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Re: OT: Can't watch american shows on the internet
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Craig Lalley <[log in to unmask]>
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Craig Lalley <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:56:31 -0700
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> A good question here, though, is why the system thinks you
> are in Canada?
> 
> If you run the code at:-
> 
> https://www.dephormation.org.uk/geolocation/
> 
> in Firefox or Safari (and maybe IE, though I haven't tried
> it)
> 
> it will tell you where it thinks you are, latitude and
> longitude..
> 
> And if you feed the returned co-ordinates into:-
> 
> http://www.gorissen.info/Pierre/maps/googleMapLocation.php
> 
> this will tell you where that is.

There are many ways to do this, but this is the first one I have seen that gives longitude and latitude.  Fairly accurately too.

The good news, is I know where I am at, its Comedy Central that doesn't know.

-Craig

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