I know nothing about hackers/phishers, but for the computer tecchies out there...

My main email and facebook accounts had their passwords changed during the night, obviously not by my doing. I went through hoops to re-create my passwords and log into both accounts this morning. Is this hacking? Are there ways to "identify" hackers? I have a feeling I know the person behind it, long story I won't get into...but I'm just curious if it's worth my time, or even possible??, to be a detective. Or just let it go. Gah!!

Its possible Facebook could access the IP addresses of those computers that accessed your account and if it was not a place or computer you were currently at this may be a good source for your "hacker." Better hackers might cover for this but for those just in the process of stealing facebook logins, you might be able to follow this up in this way. I would contact facebooks staff or your email providers staff asking for assistance in this matter.

Hope this helps, this is really basic info and I am sure other quotelanders may be able to offer you further help. You might get a better response if you post this into its own thread or elsewhere as this thread I wouldn't surmise is checked as often for helping posts.

Well I am posting on this topic for no particular reason except I got a check in the mail for $5,000.00 yesterday. Eureka! I am richer today than I was at this time yesterday. (I am of a mind to invest the funds in gold.)

Luck is a Lady with long gold hair.

I am fixing to saddle up and ride east to the Caney Fork River to fish for trout.

I'm so over my job! Bleh...

quote:

Originally posted by Mizz Busy Bee:
I'm so over my job! Bleh...

MBB you should just quit working, get married up and start having chittlins. You need to get your MRS degree.

It is really hot down here in the southern U.S. The temperature is 92 in the shade. The ten day forecast indicated the high will be over 90 degrees for the next ten days. The good news is that the temperature is not predicted to get over 100 degrees. This heat really takes the starch out of middle aged folk like me. Ten years ago I could hike all day with a forty pound pack on my back. One day I drank 9 quarts of water while hiking on the A.T.

Other than the heat I feel pretty good. I feel like a man that is worth $4,000.00

"I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion is(sic) going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind." - GW Bush last week at the Manufacturers & Business Association's annual dinner.

Gosh it amazes me that so called intellectuals don't agree with this basic common sense.

... and how many people exist in Iraq and the Middle East... women, homosexual people, Christians, Kurds …. who go to sleep each night thanking God/life/destiny for the non-existence of Saddam Hussein and his government and culture? I can’t help it, but the relief and the gratitude that I experience vicariously is ever present every day for me. It reminds me that there are still people like the GW Bush's who can be depended on to fight for ‘inconsequential nobody’s’ against the narcissistic egoists of this planet. I love you George.

"Nobody does it better
Makes me feel sad for the rest
Nobody does it half as good as you
Baby, you're the best

I wasn't lookin' but somehow you found me
It tried to hide from your love light
But like heaven above me
The spy who loved me
Is keepin' all my secrets safe tonight

And nobody does it better
Though sometimes I wish someone could
Nobody does it quite the way you do
Why'd you have to be so good?

The way that you hold me
Whenever you hold me
There's some kind of magic inside you
That keeps me from runnin'
But just keep it comin'
How'd you learn to do the things you do?

Oh, and nobody does it better
Makes me feel sad for the rest
Nobody does it half as good as you
Baby, baby, darlin', you're the best"

Well I am posting for no particualr reason except that a gasoline tanker exploded at the Exxon Station just north of mile marker 85 of Interstate 40 east of Jackson, Tennessee.

http://www.jacksonsun.com/arti...er=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL

Well I am posting for no particular reason except the proctor will not allow me to edit any of my posts. I get a message telling me that I am not authorized to edify my own messages.

I was trying to edit a post in the funny sayings topic way up in the Who Said It Forum.

"Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas."

--Davy Crockett

I am posting, for no particular reason, other than to post. As I have just discovered this thread, I thought to myself "hmmm, this is neat, I think I'll post something in here!"

So there you go, I have just done so. I could tell a joke I suppose, but will leave that for another time.

Fun or what LOL

Loved PD's post about nothing at all other than a nice hefty check in the mail.

I heard that a cheese company intends to open a factory in the Middle East.

The name?
Cheeses of Nazareth.

Cheeses of Nazareth... LMAO!!

Good one Asa!!

