Connect red and green wires in your phone socket with this capacitor. Your computer also can be reached through the AC power line by one of dear neighbor terminal operators, so protect your power divider. Open its cover and use three of these capacitors to connect plus and minus, minus and ground, plus and ground pairs of wires in the AC divider. Disconnect any radio frequency devices, like Wi-Fi adaptor, Wireless router.

Now the spyware will have a substantial interference in getting you information. Nothing will happen first, but after a while your Internet will going slow, sometimes very slow. This thing is going to use your Internet channel to intercept your activities. And it needs a lot of traffic, much more than the target computer uses for itself.

Verizon on-line traffic analyzer used to show that my ”traffic is used by unknown application.” When I started to ask questions to tech support on slowing my Internet, they simply removed this option from their speed report. They blamed wires, my WLAN card, my software and possible virus infections. They played a fool. I have spent many hours talking to my ISP tech support. But I have saved the speed reports for one year and I can go to the court. They have a right to spy on me, but I am still not obligated to pay for this from my pocket.

When I used to substitute teach American history, I brought in Zinn and Loewen and read them aloud to the kids, quite angrily. But that’s how I get when I see their textbooks’ version of the Vietnam War: two pages of text and a picture of a SMILING soldier wading through a rice paddy. There ya go, kids — for homework, don’t show that to your “crazy uncle.”

Man, I can’t believe they let me be a sub for so long. I was teaching at my old high school — they should have known that I hadn’t changed a bit.

Raise your hand if you loved Detention.

(My hand is raised.)