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Electronic Mail Warning
Back when people were having problems getting emails from Zero Hedge after registering, we killed email confirmation. Some of you rather deviously took advantage of this to register with email addresses like "nobody@nowhere.com." I regret to inform you that 48 hours from now we are going to send a confirm code to you suspicious email people. If we don't get it back we are going to kill the account. Sorry. Spam comments compel us to be strict about this.
It's probably a good idea to go into the "my account" section and update your email if you were initially naughty.
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what are the benefits of a ZH account?
Well, for one, you get a nifty pic of Marla in the buff.
I didnt get the picture of Marla! Send it asap....
The site cache policy is much less obnoxious. That means you see updates immediately, not in 10 minutes when the cache decides to refresh. You get better editors for comments and the forum. And, eventually, we will be adding full RSS feeds for registered users as well as other goodies.
Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. it thus exemplifies the purpose behind the bill of rights, and of the first amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation-- and their ideas from suppression-- at the hand of an intolerant society.
Though often maligned (typically by those frustrated by an inability to engage in ad hominem attacks) anonymous speech has a long and storied history in the united states. used by the likes of mark twain (aka samuel langhorne clemens) to criticize common ignorance, and perhaps most famously by alexander hamilton, james madison and john jay (aka publius) to write the federalist papers, we think ourselves in good company in using one or another nom de plume. particularly in light of an emerging trend against vocalizing public dissent in the united states, we believe in the critical importance of anonymity and its role in dissident speech. like the economist magazine, we also believe that keeping authorship anonymous moves the focus of discussion to the content of speech and away from the speaker- as it should be. we believe not only that you should be comfortable with anonymous speech in such an environment, but that you should be suspicious of any speech that isn't.
hahaha
that's gonna leave a mark.
When the government seizes the website they will know who all of us are.
Which government? It's not in the United States.
tell that to the folks who squirreled away their pennies with UPS deep in the bowels of Zurich (abbrv. ZH) hmmm
and the math is getting harder every post - that's one way to deal with trolls et al.
that's UBS
Well, that's why we didn't put it in Switzerland!
Yeah, Liechtenstein is way better place
Who says its in Liechtenstein?
I have a hunch it's in Holland. In principle not a bad choice ...
Our data/servers are actually not in any one place. :)
just like g666le and their data barges
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/googles-search-goes-out-to-sea/
Wow, this really is the Matrix! Cool.
Rumor has it that the site is running on the recently abandoned GS HFT servers connected to the NYSE network backbone.
That for sure is not part of the real USA.
Why are you fishing for an answer?
what about the blogspot? Youse guys purging my email from that bad mutha? When The Man comes knocking I'm denying everything. "I never even heard of those ZH assholes! The O on this hat stands for Obama!"
ps Thanks for switching back to basic math on captcha. It was really hurting my fragile self esteem
Excellent point.
speaking of search and seizure I came across a new and very user friendly search service called StartPage.com - Unlike the great evil that is Google StartPage does not record your IP along with every site you ever visited stored forever and ever. Just look what our friend at Cryptogon is able to see - StartPage.com
Yer awful purty win yer mad little lady ;-)
If I was mad I just would have deleted them without warning. Or set a redirect that sent them forever to disney.com.
Zip a Dee Do Dah.
How do they trace IP addresses? I thought a trace stopped at the service provider (Cox or Comcast for instance) and that a warrant is needed to get specific information.
Are proxies an effective shield?
Proxies are never an effective shield. All proxies may be raided and backtraced, and most will cooperate with the feds. See the case of Palin's "cracked" email for example.
The only secure method of privacy is enforced and universal anonymity. I suggest you investigate the usage of TOR and VIDALIA:
https://www.torproject.org/overview.html.en
I think it's worth it just to support this cool nonprofit open source tool for resistance against tyranny.
TOR is better, but the MAC address, specific to each network adapter, can still provide a trace if they get their hands on your computer.
Man weren't you guys having a bitch fight with Kneale about anonymity? Now you want my info? fergit it honey.
touche, however there are many ways around this, use a hushmail account, tor, a library computer with a new yahoo account etc. if you're paranoid. Personally I'm less concerned with that, for all I care you can shoot this messanger and his message.
We could care less about your personal details. We do want to increase the bar for spammers to throw crap all over, and we want to offer features (like nice editors, image support, etc.) to people but not the entire internet. And we do want people to build pseudonymous reputations so eventually we can have comments and the like filtered by reputation level (slashdot style).
Don't like giving an email address? No problem. Stay anonymous. We're super cool with that (but I am going to send your page requests to the 10 minute delay cache to reduce my server load).
As for Dennis, we aren't anonymous. We are pseudonymous.
Not sure where you're getting your (mis)information - but encouraging registration in Drupal will only increase the demands on your server. Registered users make continuous calls to the database, whereas anonymous users (I'm guessing the majority of your visitors?) are served from the cache. So it's actually pretty stupid for you to neglect the majority by not allowing the script to refresh the site on a more frequent basis - but hey...
Good luck growing the site - but given your popularity, you might be able to swing a competent guru to make things easier on yourselves. Drupal can be quite the little bitch.
And no reason to move to "Site Suggestions" - just responding to the bit about server load.
Not sure where I was unclear.
Anonymous users are served from the cache. That's done to reduce load for the vast majority of requests. If you want faster updates, register.
Yes, more registered users will increase server load. At the moment the ratio is about 5:1 anonymous to registered. I'm not particularly worried about registered users overloading us.
I'm not sure how serving the drive-by users from a 10 minute TTL cache is "neglecting" anyone considering the ease of registration. But thanks for your input.
dutch
hope full y .. will finally get another one .. 6 this time (fingers crossed)
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You dirty bastards.
You want my email?
You can't have my email.
You will have to pry if from my cold, lifeless brain... or from my parole officer...