Side note:
I miss the "rolling smily" and the smily that used to "bounce" and laugh at the same time.

A bad joke for all of you:

What happens if you scrub a communist hard enough?

The Marx come off.

In a nameless place devoid of a face

A phantom poet did write these words:

Two times forty and one times one—

One is a decade and one is a year;

What is the decade and what is the year?

Two times thirty and nine minus none—

One is a weapon and one is a deer;

What is the weapon and what is the deer?

Upon the bark of an aged beech

What phantom poet made his mark?

Everything has been rushing at me quickly. Since I last frequented these boards a few months ago, I've lost all contact with my friends (which I don't really regret, we've grown apart), my dog has glaucoma and has now lost vision in one eye (one day she tried jumping over a low stone wall wall, misjudged it because of her now screwy depth perception, and ended up falling backwards onto her back), I went on an awkward first date(which was actually my true first) with an odd older woman, I went to a festival and had an enlightening experience with a certain entheogen, connected with my sister with my sister for probably the first time, and now, in the last two days, my grandmother has deteriorated rapidly and will almost certainly die. Last night, I had to (or at least chose to) talk with my grandfather and my aunts/uncles and father about funeral arrangements and hospice care. And, of course, add onto all of this that I'm leaving home for the first time in my life within the month.

I don't want sympathy or anything--would've posted in sad management if I did--just felt like getting that all off my chest. Besides, my problem now is a most profound and all-encompassing ambivalence, not necessarily sadness.

And now, my sister is getting married. What the hell?

Agentk, It never rains but it pours as they say. Hang in there, especially over the next little bit of time as your Grandma is 'leaving'. It'll be a strange time for your parents, aunts and uncles. (It's often surprising how the passing of an elderly parent affects grown children.)

I keep forgetting that you aren't 12 anymore. Gosh I even keep forgetting that my own kids aren't 12 anymore! Anyway, ride it out for the time being. It's like the first time you hit the breakers with your board. Scary and violent. But after a while you learn to navigate each wave as it rolls in and can stay on top of the turmoil that is life. It'll be ok and lots of fun on the way.

On August 8, my brother and I floated a four-mile section of the Buffalo River at Flatwoods, Tennessee. (This was our first canoe trip together since June, 4, 2004, when we floated a six-mile stretch of Bear Creek at Tishomingo, Mississippi.) It was high noon when we launched our rented canoe. The temperature was 88 degrees. The state of the economy has not hurt the canoe rental business. The cost of renting a canoe is only $25.00 and that includes the shuttle. (The price has actually gone down from $30.00) There were plenty of people on the river. Chuck and I last floated the Buffalo River in 2003. Since that time I have taken up kayaking and my brother has been remarried. We packed a picnic lunch of ham & cheese sandwiches on rye bread, deviled eggs, and coleslaw. I allowed myself to have two cans of Coors Light beer. During the two-hours we were on the river I didn't see anyone other than my brother and myself utilzing a J-stroke with a canoe paddle. Ten years ago we were considered to be super heroes of the Buffalo.

Nothing floats my boat like a day on the river.

On 8-22-09 as I was driving back to the house from the lake my dog was running ahead of the ATV. I saw something odd moving in the woods up by the gate. My dog saw it and ran toward it almost immediately. Whatever the creature was it just seemed to vanish just a second after I saw it. There is a game trail there where deer come out of the woods to the clover patches by the peach orchard. I didn’t think too much about it until the dog stopped hard in her tracks where the creature was at. Typically she will strike a scent trail and chase a deer about 50 yards or so and then come back to the road. The dog seemed surprised that there was no scent trail in which to give chase. I cut the engine on the ATV but I could hear no footfalls on the dry leaves. I didn’t get a good look at whatever it was but it appeared to be moving on two legs before it vanished into thin air.

Sounds like a case of "BigFoot"... mmm? Let us know if you ever see it again, Ph_D.

@ Agent
I only just saw this. And I know you said you don't want any sympathy, but I have to say how sorry I am about your grandmother. It's strange, because the same thing is happening in my family. My grandmother has been sick but coping for years, and all of a sudden she's probably only got days left. So I probably know what you're going through. Let me know if you ever want to talk about it.