tension between my roommate and I. We aren't really friends, we've never hung out but I've been really respectful of his stuff and the room, asking if it's ok if a friend slept in his bed while he was gone. I bought him a 24 pack of water since I drank some of his, paid him half of the cost of the fridge he brought and NEVER once snooped on his laptop. That's why this is bullshit. I didn't warrant any of this nor deserve it. His last text message to me goes like this:
"Hey bro there dumbasses went on it but i shoulda stopped them..my bad but ppl make mistakes ya know?"

I responded with: "Yeah."

I don't know how to handle the situation cause, we aren't friends. We're just roommates.

Fucking lame.

Forget about it. Lock-down your computer to prevent it in the future.

Just keep your stuff separate from now on, easy.

Yeah, people make mistakes and you damn sure aren't going to be making THAT mistake again!
*meaning that he SHOULD have stopped his friends from using your things and you won't give him an opportunity to fail you again.
You know you can't count on him, now. Kudos to YOU for being so respectful. Bad ju-ju on him for not returning the favor...
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Just don't allow them access to your computer (or anything else that's yours) in future.

Some people can be complete fucking arseholes. In fact, the world is full of them.

I don't blame you for being pissed off. I would be too.

People get being polite with letting people walk on you these days.
Saying no does not mean you are being impolite.

Just lock up your computer. Half of my hall does that now since they all play pranks on eachother if they leave their computer unlocked. I'm lucky because no one fucks with my stuff since my roommate can be insane.

They are just douches, don't worry too much about it.

Yeah, I really didn't expect this.

Is it pushing it, to set my webcam to motion detecting? I mean I'm definately going to motion detect on weekends when I'm out at nite. This was a lot of trust lost. But I even thought of doing it like when I'm out between classes.

I don't think that's wrong. What I don't understand is why don't you just lock it up?

I wouldn't do the webcam thing but lock your computer and keep better track of your stuff.

Why bother with physical locks? Just lock this guy out with a password.

If he's motivated and sharp enough to circumvent it, he's going to fuck with it anyway.

if you dont think telling him not to will work, and you can't trust him to respect your stuff, you shouldnt be living with him.

Does the bandwidth reset at midnight. As far as I can tell from what you wrote, you suffered no tangible harm or delay, just the betrayal of trust. I'm not trying to downplay the importance of that, trying to establish the full extent of their transgressions. If there's not monetary compensation due, then.... Strike One. Always forgive, never forget.;)

hmm. thought this would be about gimp love.

Be generous and forgiving. move on.

It's a DESKTOP. I can't really, lock it up. I can turn it off? I can password protect my user names, that's it. And for now I'll just overlook it since it's only the first instance.

By locking it I meant making a password that wouldn't let unauthorized users to use your computer.

If you're associated with a college, could you get the IT guys to come and help you set up some extra security measures?

Most IT departments wouldn't touch this one with a 10 ft pole. (We generally have enough to do keeping computers the college actually owns up and running. On campuses where IT will touch student-owned computers--and there are many where they just won't--they usually have well-defined areas of what they will and won't do to them.)

No, I'm savvy enough I don't need IT help. I just didn't expect him to let his friends fuck around. I just want him to own up, I mean I caught him lieing. When you're caught don't fuck it up even more just admit that shit and accept the consequences that follow; like losing respect and trust.

I'm with the let it slide crowd, Don't think about evening-up the score. Don't forget either. I'd set my cam to motion detect until I got to know what to expect of this guy, unless there are specific rules forbidding it. I'm not sure what right to privacy you can expect from a room mate. You may also want to leave a papaer trail as in making a formal complaint with your RA just incase things get worse.
finally, I'd be up front with him as far as YOUR expectations of privacy are concerned and promise him you will report him (again) to the school.

people can suck but he may respond to your setting limits.

Trust buy verify
 

DESKTOP implies Windows? Try this:

Start -- Control Panel -- User Accounts -- Advanced -- Secure Logon. That brings you to here: Check the little box and you prevent ALL access to the computer without a login name and password. You should physically lock your computer too. I love this one.

A university that has usage limits on the network? That's madness. What are you paying in 'technology fees', out of curiosity?

It's horrible living with people you can't trust. Especially when you've gone out of your way to be fair to him.

I wouldn't film him though. That's a much bigger breach of trust than what he did to you. And what would you do if you saw something you weren't happy with? You'd have to confront him all over again - if he lies when you have proof you can show him, he's definitely going to lie if you have caught him in a clandestine way. Also it's like listening at doors or reading other people's diaries - you always end up findong out something you'd rather not know!

Fingers crossed he just didn't think through the whole respect issue and this has given him a wake up call. He's a poor weaselly thing for not holding his hands up though.

This is probably RIAA blowback.

I have no idea what I pay. Sorry. BigV thanks for the tips :)

He said "my bad," which is an acknowledgment that he shouldn't have done it and that it was a mistake. It's a pretty lame apology, and he sounds like a moron, but he did admit he was wrong. I wouldn't be very trusting with him from now on, but I would move on and try to put it behind you. Just password protect your PC.

It could be worse. He could be drinking your beer and eating your Cheetos.

Dude that'd be just fine. I told him at the beginning of the year, hey eat my food please my mom packed me too much (I'm a newbie freshman) and yeah go ahead if you want, sin in my butterfly chair, let your girlfriend sit in it, please, sure I'll print out your paper (since I have a printer and he doesn't) but I mean I just wanted some decent respect. And what happened this weekend was not respect but yes, I'm over it, I saw him just now like 5 minutes ago, the first time we've seen each other since Saturday (he didn't come home yesterday) and we didn't address anything. So yeah, it's behind me, but I have new opinions that have formed.

Now that's why you shouldn't be filming him ;)

uhhh I meant sit sorry!

Hmmm...I'd say that's a pretty good justification for why he SHOULD be filming him.
:D

I'm making a special video for you right now.

B===D~~~:smack:

:bogroll:

(We need a masturbation smiley!)

Shall I give you my email address? ;)

Not if you value your eyesight. :vomit:

As an only child, having roommates amazed me. That people out there have no respect for other's property and space.
I learned quickly, lock it up, don't loan it or let em' use it if you value it.

u need to sit down with ur roomate and set up rules/parameters for how things are supposed to be done, if that doesnt work lock down ur comp and (i know this sounds horrible) dont trust him and let him know