simpler way of banning whole world?

[blueflowers]

I actually signed up just to respond to this thread

I think you both heavily missed the point of the initial question...

this has nothing to do with Terrorism or Gas Sales (btw, you spelled Missouri wrong, BLiZZaRD)

To the poster:

There are several 'already made' scripts available that will handle 'proper' geo-locating, the 2 people in this thread have no clue what they are talking about (imo) and should (again, imho) never have responded. I mean, Google and Yahoo do it, so I guess it's not 'impossible' (nothing is IMPOSSIBLE, what a pessimistic way to look at solving problems :P)

A good geo-locating script will actually find the original location of the user *unless they have installed software to bypass this, in which case you can do very little)

Check out the PEAR library, good article on usage here:

http://builder.com.com/5100-6371_14-6103179.html

Another different method:

http://www.ip2country.net/geo-target...untry-faq.html

and of course, Google is your best friend (they'll even geo-locate your results and search )

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=...G=Search&meta=

Now, why on earth would anyone do this?

Good examples of REAL WORLD usage on geo-locating

- Betting sites that are for US only, almost all online sports betting sites are ONLY available to people visiting from a US location

- Banner scripts that ONLY show relevent info from your area (many sites have geo location in their banner scripts)

- American only television stations (why would you want to waste precious, expensive bandwidth on people that CANNOT be customers of yours?)

Hope that helps

[djr33]

And if someone is on a trip? If someone's IP maps the wrong place? If someone decides to get around the system and use a US based proxy? If someone wants to watch a US TV site, and we can assume the TV station isn't entirely short on the money for bandwidth. Silly claim.

NOT some dirty, stinky towel on the head crouched in a cave

Blizzard, be very careful about saying something along these lines. I assume you are referring to them not fitting the stereotype, but it sounds insulting.

As for the issue of terrorism, it's just stupid. For so many reasons, it's not worth considering. They could fake their identity, but moreso, they won't be going through you. Many layers of contacts create a terrorist system, so they don't just randomly find websites to purchase things.

And, agreed... not related to the original post.


The most important info for this is that you need to allow a group, not ban everyone. Have a whitelist, not a blacklist, meaning you allow X, Y, and Z, not that you block A, B, ...... W.

[BLiZZaRD]

this has nothing to do with Terrorism or Gas Sales (btw, you spelled Missouri wrong, BLiZZaRD)

Err.. no I didn't... Has anyone ever been to Missery? On purpose?

Blizzard, be very careful about saying something along these lines. I assume you are referring to them not fitting the stereotype, but it sounds insulting.

Noted, but it wasn't a stereotype, and it was meant to be insulting. When I hear terrorist I think Osama. And what is he? (see above quoted reference to him )

I didn't mean to offend anyone who might be offended (except those explicitly named herein) and if I have done so I apologize.

[djr33]

Stereotyping terrorists as a certain group is stupid.
Yes, some may look like ___ or dress like ___, but there is plenty of variation. Lots of Americans (yes, including white Americans) have done terrorist type things.

To those in Iraq, even innocent civilians, we surely look like terrorists. And I hope they don't hate us (meaning white americans, or americans in general) as much as people have decided to unanomously hate the muslim/arabic community.

What is a terrorist? Someone who attacks innocent people? To whom are they seen as a terrorist? You? Them? Me? It's all relative, and there are many more of any certain type of people that are not terrorists than are. In fact, those groups of people have explicitly said that they do not support the action of EXTREMISTS. Extremists are operating out of the norm for such a group.

Stereotyping those who believe it's a good idea to die bombing a building is one thing. But falsely expanding that to relate to anyone who looks like them is just causing more problems.

[tech_support]

Easy. If you want to sell products to Australia for example, use .com.au Add a message as well, 'We don't sell products internationally' or something like that. Refuse orders from overseas.