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Wait, how'd he get a server in Disney World? (i.imgur.com)
submitted 7 months ago by serupento
[–]ssergei 199 points200 points201 points 7 months ago
Facebook lets you set your location to anywhere.
[–]douglasr007 83 points84 points85 points 7 months ago
You can also use apps that fake your GPS location as well.
[–]undstudent 58 points59 points60 points 7 months ago*
If you do it this way though, Facebook won't let you "check in" if your movement between two places is physically impossible for a given time frame.
Edit: This is what happens if you try to.
[–]redditsusernamelimit 132 points133 points134 points 7 months ago
What if I'm an SR-71 pilot? Is Facebook discriminating against our soldiers?
[–]henryroo 70 points71 points72 points 7 months ago
It's no longer used. TAKE THAT
[–]TheJBW 81 points82 points83 points 7 months ago*
So they're discriminating against our soldiers who hijack experimental hypersonic aircraft from museums? THOSE BASTARDS.
[–]iLama 33 points34 points35 points 7 months ago
The SR-71 wasn't an experimental aircraft (U.S. military experimental aircraft are typically designated with the letter X), nor was it a hypersonic aircraft (it was supersonic). Just thought you should know.
[–]ikillbambis 3 points4 points5 points 7 months ago
It also has nothing to do with the Autobot Jetfire. FUCK YOU Michael Bay!
[–]executex 5 points6 points7 points 7 months ago
Michael Bay discriminated against the SR-71 by portraying it as old! We will not stand for this Michael Bay, we demand 3 Megan Fox look-alikes in his next movie as an apology.
[–]TheJBW 1 point2 points3 points 7 months ago
I'm well aware, but there was no word that flowed as well. I'd criticize you, but I tend to be a Melvin too.
[–]Party_Ninja 8 points9 points10 points 7 months ago
I believe it's because they're actually Transformers. THEY'RE STILL BASTARDS.
[–]Anm2k4 -1 points0 points1 point 7 months ago
NASA still uses them iirc
[–]JelloLegs -1 points0 points1 point 7 months ago
NASA'S SR-71 Website
If they still use them, they shouldn't put this under "Past Projects" ;)
[–]frailty 10 points11 points12 points 7 months ago
your Phone's GPS wouldn't work, because it's legally required to shut down after reaching a certrain speed (I think it was close to 1000km/h) to prevent being used as a missilie guide.
[–]madreus 2 points3 points4 points 7 months ago
Source? This is fucking interesting.
[–]picklepete87 2 points3 points4 points 7 months ago
Source, and it was posted on Reddit here.
[–]madreus 0 points1 point2 points 7 months ago
Thank you sir.
[–]antena 0 points1 point2 points 7 months ago
But, but.... if I have the know-how to build a missile, I damn well will know how to disable this function, or at least build a GPS unit without it....
Also, source?
[–]ericfromtx 2 points3 points4 points 7 months ago
Not only SR-71 pilots but astronauts that are on the ISS.
[–]domcolosi 2 points3 points4 points 7 months ago
What if I'm an SR-71 pilot
Well, then, she may not be miss right, but she'll do right now.
[–]undstudent 4 points5 points6 points 7 months ago
I'm guessing that they take the average speed of your typical airline flight and just use that.
[–]docpepson 9 points10 points11 points 7 months ago
untrue, I was trying to check into my daughter's school in Indiana and mistakenly checked into a city with the same name in Texas. When I noticed this, I then checked into the correct place within seconds.
[–]undstudent 1 point2 points3 points 7 months ago
You're not using GPS to check in then, you're just typing the name in. Trust me, it's true.
[–]docpepson 0 points1 point2 points 7 months ago
While I don't have a screenshot, perhaps it's a OS thing then? I'm on a iPhone.
[–]shortyjacobs 0 points1 point2 points 7 months ago
OK....serious question.....what the fuck is "Checking In"? I'm a 28 year old male, I was raised in tech, I was on facebook before they even allowed most universities on facebook, and I still have no clue what the fuck it means.
[–]contrarian_barbarian 14 points15 points16 points 7 months ago
OK....serious question.....what the fuck is "Checking In"?
"Checking in" is the practice of posting to everyone on the internet that you are, and will be for the near future, far enough away from home that any robbers in the area know they can safely root through your personal belongings and get away before you have a chance to return home.
