There are a variety of ways to geolocate an IP. It's not exact, there are gaps, but most of the time you can get country without a problem. I've used InfoDB's free geolocation database and it works nicely, they also have an API if you don't want to run your own DB. http://ipinfodb.com/ip_database.php Lots of non-free ones out there too.
Although the easiest would be a simple hosted javascript that does all the work and gives a screen wide overlay explaining how you support Internet Freedom and wish Pakistan wasn't censoring. Or maybe just a 'Hi Pakistan, I have a joke for you. Mohammad, Jesus and L Ron Hubbard walked into a bar one day...'. Then a single line on any webpage would get the message out there.
One of the key pieces of evidence given for an Iraq war was Iraq buying uranium from Niger. Unfortunately it was already established that this was unreliable evidence within the government. So yeah, the Bush admin pushed hard for war stating as facts what they knew to be flaky. But war is a very profitable business and not many take Eisenhower's warning on the military industrial complex seriously.
I got a trade of service years ago with a chiropractor, do web services for treatment. I'm now a believer in chiropractic services as part of good health. Not the 'Chiropratic is all you need' line of thought tho. This particular chiropractor uses the activator, basically a hand held device that gives little jabs. It's truly amazing to go in with a headcold, get a few little jabs, and instantly be able to breath clearly.
Recent court losses by newzbin for compiling nzb's of usenet postings show they know all about usenet. With the large number of file sharing sites like rapidshare, megaupload, and dozens of others, the number of potential alternatives grows every day.
I like how the feds, and now many states, disallow searches of the DNA database to find false positives. Hundreds were found before this line of research was shut down. From a LA Times story in 2008 "State crime lab analyst Kathryn Troyer was running tests on Arizona's DNA database when she stumbled across two felons with remarkably similar genetic profiles.
The men matched at nine of the 13 locations on chromosomes, or loci, commonly used to distinguish people.
The FBI estimated the odds of unrelated people sharing those genetic markers to be as remote as 1 in 113 billion. But the mug shots of the two felons suggested that they were not related: One was black, the other white.
In the years after her 2001 discovery, Troyer found dozens of similar matches -- each seeming to defy impossible odds."....
Only 2 out of 4 of the gospels claim she was a virgin. Seems like a big thing to overlook if they're supposed factual representations. Although out of the gospel contradictions, I like how Jesus rose from the dead with a whole bunch of other dead guys that are never mentioned again. Are they still around sucking out Braaaaiiiins? "Mat 27:52 And the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised. 53 And coming forth out of the tombs after His resurrection, they entered into the holy city and were revealed to many. " The other 3 gospels kinda forgot about this.
Why not just hit the highlights? You either believe in the superstition in whole or you've simply made up your own re-interpreted derivative work that is uniquely yours and shouldn't be labeled as the original belief.
I guess one could always say... What do you expect from people who believe they are a product of incest not once, but at least twice. Adam, Eve had 3 sons. Eve was the first Cougar. Then god decided his populous game was going badly and flooded everyone out so the boat people got busy with each other. With that muddled of a gene pool it's surprising we've lasted this long.
Since Rationality and reason don't mix with religion I like the sound byte idea, play to the emotions. Otherwise if you just want to give a believer a headache ask any christian how free will can exist when the future has already been written in Revelations. Obviously not even your butterfly related actions can ever change the outcome in Revelations. Since there is no free will, how is there morality, or even sin or redemption, as you're just following a script?
Having made a train trip from Chicago to DC I'd gladly take the plane, no matter how cramped. Maybe if the US ever got faster trains it may be worthwhile. As an alternative, I wonder how efficient a zeppelin would be compared to a plane.
NRP had a story about this the last week. I don't remember the facts enough to find a quick link but the example they used was an American pharma company sells a drug in the US, but they pay licensing fees to a subsidiary in another country with better tax laws. So they basically break even in the US so pay no taxes here. It costs a lot in lawyers but when you're talking billions it makes financial sense to do this. Also after the Valdez spill congress put a cap of 75 million for economic damages from an oil spill so I don't see BP getting hurt too bad from this.
Yes, starbucks is liable if the cops wanted snooping. According to CALEA everyone with wifi is responsible for wiretapping the feed, in real time, and streaming it to the feds. This is not the last mile ISP's problem, it's whomever is giving the last link - personal, corporate, anyone. If you don't have the tech ability to do it, too bad. 10K a day fine. Oh and if they demand it of you and you can't just do it you also are not legally allowed to just turn it off.
