mrvegas63

Amen to stay the same. Like today and BP having lots of fake pics, when "Rocky Mountain Oyster" had pics in ads, 99% of the time were fake. So, yeah, not much has changed. And as others pointed out, "Oyster", "Westword" and other free papers, "Rocky" classifieds, etc. As for experiences, overall, pretty good. Found a couple of agencies in the day that always had attractive and willing providers, and the agencies knew my type, so, never got steered wrong. That said, lots of misses getting to that point. Big help/change today is review boards and image search websites, when used, can at least weed out obvious rip-offs & fakes. And if one is willing to stick to reviewed providers, pretty much eliminates any unpleasant sessions.

Whole Paycheck, for me, seems to be a great place to see providers in the wild. Fixed.

Came upon these yesterday. First, a better summary than most I've seen, of what the case and judgement was: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/federal-court-rules-cops-can-warantlessly-track-suspects-via-cellphone/ And, this same site reposted a blog from the Cato Institute, a Libertarian think-tank. Long-ish, and gets into previous case law and how it was improperly applied to this case: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/how-a-drug-mule-named-big-wolf-helped-create-terrible-gps-search-law/

Well, the headline/recap is alarming, however, the actual ruling is a bit more complicated. Cops screwed up in that they had sufficient evidence that they presented to a judge, to get an order for the cell company to turn over records for a known burner cellphone, when they should have applied for a warrant. But since sufficient evidence was provided (19 pages) for the order, the court determined that there was no misconduct, hence conviction stands. The disenting judge basically agreed with the guys conviction, but, felt past case law cited was not meaningful to judges ruling. Could well be true, and might get to Supremes, but appears to me, this is case law already fairly well established: https://ssd.eff.org/3rdparties/govt/court-order Standard disclaimer: IANAL, but there is a Holiday Express near-by.

On a similar bent, if one has an iPhone, this app could give one a pseudo burner phone: maybe a little easier to explain away a burner app? http://www.techhive.com/article/2000281/burner-for-ios-lets-you-make-disposable-phone-numbers.html

BitCoin fan-bois would disagree ("I can get t-shirts, porn, gamble, buy weed, illegal guns..."), but yes, you are correct. Until one can EASILY use their BitCoins at King Soopers, the gas pump, pay their rent/mortgage, etc. (ie. the things an ASP would want to spend her earnings on), it's useless "currency".

I've got S&H Green Stamps, ladies! Oh yeah!

IMO, lots of confusion out there regarding tracking, and not sure anyone can point to a definitive source (most "proof" comes from tinfoil hat sites). That said, my non-authoritative $0.02: Most phones, when off are off. Some phones in the past (not sure if still true) were not totally off (Nokias were an example) due to if you enabled the alarm clock feature on the phone, the phone needed to wake to work: that, in turn, would make the phone contact a cell tower when briefly awake. The Stingray device mentioned: phone needs to be on. Phone as mobile bug (LE ability to remotely enable a phone's mic): again, phone needs to be on. Reverse 911: in the case of Boulder county, and mentioned in relation to the CSprings fire in some news stories, if you do not have a landline, emergency services probably don't know who you are or where you are. If you have Comcast for home phone service, Comcast has been bad at keeping emergency services informed about who and where their phone customers are (to be fair, any non-CenturyLink VOIP has this problem). So, if your town and or county has a notification service, register your address and numbers to contact if there is an emergency. In the case of Boulder, there is a web site where you can list multiple numbers (via voice and or text message) and or e-mail addresses to contact should evac be required. ADD: for Boulder county, the website is: https://ww2.everbridge.net/citizen/EverbridgeGateway.action?body=home&gis_alias_id=160781 ADD2: if you call 911, GPS on the phone gets automatically turned on, if off, to locate you. When GPS, is off, it's off. However, your phone is still contacting cell towers when on, so, can be tracked using triangulation.

What he said. And don't forget, Google Voice is basically an experiment by Google. For me, has worked great, but because this is an experimental software product that connects to the real phone system via a slew of 3rd party broadband providers, the service does have glitches and many possible points of failure. The Google help forums have slews of incidents over the years where folks have issues with pre-paid and or Verizon (and T-Mobile) connections, forwarding, voicemail etc. Guess what I'm saying is: maybe a different phone/number for business since Google Voice cannot be trusted to have the up-time and smoothness of operation that a "real" phone/number would have.

What he said. Chrome will have the same issues as Safari on iOS devices and desktop. BTW: works/looks "correct" in Firefox, IE.

Well, doesn't appear that there are reviews out there for her. That said, they could have existed in the past and websites might have pulled them in the wake of her arrest, to put some distance between them and her. To point out the obvious, "well-known", "trusted" and "great reviews" are helpful, but no guarantee. Recent (last couple of months) thread on the CO board about a provider that used to have glowing reviews only to reappear on the scene and told to stay away from due to now thieving and or worse. Stuff happens, people snap, and one needs to be alert at all times.

Technically, she had not gone totally straight. Quote in the article from her lawyer about how the girl was only occasionally still stripping. Looks like the girl has deleted most of her blog site, but still plenty of stripping referneces from the beginning of the year on her Twitter feed. Unfortunately, guessing her contract probably has something akin to a morality clause or verbiage along the lines of "will not do snything that reflects poorly on the newspaper".

Something that I do. And as suggested, I use a different password for each "tier". In case of financial and medical tiers, I do not use public wi-fi to access any of those sites. And generally don't online shop from public locations as well. Something that was not mentioned in the OP: when choosing your security question, use something that can not be easily guessed, found in public records or found on your Facebook et. al. profile. Yes, at times, not much choice on the security question for a website, but not smart to make it too easy for a scamster. Along the same lines: clean-up your social media sites' public info. You can be providing too much info making it a lot easier for the scamsters. And: the most seemingly innocuous thing might be used against you. An example from a couple of years ago: airline boarding pass. An airline's FF site was using the FF ID number as the login. Scammers were taking discarded boarding passes and guessing passwords. Once in, not only able to mess with mileage, but, the account info/profile on many of those sites provided home addresses, e-mail addresses, credit card numbers, security question answers, etc. that could be used to try accessing other sites.

Can't tell if sarcasm is on or off, but if off, is the town so small and or isolated that there is no McDonald's? The most remote USA McDonald's I've been to have wi-fi. At times slow, but, good enough for some web and e-mail. Been a sure fire stop while on the road to combine getting some food into me and internet time in one convenient stop.