Drama Queen has left the building

Evil Twin's the alter ago of Mr. Sleutelbos.

the mods can see your IP adress so it's fairly easy for them to see who's faking what. :D

True enough in this case I imagine. :)

Yes but people don't use always the same IP. For example, I don't have a static IP at home, my ISP gives me an dynamic IP every time I connect (my router connects ;)) to them. I use ADSL. You can use dial-up modems to connect to free providers and they assign to you dynamic IP too.

I have several static and public IPs at work and also I can use a DHCP server to get a dynamic IP. I can use one of my static IPs from home for some purposes.

Moreover, there are sites, really proxies, in which you can change your IP.

Thus it is not completely true that given a IP you can know who is doing what.

Nuno, are you trying to say in a very round about way that you are a spammer? :D

Nuno, are you trying to say in a very round about way that you are a spammer? :D
Of course! :lol:

Yes but people don't use always the same IP. For example, I don't have a static IP at home, my ISP gives me an dynamic IP every time I connect (my router connects ;)) to them. I use ADSL. You can use dial-up modems to connect to free providers and they assign to you dynamic IP too.

SNIP
Thus it is not completely true that given a IP you can know who is doing what.

Thanks for the fuller picture Nuno. 8)

You're absolutely right. I've relatively recently gone over to a static IP address. Before I switched to broadband about a year ago, it used to change every time I dialled up. Now it stays the same unless I change it through my router. If somebody was to threaten to shoot Prez Shrub, or something similarly daft, then some agency or other could probably force the ISP to divulge records for the day and have them tracked. But for general low level mischief I don't think it's too hard to throw a smokescreen over who is who. :?

I'll keep my eye out and se if I can spot how many online personalities you have here now... :P :wink:

Cheers,

Chris

It is not easy. Internet is part of the society. There are good and bad people. Some people use some resources in the wrong way. We are having a lot of problems at the university with attacks and, mainly, the use of unprotected smtp ports for sending spam. Fortunately our admins are braves and they are closing every new open gate... but it is not easy. :?

Humans are interesting. The internet provides us with a insanely huge network of computers with unprecedented computing power. You'd expect us to use that to make some massive breakthroughs in math, cyber technology and medicine but guess what? We now have the largest global collection of amateur porn in the history of mankind.

Goes to show evolution doesn't always mean progress...

And Rahul used to give me grief over changing my avatar... :shock:

Humans are interesting. The internet provides us with a insanely huge network of computers with unprecedented computing power. You'd expect us to use that to make some massive breakthroughs in math, cyber technology and medicine but guess what? We now have the largest global collection of amateur porn in the history of mankind.

Goes to show evolution doesn't always mean progress...

It has been said that if you place an infinite amount of monkeys by one typewriter each, one of them will eventually write a literary masterpiece.

The Internet has proven that this is not the case.
-anon quote found on the internet (of course)

Hope everything goes well for you Ignar, the other thread sounded a bit cryptic, :)

Humans are interesting. The internet provides us with a insanely huge network of computers with unprecedented computing power. You'd expect us to use that to make some massive breakthroughs in math, cyber technology and medicine but guess what? We now have the largest global collection of amateur porn in the history of mankind.

Goes to show evolution doesn't always mean progress...

It has been said that if you place an infinite amount of monkeys by one typewriter each, one of them will eventually write a literary masterpiece.

The Internet has proven that this is not the case.
-anon quote found on the internet (of course)

And if infinite amateurs start playing untuned guitars, they will eventually be able to play 'Stairway to Heaven'... :lol:

And if infinite amateurs start playing untuned guitars, they will eventually be able to play 'Stairway to Heaven'... :lol:
Well, maybe not "be able to play " it, but that'll never stop them from trying!
:roll: :lol:

Thanks everyone. Depending on some stuff I'll probably be back august 9th. Spending part of my day fixing and solving things, going quite well. For the rest I have internet so I can read and listen to what people here are recording. :) To whomever it concerns I'll probably be able to do what I promised to do before the 16th.
Are you in hell?
It's cold and wet here so I guess I'm still in the Netherlands. :D

Or Toronot won the Stanley Cup.