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OriginalGriff5-Jan-21 20:45

OriginalGriff

5-Jan-21 20:45

A lot of the problems with the internet are down to a lack of responsibility: you can say anything you like with no repercussions because nobody knows who you really are. Thus, people post offensive material, misinformation, and so on that they would never do in the real world because people would lose respect for them / hit them pretty hard if they did.

Look at the amount of "how to clean your facebook / twitter / blah, blah" advice there is for when people realize that potential employers will look at what they have done and said. Look at what happened to Dalek Dave when he stood for council elections - one racist post on twitter and he lost them a safe seat in the middle of the biggest swing to his party in a generation! And we haven't seen him since. That's responsibility in action: if you are going to be held accountable for what you post then you are a lot less likely to post cr@p - and if you do, you will get called on it and people will trust what you say less in future.

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Greg Utas6-Jan-21 0:00

Greg Utas

6-Jan-21 0:00

A great idea in a civilized world. But when a government is run by authoritarians, people who said or say things that are no longer acceptable are at risk. Anonymity is still necessary.

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pkfox14-Jan-21 22:44

pkfox

14-Jan-21 22:44

I wondered what happened to DD

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5teveH5-Jan-21 23:08

5teveH

5-Jan-21 23:08

OriginalGriff wrote:
The anonymity of the net lets a lot of rubbish and deliberate misinformation in

Sadly, the people that peddle this sort of sh!t, don't care about anonymity. In fact, they are probably wanting to revel in the 'glory' - and, currently, there's no penalty for doing it anyway. We just have to hope that the people pulling down 5G masts, get hit by them! Wink | ;)

Slacker0076-Jan-21 0:30

Slacker007

6-Jan-21 0:30

OriginalGriff wrote:
The anonymity of the net

has always, and will always be a core defect of the internet culture. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Sadly, I don't think it will be resolved anytime soon, at least in my lifetime.

Dan Neely6-Jan-21 2:58

Dan Neely

6-Jan-21 2:58

OriginalGriff wrote:
We need to have a unique ID system for the internet so you can post stupidity like that under your real identity. The anonymity of the net lets a lot of rubbish and deliberate misinformation in, and the gullible will always believe it ...

If requiring your real identity was a barrier to posting stupidity, fArseBook would be a paragon of truth and civility.

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David O'Neil5-Jan-21 11:12

David O'Neil

5-Jan-21 11:12

I just wish this 5G scam was real, and I had been the one to make it up and rake in the dough: 5G Repellent Lotion - Imgur

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Enable the dream!

Mike Hankey5-Jan-21 13:36

Mike Hankey

5-Jan-21 13:36

Too funny, thanks got my daily chickle.

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Nelek5-Jan-21 14:14

Nelek

5-Jan-21 14:14

I had a stick that I have put at customers places a couple of times:

Quote:
This machine has no brain, use yours.

In this case it could be...

Quote:
This tweet is for no brainers... please find one

The biggest problem...? Darwin's law is not really active in our time and they get the chance to reproduce themselves... Sigh | :sigh:

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BillWoodruff5-Jan-21 16:55

BillWoodruff

5-Jan-21 16:55

@kentsharkey

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but not to clutter the Lounge.

Is not clutter the very fossil-fuel whose burning enables the climate-change that keeps the weather on the Lounge oscillating from superficial, to relevant, to hysterical, to challenging, to conducive of the swagger-nest-building-calls of the greater CodeWitch ?

Vive la difference !

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DerekT-P5-Jan-21 22:21

DerekT-P

5-Jan-21 22:21

yeah, but they would say that, wouldn't they?

Chris Maunder6-Jan-21 3:12

Chris Maunder

6-Jan-21 3:12

Right. But does it have a decent API?

cheers
Chris Maunder

There was an article on moving the mouse, wasn't there...

Eek Ten Bears12-Feb-21 2:11

Eek Ten Bears

12-Feb-21 2:11

Its not a very good guitar pedal. I'd much rather be injected with the plans for a distortion pedal.

glennPattonWork35-Jan-21 5:32

Re: There was an article on moving the mouse, wasn't there...

5-Jan-21 5:32

Hi All,
Can some helpful sole point me the article about moving the pointer from code, the was something here wasn't there?

Glenn

OriginalGriff5-Jan-21 5:53

OriginalGriff

5-Jan-21 5:53

Depends on the language you are using: for C# it's trivial:

Cursor = new System.Windows.Forms.Cursor(System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Current.Handle);
Point pos = System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position;
System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position = new Point(pos.X - 50, pos.Y - 50);

Re: There was an article on moving the mouse, wasn't there...

glennPattonWork35-Jan-21 7:49

Re: There was an article on moving the mouse, wasn't there...

5-Jan-21 7:49

Thanks, the miniute I posted it I was afraid Green Alien | [Alien]

would come after me for a programming Question!

Nelek5-Jan-21 9:25

Nelek

5-Jan-21 9:25

would not go after you...

We are another story:
HOW YOU DARE??????
Big Grin | :-D

M.D.V.

Re: There was an article on moving the mouse, wasn't there...

glennPattonWork35-Jan-21 10:28

Re: There was an article on moving the mouse, wasn't there...

5-Jan-21 10:28

Just don't want to annoy the Green Guy!

RickZeeland5-Jan-21 6:57

RickZeeland

5-Jan-21 6:57

Maybe this article: Windows Remote Desktop Application[^]
it positions the mouse cursor on a remote screen.

Re: There was an article on moving the mouse, wasn't there...

glennPattonWork35-Jan-21 7:50

5-Jan-21 7:50

That was it, only needed to do it on a local... Thanks!

Thought of the Day

OriginalGriff5-Jan-21 4:29

OriginalGriff

5-Jan-21 4:29

Do cats that hunt too much get placed under mouse arrest?

PIEBALDconsult5-Jan-21 4:30

PIEBALDconsult

5-Jan-21 4:30

That idea rings a bell.

Johnny J.5-Jan-21 4:31

Johnny J.

5-Jan-21 4:31

Only if somebody rats on them... D'Oh! | :doh:

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Mike Hankey5-Jan-21 5:25

Mike Hankey

5-Jan-21 5:25

Its the old Tom and Jerry syndrome: who's chasing who.

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