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Googling For Prospective Date Unmasks Fugitive
pgrote writes "So you're a guy on the run - you decide to switch towns, put down some roots and start dating again. But if your special new friend happens to be someone who checks her potential dates by searching on Google, you're in trouble. Seems that LaShawn Pettus-Brown was caught by his date's discovery of him on an FBI site of fugitives, even after local Cincinnati news media couldn't find him. Score one for the Internet."
Wow. That's even worse than finding your wifes picture on a dating site!!!
...that I post to slashdot. Oh dear.
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...the Internet searches for you!
1980: Do you have Herpes?
1986: Do you have AIDS?
1995: I have pepper spray.
2004: I have Google.
Oh well.. at least RealDolls can't use search engines.. yet..
Trolling is a art,
Man, I bet this guy is wishing his parents had given him a more common name than "LaShawn Pettus-Brown"...
So the 'local Cincinnati news media' couldn't even perform a simple google search and find out for themselves? Makes you wonder about the standards and quality of what actually does make it into the news there.
OK -- now how stupid is a fugitive for giving his real name to anyone?
If your potential date discovers you sell penis enlargement items on the internet for a living, will that help or hurt your chances?
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
That's why you know it's best not to date.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I would think getting your name changed would help quite a bit. Seems kind of silly to post your real name in the google personals if you're wanted by the FBI.
Buckethead
That's just someone with my name... and my picture... and my fingerprints.
- c -
what a horrible way to get caught....
Don't register LaShawnPettusBrown.com for your blog, unless you want to evade the Cincy cops.
I wouldn't date anyone who would Google someone before dating them. Why would you want to start things off on that foot? Is she going to be going through your wallet by the second week of the relationship? Demanding the keys to your front door and the passcode to your voicemail by the third week?
Let these holier-than-though uptight paranoid, condescending bitches do their googling - just keep them the fuck away from me. I date real women.
Wow, this should start a minor surge in traffic...
I wonder if they are planning to capitalize on it, maybe a reference service like Froogle, but for dating.
Can Scroogol be far off ???
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."--Benjamin Franklin
...and finds that I hang out on Slashdot most of the time, and also on techie forums and mailing lists. Poof! There goes all my chances.
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
When I was in the market for my first house (9 months ago), I thought I had found the perfect house.
Then I searched Google for the address and learned that the previous owner had died in the house.
He was in the attic working on the electrical when a small fire broke out. He got the fire out but died from the smoke.
His father was selling the house.
It was all a little too much for me.
-Jackson
Oh, who am I kidding... I'm on Slashdot.
For those who read slashdot in work or at school, the RealDolls link in the above posting leads to a porn site. Its clean porn, not goatse stuff if your wondering (not that I looked ...)
Regards,
Steve
The internet has great power, indeed. But this power is not without detriment, namely to privacy. While I may sleep a little better knowing a fugative has been brought to justice, I am also worried about how my own personal information may be widely available to those who would use it maliciously. Not trying to make any conclusions here; just food for thought.
At least enough to not use it once it's been soiled .
Infuriate left and right
Yes, poor Mr Goatse Man.
Maybe this is the exact same reason he can't find a date. I mean, it couldn't be for any other reason, could it?
Not the brightest fella, is he? Or did his date also ask for 6 points of ID?
Only a moron would use his real name when he's on the lam. I can go to several locations in my city and come away with an authentic-looking drivers's license, social security card, whatever. Hell, I can even get a Mexican Matricula Consular card, even though you can read in the dark by my skin color. This woman deserves a reward for removing this guy's genes from the pool, even if temporarily.
I live in Cincinnati. Keep in mind that Jerry Springer was once mayor of this city.
I tell people, "Cincinnati is a nice town, but it's like you died and woke up in Republican heaven."
- Kate
"DNA is life. The rest is just translation."
I used to be the top result from google, but now it's some tennis player. I'm on the first page, but it's not my homepage, just something I posted to a PHP mailing list a thousand years ago.
Seriously tho, anybody who dates somebody off the internet without at least having a go at googling their name, is nearly as stupid as anybody who's got an outstanding arrest warrant and gives out their real name.
Send lawyers, guns, and money!
You should all try your own names.
;)
I tried googling on my name and I got no hits... I guess I avoid using my real name on the 'net most of the time
I ran a benchmark on my quantum computer, now I can't find it anywhere!
