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Community => Introductions => Topic started by: Wooman on December 20, 2009, 11:42:43 PM
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Since everyone seems to be curious...
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A poll would just be inconclusive, since it's not about what other people think, it's about what can be proven.
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This poll is very conclusive, only if Hooman and Wooman are the only ones who vote.
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Pfft, don't look at me. I'm not voting. :P
Unless..., maybe I already have?
Or perhaps I'll wait for a few more answers, and then vote. :ph34r:
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Not really knowing Hooman that well, but it real doesn't seem like him to attract attention, other then with some cool code that no one cares about.
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cool code that no one cares about.
You'd be surprised.
despite having a point with Hooman not being one to attract attention, this IS the internet we're talking about. That thing with no identity?
A tracert towards their IPs might clear things up a bit.
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1 problem with that: While GM's can see the IP's of mods and other members, we can't see Admin IP's. Only Hooman, Galactic, and Hacker can see admin IP's
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Ahh yes, I was waiting for an IP reply from CK9. Knowing you have GM status, I expected you'd look after that was brought up. Remembering my days as a GM, I also knew you couldn't see that info for admins. :P The mystery continues!
But then, I also wondered if you'd tell even if you did know. How much would you tell? Would you feel guilty about using your GM status to solve the mystery? Would you have spoiled the fun? ;)
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I've known the IP thing since I was first appointed as a GM :P
1) I'd give little cryptic hints at first.
2) Nope, it's just another tool at my disposal.
3) Eventually :P
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Would you have spoiled the fun? ;)
That statement.... was very peculiar for a knowing party such as yourself.
Hooman, you know whether or not Wooman has any relation to you. I am not trying to get you to ADMIT it (as this is quite a cool puzzle, but please don't let me go to the grave not knowing). Now if the two of you knew each other, or are the same person, then that line makes perfect sense as you are playing a joke on us.
Now if you two are not related, then it is even more intriguing that you picked that wording, as there was no known fun initially as you were kind of thrown into this when Wooman joined. Most people would not have taken this extra logical step to try to throw us off, but while I just finished typing what is above I realized, you are not like most people (take as a compliment).
Going back to the linked scenario, you could have planned this out, and anticipated our responses. I may be one of the harder ones to predict because I am relatively new, and I don't post much. You would have known someone would have brought up the IP issue, so that was easily expected. This rambling post was not.
Bottom line: I shouldn't post without sleep.
Oh Hooman or CK9, one more thing, just a simple yes or no question.
Do either Hooman's or Wooman's IP number sum to 383? IE. 192.168.0.1 would be 361. I did it in this fashion, since I enjoy puzzles. If no.... who's IP do I have?
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that seems like my local net ip.
of corse all of my families IPs are redirected to one IP
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Do either Hooman's or Wooman's IP number sum to 383? IE. 192.168.0.1 would be 361. I did it in this fashion, since I enjoy puzzles. If no.... who's IP do I have?
The IP of many people's routers?
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Do either Hooman's or Wooman's IP number sum to 383? IE. 192.168.0.1 would be 361. I did it in this fashion, since I enjoy puzzles. If no.... who's IP do I have?
Sum? What the heck are you talking about? Everybody knows that a . means you multiply the numbers. Just remember not to include that zero, of course. So you're really looking for it to be 32256.
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The nature of hooman's personality makes him quick to recognize when he has an opportunity for some fun. Therefore symantics is useless.
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Any good hardware designer knows that "." means logical AND. Therefore the result is false.
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Any good hardware designer knows that "." means logical AND. Therefore the result is false.
No, it really means...
Uhh, let me make something new up...
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(http://forum.outpost2.net/uploads/av-1639.png) (http://forum.outpost2.net/uploads/av-163.png)
>_>
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Do either Hooman's or Wooman's IP number sum to 383? IE. 192.168.0.1 would be 361. I did it in this fashion, since I enjoy puzzles. If no.... who's IP do I have?
Sum? What the heck are you talking about? Everybody knows that a . means you multiply the numbers. Just remember not to include that zero, of course. So you're really looking for it to be 32256.
Yea I chose the sum of each byte so it is not unique, so if in the slim chance I figured it out, no one else would.