[–]IamSuperCereal 66 points67 points68 points 7 months ago
"raised in tech"
Doesn't know how to google
[–]shortyjacobs -14 points-13 points-12 points 7 months ago
https://www.google.com/search?gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&client=ubuntu&channel=cs&ie=UTF-8&q=what+the+fuck+is+checking+in
This post gave me a lot more info.
Plus, I don't really give a shit, I was just curious. So, in context, I asked here.
[–]Synth3t1c 10 points11 points12 points 7 months ago
Don't be a dumbass: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=ubuntu&channel=cs&q=what+is+checking+in&oq=what+is+checking+in
[–]ikillbambis 8 points9 points10 points 7 months ago
You sound like a stubborn jack ass, how old is your "tech"? Checking in has been huge for social media over the last 3-4 years.
[–]enderxeno -1 points0 points1 point 7 months ago
There are people, get this - they have different EXPERIENCES than you. They grow up differently. Have different friends. Have an entirely different life. My boyfriend hasn't checked his facebook in a year. I've never once checked in on any program ever in my life. I have no real idea what it is, but i'm assuming it's ........ checking in. Which I don't want anyone to have access to.
nonetheless, you're a unique snowflower and are obviously far more intelligent than everyone, but no need to be a retard about it. gasp You're also speaking to somebody that has never twittered! THE HORROR
[–]jamierc 3 points4 points5 points 7 months ago
You missed the point by a country mile
[–]joesb 4 points5 points6 points 7 months ago
Did you read the context before making the comment? The guy who doesn't know what checkin is is the one claiming to be "raised in tech" and use Facebook even before it was cool.
I find it hard to believe a tech guy who use Facebook regularly does not ever have any friend who checked in? Or that he doesn't own a smart phone with ability to check in.
Lastly, how many percent of "tech guy" has never heard of four square or any location based social?
[–]noughtagroos 24 points25 points26 points 7 months ago
"Checking In" is how you let criminals know that it's safe to rob your house/apartment, because you aren't home.
Use this when you only want a few things stolen. When you want to have the place emptied, set an auto-reply "on vacation" away message on your email.
[–]joesb 11 points12 points13 points 7 months ago
Quit adding criminal as your friends!!
[–]Kancho_Ninja 0 points1 point2 points 7 months ago
noughtagroos is currently enjoying a drink with friends at a local pub.
Sounds like a good time to pilfer through his possessions to me!
[–]wingman182 0 points1 point2 points 7 months ago
Sounds like a good time to pilsner through his possessions.....
FTFY
[–]TracerBurnout 10 points11 points12 points 7 months ago
Checking In is the act of publishing a status on FB, twitter or any other social media that allows your subscribers/followers/the public to know where/what/when you are doing. Its analogous to calling your mom from your friends house after school to let her know where you are.
I think the intended idea is to have someone say "Oh hey, TracerBurnout is getting lunch, I should join him!" but I think most people just use it to show off if they're somewhere special like an airport or something.
[–]dzhezus 3 points4 points5 points 7 months ago
It's also how the cool kids say what show they're at
[–]ungoogleable 2 points3 points4 points 7 months ago
I'm pretty sure it's just a way to get people to spam their friends with free advertising.
[–]peaknuckle 5 points6 points7 points 7 months ago
It's to let people know that you can't catch them at home throwing a brick through your sliding glass door.
[–]nickb64 2 points3 points4 points 7 months ago
"checking in" is a great way to tell people whether or not you're at home and if they should come burgle your house.
[–]jsims281 2 points3 points4 points 7 months ago
Why do you have burglars on your friends list?
[–]nickb64 1 point2 points3 points 7 months ago
a lot of crimes are committed by people you know, unfortunately.
especially if you have nice things.
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[–]kinematografi 2 points3 points4 points 7 months ago
If you haven't read it, and this is a subject that interests/angers you, allow me to recommend this book.
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[–]DankasaurusRX 1 point2 points3 points 7 months ago
It just lets your facebook friends/ the rest of the world know where you are or have been. It used the gps to find locations around you. For example... Alan just checked in at (Great Lakes Movie Theater, Beaver Creek Ski Resort, The Marriott in Down Town Chicago). Basically so all the teenie boppers can let others know where they are taking daddy's car. Its really lame if you are poor and don't go anywhere... feels bad man
[–]kinematografi 1 point2 points3 points 7 months ago
(Actual answer, because even though you "really don't give a shit, and you should know how to google things by now, it's important to share knowledge with one another.)
