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Max Hardcore. The things one learns reading this forum. Right, Zelda?

For us barely functioning computer-illiterates, if you have the ip address, is there a way to identify the owner/location or is that something only Jack Bauer and CTU can do?

You can identify who at a corporate level, but not the person in the company that made the edits. The scanner also allows you to search on edits made from a specific location (like Conway).

The Tyson and Wal-Mart edits seem to be cut-and-paste from press releases. You'd think they'd know better than this by now.

If you think about all this for a while it will occur to you that the Christian rightwing has been doing Wiki-edits for years, even before there was a Wiki or Internet tubes. Inserting into the public mind that raped women don't get pregnant, the earth is only 6000 years old, that Clinton was up a tree in Fayetteville with Angela Davis, burning his draft card....that science is bunk and God made Arkansas with his own two white hands.

It's all dishonesty on parade. Beating the facts to death just makes us all poorer and dumber, makes life more confusing and less manageable. It is directly responsible for the rise of Bush-Cheney, who are directly responsible for the destruction of the American image of being a good and decent country, the dismantling of our nations legal system, the morphing of our 3 branches of government into one. FK'ing with the facts allowed Cheney-Bush to attack an innocent 2 bit country with the approval of a slim majority of the American public.......the dumbasses!

Too bad that young man didn't invent a Life-scanner...so we could go thru each day instantly knowing when some nice white person is lying their butt off to our face.

It's my understanding the an ip tracks back to your computer much like caller id and your phone number.. Of course everything you search ,browse, email, or enter onto the internet is stored permanently, everything.

I moderate on very busy blogs from time to time and though I am not a tech person I work with some who are. They can learn an awful lot at no cost very quickly (30 seconds or less) about almost anyone who makes a comment or even those who just click in to read. Nothing you do on the internet or telephones should ever feel private at all.

You can thank both parties in our Gov't for that.

Hey Max, did you get a comment from the Jonesboro paper regarding the Max Hardcore edit?

Inquiring minds want to know!!!!!

Right, Cato.

Tracking computers is easy, start with googling WhoIs (http://www.arin.net/whois/) to track the IP. Server logs can be used to find the individual machine via their MAC address. But why bother, the Commonwealth is fallen.

"Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes." John Stuart Mill