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philip964 wrote:Ok I am impressed, how is such a thing done? Switched browsers and it picked it up right away.

NSA surveillance van out front. Sophisticated listening devices can detect that change in broadcast frequency emitted by various browsers...thus...I've been command line only for quite some time.


Also - surprised the linuxnerds haven't jumped in yet.

I'm just going to leave this here since various browsers have been mentioned.

3dfxMM wrote:

philip964 wrote:Ok I am impressed, how is such a thing done? Switched browsers and it picked it up right away.

It's neither magic nor rocket science. :)

When you put a picture in a message, you are actually putting a link to a website where the picture lives. In this case, that website handles the request for the picture by building a picture on the fly using the information that your browser sends along with every request. This is a slight oversimplification of what happens, but not by much.

'Zackly.

SQLGeek wrote:I'm just going to leave this here since various browsers have been mentioned.

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Nerd squared.

Anygunanywhere

anygunanywhere wrote:

SQLGeek wrote:I'm just going to leave this here since various browsers have been mentioned.

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Nerd squared.

Anygunanywhere

Wellllll....considering my user name, I think I'm guilty as charged (though I prefer the title "geek").

SQLGeek wrote:

anygunanywhere wrote:

SQLGeek wrote:I'm just going to leave this here since various browsers have been mentioned.

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Nerd squared.

Anygunanywhere

Wellllll....considering my user name, I think I'm guilty as charged (though I prefer the title "geek").

http://toys.usvsth3m.com/how-geeky-are-you/

Anygunanywhere

I think we should all email the Constitution to our friends or each other so we will know the government goons have read it.

I must admit, based on the thread title TAM put up, I was expecting more nefarious behavior by the government that led to another scandal....

gthaustex wrote:I must admit, based on the thread title TAM put up, I was expecting more nefarious behavior by the government that led to another scandal....

That is so last week.

And the week before.

And the week before that.

etc.

Pawpaw wrote:

gthaustex wrote:I must admit, based on the thread title TAM put up, I was expecting more nefarious behavior by the government that led to another scandal....

That is so last week.

And the week before.

And the week before that.

etc.

And next week.

And the week after.

And the week after that.

etc.

Hello Mr. Snowden. Our drone intelligence says:

Tic Tac wrote:Hello Mr. Snowden. Our drone intelligence says:

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Ha! Your pathetic drone intelligence is wrong! I'm not near that city, I'm in that city! HAHAHAHAhaha... Wait...

Seriously, though, I've had IP-based Geolocation be completely wrong before on my laptop and cellphone (it thought I was in Australia instead of TX). My desktop seems to get it right most of the time, though. Actually, most of the time, they're all right, it's just that when the mobile ones are wrong, they're colossally wrong.

Tic Tac wrote:Hello Mr. Snowden. Our drone intelligence says:

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Hmmm. It has me in a town almost 3 hours from where I actually am. Guess I'm safe.