It is a marketing/surveillance scheme. You "tell your friends" where you are on facebook, google places or foursquare. You can gain points or coupons in some iterations, giving the act the illusion of a game or monetary savings. But the systems are, in fact, almost exclusively used for data mining and surveillance purposes.
It's basically publicly stating where you are. There's something called foursquare that has made a game out of it. It can be fun or annoying depending on how you look at it.
[–]allonymous 0 points1 point2 points 7 months ago
It's just a way of posting on facebook where you are. So if i went on your facebook page it would say: "shortyjacobs is at the library" or wherever you are checked in at.
[–]jamierc 1 point2 points3 points 7 months ago
Shortyjacobs is in his parents' basement
[–]douglasr007 1 point2 points3 points 7 months ago
That's odd. I mean foursquare has no problem with this even if you're hoping from plane to plane.
Well Facebook doesn't either for flights, I've never had a problem checking in at different airports during layovers.
[–]MuseofRose -1 points0 points1 point 7 months ago
Facebook wants your exact true personal information.
Real Name and all that jazz.
They also try to deter you from deactivating you account.
[–]quarktheduck 1 point2 points3 points 7 months ago
Today I posted a status on facebook from my desktop and it like it usually does (as it should) said "near Orlando" but an hour later when I posted a link it said "near Atlanta" and I have no idea why.
[–]PSquid 2 points3 points4 points 7 months ago
This comment (from elsewhere in the thread) might well explain it - given that you're on your desktop, there's no actual location data available, just data they can make a guess from (such as your IP, which can be reassigned if you haven't been issued a static one).
[–]quarktheduck 0 points1 point2 points 7 months ago
One of my friends suggested that as well, but I have my Facebook account set up to send an email when any previously unrecognized devices log into my account (or attempt to). The first time I logged into my Facebook from this computer was three months ago, and in the initial email it said my IP had me in Orlando. Since then it hasn't requested I name the device again when I log in, which it does for every new IP that logs into it. Yesterday was the only time it's ever done it, too.
[–]madk 0 points1 point2 points 7 months ago
As a side note, Google Latitude detects your air travel by checking your and end locations versus airport locations. If you check your history it even lists your flight trips.
[–]okiyama 62 points63 points64 points 7 months ago
You can set the location information on a server to anything. There are proxy servers that make it so that all the dating ads online say "Want to meet hot singles near North Pole?"
[–]KajiKaji 32 points33 points34 points 7 months ago
Even without a proxy my dating ads are 70 miles off.
[–]Brak710 27 points28 points29 points 7 months ago
It's basically the ZIP code of where your ISP registered the IPs as.
[–]shadowblade 0 points1 point2 points 7 months ago
Not true, its wherever you ISP happens to route your traffic through. For example, I live in Michigan and most GeoIp services say I'm in Chicago as that's how Charter's (my ISP) sysadmins decided to do routing.
[–]DtownAndOut 0 points1 point2 points 7 months ago
Hmm, I always thought it was where the CO was. It would make sense that ISP gives an IP the same zip code as the CO.
[–]Fhajad 7 points8 points9 points 7 months ago
But then they'd have to register what IPs are handed out of what COs and keep the DHCP pool open enough, etc etc.
It's more work and it's not worth it.
I agree with you, makes total sense. I had honestly never thought about it before though.
[–]frymaster 0 points1 point2 points 7 months ago
it can depend. I'm in the UK on cable; it generally zeroes in on the facility in the city that all cable in the area goes through. For ADSL, sometimes it can be the right city, and sometimes it'll be London because that's where the company is based.
A lot of the databases these guys use draw information from a variety of sources.
[–]okiyama 8 points9 points10 points 7 months ago
That's because they use geolocation based off of your IP address which is quite rough.
Particularly if you are not in a major city.
[–]PotentChili 1 point2 points3 points 7 months ago
Sometimes those ads know I'm in Alaska, other times they think I'm in Nevada or Kentucky.. I must have a strange IP address or something. Also my ISP is incompetent as fuck.
[–]LiquidBlack 6 points7 points8 points 7 months ago
Relevant XKCD
[–]ksj 4 points5 points6 points 7 months ago
There's a relevant XKCD for everything.
