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no Special Unit 2, either. man, that show was hilarious.

i'm not even sure how to describe it, except as a cop show with monsters, made by somebody after three days of no sleep.

anybody know if there's a dvd?

[ February 25, 2004, 18:43: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

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*looks into this room* Hrrm... *blinks* Oh HI YA! ^-^ *has no idea what this forum in about lol*

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* ssshhhttt * they have no idea either

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the hoky poky, of course! what else? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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Oh, I thought we just posted random nonsense here when we're bored.

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oh, well, then i wasn't breaking any trends.

except i'm not bored.

well, sorta.

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Aight, followed this link narf posted from the Last thread. Special Unit 2 was awesome! I'm hoping for a DVD set some time.

And that new Stephen King show on tonight, Kingdom Hospital... did anyone catch it the first time when it was called 'All Souls'? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif Apparently I'm the only one of all the people I know who remember that short-lived show. Tell me I'm not imagining things.

zen

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Testing.

Bumping.

And so on and so forth...

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[Arnold]this thread makes the energizer bunny look puny, man.[/Arnold]

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<a href=http://diesel2035.free.fr/geek/geek.htm?BDecode=decode&geek=A+Se%2B+GdY+%24%2B%2B +Fr%21+C-+Csc+Sf+Ai+AuO+M%2B%2B+MpTFdM+S+Ss+RSH+Pw+Fq+Nd%2B %2B+RP%2B+G%2B%2B%2B+Mm%2B%2B%2B+Bb%2B%2B%2B+L%2B% 2B+>A Se+ GdY $++ Fr! C- Csc Sf Ai AuO M++ MpTFdM S Ss RSH Pw Fq Nd++ RP+ G+++ Mm+++Bb+++ L++</a>

Grr... If this works here, why doesn't it work in my sig.

[edit]

Testing the sig changes, again

see, it puts the code in there, but ignores the '<' a href '>' wrapped around it.

[edit; testing again]

[ March 16, 2004, 14:05: Message edited by: Loser ]

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Loser, you can't put regular html tags in your sig line. The board will only accept UBB links in your sig profile. It will accept either UBB or html in a post here though.

You can try putting the link in your sig as a UBB link, but I don't think it will work right with all the +### stuff in it. You can post your code as text and then a simple UBB link to the decode page. People can then cut+paste your code into the box on the decode page. I don't think you can do it all in one shot though.

[ March 16, 2004, 14:08: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

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question for the day: what does the text in the image in my signiture say?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I consider that an intrusion.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I consider that an intrusion. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">so what does the Last line say? no identifiable info there
the rest you broadcast every time you load anything in your browser

[ April 03, 2004, 22:18: Message edited by: Member 4148 ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I consider that an intrusion. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">so what does the Last line say? no identifiable info there
the rest you broadcast every time you load anything in your browser </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You comedy line is working.

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Hey, thanks! Now I know what my REAL IP address it, not the one masked by my ISP! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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THAT is too cool. Nice Sig Member4148. No ban him please. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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I guess the question is that thing storing the info that it is collecting? If it is not then I would say no harm no foul, but if it is keeping the info then I would request that you discontinue using it.

http://www.danasoft.com

[ April 04, 2004, 03:16: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

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It's hard to say if they are collecting the information or not - they have a Privacy Policy posted, and it mentions the sig image briefly:
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">... but it doesn't say squat about whether or not they save the info.

But if you think about it for a bit, they are pointing out that any time you load anything Online, you broadcast that info - they just make you aware that they recieve it. Of course, what is really fun, is that it is the servers that normally deal with the info - usually just to send a page back to the requester, sure - but there's no particular reason the server itself couldn't trap the info and store it somewhere - and you would never know. If you are too terribly paranoid about it, don't go Online; or, if you'd like, you could try one of the anonomous browsing services, such as @nonymouse.com - which makes the graphic return a different IP and removes the OS, ISP, and browser info - of course, then you are filtering it all through a single site, and you can't be sure they aren't collecting the information.

Of course, tracking people's IP addresses doesn't really help an advertiser, as most Internet Service Providers use DHCP, which causes the IP address of a client to change periodically, so that the IP address can't be readily used to track a potential customer without the ISP's cooperation.

Edit: Also, I might point out that these Boards store your IP address....

[ April 04, 2004, 07:08: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]

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The Operating System and browser Version are handed over by your web browser software - blame them for doing so. Some browsers (e.g. Opera) let you identify as other browser types. Also, you can insert a program which will intercept these communications and fill in with whatever data you want. Microsoft seems to think no one would ever want to not share this information with everyone though, so IE has no such options.

PvK

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Excellent point Jack. I guess with all the identity theft and on line scams people, include myself, have grown a bit paranoid.

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I should point out that Shrapnel as well as many forums have blocks in place to prevent IP hiding or spoofing. So the anonymous IP won't work here. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Atrocities:
I'm curious - are you still of the opinion that collecting and storing such information as IP addresses is wrong, as you seemed to state earlier:

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana"><hr>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">*shrug* there is no such thing as a perfect block, just as there is no such thing as a perfect hide or a perfect spoof; whether or not a particular set of blocks stops a particular set of hiding/spoofing methods depends on how the members of each set work. E.g., a browser-level IP spoofer/hider still must send out the true IP address somewhere, otherwise the data doesn't come back to the browser for viewing; a block to stop that is fairly straightforward - match all possible locations of the IP address up. However, a remote machine, set with an imaginary directory structure that causes the remote machine to attempt to find, load, and store a web page based on the directory structure requested could concieveably send a true IP address to the page in question, then relay the page to the browser as though the page came from the remote machine could concieveably defeat such a block by giving the page the IP of the remote machine. That hiding, in turn, could potentially be defeated by a script in the page that sends the browser's IP directly to the originating web page, which in turn could be defeated by a browser that recognizes and disables such scripts, et cetera, et cetera; the old "make some armor that will stop this bullet; okay, now make a bullet that will penetrate that armor" et infinium.

The only way to be sure Shrapnel's set of blocks stops @nonymouse's set of spoofing/hiding would be to test them against each other - make a fake ID temporarily on the Boards operating through nonymouse, and then have an admin or moderator report the logged IP and compare that to the IP of the known originating machine from the post, or the IP of @nonymouse.

[ April 04, 2004, 07:50: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]

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Ya I just discovered that Jack. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif Oh well, I guess we now have something new for the programers to concentrate upon.

If no info is stored then I have no problem with it. If info is being stored then I am slightly concerned but can live with it.

So long as my bank account is not touched, no viruses put on my machine, and my identity remains private I am a happy camper.

(Damn Dial Up)

[ April 04, 2004, 08:27: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I take it @nonymouse worked then? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Fair enough. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">And you a moderator! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif