Or (90S,0), so they get a bit of fresh air and have some time think during the voyage :-) On 4/11/16 2:14 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:
Or 0,0, send the FBI to Africa on a boating trip. that would probably be easier than "unknown" or "null".
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On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Hugo Slabbert <hugo@slabnet.com> wrote:
On Mon 2016-Apr-11 13:02:14 -0400, Ken Chase <math@sizone.org> wrote:
TL;DR: GeoIP put unknown IP location mappings to the 'center of the
country' but then rounded off the lat long so it points at this farm.
Cant believe law enforcement is using this kind of info to execute searches. Wouldnt that undermine the credibility of any evidence brought up in trials for any geoip locates?
Seems to me locating unknowns somewhere in the middle of a big lake or park in the center of the country might be a better idea.
...how about actually marking an unknown as...oh, I dunno: "unknown"? Is there no analogue in the GeoIP lookups for a 404?
/kc
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On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:55:11AM -0500, Chris Boyd said:
Interesting article.
http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/
An hour???s drive from Wichita, Kansas, in a little town called Potwin, there is a 360-acre piece of land with a very big problem.
The plot has been owned by the Vogelman family for more than a hundred years, though the current owner, Joyce Taylor n??e Vogelman, 82, now rents it out. The acreage is quiet and remote: a farm, a pasture, an old orchard, two barns, some hog shacks and a two-story house. It???s the
kind
of place you move to if you want to get away from it all. The nearest neighbor is a mile away, and the closest big town has just 13,000 people. It is real, rural America; in fact, it???s a two-hour drive from the exact geographical center of the United States.
But instead of being a place of respite, the people who live on Joyce Taylor???s land find themselves in a technological horror story.
For the last decade, Taylor and her renters have been visited by all kinds of mysterious trouble. They???ve been accused of being identity thieves, spammers, scammers and fraudsters. They???ve gotten visited by FBI agents, federal marshals, IRS collectors, ambulances searching for suicidal veterans, and police officers searching for runaway children. They???ve found people scrounging around in their barn. The renters have been doxxed, their names and addresses posted on the internet by vigilantes. Once, someone left a broken toilet in the driveway as a strange, indefinite threat.
--Chris