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|    Geolocation    |
|    04 Oct 15 09:56:33    |
      How does a website know where in the world I am....? I've been to sites which       ask me (Firefox pops up the box on the top left), and then OTOH, there are       sites which seem to identify where I am just fine, though I never told       them....???!!!              I would like to get to the bottom of this - how is this pulled off exactly?       Did they give a latitude and longitude co-ordinate to every router on the       internet or something?                     Thanks.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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