Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "To a certain extent, who really cares about the sock puppets?" Unless you are a LP regular how would you know that you are being duped by someone like Beau? That's the problem. I want to be able to at least block people like him so that I can focus on the topic and not be constantly sidetracked by his antics.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 I believe it is possible to detect individual machine identification numbers on a network if you have the security clearance needed to so so. There would be no way for the typical webmaster to access this information and block users based on it. --- being a software security expert for a major security firm that likely is the key- clearance
Originally Posted By vbdad55 I've seen people pinpoint machines to an address -- street address...it's frightening
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 >There would be no way for the typical webmaster to access this information and block users based on it< 4chan does it >I've seen people pinpoint machines to an address -- street address...it's frightening< Once again 4chan does it lol
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Originally Posted By Labuda ">There would be no way for the typical webmaster to access this information and block users based on it< 4chan does it >I've seen people pinpoint machines to an address -- street address...it's frightening< Once again 4chan does it lol" 4chan also has Anonymous, though... that's a very powerful and not at all average group, ya know?
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 >Pardon my ignorance but what is 4chan?< If you don't know it's for the best that you don't. >4chan also has Anonymous, though... that's a very powerful and not at all average group, ya know?< Eh... everyone who has been on the chan is apart of "anonymous." That name gets thrown out because talking heads on TV don't know what they are talking about.
Originally Posted By Labuda Well, I've been a part of 4chan, and I am most definitely not part of Anonymous. No thank you! Thought the mad skills would be a darned nice thing to have, just in case I ever needed them. I just totally love that they took down the Westboro Baptist Church's website recently. YAY ANONYMOUS!
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt >Pardon my ignorance but what is 4chan?< "If you don't know it's for the best that you don't." What is this, a Kindergarten class? Thank God for Wikipedia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan</a>
Originally Posted By Labuda Wow, I never heard about the Pflugerville bomb threat back in '07. Learned that from the 4chan wiki. As for me, I just kind of think of 4chan as the lasst of the wild west vestiges of the internet.
Originally Posted By barboy2 ///My vote: shut it down./// My vote: if you can't take the heat, then stay out of the kitchen and let the rest of us cook if we so desire.
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Originally Posted By DyGDisney If they shut it down, these posts will end up in Community. No reason for that. Those who don't want to participate in WE don't have to, so it should stay.
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