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[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight]

Dave O'Connor wrote:
> On 11/20/06, paul at clubi.ie <paul at clubi.ie> wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Dave O Connor wrote:
>> 
>>> Geolocation is pretty accurate these days, certainly to the city
>>> level. Any web service can tell who you are to the city level pretty
>>> accurately without any prior information.
>> 
>> That's bull, sorry. I was with you on "pretty accurate", but you lost
>> me with the claim in the second sentence. Geo-location might
>> correlate "pretty accurate(ly)"  with end-user location across a
>> large sample of addresses, however, for any given IP you just can't
>> tell where the end-user is, sorry. 
>> 
> 
> Yes, but you can make a pretty good guess.


Make up your mind. 

It was "pretty accurate" and now it's become a "good guess"

Either it's accurate or it's not and we can see that it's not


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