Especially as a gerund !
Contrary to popular belief, Google is not supposed to be a verb
Google decidedly does not approve.
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."--Benjamin Franklin
Yeah, you sure got the joke.
I share the spelling of my first and last name with the keyboardist from journey
:oP
makes it a lil harder to find me
Oh, damn. Here I was, thinking google was starting a new dating service - called Fugitive. :)
It'd probably be immensely popular. "Check to see if this man is a fugitive? Yes | No"
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So the guy steals about 100K and invites a date to freaking Applebee?! EIther he's really a cheap bastard or he already spent it all.
Men these days. You cannot even get a French restaurant date out of a rich thief anymore.
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If the Cincinatti media had googled him, they'd have found exactly what they already knew: that there was a warrant out for his arrest. The only sort of person who could have found both halves of the story by googling is the sort of person who did: someone who knew him and his whereabouts personally, but needed Google to tell her that he was a fugitive.
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Hmmm... could be interesting... lemesee...
+blonde +thirtysomething +"blue eyes" -kids +"36 24 36" -smoker +5'11" +model +"into geeky guys"
Wha? Zero results?
This is a little offtopic, and a trifle condescending, but do we care enough about children not to give them asinine names?
How many Trawandas, DeLeroys, and Yasomethins do we need?
When you're thinking about naming your twins Orangello and Lemonjello , you should first consider whether or not sharing your genetic information is wise.
True, sex feels great, but consider the ascetic pleasure of knowing that you chose not to pass on a taste for absurd names to your progeny. Europe is clearly leading in this area.
I don't know if this is becasue the women are just too chic to consider motherhood, the men are too busy planting their seed where it cannot grow, or they are simply given to better taste.
Regardless, please do us all a favor and get a proper book of names, and don't give a child a name that is going to raise hackles for their whole life.
There are far better ways to express individuality than naming a poor infant LeDeZeppelin.
Thank you for your attention.
FINEX RANTEX
If you are going to commit a serious crime these days, you'd better make darn sure that you know your way around a computer before using one on the Internet. The trails that we leave are beyond most people's comprehensions, and I would hate to think what could be done to me or any other ordinary person if someone set their mind to mischief.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
I like to do simple background checks I on people I meet online (not random people), the first place I check is google (sometimes i use visisimo). Admittedly, I'm no where near as good as those companies you pay (at least I don't think I am, I really wouldn't know though). Generally I only trust people that I can find legit information on (whether it's big or small), otherwise they're just another Alias to me.
suggests that you not use your real name when you are on the run from the FBI. It might also be a good idea to steal more than $180k--that won't let you live it up for long in NYC.
Being 6'7" makes some things easier, like dunking a basketball. It doesn't do wonders for a criminal career, though. Try fading away into a crowd or just being inconspicuous.
Hmmm, so if girls check google on their guys... Say, how does one go about getting their webpage put in the top of Google? I was thinking of trying to register http://www.heisthebest.com/ and of course, put my name all over it. I see no flaws in my plan.
"he drew his sword Ringil that glittered like ice... and he wounded Morgoth with seven wounds..."
What are you talking about?
The media knew he was a fugitive, but didn't know where he was. Neither did the FBI, so I don't know how you could blame them. But they had a bunch of articles about them, as you'd see if you checked Google yourself.
The woman knew where he was, but she didn't know he was a fugitive. Until she searched on Google, finding both the FBI page and the various Cincinnati news items.
So, what were you talking about again?
The enemies of Democracy are
...Joel Rifkin.
I suspect in a Swiss Bank account. If he had that money on him he could have easily created a fake ID and fake name and started over again. Lucky he was not smart enough to do that and used his real name and got caught.
:)
Wake up Orion, the Google has you!
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as i tried my name and got only one hit.
and its not even me, its another me from colorado.
damn.
If you have a common enough name and **aren't** on the lam you might be okay. Just make sure she doesn't know your l337 /. name or you're dead!
...Oh shit, you're all heading for Google now...
If thou see a fair woman pay court to her, for thus thou wilt obtain love
They are dumb. Seriously. If all criminals were highly intelligent, we'd be in real trouble. Fortunately, most are pretty stupid. Hence, they make stupid mistakes, and those mistakes lead to their arrest and conviction. Real life is usually not like Law and Order where the cops have to untangle a complecated web to get at the truth, usually the criminals do something really dumb that leads right too them.
