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Old 03-01-2012, 09:52 PM
 
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Originally Posted by ditchlights View Post
What HD is trying to say is this:

If you put your SS# in enough times, you will get the same error message as you did for Obama's SS#.
Except that they knew I Had tried numerous times today.

I ask HD what time of the day do they restart their daily check and somehow, in all his omnipotence, he completely ignored that post.

 
Old 03-01-2012, 09:54 PM
 
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Actually, as someone who has implemented and designed complex web based query systems for one of the 20 largest corporations in the country, I know from where I speak.

You really do have to try harder, or be left forever in ignorance.
That's all you've got? Out of all the questions posed to you you've come up with the government doesn't know my IP address...

I feel sorry for anyone you've created anything for. Even the mods at CD can tell you your freaking IP address.

How do you think they know you've got duplicate handles?
 
Old 03-01-2012, 09:55 PM
 
Location: Littleton, CO
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Okay, simpleton. My IP address.
Ah... but you see? An IP address identifies a computer, not a person. I have two computers sitting on my desk as I type. Two different IP addresses.

Now... why would a designer program the system to distinguish between IP addresses when it already has the unique identifyer of the SSN to go by? That's uneccessary overhead and would require the collection and processing of at best redundant information.

Programmers strive for elegance. No programmer with any pride would use such a clumsy mechanism.
 
Old 03-01-2012, 09:55 PM
 
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Except that they knew I Had tried numerous times today.

I ask HD what time of the day do they restart their daily check and somehow, in all his omnipotence, he completely ignored that post.
The sites tracks how many times you try via cookies. The site knows how many times you tried based on your ip address. So your first complaint is valid that on your first attempt the site gave you a bogus response and its probably programed to never respond to Obama's SSN.
 
Old 03-01-2012, 09:56 PM
 
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Ah... but you see? An IP address identifies a computer, not a person. I have two computers sitting on my desk as I type. Two different IP addresses.

Now... why would a designer program the system to distinguish between IP addresses when it already has the unique identifyer of the SSN to go by? That's uneccessary overhead and would require the collection and processing of at best redundant information.

Programmers strive for elegance. No programmer with any pride would use such a clumsy mechanism.
I see you know nothing about computers ... figures
 
Old 03-01-2012, 09:57 PM
 
Location: Littleton, CO
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Except that they knew I Had tried numerous times today.
No. They didn't.

They knew that that particular SSN had been tried numerous times today.

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I ask HD what time of the day do they restart their daily check and somehow, in all his omnipotence, he completely ignored that post.
Why would I have any idea what time they reset their clocks?
 
Old 03-01-2012, 09:57 PM
 
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Ah... but you see? An IP address identifies a computer, not a person. I have two computers sitting on my desk as I type. Two different IP addresses.

Now... why would a designer program the system to distinguish between IP addresses when it already has the unique identifyer of the SSN to go by? That's uneccessary overhead and would require the collection and processing of at best redundant information.

Programmers strive for elegance. No programmer with any pride would use such a clumsy mechanism.
No, it doesn't.

It identifies a TCP/IP network.

You fail miserable as a web designer.
 
Old 03-01-2012, 09:58 PM
 
Location: Littleton, CO
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I see you know nothing about computers ... figures
Right. I know nothing about my own professional field.

 
Old 03-01-2012, 09:59 PM
 
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Right. I know nothing about my own professional field.

Now that's pretty sad ...
 
Old 03-01-2012, 09:59 PM
 
Location: Littleton, CO
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The sites tracks how many times you try via cookies.
Wrong.

The site places no persistent cookies on your computer.

Go check.
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