Thanks for all those who responded on and off-list. Several persons
confirmed for me using their Akamai account that the address space was
correctly listed in Akamai's database, and between Google's quasi-generic
online form (http://google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=ip) and a
Google
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 01:31:28AM -0500, Martin Hannigan wrote:
Overall, geo location has turned out to be a somewhat valuable tool in terms
of language, fraud, and localization. I think that it's important to
continue to urge improvements in this technology, not divestment.
I don't see how
Any security provided (I must assume that you speak of fraud prevention
services) is the probablistic sort, of reducing, for example, aggregate (and
not specific) losses.
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From: Greg Skinner g...@gds.best.vwh.net
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 15:52
To: Martin
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Skywing skyw...@valhallalegends.com wrote:
Any security provided (I must assume that you speak of fraud prevention
services) is the probablistic sort, of reducing, for example, aggregate (and
not specific) losses.
Yes, probablistic in a wholistic fashion i.e.
On 03/01/09 07:31, Martin Hannigan wrote:
Overall, geo location has turned out to be a somewhat valuable tool in terms
of language, fraud, and localization. I think that it's important to
continue to urge improvements in this technology, not divestment.
Is it really that difficult to check the
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Chris Hills c...@chaz6.com wrote:
On 03/01/09 07:31, Martin Hannigan wrote:
Overall, geo location has turned out to be a somewhat valuable tool in
terms
of language, fraud, and localization. I think that it's important to
continue to urge improvements in this
Maxmind www.maxmind.com is a fairly good indicator of what geo-locators are
seeing, but I recall a recent thread here that there have been disagreements
between the various geolocation services.
I think that some of it depends on the reference sources i.e. how many and
what the algorithms are and
Funny this should come up...
I've found that a local Mobile Broadband outfit here in NZ are using an IP
range that Akamai's Geolocation service thinks is actually in New Jersey.
Causes me some oddness as a result - this despite the fact that Maxmind
has it correct.
Whilst investigating this
Or maybe they just shouldn't rely on it so much.
It annoys me at the hoops I have to jump through to change the
language on Google-owned properties when they think I'm coming from
Czechoslovakia or Malaysia or some such... Some, like Blogger, still
don't do it right...
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Neil kngsp...@gmail.com wrote:
Or maybe they just shouldn't rely on it so much.
It annoys me at the hoops I have to jump through to change the
language on Google-owned properties when they think I'm coming from
Czechoslovakia or Malaysia or some such... Some,
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