On Jun 5, 8:31 pm, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On 05/06/2013 16:18, rusi wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > 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': > > > [fromhttp://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�!) > > Where does the Bastard Operator From Hell fit in this? :)
:-) Yes Dijkstra is quite a devil. Always thought-provoking and entertaining -- never to be taken too seriously! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
