backrubman

Ditto! Hurray! Just got the first notification in months.

I really don't know what to make of this yet except to say that it is very amusing many Canadians. His antics have certainly provided me (with my somewhat demented sense of humour) no end of amusement. While I wouldn't want to see him (or anyone) "off'd" by a drug cartel, could happen: Donald Trump Threatened by Sinaloa Drug Cartel Leader

My main concern would be for a gentleman who's spouse finds the "secret bat phone". She might not immediately know why he has that second secret phone but it doesn't take much imagination to realize that whatever the reason it likely isn't good. Of course for those that aren't at risk of being discovered with a suspicious second phone, then why have one? As long as you delete your call history, contacts and any text messages you should be ok. In the case of an employer supplied phone, well there I can see a reason not to use that one.

I didn't complain when my $0.75 BTCs (which I "mined" myself years ago for very little electricity by keeping my computer on overnight) eventually became worth $1,000 -- I took some profit, of course those days are now over, you need specialized hardware to mine for profit these days. You also need to keep in mind that this fluctuation (as wild as it may seem) didn't happen overnight and didn't take anyone by surprise (we all saw it rising steadily over the course of a sufficiently long time period to react in any way we wanted to), it rarely varies more than a few percentage points before you notice and decide to exit or get some more. I imagine it will continue to fluctuate somewhat like any currency does but with the interest in it ever increasing it could likely be to biased to the upside (increasing in value). Well that's the point isn't it. While a government might want to restrict and control it, they simply will never ever have the means to due to the nature of it. The only people with control over bitcoin are the people that have it. You'd have to find the millions of people that have bitcoins and murder them all, and their families and their friends, something I don't foresee ever happening :) There are lots of YouTube videos, some only a few minutes long (like the ones I cited) while others are hours long and go into as much detail as you care to know. Just search for "Bitcoin" on Youtube and you will find any amount of information you might want to know from the bitcoin for dummies type of presentation to in depth analysis way beyond what you need to know. Getting set up to accept bitcoin as payment only takes a couple of seconds. When compared to the difficulty opening up a bank account... well ok, no comparison.

Yes, well the insurance I have always purchased requires the passport # to be specified on the application form and obviously the correct name, DOB and home address to be valid. I make sure she is totally independent of me. If she was to feel the need to leave early and return home (not that she ever would with me but it's important she has the means) then she must have that ability without relying on me for anything, just for her complete and total comfort level. Yes, all ladies are different. Getting to know them is one of the hardest and most time consuming things for me, and also they have to know me. So once I know a lady I will continue to see her again and again when she is available. Some people think it is silly to go back to the same resort again and again but I know the staff, I know my way around, I know I can do a little deal with the manager to make something special happen, etc.

Yeah notifications definitely still broken. mod should look into implementing https://dmarc.org/ (DKIM and SPF records) as it's pretty hard to get past a spam filter these days without these DNS records, not that they are simply going to a spam folder, they are obviously being rejected entirely.

A friend of mine was not so long ago killed in a general aviation plane crash. I'm helping his family liquidate a life time of stocks, bonds and many other financial instruments :(

My approach is to just use my everyday cell phone. A lady will never call you without good reason (when you are expecting it) or with permission. If she ever does call you unexpectedly you can just tell her she has the wrong number (because she really does). I don't see the value in playing secret agent or Spy vs. Spy, just be sure to erase any calls from your recent call history and don't keep her number in your contacts list as soon as you no longer need to. Every time I meet someone new, I offer them a chance to examine my passport or drivers license as a sign of good faith that I mean them no harm and am not trying to hide anything as I just haven't found the value in being secretive at that level. If someone is trying to hide their encounters from a spouse, that secret agent phone could raise some uncomfortable questions. Am I acting foolishly? Are there risks I haven't considered and should? Anyone?

