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Key Veteran
Location: San Diego, CA
| I have two things to say:
THING ONE {
1) There is nothing illegal, at all, about posting someone's IP address. At all.
2) There are only three things someone can do with your IP address, and all of these things are disrupted once it changes, which with the majority of people who come here, happens a lot: a) connect to a service that you provide over it; b) malliciously exploit a service that you are providing; c) flood it. Thing (a) is obviously acceptible; if thing (b) can happen to you, you deserve it; and thing (c) can be fixed by changing your IP address, which can be done, even if you have a static. If changing your IP address is inconvenient because you are hosting something important off of it, then I'd say stop using an important connection to piss people off.
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THING TWO {
ColeopTer's idea is great. The only modification I'd throw on it is instead of giving everyone the right to mark posts/threads for deletion, give that ability to a couple of people. And by "couple" I really mean anyone you know, on any level. This prevents some jerk from registering a hundred runryder accounts just so he can click delete a hundred times. If you give the ability to say, 50 people, that will be useful enough.
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UNCOUNTED THING {
People who live in fear because they have a cable connection and think any old hacker can get into their computer really have some learning to do. Just keeping up with windowsupdate.microsoft.com or simply not using Windows is more than enough to keep your stuff secure. Antivirus software is a pretty good thing, depending on how you handle your email, but I haven't had it on any of my three personal machines for years, and haven't gotten a virus once. And the "firewalling" software doesn't really help things either. All the firewalling software will do is prevent a service from being used. If you have a service on your computer that you don't want used, remove it. If you don't know its there to begin with, then you have other problems to worry about.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I feel really sorry for people who fear what they don't understand and are unwilling to learn it better.
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