Cookies! (Now five winners)

[pyesetz]

So far my contest has five winners: aethwolf, maximous, ethethlay, dakhun (my new LJ friend!) and mooglyguy (no LJ?).  I see that two readers in Ohio have made unsuccessful attempts.  So far, only MooglyGuy has figured out the extra-credit stuff but several others have had near misses, so I'll put off the first round of cookie mailings for another day or two in case another double-win happens.  There's still plenty of time to win!  Even if you've never won anything before, even if you barely know what "URL" means.
     Why am I running this contest?  Besides the obvious reasons ("because I can" and "to show off my database of furs' names and IP addresses"), I'm really hoping people will find one of the extra-credit thingies, so I guess I'll give out some hints:

• I am a card-carrying member of the Free Software Foundation (member #1192).  We believe that "software should be free".  But not everything is free.  What would motivate me to cover up something in my files?
• Where in the program are the furs' RL names being stored?

maximous: I don't have a shipping address for you.  Will you be attending next week's bowling-meet?  Should I bring low-carb cookies?

Comments

[aethwolf.livejournal.com]

MooglyGuy = foogle

[jainasia.livejournal.com]

well... at least now it's giving me a name rather than calling me your random annoynmous fan... though... where's Bellefontaine, OH?

[pyesetz]

Bellefontaine OH.  If I'm right about where you really are, Bellefontaine is over 100 miles away!

Your ISP is Sprint-DSL, right?  They are not at all helpful for the sort of IP-mapping that I'm trying to do.  Every time you call in, they assign you a new IP from a vast pool assigned to spots all over Ohio, as well as some assigned to Sprint's home office in Florida.  At this point I've got over 2500 IP addresses attached to your name!  Some of these might not actually be you, but other Ohioans or Sprint-users who read your friends-list.

foogle complained that my program kept showing him aethwolf's RL name, because I had assigned all IP's at East Tennessee State University to Aeth.  That worked fine as long as I had only one friend at that school!  It's a good thing I have the program say "Pyesetz thinks that you are...", because then at least the program was accurately stating what I thought (which was that anyone accessing my stuff from ETSU must be Aeth).

[jainasia.livejournal.com]

odd...
147 miles away...
Whoa...

Hee, it's right this time though.

Yea, stupid sprint...

[foogle.livejournal.com]

By the way, this is my home IP address. I'm MooglyGuy/foogle in Johnson City TN, not "My anonymous LJ fan / Blountville TN". ;)

[pyesetz]

> Blountville TN
As you know, my program is just parroting whatever Geobytes says as to where you are -- and their accuracy claim is only 85%.

> My anonymous LJ fan
I'm adding RL names manually to my database.  Before this can happen, you must do something (ping my website with an informative REFERER field, comment on my LJ, post to AFF or ALF on USENET, etc.) that tells me which fur is on the other end of that Internet connection.