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On Wed, 06 May 2009 19:25:41 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I doubt anybody is ever going to rival the sheer volume of connections
> you have...
You'd be surprised. I have people in my connections list that have
thousands of personal connections.
I am selective in who I connect to - some of my direct contacts aren't,
though.
I've also been on the thing for a few years now, too.
But browse the network - see any companies or job titles that look
interesting?
Jim
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On Wed, 06 May 2009 19:23:18 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Wed, 06 May 2009 11:02:26 +0100, Invisible wrote:
>>
>>> The NNTP headers of your message record your IP address. A quick WHOIS
>>> query of the RIPE database tells me that this address belongs to a
>>> very well-known major electronics manufacturer. It also gives a
>>> location - Germany. (This vaguely fits what I remember you saying.)
>>
>> Yup. But you also post from work. ;-)
>
> Yes... At least our IP data doesn't have my email address on it. (It
> used to, BTW...!)
Yes - actually, I knew that. :-) That's how I managed to send a
connection request to someone with your name in your city by mistake.
You sure you didn't sign up before there? Seems an unusual name to see
two of in the same city.
Jim
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On Wed, 06 May 2009 19:28:24 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> But I need to pay money to send you an invite. ;-)
>>
>> No, I have never paid anything. Unless things changed recently. I think
>> there is a suggestion that you do, but that may be just to fool those
>> that not regularly work with computers.
>
> Well, *some* profiles you can just connect with, others demand you pay a
> fee. I think it's a configuration option somewhere in the account
> settings, but whatever...
I think that's a feature of one of the paid accounts - to limit the
requests coming in to people who only know your e-mail address (for
example).
> Carefully hiding my real name and my employer... and yet, it turns out
> to be trivial for anybody who actually cares to discover this
> information. (By *multiple* routes.) How precarious life is. :-/
Well, to people who talk to you regularly, you've given enough clues.
Years ago, I managed to track down a deadbeat dad who'd gone AWOL (with
one of his kids) from the US military. His fatal mistake? Having a
CompuServe account with a membership in a D&D gaming forum that used his
character name - a unique name (not something like "Caspian", but
something that he'd created) that a friend of mine who gamed with him
knew.
Turned it over to the authorities, and his ex-wife got to see her
youngest son for the first time in something like 10 years...to this day
she doesn't know that I was the one who found him.
Jim
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>>> Yup. But you also post from work. ;-)
>> Yes... At least our IP data doesn't have my email address on it. (It
>> used to, BTW...!)
>
> Yes - actually, I knew that. :-)
o_O
> That's how I managed to send a
> connection request to someone with your name in your city by mistake.
> You sure you didn't sign up before there? Seems an unusual name to see
> two of in the same city.
At least you didn't mistake me for Chopan... that's happened more than once.
(I did think maybe I should stop posting from work - and then I realised
that since I've been doing so for years and some of the posts are on
groups that never expire, anybody that cares can find out whether I
continue posting or not.)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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>> Well, *some* profiles you can just connect with, others demand you pay a
>> fee. I think it's a configuration option somewhere in the account
>> settings, but whatever...
>
> I think that's a feature of one of the paid accounts - to limit the
> requests coming in to people who only know your e-mail address (for
> example).
Hmm. Maybe...
>> Carefully hiding my real name and my employer... and yet, it turns out
>> to be trivial for anybody who actually cares to discover this
>> information. (By *multiple* routes.) How precarious life is. :-/
>
> Well, to people who talk to you regularly, you've given enough clues.
More like, I'm too stupid to hide the information.
So Greats said that the greatest knowledge is in knowing that you know
nothing. Ah, the sweet sting of being reminded. :-/
> Years ago, I managed to track down a deadbeat dad who'd gone AWOL (with
> one of his kids) from the US military. His fatal mistake? Having a
> CompuServe account with a membership in a D&D gaming forum that used his
> character name - a unique name (not something like "Caspian", but
> something that he'd created) that a friend of mine who gamed with him
> knew.
>
> Turned it over to the authorities, and his ex-wife got to see her
> youngest son for the first time in something like 10 years...to this day
> she doesn't know that I was the one who found him.
...remind me to NEVER piss you off! o_O
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On Wed, 06 May 2009 20:27:58 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>>> Yup. But you also post from work. ;-)
>>> Yes... At least our IP data doesn't have my email address on it. (It
>>> used to, BTW...!)
>>
>> Yes - actually, I knew that. :-)
>
> o_O
>
>> That's how I managed to send a
>> connection request to someone with your name in your city by mistake.
>> You sure you didn't sign up before there? Seems an unusual name to see
>> two of in the same city.
>
> At least you didn't mistake me for Chopan... that's happened more than
> once.
