# I feel hilariously sorry for these poor people **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 11, 2016, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-hilariously-sorry-for-these-poor-people/751859 "2016-04-11T02:22:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-hilariously-sorry-for-these-poor-people/751859/1 "2016-04-11T02:22:37Z")
IP mapping glitch insists millions of connections originating from a small Kansas farm: [http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/](http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Niply\_Elder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@The\_Niply\_Elder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Niply_Elder)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-hilariously-sorry-for-these-poor-people/751859/2 "2016-04-11T03:22:07Z")
Hm. Sounds like it to my non-lawyer ears that MaxMind’s coffers are ripe for the picking, if they are in fact responsible the content of that database. Fascinating read, although it sounds urban-mythy. Not sure about the reputation of [fusion.net](http://fusion.net). Anybody care to comment? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-hilariously-sorry-for-these-poor-people/751859/3 "2016-04-11T06:19:38Z")
> [@](#): > > The Taylor home was at the very top of the list; the 600 million IP addresses attached to the home were 10 orders of magnitude higher than at any other location. 😕 all the others had less than one address? ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-hilariously-sorry-for-these-poor-people/751859/4 "2016-04-11T08:08:48Z")
Well caught. I guess most likely they mean _an_ order of magnitude. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-hilariously-sorry-for-these-poor-people/751859/5 "2016-04-11T09:54:10Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > 😕 all the others had less than one address? If there was exactly 1, that would be within 10 orders of magnitude. There’s a lot of leeway in Fermi calculations. Or there are 60 people living there and they switched to octal. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-hilariously-sorry-for-these-poor-people/751859/6 "2016-04-11T17:22:08Z")
> [@The\_Niply\_Elder](#): > > Hm. Sounds like it to my non-lawyer ears that MaxMind’s coffers are ripe for the picking, if they are in fact responsible the content of that database. Fascinating read, although it sounds urban-mythy. Not sure about the reputation of [fusion.net](http://fusion.net). Anybody care to comment? It sounds plausible, and it sounds like MaxMind shouldn’t be liable given that they apparently told people using their database that it wasn’t accurate to the level of individual houses. It doesn’t take too much knowledge or intelligence to realize that trying to find someone’s physical address given an IP address isn’t going to work very reliably. People are expected to take the quality of a product or service into account: It isn’t Ford’s fault if you destroy your car by driving it into a wall, even if a tank would have knocked down that wall and survived just fine. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-hilariously-sorry-for-these-poor-people/751859/7 "2016-04-11T17:30:51Z")
There ought to be a lawsuit. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-hilariously-sorry-for-these-poor-people/751859/8 "2016-04-11T18:57:39Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > There ought to be a lawsuit. In the USA? Oh, there will be, the lawyers will see to it… Bawahahahahha 🆒