That's not to say there haven't been some really smart crooks, the smartest of which we likely know nothing of, but 99.99% of them are dumb.
So no, this is not at all supprising.
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I do a Google for my real name, and it comes up with nothing even close - of course there are 21,300 hits when I use quotes!
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Business \Busi"ness\, n.;
A scam in which all people involved perceive as beneficial...
Finally, some fucking sense around here.
Yes, like the internet has been a little known under achiever as of late....
On a side note, I found my Sweetie on a date site. Of course, I also confirmed everything she said by google, an address search and other means to verify I wasn't being outright lied to. I mean it's only common sense. Lord knows you have enough guys in chat rooms masquerading as women, so why take the chance of meeting them in IRL? We won't even get into extortionary prostitutes and crap...
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Lawyers, MBA's, RIAA? A jedi fears not these things!
Lucky break aside, 99% of people don't have their names on the internet.
...geez, I'm not sure if I hope my girlfreind searches google or not...
Myself, I apparantly share my name with UHL hockey player(look at that, an MVP), a film star, a convicted child pornographer, a resort owner, a couple IT grads....
It's been a long time.
Thing is, this guy got more dates off the internet than me, a cute girl with a fatal flaw of geekiness.
*sigh*
The moral is, never try.
The one that got away... for a little while.
http://jesus.everdense.com/
I bet he's kicking himself now:
LASHAWN
Heyya sweetcakes, how yooou doin?! Can I buy you a drink?
SAVVY DATE
Yes, thanks! The name's Savvy. And you?
LASHAWN
Lashawn Pettus Brown... Ugh.. I mean Gary! My name is Gary!
(under his breath)
Shit!
Googling of my full name yeilded nothing. My short first name (sam as opposed to samuel) and last in quotes, 25 hits, only the first one had anything to do with me, and most of the rest were in german. Googled my handle and got about 350 hits, mostly /. postings, some from the message board on my own site. Also some reprints of /. stuff, some in russian (wtf), and some stuff from a few other random sites.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
After having some suspicions about a neighbor, I too decided to run her though Google. The search brought up this Article http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Katherine+Saddle r&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=199808 1213325800.JAA00250%40ladder01.news.aol.com&rnum=1 (Her name is Katherine Sadler), the relevent part being
"Another accused hooker, Katherine Saddler, 35, answered the phone at Sunnymede.
"When we have something to say, we'll say it," said Saddler, who was also
charged with possession of nine bags of heroin. "
Yep, that was my neighbor. A few more searches resulted in two open arrest warrents for her in NJ, time spent in prison, and several other convictions of assult and death threats. So the moral of the story is, if you have suspicions, it doesn't hurt to take 1 minute to run a quick google search.
My girlfriend did a search on my name on google, and on the first 3 hits she found some page out of a BBS where some of my co-workers were slagging me off. Needless to say I will be calling them by their internet handles at work from now on.
READY.
PRINT ""+-0
heisthebest.com is available.
hey, if the miserable failure guys can do it and the french military victories guy can do it, so can you!
The "who the hell would look at naked dools" is just hilarious, no matter how offtopic. I would myself but I don't have modpoints today. Peace.
don't tell anyone
You forgot Shithead.
:D
It's pronounced Shatheed.
Look I'm in the google engine! -I'm finally somebody! I'm somebody! I'm in the google engine!
halfy-"I Would."
"oh shut up halfy you don't have any legs you coulden't screw anything."
Halfie
note, link is a clip from a different episode, but it has the same point.
Well art is art isn't it, but then again water is water; and east is east; and west is west; and if you take cranberries
You fucked up the link, douchebag! Besides, people like you scare most chicks away from here.
Good things my posts on slashdot are secret!
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George W. Bush in 2004!
I did the same thing with a girl I met. I Googled for her screenname, and found her online diary/journal.
You want a sig? I can get you a sig... Hell, I can get you a sig by 3 o'clock this afternoon... with nail polish.
1) Don't hit Submit before you're ready. D'oh!
2) Use a different screenname/email address for each site you visit (and post on) to maintain some extra anonymity and keep different parts of your life separate. That way letting someone know one screenname doesn't let them in on everything.
