To play devil's advocate, how could they reasonably have differentiated you from a malicious user intent on subverting someone else's account? Erm, since I was actually logged into the account and provided everything they had asked for it might have been grounds for them to approve such a request thereby proving my identity... But then again you are right, from the eyes of the truly security conscious there is no way. Be sure I won't be e-mailing or faxing anybody a copy of my ID anytime soon, let alone divulging personal information on the internet to anybody in the name of security or not. Disturbing in the digiworld there is no real way for you to prove you are you, or I am me, without giving up potentially harmful personal information. A thumb print scanner for identification verification to log onto sites would be really impractical (though neat).
Maybe I'm not me, maybe I'm you pretending to be me, or me pretending to be you pretending to be me. *Begins to observe the entity he thinks he might be start to have a serious identity crisis.* I think therefor I am, but I mean who am I anyway, who is anybody...? I need my tinfoil hat...
What I find funny is the fact that most of the poor souls that go to such sites looking to connect with other people are on a site where the people in charge couldn't care less... I signed up for My(waste of)Space when it showed up on the net because for some people I knew it was the only means to reach them any longer. I canceled my ISP and switched since then, asking the OZ like people running the show to please update my e-mail to reflect this change, more than a year has gone by. Has my e-mail been changed? Nope. Do I waste my time on MySpace anymore? Nope.
When you refuse to acknowledge the community you "support" sub-par quality is what you must expect. Now if those MySpace people want to reach me they have to track me down via other means. To limit yourself to one medium of communication is sad anyway. Pidgin for everybody.
The problem isn't that there isn't anyone else out there. With so many billions of stars and planets, the odds that there are other intelligent beings out there are astronomically large. (Pun slightly intended.) The problem is that the distances required to travel to reach them and also astronomically large, and the odds that there is life on any given planet are infinitesimally small.
That's just one of the problems, the human race is completely obsessed with getting things now. We (as a whole civilization) don't just want to know if there is life out there besides us, we want to know yesterday, and we bloody well expected a phone call last month also. Thus we can logically conclude our own impatience to know such things is another problem. Perhaps in our haste we may have over looked the obvious as well?
Sure, with so vastly many planets, it will happen (and obviously has), but finding life out there is like finding a needle in a haystack, and we're just now starting to be able to see the haystack.
Not just that, if you really look at it we could say that we are a needle (Earth) in a haystack (our solar system) sitting in a very large field (the Milky Way) trying to find another needle in another haystack that may very possibly exist in another field... And from one bacterium (what else would live on a needle?) to another, I'm not sure if I want to know if other needles exist... Much like those people on Krikkit, perhaps it would be just too much for our little molecule minds to handle thus resulting in our own development of cosmocidal tenancies. Disturbing to say the least... Let me know if anybody has noticed fewer dolphin about lately, if so I need to get my towel.
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What I find funny is the fact that most of the poor souls that go to such sites looking to connect with other people are on a site where the people in charge couldn't care less... I signed up for My(waste of)Space when it showed up on the net because for some people I knew it was the only means to reach them any longer. I canceled my ISP and switched since then, asking the OZ like people running the show to please update my e-mail to reflect this change, more than a year has gone by. Has my e-mail been changed? Nope. Do I waste my time on MySpace anymore? Nope.
When you refuse to acknowledge the community you "support" sub-par quality is what you must expect. Now if those MySpace people want to reach me they have to track me down via other means. To limit yourself to one medium of communication is sad anyway. Pidgin for everybody.
The problem isn't that there isn't anyone else out there. With so many billions of stars and planets, the odds that there are other intelligent beings out there are astronomically large. (Pun slightly intended.) The problem is that the distances required to travel to reach them and also astronomically large, and the odds that there is life on any given planet are infinitesimally small.
That's just one of the problems, the human race is completely obsessed with getting things now. We (as a whole civilization) don't just want to know if there is life out there besides us, we want to know yesterday, and we bloody well expected a phone call last month also. Thus we can logically conclude our own impatience to know such things is another problem. Perhaps in our haste we may have over looked the obvious as well?Sure, with so vastly many planets, it will happen (and obviously has), but finding life out there is like finding a needle in a haystack, and we're just now starting to be able to see the haystack.
Not just that, if you really look at it we could say that we are a needle (Earth) in a haystack (our solar system) sitting in a very large field (the Milky Way) trying to find another needle in another haystack that may very possibly exist in another field... And from one bacterium (what else would live on a needle?) to another, I'm not sure if I want to know if other needles exist... Much like those people on Krikkit, perhaps it would be just too much for our little molecule minds to handle thus resulting in our own development of cosmocidal tenancies. Disturbing to say the least... Let me know if anybody has noticed fewer dolphin about lately, if so I need to get my towel.