The truth be told I do know a few of these $10,000/week ladies (the professional relationship having started before I realized they were such or before they added that to their web site) and they admitted they have never had any takers :) I'm sure others are as you say and well worth the investment, just not to me - I'd rather a lady that doesn't travel a lot in those circumstances so I get to experience some of her new experiences through her eyes. Some ladies recognize the value of an escape from the harsh Canadian winter (and obviously some compensation for being unavailable to their regular clientele as a bonus) and know me well enough to recognize it won't be "work", just fun in the sun and lots of pampering :) But such an arrangement involves an extreme level of trust and disclosure I would never betray: it's necessary to have a copy of the lady's passport and her real home address to purchase medical insurance for her, unless of course she is willing to take care of those details herself but it's been my experience that level of trust can and does exist and I've always taken care of everything (and of course trusted her with equally sensitive information about me, trust works both ways).

As someone who has done this a lot more than once, I don't take those $10,000/week ladies seriously. In fact I won't even ask them to have lunch with me because if the day comes I would like them to be an International Travel companion, well gentlemen don't barter and even Julia Roberts didn't receive that much remuneration from the billionaire Richard Gere in the movie "Pretty Woman" :) Obviously you have to have met the lady before under more usual circumstances and already know her, tell her what the destination and duration is and she tells you what she thinks is fair, take it or leave it.

That's the beauty of it, why would you ever have to purchase bitcoins? Just accept it as a form of payment and happily spend what you receive on whatever you like (including exchanging it for cash if you like). When it comes to currency fluctuation, oddly it hasn't done as bad as the Canadian dollar lately :)

You can certainly do that with HTML but everything here is limited to BBCode. I find pages that start playing music without asking to be annoying, particularly if you are silently surfing and forgot you had the sound turned up :)

I'm guessing it's more of a typo than anything. I can set the name and number to ANY values I like, obviously the number field has to be a number but the name field can be anything including another number. Having the ability to set the number to anything you like is mildly dangerous as many voice mail systems don't ask for a password if the call "appears" to be coming from the mailbox owner. I have a line programmed at my office that is my home number and use it to zoom into the voice mail at home without having to enter the password.

I doubt that the emails were sent from the phone; it's much more likely the account was comprised and then used to send the emails from somewhere else in the world. This can happen again and again until people stop using reusable passwords, and it's so dead easy with Gmail to stop using passwords and never have this problem again I can't understand why people don't do it.

That used to be much more common and more often the case (and hopefully the case here) but since DKIM and SPF (e.g. DMARC) now 9 times out of 10 the account was actually compromised when this happens.

I've run into two ladies and the protocol is always as it would be if you did not have a private encounter with them (because you really didn't and in the very unlikely event that they happen think or act otherwise they are completely mistaken) :) Discretion is always included with your appointment.

It's a pretty safe bet that the phone wasn't doing the sending, so likely the password for the account was compromised, the email contacts harvested and the account then used for sending spam (as Google does not allow unauthenticated sending). Gmail is immune to this problem if you use Google Authenticator's 2-Step verification and all SPs that use Gmail (or Google Apps with their own domain name) should really make the very little effort to do this considering the confidentiality their clients expect of them. You then have to enter the one-time password generated by the Authenticator App (or one of 10 printed backup - in case you loose your phone - one time passwords) only once every 30 days on a computer you use every day or each time you access your e-mail on a computer you don't normally. Key stroke loggers are completely defeated when it comes to compromising your password. It's what I do and it is no inconvenience at all. Reusable passwords are so 16th century.

Last SP (seems wrong to call her that, perhaps professional friend) I saw very recently commented that she really liked the very light sent of Allenburys Soap which I brought with me and I had just showed in her room having been at the office for several hours before my medical appointment :) That's the soap I've used for many years after being recommended by a very respected dermatologist.

I'm with Emily on this one. RoammingGuy is one of the most prominent, famous and respected CERB members. I haven't met a CERB lady that wouldn't know immediately who I was referring to if I mentioned him. Rightly or wrongly it takes the ladies a lot of time and effort to check references and many would jump at the chance to meet and spend time such a respectful gentleman. The attempt to impersonate me almost worked and was really sinister (the perpetrator already had a bad reputation to the point he had no choice but to try to impersonate someone).

I accept your assessment RG, if you don't think it is a coincidence then I don't either. I once found myself unexpectedly available (cancelled evening meeting) so I contacted a lady I had never met, as those I knew were unavailable, who was nearby and she arrived within minutes. She entered my hotel room and I turned away for just a few seconds, when I turned around she was totally nude and her clothes were at the opposite end of the room. While I was very pleasantly shocked I scolded her and asked "What if I was a bad guy?" and of course she knew from my reputation (never having met me) that "I wasn't a bad guy" was her response.