You want a sig? I can get you a sig... Hell, I can get you a sig by 3 o'clock this afternoon... with nail polish.
I have been trying to catch Paris Hilton.
Just don't post the results to Slashdot using your real name in case your neighbours are also using Google to check you out.
Maybe seed Google with your own bogus details, "John is Amish and does not own any consumer electronics worth stealing, he has a black belt in Karate and breeds rattlesnakes as a hobby..."
Xix.
"Everything is adjustable, provided you have the right tools"
You are SOOOO outsourced.
That used to be called STALKING!
I am not involved with Public Information, or the press. I am only a poor cattle farmer.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
Wife's picture on dating site = free pass.
paintball
don't forget, google relies on linux (like how those companies rely on Duracell batteries in those Duracell ads).
Linux +1, SCO -2^google
Now can SCO say that they helped catch a fugitive? (the answer btw is no unless they turn themselves in).
o yea...this again is and was meant to be a funny.
CEO
paintball
"So you're a guy on the run - you decide to switch towns, put down some roots and start dating again. But if your special new friend happens to be someone who checks her potential dates by searching on Google, you're in trouble."
All too true, all too true.
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
Seriously - in the online dating world, if you can write a complete sentence and don't look like a complete letter, you can find a date with a moderately attractive woman, assuming you target the age when they're finally sick of dating assholes. It's not that hard, really.
paintball
"Check to see if this man is a fugative for $5.95? Yes | No"
paintball
Once WKRP left the airwaves, baby, you'd just have to wonder, wonder what ever became of Pettus-Brown...
-- SYS 64738 --
No more Erykahs, Jesycas, Kaytlinnes, Arryns, or any of that crap!
Your child is not a bad heavy metal band! Stop giving them "Wyld Stalyns" names!
I was relieved to see that it was just the same name, not the same person. Now when :-)
I look back however, I think of all the things that could have been.....
this made me laugh please mod up
until the LeDeZepplin bit. Now I think I'm going to have to change my name.
Paul Le D'Zeppelin.
That would rock (if you'll pardon the phrase).
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The site said she fingered him at 10 o'clock at applebee's ... lesson learned? Don't take a woman on a date at end it at applebee's
The problem with the search is it's way too spec.
All a girl has to be is an inch off and the search fails.
Also if she says "I'm into brainy guys", "I'm into nerdy guys" or "Geeks make me hot" the search fails... Not that I'd expect anyone to say "geeks make me hot" just giving an example...
As for the "Into geek guys" forget it she's gone by now... Every Slashdot geek had sent her a preposal.... well ok I'm more a tweek thow.. (Diffrence between me and a geek? I've got less brains and I'm insain...).
+blonde +thirtysomething +"blue eyes" -kids +"36 24 36" -smoker +5'11" +model +"into geeky guys"
Ok let's try remaking this to be a more realistic search ok?
+blonde This is fine.. Every "yellow" haired woman calls herself blonde.
+thirtysomething Changes are you'll get her exact age why should she even bother with the term "thirtysomething" strike it..
+"blue eyes" ok... A bit exssesive but the search would work...
-kids This is vage enough it will block all "with kids" it will also knock out "Not ready for kids" or "can't stand kids"... But it's a reasonable filter we can knock it out later.. if needed.
"36 24 36" Are we searching for a date or giving specs for a fembot? Human beings aren't going to fit an exact mold. Strike it...
-smoker Like kids this filters "I am a smoker" and "I am not a smoker"... This is probably not the kind of thing you want to filter... Leave it in for first search.
+5'11" Ahem.. So if she's 5'10" or 6'" your not intrested?
+5' This will give you everyone who is 5 foot...
+model Ahem.. are we searching for dates or phone sex? If she says she's a model she is eather lying or to busy to actually date.
Strike it...
+"into geeky guys" Way to detailed... She'd have to actually use that exact phrase.
Try just +geek.. This will scoop up "I'm a geek girl looking for a geek guy"
Now we have: +blonde +"blue eyes" -kids +5' +geek
1,630 results.... Exelent...
Now I can screen them by hand for... dear god no Huston we have a problem.
+woman
1,060 results... Good.
Let's trim this down a tad +female. The search results still had to many guys "looking for a woman"... Just need to imprint on the search the importance of finding a FEMALE date..
