Chatroulette + GeoIP + screengrabs = Chatroulette Map • Hacker News Board

Re: Chatroulette + GeoIP + screengrabs = Chatroulette Map

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Post by blantonl » Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 4:18 AM UTC

paulgerhardt wrote: post #8

peregrine wrote: post #2

Doesn't this defeat the purpose of anonymous chat?

I think the point is that it's not that anonymous to begin with.

unless you are wearing a Nixon mask or your dog/cock/cartoon is on on the screen.

Re: Chatroulette + GeoIP + screengrabs = Chatroulette Map

#12

Post by badave » Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 4:24 AM UTC

dailo10 wrote: post #6

Does anyone else find this disturbing in a Big Brother sort of way?

Very disturbing. I'm not going on Big Br-... chatroulette again.

It's just geoip though, so it's accuracy is low.

Re: Chatroulette + GeoIP + screengrabs = Chatroulette Map

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Post by tbgvi » Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 4:24 AM UTC

Adding a whole new level to the creepiness of Chatroulette. Exactly what it needed!

If only those dudes knew their location could be pinpointed, maybe it would make it a bit more bearable.

Re: Chatroulette + GeoIP + screengrabs = Chatroulette Map

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Post by die_sekte » Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 4:27 AM UTC

A dick-map! Great!

This needs statistics: dicks per square kilometre, dicks per million inhabitants …

Edit: There is a surprisingly low number of dicks in this map. Lots of bored teenagers/mid-twenties.

Re: Chatroulette + GeoIP + screengrabs = Chatroulette Map

#15

Post by eli » Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 4:29 AM UTC

dzlobin wrote: post #7

...apparently there are 7 people chatting from Rosedale Cemetery in LA, on Normandie and W Washington.

Does that cemetery happen to be dead center in the middle of LA?

Re: Chatroulette + GeoIP + screengrabs = Chatroulette Map

#16

Post by eli » Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 4:31 AM UTC

Someone should code up a Firefox plugin that pops up a map with a dot on the person you're chatting with.

Re: Chatroulette + GeoIP + screengrabs = Chatroulette Map

#17

Post by koepked » Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 4:33 AM UTC

Okay, I don't know about chatroullete anymore. I just came across (on the OP) a girl doing naughty naughty things... maybe this has already been considered, but what if she's not of age? Am I now guilty of possessing kiddie porn? The way current laws are written and enforced, who knows...

Re: Chatroulette + GeoIP + screengrabs = Chatroulette Map

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Post by chrischen » Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 4:35 AM UTC

So I zoom in my geographic area and there's these two points on the map. One is this like 60 year old guy looking at his computer. His neighbor however is masturbating. Imagine if it were my neighbor. Guess it's not so anonymous anymore.

Re: Chatroulette + GeoIP + screengrabs = Chatroulette Map

#19

Post by chrischen » Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 4:37 AM UTC

eli wrote: post #16

Someone should code up a Firefox plugin that pops up a map with a dot on the person you're chatting with.

And then if someone's doing something nasty just freak them out by telling them their address!

Re: Chatroulette + GeoIP + screengrabs = Chatroulette Map

#20

Post by micrypt » Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 4:44 AM UTC

...where are all the Russian users?