Reaffirming my forecast.

The question is stated as delivery of a "S-300 or S-400 missile system." A "system" requires all the major operational components to be delivered (search radar, targeting radar, missile launcher, command post, etc.). Regarding hiding the system, while I agree that generally you don't want to give away the exact location of your military assets, it is important to credibly signal your enemies if you expect to deter them. Most of the Iranian comments to this point are probably inward directed, to create a sense of strength in the aftermath of the nuclear deal with the West. Outward directed statements (to Israel) will come when the system is actually functioning.

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Inactive-43
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@Heffalump Bored? Me, too. The larger game is the only reason I'm playing. 50% likelihood I'll abandon one or more players/bots/ringers I may or might not be running within four weeks. Hmmm, that would be a good prediction problem for GJopen: how many bots/ringers will voluntarily shut themselves down as verified by their formal announcements to their followers before Jan. 31? How many involuntarily shut down, as verified by formal announcements by GJopen?

Scicast Predict kept track of these sorts of pseudo players and shut down those who were harming the game while tolerating the others. Does GJopen even know who these are in this game? Hint: you need an industrial grade data scientist, someone with the smarts of @000 or Heff to figure this out.

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jeremylichtman
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@cmeinel actually, it's pretty easy to tell if multiple accounts are from the same user. See: https://amiunique.org

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Inactive-102
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@jeremylichtman, ha ha, she goes through 15 different hops and tunnels through the Silk Road and you can track her with some cookies and browser specs. Bravo!

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jeremylichtman
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Combine that thing with an "ever cookie" (almost impossible to remove), and a database to keep track of separate computers/browsers that coincidentally appear via the same IP....

Basically, there's no way to hide online. Even users on a shared computer (i.e. internet cafe, public library) can be uniquely fingerprinted.

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username-deleted 688
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Happy New Year to all of you! I'll bust my anonymity for you with this one link:

Http://www.soundcloud.com/pabruce

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Anneinak
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@Khalid, I totally understand the need to find a way to manage a sustainable level of participation!

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Inactive-43
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@000, @jeremylichtman Have you ever tried to place cookies into the xombrero browser? How about browsing a website via telnet? Muhahaha... The most fun thing about telnet browsing is the ease with which one can insert jokes into the record of the visit. Here's my tutorial: http://happyhacker.org/gtmhh/browser.shtml

That website, https://amiunique.org isn't as accurate as it makes itself out to be. Using Ubuntu 15.10 which uses the Linux 4.2.0-7.7 kernel with two different browsers, that site gave two different answers for my kernel: "Linux 4.2.0-22-generic" and "Linux i686" It also thought each one was unique so it clearly did not flag them as coming from the same computer. I revisited with xombrero and it did recognize it as having the same fingerprint as it did in the preceeding visit.

With one of my browsers -- which was not Safari 8.0 -- and which does not save any data -- xombrero-- I got this:

Are you unique?
Yes! (You can be tracked!)
3.89 % of observed browsers are Safari, as yours.

0.51 % of observed browsers are Safari 8.0, as yours.

17.05 % of observed browsers run Linux, as yours.

3.20 % of observed browsers have UTC-7 as their timezone, as yours.

However, your full fingerprint is unique among the 119187 collected so far. Want to know why?

I ran another browser, one that actually stores things -- Arora -- and got this:

7.08 % of observed browsers are unidentified, as yours.

17.05 % of observed browsers run Linux, as yours.

61.81 % of observed browsers have set "en"as their primary language, as yours.

3.20 % of observed browsers have UTC-7 as their timezone, as yours.

However, your full fingerprint is unique among the 119188 collected so far. Want to know why?

OK, folks, want to guess how many different computers I have, how many browsers I have, and whether I can do shell programming?

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jeremylichtman
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I think if you visited something you shouldn't have using telnet, that probably uniquely identifies the visit as having come from you. :)

Sames goes for lynx. I still use that occasionally for testing purposes.

Or wget, for that matter.

"Ever cookie" doesn't use actual browser cookies. No idea if it works via xombrero, but it's a nasty piece of work, and heavily used by corporate types.

That "am I unique" site is flawed, but it demonstrates the usage of system fonts as a tracking tool. The technique is used elsewhere to good (or bad, depending on who you are) effect.

Happy New Year!

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Inactive-102
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@ravel, thanks for sharing your music and anonymity and Happy New Years!

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