Since the ISPs almost universally disappeared from the face of the planet. We no longer have thousands of ISPs, we're realistically down to a few mega corps running the show. The '96 telco reform act allowed ISPs to flourish, forcing competition. The Bush era put Powel's kid in charge of the FCC and they got rid of any reform and embraced corporatism. So we're back to the state and federally mandated baby bells and major cable companies and everyone other ISP has closed up or went to small niche markets. I was in the industry a decade and I can't think of many good guys still around.
So yes ISPs are evil, at least the few left standing, as they're a shining example of corporatism.
I'll second you on a lot of people gaming the system. In my work I run across a large variety of people. I can think of far too many people offhand on SS disability that do a damn fine job of shoveling their driveways clear in wintertime, but can't work because of a bad back. I know one lady in town who nursed her child until 5 because of some program that gave money while any child was nursing.
These programs were started with good intentions, there are people on them that have a legit need, but far too many leeches make the whole system corrupt.
The small ISPs, and I'd argue the rapid uptake of the Internet in the US, really only existed because of regulation. The '96 telco reform act forced the incumbent 'baby bells' to do business with startup phone companies. These in turn sold lines to ISPs in ways the bells wouldn't. Like affordable state wide phone trunking so no more physical equipment in every dialing area. When Powell's kid started running the FCC under the Bush era, they rolled back all the '96 telco reform rules in favor of big business. ISPs started dying quickly after this as the bells no longer had to play fairly, not even having to fake playing fair.
I'm all in favor of strong regulation by the FCC. Break up the physical lines from the service side of companies so there is fair and equal access. The lines were put in and more than paid for by taxpayers, time to move them to truly open as a public service. If the last mile was a commodity like it should be, we'd have so much competition available that net neutrality wouldn't be an issue as you could choose your provider of choice.
Jobs doesn't want flash so you have to buy apps from the appstore to do things. Why pay for a simple game when you could just play any of the facebook flash games.
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There are a variety of ways to geolocate an IP. It's not exact, there are gaps, but most of the time you can get country without a problem. I've used InfoDB's free geolocation database and it works nicely, they also have an API if you don't want to run your own DB. http://ipinfodb.com/ip_database.php Lots of non-free ones out there too.
Although the easiest would be a simple hosted javascript that does all the work and gives a screen wide overlay explaining how you support Internet Freedom and wish Pakistan wasn't censoring. Or maybe just a 'Hi Pakistan, I have a joke for you. Mohammad, Jesus and L Ron Hubbard walked into a bar one day...'. Then a single line on any webpage would get the message out there.
I'm waiting for scientists to use stem cells or genetic modification on the hairy palm syndrome so masturbation can be a cure for baldness.
Yeah, that moving the mouse business for FPS games will never catch on either.
I don't see how that would be reliable in cold climates
Anyone else getting flashbacks from the Space Quest games? I remember you had to photocopy a painting to get past a facial recognition scanner...
Why bother with things like facts? The Florida courts found that the ... 'FCC policy against falsification was not a "law, rule, or regulation"'. Sure this was for a Fox TV news affiliate but if it worked for one I'm sure it'll work for any other media.
One of the key pieces of evidence given for an Iraq war was Iraq buying uranium from Niger. Unfortunately it was already established that this was unreliable evidence within the government. So yeah, the Bush admin pushed hard for war stating as facts what they knew to be flaky. But war is a very profitable business and not many take Eisenhower's warning on the military industrial complex seriously.
Microsoft has been messing up for much longer and I'm still waiting for the year of the Linux desktop.
I got a trade of service years ago with a chiropractor, do web services for treatment. I'm now a believer in chiropractic services as part of good health. Not the 'Chiropratic is all you need' line of thought tho. This particular chiropractor uses the activator, basically a hand held device that gives little jabs. It's truly amazing to go in with a headcold, get a few little jabs, and instantly be able to breath clearly.
Recent court losses by newzbin for compiling nzb's of usenet postings show they know all about usenet. With the large number of file sharing sites like rapidshare, megaupload, and dozens of others, the number of potential alternatives grows every day.
I like how the feds, and now many states, disallow searches of the DNA database to find false positives. Hundreds were found before this line of research was shut down. From a LA Times story in 2008 "State crime lab analyst Kathryn Troyer was running tests on Arizona's DNA database when she stumbled across two felons with remarkably similar genetic profiles. The men matched at nine of the 13 locations on chromosomes, or loci, commonly used to distinguish people. The FBI estimated the odds of unrelated people sharing those genetic markers to be as remote as 1 in 113 billion. But the mug shots of the two felons suggested that they were not related: One was black, the other white. In the years after her 2001 discovery, Troyer found dozens of similar matches -- each seeming to defy impossible odds."....