That part is quite a coincidence. It's a serious matter though, I have had ladies I have not met before not even bother to check me out based on recognizing my handle here or treat me different than a stranger in other potentially dangerous ways (if it wasn't really harmless me) and then when someone did intentionally impersonate me it was very disturbing.

That's excellent and really what the client deserves. No two ladies are exactly alike so unless she tells us it takes time to learn about her. No sweeter words are spoken when I don't yet "know" the lady than this is what I really like and exactly how I like it :)

It's actually quite beneficial to have multiple WiFi Access Points using the same SSID and encryption key as long as they are on the same wired network (even via power line Ethernet) as long as they are on non-overlapping channels so they don't interfere with each other (just because the channel numbers are different doesn't mean they don't overlap) because then you can move about and roam to the strongest signal even in the middle of a VoIP conversation without interruption. You are very right about keeping WiFi at home as simple as possible and not over complicating it. I've engineered some very large commercial WiFi networks but without the benefit of an engineer, keep it simple. WiFi extenders or repeaters are quite counter productive except in the most unusual of circumstances. I would always use power line Ethernet over a repeater if I could and to provide the next door neighbor Internet access an inexpensive purpose built point to point WiFi link can be used (the EZ Bridge LT is only $199 for the pair and does 3 miles).

Well I suppose you are right in a way but I still disagree in some sense. I was totally put off by it because I knew she was faking the moans and groans and it wasn't "honest" (just a show for my benefit, but unnecessarily patronizing me). I felt the time remaining for a proper physical encounter had long since passed but she had probably not encountered many that the physical part of the encounter is secondary and not something I ever absolutely "require". In fact I've long since decided if this doesn't happen more naturally it is something I would really rather skip entirely and have quite a few times but the truth be told it usually does occur. There is a little more to this story: We did have a lengthy and very interesting conversation that I enjoyed but I was aware (although I didn't call her out on it) that she was lying about a lot of things. For instance, she mentioned that she had lived overseas in a particular city I am very familiar with so I would say something like, "so what do you think of this restaurant?" and she would cagily respond well it might be more your style but I didn't find it anything to write home about, of course there is no such restaurant in that city :) If the lady is a pretty simple country girl from Dust bowl Oklahoma I find that more interesting than a pack of lies to make her seem to be more world traveled than she really is, and I would find some of her insight about growing up in Dust bowl more interesting than grandiose lies about overseas living :) For me, it's a lot better when a companion can just be herself and not have to try to convince me she is something she is not as even the simple country girl without much world travel is a very special person indeed who honours me with her presence and attention and has no need to be something fake. Some very classy and skillful ladies have the ability to make a "connection" with you (particularly during a lengthy appointment) which is uncanny. To call that innate ability "classy" may be the wrong term but to me it puts a lady that posses this ability and is able to read you like a book in a different "class" entirely. This mostly intangible ability is what makes some SPs so much better than others that either weren't born with this gift it or haven't developed it fully just yet.

Well sometimes you you can get a lot of pleasure by giving some so your attitude seems a little selfish but that is certainly your prerogative as it's your dime so I hope you don't take offense in any way when I say that. If I get the message (attitude, body language or even one of several verbal languages I speak) that the lady would definitely like to be pleasured I will put my heart and sole into it and have a lot of fun and satisfaction in doing so, but I certainly don't have to do that to feel like a man and there may be times I know she just doesn't really need that (maybe she just had that or perhaps she knows she will with her next guest - not my business). I must admit that I once spent several hours with a lady and as sometimes the case we just never got around to it until the appointment was almost over and I'm rarely disappointed with that (it's only one aspect of professional companionship and at least for me isn't a must have) but she didn't understand that so she got pretty aggressive in the last 15 minutes of our multi-hour appointment and I knew the groans and moans were fake (they had to be) so it was such a turn off for me I just got dressed and said goodbye. The lady I referred to in my previous post on this thread that didn't mind knows me very well and has way too much class to fake it :)