OpenID explained!

[azurelunatic]

So you're friends with this guy Brad, and he knows you pretty well.

Now Tom, who does not know you, is having a party. (Tom's a whore.) It is 21+. And for some gawdawful reason, you want to go (probably because you like the band that's going to be playing).

Tom is checking IDs. You so do not want to show Tom your ID, because he's creepy and you just know that he's going to show up drunk at 3am some night if you let him get your address.

However, since Brad knows you, Brad can vouch for you, and you get in. (And out as soon as possible, because OMG the strobe lights OW.) And you're safe from 3am visits from Tom, unless you caved and gave him your address anyway when he came schmoozing up to you (which you really didn't have to do).


This adventure in collaborative LJ-related insanity is brought to you by the good folks at #lj_s, especially remark, for the benefit of mayerman.

Comments

[mayerman.livejournal.com]

[00:54] remark: and the great thing is that you never established the kind of friendship with Tom that lets him call you when you don't want him to (unless you give him your number, which you don't have to do). all tom knows is that brad knows you pretty well

<333 you guys

[azurelunatic]

This is actually not the most on-crack conversation I have had in #lj_s.

[gossymer.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHA, THAT IS SO MUCH LOVE

Ah, the friendsoffriends page can be surprisingly awesome XD

[azurelunatic]

Thank you for dropping by!

And also thank you for putting up that, er, linkspost. Syne has been trying to get me hooked on SG forever.

[connie]

QDB it!

[azurelunatic]

Which bit, though? The whole conversation was rather a lot of crack.

[connie]

I don't think I have the transcript anymore to crop it!

[azurelunatic]

Let me go unlock a thing.

[azurelunatic]

http://azurelunatic.livejournal.com/6054484.html

[connie]

How's this?

[21:47] remark: I'm glad openid never became huge enough to get its own cat
[21:47] mayerman: i don't understand it at all
[21:47] mayerman: nor how it works
[21:47] mayerman: nor do i really care...
[21:48] gerg: openid isn't that hard!
[21:49] gerg: it is basically like this. you go to bob's blinkie site because you want a blinkie, but bob forces people to log in so he can... i dunno, do something
[21:49] remark: spam you so hard
[21:50] alex: 2 lols 1 sup
[21:50] alex: that didn't actually fit there, i just wanted to say it
[21:50] remark: thank you for sharing, alex
[21:50] alex: no probs.
[21:50] gerg: when you go to log in to bob's blinkie site, you can log in with openid, which involves you telling bob's blinkie site the address of your journal. behind the scenes, bob's blinkie site goes to your journal and then asks livejournal if you are really the person that said you were 'whoever.lj.com'
[21:50] mayerman: ...nope, you lost me
[21:51] remark: gold star. good at naptime, plays too well with others
[21:51] gerg: >_>
[21:51] Azz: Basically, "Do I have to do a full background check on you, or can I trust my friend who knows who you are?"
[21:51] remark: mayerman, you're friends with a guy named brad, and he knows you pretty well
[21:51] gerg: Yeah, there you go.
[21:51] Azz: Tom does not know you.
[21:52] remark: but you want a particular piece of information with bob, who won't give it to you until... yeah. azz said it v. well and got to the point I was trying to make
[21:52] mayerman: ohhhh
[21:52] mayerman: okay
[21:52] remark: but I can keep throwing words at you if it still doesn't make sense
[21:52] Azz: For some gawdawful reason, you want to go to one of Tom's parties.
[21:52] remark: hahaha
[21:52] Azz: It is 21 and older.
[21:52] mayerman: tom's a whore
[21:52] remark: I heard that he really has a goat's head
[21:53] remark: (raise your hand if you get the joke!)
[21:53] Azz: Tom can check your ID, even though you don't want to give your ID to Tom because you sort of loathe him.
[21:53] Azz: but since Brad knows you, Tom's cool with that and you get in (and out as fast as possible because OMG the strobe lights OW.)
[21:53] remark: hahahahahaha
[21:54] gerg: (is myspace an openid consumer now?)
[21:54] remark: and the great thing is that you never established the kind of friendship with Tom that lets him call you when you don't want him to (unless you give him your number, which you don't have to do). all tom knows is that brad knows you pretty well
[21:54] mayerman: ...this is the most amazing analogy ever
[21:55] mayerman: so...LJ is brad? and openID is basically brad saying "yeah he's cool"?
[21:55] remark: and really? no one got the goat-head-on-tom thing?
[21:55] remark: precisely
[21:55] mayerman: NO
[21:55] mayerman: GET OUT
[21:55] remark: NO U
[21:55] mayerman: NO U
[21:55] gerg: NO U
[21:55] mayerman: NO U
[21:55] remark: NO Y'ALL
[21:55] mayerman: NON TOI
[21:56] * ursie|mibbit blinks, what'd i miss?
[21:56] mayerman: brad and tom
[21:56] mayerman: tom is kind of a bitch; brad is cool
[21:56] mayerman: tom has parties
[21:56] mayerman: something something something...
[21:56] mayerman: no u
[21:56] Azz: No, I did not get the goat head thing. :(
[21:56] remark: NO TU

[corruptflame.livejournal.com]

Wow, that actually sounds like the only Tom I knew. Bad Tom!

[azurelunatic]

In this case, it's MySpace Tom!

I know a Tom who is not like that, because he's a geologist who is usually not there, and he's quiet when he is there.