And technically you are not multiplying them, you interpret the IP as a 32 bit number (128 for IP V6), so in WWW.XXX.YYY.ZZZ the actual number is ZZZ + 256^1*YYY + 256^2+XXX + 256^3 * WWW. In your case, how can you determine if the number 5000 is 1.1.50.100 or 1.1.100.50 or even 100.50.1.1. Additionally there could be no zeros.
Do either Hooman's or Wooman's IP number sum to 383? IE. 192.168.0.1 would be 361. I did it in this fashion, since I enjoy puzzles. If no.... who's IP do I have?
The IP of many people's routers?
That is the local IP, which has nothing to do with the one I was talking about. Note the suspect IP is 383, I used a common local IP since normally IP's are not interpreted this way because there are many collisions. Roughly 4 million in fact.
that seems like my local net ip.
of corse all of my families IPs are redirected to one IP
I used that ip as an example so I wouldn't reveal much, or give out some random person's IP. I enjoy a good puzzle as well.
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well, the picture qualities are HIGHLY different...though thy probably didn't make them themselves (unlike me and my avvie :P )
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stuff
Uhh, you realize I was just messing with you? Summing the IPs tells you... absolutely nothing.
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A poll would just be inconclusive
Seeing the results after 11 votes, it seem you are right (3-3-3-2)!
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lies, now we can count out "Wooman is Hooman!" as a possibility, leaving just 3 choices left.
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The reason I said that was another one, but I hope I don't have to detail it.
Second solution: Have them both on IRC talking at the same time.
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Hooman and Wooman both use IE. :P
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Second solution: Have them both on IRC talking at the same time.
What does that prove? Heck, I could log on as myself, Arklon, Betaray, BlackBox, Combine Cruiser, and Tellaris all at the same time and have a conversation with all of "them".
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Can you answer a spontaneous question within 2-3 seconds at the same time?
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fairly easily....if I were to use a generic answer :P
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Even better: one can type 2 sentences, and just press enter on each of the chat clients at (roughly) the same time. No one would know it's the same guy behind the keyboard!
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That would be cheating and you could just discard such attempts at circumventing the answer.
The biggest flaw with this is that you need both parts to want to take part.
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Ahh yes, I was waiting for an IP reply from CK9. Knowing you have GM status, I expected you'd look after that was brought up. Remembering my days as a GM, I also knew you couldn't see that info for admins. :P The mystery continues!
But then, I also wondered if you'd tell even if you did know. How much would you tell? Would you feel guilty about using your GM status to solve the mystery? Would you have spoiled the fun? ;)
Whilst I can't see Hoomans IP address I can see Woomans.
Doing a find all posts by Woomans IP address would give me all of Woomans posts & if they were the same person it would also give me all of Hoomans posts.
I'll reveal the results of my IP search in a couple of weeks, if CK9 doesn't beat me to it.
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I would think that the forum would prevent that from working...plus the tool is mysteriously not working anymore
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Oh..., so that's how the forum database stores the IP address along with each post.... ;)
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Ahh yes, I'd forgotten about this poll.
Btw, I did sort of drop a hint as to the answer.
... Just not in this thread. Anyone care to point it out?
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unless we were lied o on IRC, I know the answer already, lol
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Who said what? I've said nothing on IRC.
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Aye, YOU said nothing on IRC :P
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Well, as I think I know, you said "This year my sister decorated the tree. What do you guys think?" on the Christmas discussion...
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And wooman told us that it was your idea
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Well, as I think I know, you said "This year my sister decorated the tree. What do you guys think?" on the Christmas discussion...
I'm surprised nobody caught that hint when I posted it. Btw, since that post was in the news forum, it also appears on the main web page.
It was my sister's idea to talk about the Mayans, since she studied them at school. The choice of the name..., well, I suppose I probably had some influence there.
... but seriously, virtual wife? What's wrong with you people! :(
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I never voted, but I admit to suspecting it was just Hooman playing a prank.
Also, that hint is very obscure. All it tells us is that Hooman has a sister and that she did a very interesting tree decoration this year. Whatever can be extrapolated from this remains only a theory.
Hooman, it depends on which people chose that option. We do have some people around that would have picked that choice just for the laughs.
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Well, the hint wasn't meant to be too obvious. But people were thinking "possible female related to Hooman", and I just happened to mention that I have a sister.