In communal living, life tends to move at a different beat.
You've got to worry about those meddling kids downstairs trying
to hack into your wireless. However, that should be the least of
your worries if you're moving into a new shared space with
roomies you've never lived with before. This is where you lay
down the ground rules when it comes to personal tech, sharing of
the common area, and assign heavy net usage windows to avoid
bogging down your network. We've got a few tips to get you
started...1) Avoid snooping at all costs. So you're curious.
Maybe your roomie is nuts. You've got to protect yourself. Not
so fast, buddy. Respecting privacy is one of the most important
values you must hold up until the very end. If you're curious
about your roommates' habits, grab a drink and phrase questions
to extract wanted info out of them. Otherwise, browsing through
their computer and then finding pictures of Hanna Montana may
cause you to jump to conclusions that may otherwise have
reasonable answers (like.. "Hey,