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zwol
Member since Feb-24-12
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Apr-14-17, 05:44 PM (EDT) |
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"Help me with my research"
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Are you in possession of a web browser other than Safari? (yes, this means iDevices do not qualify at all, say sorry) Have you got ten minutes to leave a browser tab idling? Are you physically located somewhere other than Canada, the USA, or Western Europe? (This last not strictly required.) If you can say yes to some of these questions, you might be able to help me with my research project! Please visit https://research.owlfolio.org/active-geo/ and follow the instructions. |
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Gryphon
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Apr-18-17, 03:28 PM (EDT) |
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9. "RE: Help me with my research"
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>I was oversimplifying a bit. Was the pin you saw orange, or green? >The green pin uses information from the browser, but the orange one is >based on looking your IP address up in a database. Orange. In that case, I'm impressed; that type of lookup usually thinks I'm in Biddeford (where my ISP's office is). "Helpful" retail websites like Home Depot, for instance, are forever pointing me at that store rather than one that's anywhere near me. (It was also labeled something like "project", which is what led me to interpret it as the system's attempt at indicating where it was.) --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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zwol
Member since Feb-24-12
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Apr-20-17, 04:54 PM (EDT) |
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10. "RE: Help me with my research"
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LAST EDITED ON Apr-20-17 AT 04:54 PM (EDT) >that type of lookup usually thinks I'm in Biddeford (where my ISP's >office is). "Helpful" retail websites like Home Depot, for instance, >are forever pointing me at that store rather than one that's anywhere >near me. It uses https://freegeoip.net/ but I have no reason to think that that's any more accurate on average than any of the other services that do the same thing. Maybe someone at your ISP is buddies with them and has given them more accurate information. *shrug* >(It was also labeled something like "project", which is what led me to >interpret it as the system's attempt at indicating where it >was.) Thanks for pointing this out; I've revised the legend and hopefully it will be less confusing now. |
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Gryphon
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Apr-22-17, 06:58 PM (EDT) |
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15. "RE: Help me with my research"
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LAST EDITED ON Apr-22-17 AT 06:59 PM (EDT) >>>There are people who have issues with this method. Generally because >>>that geographic centre happens to land on their home. >> >>Yes, one occasionally sees horror stories in the news about hapless >>randos who are constantly besieged by people who think they've stolen >>their phones, or distributed porn of their kids, or otherwise done >>some deeply egregious thing that some online detective has "traced" to >>their house. > >As I recall, the biggest one is that one of the more "untracable" >addresses got assigned a random position... that happened to be a >house.Yeah, I think I've heard of the one you mean, and IIRC it's one of the "center of region" problems. Like some house that happens to stand at the geographic center of, I forget, the state it's in, or the continental US, or some such. So it's the location that pops up if the best the system can tell is "it's somewhere in Colorado" (or wherever), but those systems don't bother mentioning that the error bars on the fix are 1,750 miles wide. (I've heard of a similar one in Florida, which is doubly unfortunate for the people that live there because it attracts all the craziness of our craziest state in addition to all the other nonsense you can expect under those conditions.) --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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