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I'm in Bulgaria. The beer is exceptional. 11pm here too and I'm just starting to fire on all four.
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I got office presence times which I need to follow, otherwise I'd follow your schedule. Bulgaria you say? That's not too far away, if I'd have time I'd be there in a few hours (it is on my bucket list of countries I want to travel). Sadly I am in the middle of my final project, so finding time for anything is rather hard.
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It's a nice place. I'd highly recommend it.
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Chris Maunder wrote: The beer is exceptional
Then you should come to Germany. Florian Rapp and I live in the same city. I would be glad to invite you to a nice "weizen"
M.D.V. 
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Is it possible to ban users based on their IP address ?
The joke has to end at some point of time, it is getting _really_ annoying now.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Not really, no. The problem is that if you have a company using a single connection to the internet, they all users within that company share the same IP address - the address of the router or equivalent providing the actual connection.
So banning an IP address would ban everyone in that company as well.
There is also the problem that many (if not most) users do not connect via a fixed IP address - most ISPs will provide a dynamic IP for free, but will charge extra for a static one, and if you don't need it static then you don't pay the extra. Every time your home router is reset, you probably get a new IP address.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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If we could pick up the MAC address, that'd do it.
BTW, he's at it again with three new accounts...
speramus in juniperus
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But in the case of a company, would you get the MAC address of the user or of the company's firewall / router?
It's a long time since I last plumbed the depths of TCP/IP. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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AFAIK it's the MAC from the originator.
speramus in juniperus
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It would be worth building the function that kicks on when a MAC address marked as offensive attempt to register just so you could call it ReturnOfTheMac.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Trouble is MACs aren't unique (just unique within a network), and spoofing them is pretty trivial: Google[^]
What we need is a global unique log in, controlled by an independent regulatory body with only one ID per human...but we won't get that any time soon (unless Google or Facebook get there by default)
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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I would love to see the response from the tin foil brigade if Chris announced that he was going to require logon by Facebook in future.
Would make a cracking CP April Fools joke.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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I was thinking more along the lines that Facebook needs standardise on CodeProject login.
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Oh go on! Please!
Just delete this thread and we'll not mention it again until April next year... 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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you'll forget by then even if he didn't delete this thread..
I know I would of 
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Yeah, but we don't want the more gullible amongst us to spot it early.
Oh blast! Nagy's seen it... 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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I am not gullible!
OT - Can you move the new Cat Scratcher you put on your desk please? It's blocking the view for my spycam.
speramus in juniperus
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All the crap stops and /suddenly/ Chris appears, I call that suspect...
speramus in juniperus
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Well, it was a long trip for him to find the bloke and bitch slap him until he agreed to stop logging in.
Takes a while, but much easier than trying to code against it.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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A certain percentage of us would instantly be removed from the system as we either don't have or don't use that service. And you can leave my head gear out of this please!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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--- user gone, message needs a few more ---
speramus in juniperus
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I'd say it is abusive, not only questionable.
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