Comments on: The Air Force Isn’t Watching

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:37:26 +0000

Fifteen miles is awfully close to reality. I assume it’s a backtrace on a ping to the originating node, because the IP addresses are registered for one location.

By: LadyMin

LadyMin — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:23:04 +0000

I always show up as being in a town about 15 miles north of where I live.

At least they got me in the right state.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:21:35 +0000

Those must be the location of two of it’s nodes. The Grumpy Forester in Oregon keeps getting listed as Alpharette, Georgia.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:12:20 +0000

i had one provider that regularly had me showing up on everybody’s sitemeter as being from the local navy base. another provider regularly had me ‘located’ in lady lake, which is 400 miles from here.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:43:30 +0000

It must be the location where you actually connect to the backbone of the Internet. Using DSL, I am directly connected to the local telephone switch over wire, and then they group connections and send them out over the fiber network. I would guess the location announced by Feedjit is the point at which you physically connect to the Internet system, and with my vendor it could be anywhere between here and Central Florida.

Embarq does have an Internet node on the Base, but it isn’t normally used for other local traffic.

I assume your provider shifts your connection depending on the load on the system.

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:44:19 +0000

Sometimes I register as Goleta or Lompoc. Go figure.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:47:59 +0000

There’s always time for coffee, and even if they institute a draft, one-legged pregnant grandmothers would have a higher selection code than I would.

The problem with learning new languages is you keep thinking how much easier it would be in languages you already know.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:01:25 +0000

Ahhh! Maybe *they* are trying to give you a hint? Getting short on pilots maybe? LOL 😉

You know the saying about ‘desperate times’… 😉

Heh… I’m easily amused sometimes. 😀

I needed a distraction from learning Joomla! 1.5. I think I’m getting too old for all this! *sigh*

Oh well… time for a coffee! 😀