Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-18 Thread .
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Joe Barrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Isn't that what "finger" is for? > ping v.

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-18 Thread ss
On Tuesday 18 Nov 2008 6:53:01 am Deepa Mohan wrote: > Yes, gender is as much between the ears as between the legs You mean stuff like bent gent, kink think and the like? shiv

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-18 Thread ss
On Tuesday 18 Nov 2008 9:06:02 am Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: > "how do you determine gender from IP address?" is a terrific question > for a job interview. > > On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 08:01 +1100, Charles Haynes wrote: > > > "Your question does raise a rather important point about the current > > > st

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-18 Thread ss
On Tuesday 18 Nov 2008 8:59:37 am Mahesh Murthy wrote: > Sent from my iPhone er - is this an announcement that you have an iPhone, or an announcement that it is working at last? With no disrespect towards iPhones in general, aren't email capable phones a dime a dozen now? shiv

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 07:36:02PM -0800, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: > "how do you determine gender from IP address?" is a terrific question > for a job interview. Easy, just ask NSA.

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-17 Thread Bonobashi
--- On Tue, 18/11/08, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address. To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Tuesday, 18 November, 2008, 11:48 AM On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Nishant Shah <[

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-17 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Nishant Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Charles Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Gender is a social construct. > > > > > > E

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-17 Thread Nishant Shah
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Charles Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > Gender is a social construct. > > > Er, Charles, not entirely...that sentence, as it stands, is all balls! > Hi Deepa, I am very int

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-17 Thread Joe Barrera
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To quote fellow Silk-lister Ashok, > > "Your question does raise a rather important point about the current state > of computing and networking technology. The fact that all those bright > people (especiall

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-17 Thread Charles Haynes
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Venkat Mangudi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Thaths wrote: >> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > >> >> J. Andrew Rogers wrote, [on 11/18/200

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-17 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 18:30 -0800, Thaths wrote: > > Echo that. > > Did that idea just POP into your head? what's with the frequency of protocol-hopping? 503, i say, 503! -r

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-17 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Deepa Mohan wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Venkat Mangudi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: Thaths wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: J. Andrew Rogers wrote, [on 11/18/2008 6:59 AM]: What's ICMP? He'll ping you with

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-17 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
Think I ought to wash my hands off this 'thread' with SOAP and get on with work. On 11/18/08, Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> J. An

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-17 Thread Raul Siddhartha
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> J. Andrew Rogers wrote, [on 11/18/2008 6:59 AM]: > What's ICMP?

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-17 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
"how do you determine gender from IP address?" is a terrific question for a job interview. On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 08:01 +1100, Charles Haynes wrote: > > "Your question does raise a rather important point about the current state > > of computing and networking technology. The fact that all those bri

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-17 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> J. Andrew Rogers wrote, [on 11/18/2008 6:59 AM]: What's ICMP? >>> He'll ping you with the answer. >> Echo that. > > Did that idea just POP into yo

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-17 Thread Mahesh Murthy
Sent from my iPhone On 18-Nov-08, at 8:39, "Deepa Mohan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Venkat Mangudi <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >wrote: Thaths wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: J. Andrew Rogers wrote, [on 11/18/20

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-17 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Venkat Mangudi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Thaths wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >> J. Andrew Rogers wrote, [on 11/18/2008 6:59 AM]: > >> > What's ICMP? > > >>> He'll ping you with the answer

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-17 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Thaths wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> J. Andrew Rogers wrote, [on 11/18/2008 6:59 AM]: >> What's ICMP? >>> He'll ping you with the answer. >>> >> Echo that. >> > > Did that idea just POP into your head

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-17 Thread Thaths
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > J. Andrew Rogers wrote, [on 11/18/2008 6:59 AM]: >>> What's ICMP? >> He'll ping you with the answer. > Echo that. Did that idea just POP into your head? Thaths -- "Silly Indians. Our God made their God" -- Homer J.

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-17 Thread Udhay Shankar N
J. Andrew Rogers wrote, [on 11/18/2008 6:59 AM]: >> What's ICMP? > > > He'll ping you with the answer. Echo that. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-17 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
On Nov 17, 2008, at 5:23 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Charles Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Clearly we have to extend ICMP. What's ICMP? He'll ping you with the answer. J. Andrew Rogers

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-17 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Charles Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Gender is a social construct. Er, Charles, not entirely...that sentence, as it stands, is all balls! > As such, it's futile trying to seek a > purely technical solution to a social problem. It's impossible to > d

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-17 Thread Charles Haynes
Chandrachoodan quoting Ashok: > "Your question does raise a rather important point about the current state > of computing and networking technology. The fact that all those bright > people (especially some of them on Silk) are unable to write a simple > function that can determine gender from IP A

[silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-17 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
To quote fellow Silk-lister Ashok, "Your question does raise a rather important point about the current state of computing and networking technology. The fact that all those bright people (especially some of them on Silk) are unable to write a simple function that can determine gender from IP Addr