On Jun 5, 8:10 pm, Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuc...@outlook.com> wrote: > > From: nos...@nospam.com > > Subject: Source code to identify user through browser? > > Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 15:08:54 +0200 > > To: python-l...@python.org > > > Hello > > > I was wondering if some Python module were available to identify a > > user through their browser, like it's done on the Panopticlick site: > > What do you mean by user?
Ha! Nice question. Not in direct answer but here's E.W Dijkstra defining 'user': [from http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD618.html ] ---------------------------- The computer “user” isn’t a real person of flesh and blood, with passions and brains. No, he is a mythical figure, and not a very pleasant one either. A kind of mongrel with money but without taste, an ugly caricature that is very uninspiring to work for. He is, as a matter of fact, such an uninspiring idiot that his stupidity alone is a sufficient explanation for the ugliness of most computer systems. And oh! Is he uneducated! That is perhaps his most depressing characteristic. He is equally education-resistant as another equally mythical bore, “the average programmer”, whose solid stupidity is the greatest barrier to progress in programming. It is a sad thought that large sections of computing science are effectively paralyzed by the narrow-mindedness and other grotesque limitations with which a poor literature has endowed these influential mythical figures. (Computing science is not unique in inventing such paralyzing caricatures: universities all over the world are threatened by the invention of “the average student”, scientific publishing is severely hampered by the invention of “the innocent reader” and even “the poor reader”!) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
