A couple of years or so ago, some dumbasses who wrote a blog were making, well, dumbasses of themselves online and harassing folks on another blog. Me being me, I stepped into the doo pile and let lose some mockery at the dumbasses. Well. Being dunbasses, they of course had to show me - perhaps a little intimidation would scare me off!
Because they ran their own blog on a server they controlled, they could of course track my IP from my posts, easy peasy. And then being the geniuses that they were, they proceeded to use some search engine they thought could map my IP to my actual address ... and posted a map of where I was! Horrors!
I was laughing too hard to tell them their map was centred in the middle of our metro, which would be downtown of course, as any good ol mapping site might do when you enter a city name and hit search.
Technology plus the over-confident = recipe for lulz. Kinda like the story of some 20 somethings who screeched at me one day about how Google Earth was so E-Vil! EVIL! Because using Google Earth, you could zoom in on anyone's residence and watch their house LIVE! Sekrit spycam for everybody! Oh the lulz....
I like it when my location gets mis-identified. Means big brother isn't quite perfect. Then again, I don't live somewhere with as complicated issues of national identity and international recognition.
People who do not do their work well, are a nuisance.
Greetings from Ramallah to Wyoming!
When I lived in San Francisco, I worked with a woman from Ramallah. She was pretty intense.
I assume there's a problem with the database in our more remote areas. My ISP is based in a different town about 50 miles away. I often get identified as being in that town. I could tell that map server page that I'm not, but it's probably always being re-compiled and someone else may have overridden my changes, so back I go again to the wrong town. I don't know, but I don't think there's much that can be done by anyone to improve it.
Tried it, gave them all informations they wanted. but they still have no clue where am I. Told them twice that I am in Ramallah (Palestinian Territories), they don't know that city - stupid people. Gave them latidude and longitude - they still have no clue where am I. So now I have no clue how to tell them where am I.
I get the same results when I tell it I'm in Wyoming...
The system uses your IP Address, and sometimes makes mistakes with my location, too. You can go to the link that says " Click here to register your IP for maps & geo-records" and correct your location there... but in my experience it is a temporary fix at best.
Good luck!
Tried it, gave them all informations they wanted. but they still have no clue where am I. Told them twice that I am in Ramallah (Palestinian Territories), they don't know that city - stupid people. Gave them latidude and longitude - they still have no clue where am I. So now I have no clue how to tell them where am I.
The system uses your IP Address, and sometimes makes mistakes with my location, too. You can go to the link that says " Click here to register your IP for maps & geo-records" and correct your location there... but in my experience it is a temporary fix at best.
When I lived in San Francisco, I worked with a woman from Ramallah. She was pretty intense.