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Martyn1981

Hexane said:

EricMears said:

Isn't there a strong possibility that he/she is still  reading these posts ?  First of all,  he or she has only been banned from posting; not from viewing and secondly, many of the discussions suggested that GA was only one of a set of alter egos.

I don't think we should really care one way or the other as to whether the bear AI is still reading our posts. As for the "alter egos" conspiracy theory, there has been good evidence presented for some of it, and a complete absence of evidence for the rest of it. The people who actually run the forums have access to the technical data regarding each post, and in this instance they quite specifically banned one account; and not another account that black helicopter theorists were sure was the same person.

If you are referring to 'cells' then you might like to know that GA confirmed that that was also their account quite openly, on several occasions over the last 2 or 3 years. In fact they did this quite recently (though not 'openly' nor immediately obviously) in refereeing to a discussion they had with Z 'about 5yrs ago' (which of course predated the GA account).

Hexane

Martyn1981 said:

If you are referring to 'cells'

I wasn't.

Pile_o_stone

Hexane said:

EricMears said:

Isn't there a strong possibility that he/she is still  reading these posts ?  First of all,  he or she has only been banned from posting; not from viewing and secondly, many of the discussions suggested that GA was only one of a set of alter egos.

I don't think we should really care one way or the other as to whether the bear AI is still reading our posts. As for the "alter egos" conspiracy theory, there has been good evidence presented for some of it, and a complete absence of evidence for the rest of it. The people who actually run the forums have access to the technical data regarding each post, and in this instance they quite specifically banned one account; and not another account that black helicopter theorists were sure was the same person.

I'm not sure that the technical data available to the forum techies is that revealing. I assume it would just be the IP address of the poster and that can easily be changed with a VPN. I also think some ISPs have random IP addresses.  I assume if someone is sad enough to want to have a series of users on a forum they would log into them using different devices and different browsers and each would have its own IP address.

Hexane

Pile_o_stone said:

I'm not sure that the technical data available to the forum techies is that revealing. I assume it would just be the IP address of the poster and that can easily be changed with a VPN. I also think some ISPs have random IP addresses.  I assume if someone is sad enough to want to have a series of users on a forum they would log into them using different devices and different browsers and each would have its own IP address.

The information available is much more substantial than just IP address, particularly in this instance where the forum is run by MSE rather than being merely an instance hosted by a third party forums provider. Not going to mention too many details because I wouldn't want to unduly encourage anyone who actually is fooling around in that manner, but info about this is readily available and does surprise some. Granted, it's possible to obfuscate most or all of this if one is prepared to go to sufficient lengths. I can't imagine anyone in their right mind thinking such lengths are worthwhile for a forum of this nature, but perhaps that brings us back to other theories. 

Pile_o_stone

Hexane said:

Pile_o_stone said:

I'm not sure that the technical data available to the forum techies is that revealing. I assume it would just be the IP address of the poster and that can easily be changed with a VPN. I also think some ISPs have random IP addresses.  I assume if someone is sad enough to want to have a series of users on a forum they would log into them using different devices and different browsers and each would have its own IP address.

I can't imagine anyone in their right mind thinking such lengths are worthwhile for a forum of this nature, but perhaps that brings us back to other theories. 

Me either, but it certainly seems to be a LOT nicer and calmer in here with just the removal of a single poster, almost disproportionately so. I really like the relaxed vibe in here again, I hope it lasts.

JKenH

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The model Y is being delivered now  and it's got a few enhancements over the model 3. One in particular caught my eye, they've finally added a heat pump to replace/supplement the resistive heater for the battery. It's one of the few areas Tesla have been lagging technology wise as a few other manufacturers have been using the for quite a while.

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-y-heat-pump/