[–]koobaxion 1 point2 points3 points 7 months ago
Yes, I want to meet them if they're hot, it is so fucking cold up here.
[–]EndymionAwake 1 point2 points3 points 7 months ago
You coulda gotten so much more if you had gone with "Want to meet hot single in low earth orbit?"
[–]okiyama 0 points1 point2 points 7 months ago
I unfortunately have only completely memorized 70% of XKCD.
My karma would be thousands higher right now, if I had only practiced a bit harder before hitting the big time.
[–]rasterized 16 points17 points18 points 7 months ago
All my FB post say I'm in Pyongyang.
[–]lbft 6 points7 points8 points 7 months ago
Nice try, Kim Jong-un...
[–]spoolio 2 points3 points4 points 7 months ago
He learned it from his big bro. That's how you keep everyone from wondering where you went when you sneak out to go to Tokyo Disneyland.
[–]zagman76 7 points8 points9 points 7 months ago
This explains it perfectly!
[–]EverydayMuffin 7 points8 points9 points 7 months ago
You can never trust location services, just the other day my phone told me I was here, which is strange, because I live in Ireland... Automatically changed my timezone and everything!
[–]bobzor 48 points49 points50 points 7 months ago
Maybe you really live in North Korea, but in a small town that pretends to be Irish to keep their citizens content. Also they get their wifi from China.
[–]EverydayMuffin 1 point2 points3 points 7 months ago
Maybe! Haha. Well New Ireland isn't too far off, so I'll let it slide this time.
[–]g33n 3 points4 points5 points 7 months ago
I was tracking a bike ride one night, and for a short period under a highway overpass my phone reported me being 13 miles away (really fucked with my fitness stats).
Someone broke it down for me like this: when your phone doesn't know where it is via any other services, but can see wi-fi, it'll compare the last known location of that router with your current location. In this case, whoevers' SSID I was picking up had recently moved from the Bronx to Queens, and my phone decided to source my location off of it.
So maybe someone in Ireland recently moved from China or something.
[–]Fhajad 0 points1 point2 points 7 months ago
It can assume off wifi, or it's usually a triangulation in the rough area of cell towers. Like if my GPS isn't working, I'm suddently in a 10 mile circle of "not sure but somewhere in here".
[–]poiro 0 points1 point2 points 7 months ago
Who do you use as your ISP? I get similar results with Sky broadband, I've actually never checked my IP address and got the right city
I'm with Vodafone, same happened to my friends iPhone the same time this happened to me. Said he was in Madrid. I also know someone and their IP address registers to Limerick as opposed to Dublin. That shit is wack.
[–]jejemonster 3 points4 points5 points 7 months ago
Well, someone has to take your order and bring your meals to you.
[–]AdamLynch 15 points16 points17 points 7 months ago
Old trick...Did this to guantanamo bay and Google's HQ, and zuckerbergs house.
[–]Douces 2 points3 points4 points 7 months ago
TOR?
[–]erbat[] 2 points3 points4 points 7 months ago
These happened to be caused by someone updating their Timeline feed on Facebook. Each updated location is subsequently added to their wall as a post without the context of them doing work elsewhere on the site.
[–]defyallodds 1 point2 points3 points 7 months ago*
Considering that Walt Disney World sits on about 30,000 acres of land, it might as well have its own zip code and a dedicated location.
[–]Ricktron3030 0 points1 point2 points 7 months ago
I'd be surprised if it didn't.
[–]country_hacker 0 points1 point2 points 7 months ago
I understand how this guy did it, but to directly answer the OP, what a great use for a RasberryPi! Duct tape it to a battery pack, find an unused ethernet port at $target_company, and walk away, letting the intrusion software/SSH tunnel/whatever run on their network.
And sure, there'll be competent IT departments who do stuff like MAC filtering and such, but for $35 you can afford to do some testing.
[–]kevin19713 0 points1 point2 points 7 months ago
When I was at my friends house in Maryland for the holidays my Facebook app on my phone said I was in the country of Andorra. I was using her WiFi so I guess it was something messed up with the ip address. I only turn on my GPS when I need directions.
[–][deleted] -9 points-8 points-7 points 7 months ago
Like totally the oldest trick ever on a site that isn't even cool any more!
next plox
all it takes is a username and password
create account
is it really that easy? only one way to find out...
already have an account and just want to login?
login
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