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FSXA Robots are watching FSDeveloper

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I see where there are 51 robots on FSDeveloper right now.. Can someone tell me what they are doing on here, and what are they able to collect? Never paid attention before. Thanks in advance.
 
Beetsek Outtamee,

Maybe they have come to assimilate us into the collective.

Cheers
Gman
 
They're just crawlers searching the internet, that's how search engines find and categorized things so you can find them like when you search in Google.
 
There are bad robots that search for holes in security and even though you may not know it the try to connect to your computer when ever you are online. Good security, anti virus software protects most of us.
 
They are programmed to search for any references of "favorite food" and collate that very personal data into the master server for identity harvesting. Others are designed to pass butter.
 
How you can identify the robots?¡.
Really all this make think a Little. when you search of a an animated gif tutorial and inmediatly is send to you iva e-mail, a gif animation work of someone. it's good it's bad ?.
I not a paranoic about this but don't know if it is the way internet should go. What about the privacy?,
 
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Brain the size of a planet and they tell me to catalogue web sites. I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side but does anyone listen?

I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed...
 
Seriously, who would have thought that so many people would busy themselves scooping up information or attempting to damage your system.

OK..this naïve fringe developer is back to aviation stuff.
 
hairyspin said:
Brain the size of a planet and they tell me to catalogue web sites. I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side but does anyone listen?

I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed...
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I not only like this I get it and for those who don't well just get back to your fiddly bits.
 
Paul Domingue said:
I not only like this I get it and for those who don't well just get back to your fiddly bits.
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No seriously, I live in the Gorge. Besides windsurfing, it's a great place to fly. In fact, several branches of the military practice here regularly because of the terrain. You get some amazing glimpses and I've installed a dash cam to try to record some. Anyway Google built a server, or plant, or farm here a few years ago, one of 8 in the world. There is a big river here and besides all the trees, are hydroelectric dams; Google built directly in the shadow of one. Literally, for the power. Rumor is they had a contract and for the first few months, they had to pump millions of watts into the ground until they were ready to consume it. Ok so one winter I had the opportunity to commute up and down the Gorge. We get a thermal "inversion" and all the cold air stays in the valley, don't see the sun for months at a time. What you do see is heat, as plumes of steam. The large mills that process the local wood products make them, the Hanford Nuclear Reactor makes them and nothing in the Gorge puts out a plume like the Google data Center, just to run all those searches. It give's one pause to wonder..
steam.jpg
 
Gerli said:
I don't know what it means but the answer is 42
It's ALWAYS 42
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You get it. Do you have your towel?

Back to the OP, I can view the IP address of robots that hit my system, as the admins can here, and I find that the majority of them come from China.
 
Paul Domingue said:
I not only like this I get it and for those who don't well just get back to your fiddly bits.
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IIRC it was keep banging the rocks together. I don't like his atheism, but the rest of Adams's Hitchhiker was one of the funniest things I've ever heard on the electric wireless. Marvin especially.
 
hairyspin said:
IIRC it was keep banging the rocks together. I don't like his atheism, but the rest of Adams's Hitchhiker was one of the funniest things I've ever heard on the electric wireless. Marvin especially.
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Atheism aside (wholly another subject) I believe Adams was ahead of his time and that he had a grasp on quantum theory.
Electric wireless! Ain't that a kick in the old Marconi. ;)
 
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