Ok to many unrelated results... Oh sure I like "Buffy the vampire slayer" but reading about how much fans like Spike dose not get me anywhere.
+dating
Well.. I'll ferther refine this but that will be to my personal tasts...
Damn it thow.. I find a post on Japanise intrested in western and it's Japanise MEN looking for western wemen.
Oh the +blond thing kinda makes that not happen anyway.
I'm srapping "blue eyes" becouse I don't care about eye color.. Then add +California becouse that is where I live.
424 results... I'll be refining this all freaking night...
Well I found this nifty link and I can finish my search that way.
And that is how you ue google to find a date.
Oh dear god I'm pathetic... Finding dates by computer... I'm affrade I need to bash my self senseless now.
I don't actually exist.
was she wearing a red dress?
Hey sounds like a great business to start, give IT/businesplans to criminals and such.
;-)
Define their goal/problem and solve it with a powerpoint slide presentation define their solution and step by step guide on what to do and not to do so they can succeed.
add in the papar
"Are you a dumb crook, too stupid, left highschool at 15 and now are looking for quick bucks but dont want to be caught by FBI who left school at 18? Then call us , CRIMEDOESPAY(for 10% fee) , tell us what you dont or plan to do, and we will define a business plan to make sure you will succeed and not get 'trapped'. All details are highly confidential and all data will be destroyed after consultation and fees paid. Call 555-CRIME. or check us out online www.defeat-the-fbi-mmmkay.com "
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
If you really want to get freaked out here's where you can check out what kind of neighbors you have.
I followed your link to real dolls. I found the FAQ amusing. Here is a bit:
Question: Does the silicone flesh have a foul odor?
No. REALDOLL's silicone flesh is very nearly odorless. You can detect a very mild odor: a pleasant and fruit-like fragrance.
Question: Does the silicone flesh have a foul flavor?
No. REALDOLL's flesh has no noticeable flavor.
TOO FUNNY
"What we do in life echoes in eternity." Maximus Decimus Meridius
Maybe seed Google with your own bogus details, "John is Amish and does not own any consumer electronics worth stealing, he has a black belt in Karate and breeds rattlesnakes as a hobby..."
He just posted a comment on Slashdot. Last time I checked, there weren't too many Amish people using the 'net. Gee, I wonder why...
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Email: if you know the email, you can use Reverse Lookup from whitepages section of infospace.com. If he had that email long enough (most people do, unless he is 12-yr-old-sccript-kiddie that changes mail every 2 weeks), at least last name, and state and country should turn up. if you are lucky, you will even get city and first name. Phone: if you have phone number (home phones, not cells, work best), use anywho.com or whitepages.com' reverse look up IP: if you know the IP (look in email header, send a file and netstat, send a webpage, et al), use this, http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm , page to pinpoint his location to city level (check the certitiy %). armed with that information use whitepages.com and anywho.com to get exact address of that person! purpose? well you can sneak up to see if the person is really like the one in the really cool pictures s/he sent to you. you can sneak up to see if the person have significant others. good luck
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Dude, I'm never double-dating with you.
Breakfast served all day!
With new potential dates I usually check:
- Search Engines
- County Clerk of Courts database
- State Prisoner database
- Sexual Offender database
- Usenet
The company I work for is one of those tight-lipped "we aren't telling the employees anything" sort of shops.
One day I was bored and googled for both of the names my company is associated with.
Paranoid bastards shouldn't create companies with unique names that partner with other compies who release press releases.
I learned more from one night searching in google then I ever did working at the company.
Beware, chicken-man. Oddfox is gonna de-bone ya!
Perhaps someone should try to google for the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
There you are, staring at me again.
They really should have waited on the anouncement of this until Google's IPO. A bit of extra $$$ for those investing.
why should we care about your worthless sense of humour?
Grep-ing For Prospective Data Umasks Filesystem
Aside from information YOU put on the internet, how much of your personal data (the useful stuff - SIN, phone #, address) is available? I suspect most identity theft is via much less "random" means - your physical trail of pre-approved credit card offers, credit card receipts in stores, your name and address on every piece of mail you get, etc.
Freedom: "I won't!"
Everyone remembers "Amazon Women on the Moon", right?
When I met my wife (via the internet, although we met IRL within a week), and realized that it would be a serious relationship I got a bit worried...you see one time one of my friends (and I think I might know who...) thought it'd be funny to post in my name on some pot growing site....okay so it would've been funny - but one day while googling for my own name - well let's just say that's how I discovered their joke!
