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Hey, thanks! For those to whom this has never happened, it's a little like discovering that someone has burglarized your house - and is now living in it May it never happen to you guys... Local backups? Riiiight! I'm far too clever for any of that! The answer probably does lie in convincing yahoo of my identity and that the account is mine - which I could easily do if anyone there would actually let me. I guess I'll just have to keep pestering them.

Keylogger won't do it: I have no idea who's got the account now, and no way to access his computer - other than by sending an email(!) with some damn hidden code or another that will supply the info needed - if and when he opens the message and/or executes the code. What I don't exactly get is how this happened: my computer is so hyper-protected that according to some online tests/probes you can do, it doesn't even appear as being connected to the Internet: which is to say, it's just not visible. But then again, who really knows....

Some darling soul has hacked into it and changed the password. Ten days ago, it was my PayPal account. Dealing with Yahoo customer service reps made me actually appreciate PayPal's response: they called me from the U.S. to alert me that someone had debited my account, and reassured me that the money would be re-credited. Yahoo was (and is) another story. After exhausting all the Yahoo Help suggestions, I got on the blower with the people at Yahoo itself, who diligently read scripted answers to my desperate pleas: "My mail account with all the financial info is in the hands of some hacker and you say there's nothing you can do? Hmm...I guess there's nothing left except to shoot myself, right?" - "Thank you for calling Yahoo Customer Service, Jonathan, and have a nice day!" The real problem is that when this account was created, some nine, ten, eleven (or more) years ago - I don't even remember when - I input all sorts of nonsense in the personal information windows - stuff that I immediately forgot - while congratulating myself on having cleverly avoided posting anything about myself on the Net. This uber-clever move has come back to haunt me with a vengence, since if you can't cough all this info back up at Yahoo's request, they won't permit you to re-access your account by giving you a new password. Sure, it makes sense security-wise, but there are limits. I know that somewhere in the amorphous corporate hydocephale that Yahoo has become, there's some joker with the power to waltz me right back into my account, but I also know I'll probably never get to talk to him, no matter how many times I ask to speak to the last CSRep's supervisor. So that's why I'm asking if there's anyone out there with the skill to hack into what was my yahoo mail account...before it got hacked by the last hacker. I Googled the question and discovered that certain methods do exist; for example: http://rahulhackingarticles.wetpaint.com/p...Accounts?t=anon But it's clear that you have to know what you're doing, which I certainly do not. If anyone does, and wants to help me out (hey, it's only ten or more years of my life on that account, not to mention tons of archived mail, files and financial info) and actually manages to get me back in, there's a watch more or less of his choice in the deal. Just as long as the person in question isn't the one who hacked into my account in the first place. Ok, even if he is: I know when I'm beat.

God save the Queen. Miss Barrett And Miss Barrett's dad, In any order you like.

Nothing to see here, folks. Just Admin. and some of the Mods celebrating the end of The Shortest Thread Ever.

As usual, you're right on the money with your analyses and comments But I'll up you one in Saunders & French insanity: And while we're at it, here's someone I believe is dear to your encyclopedic heart: our very own Miss Brooks!

I'm all for the charm of yesteryear, but somehow the reps strike me as better than the gens...in the sense of being less grotesque.... Or should I say authentically fake? Which leads me to wonder if people looking a vids of today's singers will find them as geekily weird as I find the Andrews Sisters in the above video.

And will be charging you extra for a caf

Check the perks you get with each and look for a Gold or Platinum upgrade: cashback; airmiles; travel insurance; medical repatriation; purchase insurance; life insurance; auto rental (collision & theft) insurance; air ticket annulation insurance; rep watch customs confiscation insurance and free Jetmid decoder ring & tango lessons...

Still don't see where you're coming from, but while you're at it, why not throw in the Daily Kos? Librul as they come, and no spin or distortion there... Anyway, say what you may, the examples in the list seem to check out - everybody's got an axe to grind these days, so you pick your political flavor and go with it.... but I do believe there are some sites and sources which try mightily to cut through the bullshite and bring the reader the pure, unvarnished truth...as far as such a thing exists

I guess that makes two of us, babe.... Other than that, who really gives a rat's ass? Just keep dem fake watches coming.... Some of my fave raves: 4. AFP/Yahoo News (2007). Fell for hoax/lie. Ran a picture with the caption "An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City." But the picture was of unfired cartridges, which could only have "hit her house" if they were thrown at it. 19. The Boston Globe (2004). Fake photos, fake story. The Boston Globe published pictures alleging U.S. troops raped Iraqi women. The pictures turned out to be commercially available pornography. 82. Reuters Russia's North Pole coverage (2007). More fake photos/footage. "Reuters has been forced to admit that footage it released last week purportedly showing Russian submersibles on the seabed of the North Pole actually came from the movie Titanic." The mistake was caught by a 13-year-old Finnish boy. Out of the deep affection and respect I have for your ever-renewed sense of outrage, I'd buy one of these for you, but I don't think you need it - The Universal Bullshitt Detector Watch! It flashes, it moos, it poops

And who the fok cares, right? Dun rock da boat. http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/med...ty_matters.html

Cough, sneeze, wheeze... Outside of a bit of Bird Flu and Sars, nothing too serious here....

Some lo-tech science, just for laughs. On the other hand, maybe Admin. could use this for generating bandwidth? I believe that the inventor lives in Norway...

In the meantime, Science Marches On..... http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/oct...s.climatechange

Uh-uuuh.... http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/i...t0507avian.html Bonus Link: Same Player Shoots Again! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4a7_1191613364&p=1

If I knew, I could probably bottle it and sell it, lanikai.... And yes, I can see how you might think that I was being critical of the people who've taken the time and trouble to offer their analyses and suggestions: my final comment was pretty ambiguous. I was sort of shooting from the hip - and pretty badly at that - but in retrospect, I guess that I meant to say was not so much a criticism of the people posting here, whether I agree with their suggestions or not, as of the fact that we have to post about this problem at all...just like the last time and the time before that. Because I often think visually, the 'over 1,500 views' (nearing 2,000, actually) makes me think of some sort of roadside emergency, with the drivers in other cars slowing down to get a better look at what's happening - without stopping to help out. And knowing that the same exact thing is going to happen next month.... Like I say, the really shameful thing is that more or less the same people - along with a few new ones - respond to Admin's. call for help....while lines of anonymous 'observers' look on silently for a moment and then move on... I honestly wonder what - if anything - goes on in their heads....

Admin. manages to scrape up this month's budget - mainly thanks to a few generous donors.... Issue still not resolved, and the same problem coming up again in just a few weeks. In the meantime, 116 posts, over 1,500 views, and still counting. Talk is cheap.

Voluble members....

Not at all, Vicky, and quite the opposite: I don't like the idea of excluding others from the information-flow. When you create a group of insiders and members-only forums within forums with their own agendas, all kinds of ugly things can happen: back in the days of RWG1, there used to be an invisible circle-jerk forum within the larger forum where an 'elite' membership hung out, gossiped, and bad-mouthed 'ordinary' members who had no idea of what was being said about them - much less the recours to respond. But if democracy implies transparency and participation, these pivilileges also imply support when it is needed. I see tons of people profiting from what this forum is offering while doing nothing to ensure its survival.

Gran, I don't think the Old Bugger is into guys. But then again, who really knows....?

Same book, same page.

Steady at 1,174 posts, and holding....