>
> (I did think maybe I should stop posting from work - and then I realised
> that since I've been doing so for years and some of the posts are on
> groups that never expire, anybody that cares can find out whether I
> continue posting or not.)
This is pretty true, yeah.
But going a step further, the other one of you up there in MK works for a
company that looked to be the one you work for. :-)
Jim
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On Wed, 06 May 2009 20:30:25 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> Carefully hiding my real name and my employer... and yet, it turns out
>>> to be trivial for anybody who actually cares to discover this
>>> information. (By *multiple* routes.) How precarious life is. :-/
>>
>> Well, to people who talk to you regularly, you've given enough clues.
>
> More like, I'm too stupid to hide the information.
Nah, it's not stupidity, it's a part of being friendly and talking to
people. I post with an e-mail address of "nos### [at] nospam com". It
wouldn't be hard from the information I've written here to guess my work
e-mail address:
1. You know my company, so start by adding ".com" to the company name.
2. Do a google search of "@company.com" to see if anyone else has used
their address publicly.
3. See if the naming is consistent from one account to the next.
4. Make an educated guess as to what my address would be.
Of course you don't need to do that because I gave you my personal e-mail
address in another message here with some minor obfuscation. :-)
> So Greats said that the greatest knowledge is in knowing that you know
> nothing. Ah, the sweet sting of being reminded. :-/
I prefer "the more you learn, the more you realise you don't know".
>> Years ago, I managed to track down a deadbeat dad who'd gone AWOL (with
>> one of his kids) from the US military. His fatal mistake? Having a
>> CompuServe account with a membership in a D&D gaming forum that used
>> his character name - a unique name (not something like "Caspian", but
>> something that he'd created) that a friend of mine who gamed with him
>> knew.
>>
>> Turned it over to the authorities, and his ex-wife got to see her
>> youngest son for the first time in something like 10 years...to this
>> day she doesn't know that I was the one who found him.
>
> ...remind me to NEVER piss you off! o_O
Heh, in fairness, he hadn't pissed me off (I never met the guy myself).
I was just curious if I could track him down - and once I did, I realised
that it was likely there is a law in Utah that says that if you know
where a deadbeat is and don't tell the authorities, you could get into
trouble. So I didn't really feel I had a choice at that point.
Jim
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> Hey, speaking of it: I didn't bother to do the NNTP header and WHOIS
> detective
> work, so I'm not sure what that company may be, but what the heck:
> "well-known
> major electronics manufacturer" doesn't sound too bad. As it happens, I'm
> currently searching for a new job opportunity as an embedded SW developer
> in
> the automotive business; any vacancies at your company these days?
Unfortunately we have nothing to do with software, we just make the LCDs and
usually the Tier-1 company integrates it into the car. A lot of the time
the Tier-1 company will also outsource the software (or be directed to by
the car manufacturer) because they can't do automotive grade software
themselves. If you are interested I can tell you the names of the
automotive system integrators I've worked with here in southern Germany, you
might find something on their websites somewhere?
> I currently live in Cologne, so if your company should happen to have a
> subsidiary near Ford Cologne with development activity there... hey, that
> could
> be a major hit.
Unfortunately not, our Engineering office is here in Munich (also with a
small sales office next door), the sales HQ for Europe is in Hamburg. We do
support Ford Cologne (I've only been there once though), the main projects
I've worked on with Ford have been run from Ford US though.
If you're interested in Ford and software, then you might be interested in
their Sync module:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Sync
That's what we're interfacing with for new projects at the moment, looks
like there might be some software development needed for that, but probably
done in Ford US.
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On 5/6/2009 5:09 AM, scott wrote:
>> Ah, you have some experience of doing this then? :-D
>
> Hehe maybe :-) A certain society I was involved quite heavily in at
> University was based on a game where you get given 3 names at random of
> other people in the society, then you have to go and "kill" them. Most
> of the time they were people you'd never heard of before, so some
> detective work was needed to find them. Of course your name was on the
> lists of 3 other people - so you had to watch out. Was good fun.
That game sounds AWESOME!
--
...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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Chambers wrote:
> On 5/6/2009 5:09 AM, scott wrote:
>>> Ah, you have some experience of doing this then? :-D
>>
>> Hehe maybe :-) A certain society I was involved quite heavily in at
>> University was based on a game where you get given 3 names at random of
>> other people in the society, then you have to go and "kill" them. Most
>> of the time they were people you'd never heard of before, so some
>> detective work was needed to find them. Of course your name was on the
>> lists of 3 other people - so you had to watch out. Was good fun.
>
> That game sounds AWESOME!
I actually had something very similar as an assignment in a high-school
social studies class. The class got split up into teams of organized crime
families and had to assassinate others with water pistols without getting
caught.
The teacher was a very innovative social studies teacher. I regret I wasn't
smart enough at the time to figure out what he was teaching.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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