So I told my wife-to-be right away, and she thought it was funny also....still I have to wonder who else I know that might just google my name! >:(
[unusual suggestion]
This is somewhat off the subject, but maybe not so far off. For years and years (and years and years) I was very clumsy when it came to women, and when I was 26 I decided that this was something that I could learn.
So I developed a method, and it worked for me. (I realize this is starting to sound like an infomercial, but it isn't! Let me interject here that nobody is going to try to sell you anything -- not now, and now later -- but I will tell you how to get a girlfriend if you could use some help.)
I told some friends about my marvy new method, and several tried it, and it worked for them, too. So I wrote it down. I once thought I might sell it, but later I decided just to give it away, in hopes that some other guys won't have to go through being awkward as I was.
It's written up like a report, and posted online among some free marketing material, on a site I manage. You can find the free "Sweetheart Report" at --
http://www.24metro.com/library/sweetheart_report
The 24Metro site sells voicemail and webhosting, but you don't have to buy anything or log in or anything. The above link takes you directly to the free report.
I expect to hear no flames, my bretheren. There is no catch. It's exactly what I claim: A powerful but simple method that will show anyone how to get a girlfriend, spelled out in complete detail, and available online at no cost, period.
From the time I developed this method at 26, I've had no difficulty meeting women. (Getting along with them, now that's something else!) Now I'm 59, and I've been with the same woman for the last 15 years, so it actually worked big time for me.
It might not work for you, I suppose, but I've received rather enthusiastic feedback. You've got nothing to lose but lonely.
If you're experiencing anything less than fun in your woman-searching, let me do you a favor. Check it out and try it. Most likely it will do the job. If you can't try the method now, for some sort of good reason which your mind will make up, bookmark the site and try it later. I can't really guarantee it will work for you, because some people can botch up bubble-gum. But it's worked for most other folks.
No flames, now. If I hear any flames -- especially from anybody who hasn't read it or tried it -- I shall laugh like this: Ha Ha!
[/unusual suggestion]
== buddha is as buddha does ==
Use fake names!
I often google problematic eBayers and scammers email addresses - I would say 1/2 the time I get good results and 1 in 10 I get VERY interesting results.
For instance - one time I had an eBayer email me telling me I should be ashamed for selling a Bang & Olufsen turntable at the price I was selling it at. Turns out - it was HIS that he sold to someone in Charlotte (nearby) - they in turn sold it to a Pawn Shop - I bought it for a deal (under $100) - come to find out - he only got $35 for it on eBay - he had left negative feedback for the buyer because the buyer made him sell it to him (he didn't have a reserve. To make a long story longer - It turns out he starts harassing my bidders, telling them not to buy from me. I google and find something similar to this with his email address attached.
Gay male looking in Colorado (Denver Area) for discreet meetings - no kinky stuff but very adventurous. Since he had bid in my auction (fraudulently) I instantly ended the auction and made him the winner by cancelling other bids. I threatened to post the information to several websites and his feedback. I never heard from him again.
I have ALWAYS googled anyone's email address before I met them from match.com - although usually a girl's email address won't show up with any results.
I occasionally google my email address and always get new stuff - usually 4-5 of my slashdot replies show up.
Yell & scream & rant & rave... it's no use... you need a shaaaave ~ Bugs Bunny
Like, for example, this idiot. If he'd just been born with an overly common name like mine he would have learned to get over it ages ago.
But some people just take this bizarre pride in knowing that their name is theirs alone.
Someone agreeing to date a felon named LaShaun is probably not a geek to begin with. More likely a hood rat.
Google is mainstream, in case you didn't know.
You've got a point regarding the non-standard names. I heard some people outraged over the idea of somone "googling" them, finding out all kinds of personal information by putting in their name. So, I tried it with my name. To my amazement, I was not only the first result for my name, but showed up another 3 times in the first page of results and several more times in subsequent pages. However, to know which reuslts were actually me required some knowledge of who I was. And at that, the closest I got to embarrasment was that my first results were links to a chess variant and several digital images I created in my middle school and high school years. If you didn't know to pick those things out, I might appear to be a Computer Graphics book author or a Benedictine Monk who plays piano.
