Posts by scatter

1) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hiding computers??@#$? (Message 134650) Posted 9 Jul 2005 by scatter Post: ... Being curious about what OS ppl run, and their computer hardware isn't comparable to inquiring about what type of car you drive. I guess someone could stalk you by knowing you have a ford pinto, but knowing that you run windoze ME on your dad's packard bell doesn't do much for me. I think alot of you have illusions of grandeur and or unmerited paranoia! You might like this Stats by OS/CPU per project,average shoe size etc =) haha. thx
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Hiding computers??@#$? (Message 134635) Posted 9 Jul 2005 by scatter Post: Oh man, picking on the Hungarians. For shame! and you're absolutely right, as far as SETI goes I'm a n00b. good job captain obvious! *jokes
3) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hiding computers??@#$? (Message 134627) Posted 9 Jul 2005 by scatter Post: You asked a question about hiding computers, because as you said it yourself, it is funny for you to see other peoples computers, which I answered kindly in a post above. You gave this answer to me over in Numbers, where I pointed out that you post redundant and I linked to my answer above. I think you have a very rude attitude to people here, also judged from your response to the two above posts! Who do you think you are? You come here and ask questions and demand answers, and when people give you answers after their own decisions, you start to insult them! This is a very bad attitude you show here! And, BTW, please meet Mr. Ignore! demand answers? hmph. okay. I've been laughing the entire time. You started the snappy responses with your 1st post, claiming I had made redundant posts, when in reality you were behind the curve. Either way, thanks for the laughs, happy crunching, and really lighten up! haha
4) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hiding computers??@#$? (Message 134625) Posted 9 Jul 2005 by scatter Post: I think seeing what machines other participants have is 1/2 the fun of SETI. comments? ========== And the other 1/2 is Hiding them from people like you ... ;) man, I've heard of people hiding porn from their parents but how you use your CPU cycles! Time to move out of the basement! Being curious about what OS ppl run, and their computer hardware isn't comparable to inquiring about what type of car you drive. I guess someone could stalk you by knowing you have a ford pinto, but knowing that you run windoze ME on your dad's packard bell doesn't do much for me. I think alot of you have illusions of grandeur and or unmerited paranoia! Such a: <p align="center">N O O B !</p> Just get OVER it. People are gonna hide their computers, others aren't [probably because they don't know how to]. Why does it bother you so much? Why do you care what computers I have attached? I don't care about yours. Let's see, have you figured out how to hide yours yet....? yeah I know how to hide my computers. Are you serious? This has been really entertaining guys. Thanks!
5) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hiding computers??@#$? (Message 134549) Posted 9 Jul 2005 by scatter Post: You want to know what car I drive too? Oh BTW, I drive a Jag S-Type and the Mrs. a T-Bird. Compensating? did you feel that insecure after my Pinto joke that you felt the need to divulge what kind of cars you drive? You don't hide your computer anyway in your profile, so your just arguing for the sake of arguing I guess. Go polish your wifes' Jag & T-bird.
6) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hiding computers??@#$? (Message 134540) Posted 9 Jul 2005 by scatter Post: I think seeing what machines other participants have is 1/2 the fun of SETI. comments? ========== And the other 1/2 is Hiding them from people like you ... ;) man, I've heard of people hiding porn from their parents but how you use your CPU cycles! Time to move out of the basement! Being curious about what OS ppl run, and their computer hardware isn't comparable to inquiring about what type of car you drive. I guess someone could stalk you by knowing you have a ford pinto, but knowing that you run windoze ME on your dad's packard bell doesn't do much for me. I think alot of you have illusions of grandeur and or unmerited paranoia!
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Hiding computers??@#$? (Message 134537) Posted 9 Jul 2005 by scatter Post: Just curious, what motivates those of you that hide your computers? You do realize your IP is only visible to YOU when you're logged in, and SETI@HOME already has your IP, not to mention if you have a router it would only be your internal IP anyway!! I think seeing what machines other participants have is 1/2 the fun of SETI. comments? Redundant posts??? I've already answered you here! wow, nice attitude. The funny thing is that I posted the question in 'number crunching' at 0:56:48 UTC and you didn't post your answer to my original posting in the cafe until 0:59 UTC. So really you hadn't answered me yet.. but thanks for sharing either way.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Hiding computers??@#$? (Message 134514) Posted 9 Jul 2005 by scatter Post: Just curious, what motivates those of you that hide your computers? You do realize your IP is only visible to YOU when you're logged in, and SETI@HOME already has your IP, not to mention if you have a router it would only be your internal IP anyway!! I think seeing what machines other participants have is 1/2 the fun of SETI. comments?
9) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hiding computers??@#$? (Message 134509) Posted 9 Jul 2005 by scatter Post: I'm very interested in computer security myself. What about what hardware you have would make you vulnerable. You're not revealing processes, port numbers, or IP's.
10) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hiding computers??@#$? (Message 134500) Posted 9 Jul 2005 by scatter Post: Just curious, what motivates those of you that hide your computers? You do realize your IP is only visible to YOU when you're logged in, and SETI@HOME already has your IP, not to mention if you have a router it would only be your internal IP anyway!! I think seeing what machines other participants have is 1/2 the fun of SETI. comments?

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