Only 2 out of 4 of the gospels claim she was a virgin. Seems like a big thing to overlook if they're supposed factual representations. Although out of the gospel contradictions, I like how Jesus rose from the dead with a whole bunch of other dead guys that are never mentioned again. Are they still around sucking out Braaaaiiiins? "Mat 27:52 And the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised. 53 And coming forth out of the tombs after His resurrection, they entered into the holy city and were revealed to many. " The other 3 gospels kinda forgot about this.
Why not just hit the highlights? You either believe in the superstition in whole or you've simply made up your own re-interpreted derivative work that is uniquely yours and shouldn't be labeled as the original belief.
I guess one could always say... What do you expect from people who believe they are a product of incest not once, but at least twice. Adam, Eve had 3 sons. Eve was the first Cougar. Then god decided his populous game was going badly and flooded everyone out so the boat people got busy with each other. With that muddled of a gene pool it's surprising we've lasted this long.
Since Rationality and reason don't mix with religion I like the sound byte idea, play to the emotions. Otherwise if you just want to give a believer a headache ask any christian how free will can exist when the future has already been written in Revelations. Obviously not even your butterfly related actions can ever change the outcome in Revelations. Since there is no free will, how is there morality, or even sin or redemption, as you're just following a script?
Having made a train trip from Chicago to DC I'd gladly take the plane, no matter how cramped. Maybe if the US ever got faster trains it may be worthwhile. As an alternative, I wonder how efficient a zeppelin would be compared to a plane.
Blue Smurfs,Red Dwarfs - I like your color commentary
That explains all the hockey fans around these parts - it's the first wave of the invasion! Does that mean I'm gonna have to learn Canadian.. eh?
NRP had a story about this the last week. I don't remember the facts enough to find a quick link but the example they used was an American pharma company sells a drug in the US, but they pay licensing fees to a subsidiary in another country with better tax laws. So they basically break even in the US so pay no taxes here. It costs a lot in lawyers but when you're talking billions it makes financial sense to do this. Also after the Valdez spill congress put a cap of 75 million for economic damages from an oil spill so I don't see BP getting hurt too bad from this.
All I can say to that sentiment is "Drill Baby, Drill!"
Yes, starbucks is liable if the cops wanted snooping. According to CALEA everyone with wifi is responsible for wiretapping the feed, in real time, and streaming it to the feds. This is not the last mile ISP's problem, it's whomever is giving the last link - personal, corporate, anyone. If you don't have the tech ability to do it, too bad. 10K a day fine. Oh and if they demand it of you and you can't just do it you also are not legally allowed to just turn it off.
CALEA is big brother at its finest.
Since the ISPs almost universally disappeared from the face of the planet. We no longer have thousands of ISPs, we're realistically down to a few mega corps running the show. The '96 telco reform act allowed ISPs to flourish, forcing competition. The Bush era put Powel's kid in charge of the FCC and they got rid of any reform and embraced corporatism. So we're back to the state and federally mandated baby bells and major cable companies and everyone other ISP has closed up or went to small niche markets. I was in the industry a decade and I can't think of many good guys still around.
So yes ISPs are evil, at least the few left standing, as they're a shining example of corporatism.
I'll second you on a lot of people gaming the system. In my work I run across a large variety of people. I can think of far too many people offhand on SS disability that do a damn fine job of shoveling their driveways clear in wintertime, but can't work because of a bad back. I know one lady in town who nursed her child until 5 because of some program that gave money while any child was nursing.
These programs were started with good intentions, there are people on them that have a legit need, but far too many leeches make the whole system corrupt.
So instead of the dotcom deadpool site fuckedcompany you could make a fanbase deadpool site. That could be fun!
The small ISPs, and I'd argue the rapid uptake of the Internet in the US, really only existed because of regulation. The '96 telco reform act forced the incumbent 'baby bells' to do business with startup phone companies. These in turn sold lines to ISPs in ways the bells wouldn't. Like affordable state wide phone trunking so no more physical equipment in every dialing area. When Powell's kid started running the FCC under the Bush era, they rolled back all the '96 telco reform rules in favor of big business. ISPs started dying quickly after this as the bells no longer had to play fairly, not even having to fake playing fair.
I'm all in favor of strong regulation by the FCC. Break up the physical lines from the service side of companies so there is fair and equal access. The lines were put in and more than paid for by taxpayers, time to move them to truly open as a public service. If the last mile was a commodity like it should be, we'd have so much competition available that net neutrality wouldn't be an issue as you could choose your provider of choice.
Jobs doesn't want flash so you have to buy apps from the appstore to do things. Why pay for a simple game when you could just play any of the facebook flash games.
I have to wonder, what happens if you use comcast VOIP and it goes down?