(NO) PHOTO: Well, that didn't work!

[Bluebear]

Holy canolli, downloaded the print and stored it in photobucket and it won't show up! (blushing)

[henslee]

1. photo?

[cynatnite]

2. Is there supposed to be a photo here? n/t

[henslee]

11. Here's a recent photo of looter caught red handed.....

[Rex]

14. nt

:spray:

[laruemtt]

15. don't shoot!

that kitten is sweet!

[Fla Dem]

23. OMG...So funny...thanks for the laugh. n/t

[YOY]

3. Uh Bluebear?

There is no photo there.

[Rex]

4. All I see is a picture of two polar bears walking in a snowstorm.

:evilgrin:

[longship]

6. Ahem! Two polar bears eating vanilla ice cream while walking...

nt

[cynatnite]

7. That was ice cream? I thought they were...uh...nevermind

:blush:

[FreedomAngel82]

16. Dirty mind!

Tsk! And the kitty is so cute!

[Rex]

8. Wait...I think I see a blue bear, he's got a gun!

Run polar bears, run! No wait...that's just a grape jelly stain on my monitor.

[Poll_Blind]

9. 8^) n/t

PB

[Bluebear]

13. And he's not afraid to use it~!!!

(blushing) See original post, very weird. Must have some kind of super duper protection on the shot. Anyway it was a protest photo saying "Zero tolerance for looters" with picture of Bush/Cheney!

[Rex]

17. Well, we are having fun acting like morans so it is a win, win.

Sounds like a kewl photo.

[Jose Diablo]

5. Uh, IP mining? n/t

[Poll_Blind]

10. Holy crap, I thought _I_ invented that. Shhhhhhhhh! n/t

PB

[henslee]

12. Uh duh, for us half wits... what do you guts mean by IP mining?

[Jose Diablo]

22. When you visit a site with your browser

to view an image for example, it's possible for the 'host' server of that image to view details about who is visiting the site, or certain details associated with the Internet Port (IP) assigned by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) to your computer.

Depending on how your computer is set-up it is possible to in some cases to even get a name. Again it depends on how you set-up your 'puter and what it will allow the server to 'see'.

Thus 'IP mining' refers to a process of providing a link that others will click on and then trying to gather information about the visitors.

If you don't want others to see you, there are free sites that act as a go between for your 'puter/IP and the net when you surf, so you can remain anonymous.

For example:

http://www.anonymizer.com/

At the top of this site is the free anonymizer. Click on that when you want to surf and you remain anonymous no matter where you go.


Edit to add: Once a IP is obtained, the next step would be a port scan of your specific IP. The port scan would be looking for an 'open' windows port that can be exploited to gain access to your 'puter. Read files, deposit an executable program for example to record your keystrokes to find out what you are doing. Generally though those that would do this would be associated in some way with the national security. But a keystroke logger in a company computer can be a disaster for a company that is trying to keep secrets about their business plans. If a non-government person deposits a keystroke logger you can be sure you been had.

To stop a port scan once somebody has your IP erect a 'firewall'. Zone Alarm makes a pretty good free one, look here:

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp

There is a free one there also.

[in_cog_ni_to]

18. Did you copy the url to paste in your post?

If so, it should work. :)

[Bluebear]

19. Both copying url AND downloading it to the puter....

and hosting it on photobucket. Neither worked. It's a new one on me.

[in_cog_ni_to]

20. hmmm. I'm stumped. Of course, being computer illiterate, it doesn't take

much to stump me where computers are concerned. :7

[mcscajun]

21. Hmmm....

Was this your first try over at Photobucket?
Was the pic in one of these formats? jpg, gif, png, bmp, tif, swf