Since then, the algorithms have improved, I guess, such that most of my earlier results have slipped off the front page. However, my webjournal is still up there, so I guess I am now more prone to being "googled" as it is easier to figure that that's the right person. (Right age, location, etc) Dem's the breaks, I guess.
Anyhow, my point was simply along the lines of that the efficacy of searching for someone in Google is limited, even more so if they use common words in their name. Ever tried looking up a Catherine Church?
This sig has absolutely no significance and serves only to take up screen space and waste the time of the reader.
I always Google my own name before masturbating.
When I Googled my father I found out that he really DID have a 15-foot-high friend named Carl and that he DID work at a circus and he DID save a small town from extinction and he DID have a multimillionaire friend on Wall Street and he DID rescue a pair of Siamese twin lounge singers while performing a secret mission as a paratrooper and my mother really DID get a notice that he was dead but he really wasn't...
Oh, wait... was that a movie?
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
There have been plenty of criminals who were plenty smart and had long and fruitful carrers that were eventually caught. Thing is, everyone makes mistakes, even smart people. When the police or FBI are after you, a mistake can be all it takes for them to bust you. Something simple, that a normal person wouldn't even think about, can be your downfall.
There was a group of bank robbers that got busted in Sedona a few years ago. Quite smart by all account, all the robberies went off without a hitch, and in normal life all their heighbours found them quite nice and charming people. Then on one robbery, something went wrong, one of them freaked, and killed someone. It was over after that, and they were caught fairly soon.
Then there is the simple fact that most of the population isn't that smart. Even if you want to define smart as above average intelligence (and most people in that category wouldn't make successful crooks) you are still left with 50% of the population as not smart. Unsupprisingly, criminals tend to come from the less intelligent part. If you have intelligence and skills you usually can and do get a legit job using them.
So I maintain my position: Most criminals are dumb. Even most of the smart ones trip up and get caught in the end. Just ask John Gotti.
You can get dates a lot easier if you search for frequent misspellings, like "geke" or "63 42 63"... Not everyone's a spelling genius!
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Googling your friends and potential dates seems like such a loser-like thing to do, something a poster to Slashdot would try.
FYI, I found no criminals among my friends and dates, but I did find out that my wife used to be treasurer for the Indonesian Student Organization in her college.
from: +blonde +thirtysomething +"blue eyes" -kids +"36 24 36" -smoker +5'11" +model +"into geeky guys"
to: +blonde +thirtysomething +"blue eyes" -kids +"36 24 36" -smoker
Still no results. But, if you hyphenate thirty-something, you'll find there is someone for you after all! :)
cLive ;-)
-- Trinity in high heels carrying a whip: The donimatrix - there is no spoonerism
just brainless male bushido
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Perhaps, you meant machismo instead of bushido?
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
I think I'm too young to date sixty year-old women. Maybe I'd better just improve my asshole appeal.
Well the only balls you've got are the ones dangling from your mouth, you tea bagging pole smoker.
Insightful? Balls
... I kid you not. I cannot imagine the problems that name undoubtably caused her ... or why she hadn't changed it long before. Though as the progeney of someone stupid, cruel, or both, perhaps it simply never occurred to her to consider what her name's spelling actually said in plain English.
How would it be different if he had been named Shawn Brown, instead of LaShawn Petus-Brown?
Times change. Names change. Live with it.
Easy for you to say, assuming you do not have a name that makes you a laughing stock. Many children are not so lucky, and it is they, not their asinine parents, that have to live with the consiquences day by day.
As an example, my girlfriend's daughter worked with a woman whose name was pronounced "Shith-eed." Sounds very pretty, until you saw it in writing.
It was spelled
S.H.I.T.H.E.A.D.
The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
"Applebee's - tastes gross"
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa..
what a fucking monkey ?!? got nailed by a real woman ! what was he planning to bring on his date, fried chicken and watermelons..
You guarantee it? Then I want my money back.
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You're clearly defining criminals as car-thief, convenience-store robber, mugger, etc. What about the REAL criminals such as Ken Lay, Marvin Boesky, John Cowland (current governor of Connecticut), hundreds of mutual funds managers, Martha Stewart, Andrew and Lea Fastow, Dennis Koslowski, Parmalat, Tyco,
As I said, I want my money back - literally.
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Doesn't it sound like this also ties in with researching those people who share your interests?