A few months ago I witnessed an "incident" on an eBay discussion board. A user's auction was posted for people to look at, which is a violation of the board posting rules. The user who's auction was being criticized by some was tipped off by an annonymous coward that they were being talked about and people were "trying to ruin him". This user stormed into the board and accused everyone there of a crime and said he had called the FBI.com to take care of us all. The problem was that the police really did become involved because he started harrassing people, mailbombing them, and making threatening phone calls after bidding on people's auctions so that he could obtain their address and phone number. He was suspended the next day, and then his 2nd ID. His main ID is now registered again last I checked, but his 2nd ID was still suspended.
It is a rule violation to use one eBay ID while owning another that is suspended.
On many occasions people report scam artist's auctions, often on hijacked IDs, and eBay does nothing for days. Shill bidding [bidding on your own items] is strictly forbidden, but if you present eBay with the evidence, they often don't suspend all of the accounts involved.
Remember a few months ago when the chat boards were comprimised because Live World who runs the boards left an admin tool open to users on the Internet? Dozens of people's account information, and snitch information was made available to hackers that just needed to modify an address in Internet Explorer.
http://pages.ebay.ca/help/community/png-user.htm l user agreement
http://pages.ebay.ca/help/policies/privacy-polic y. html privacy policy
The "six investigators" bit is a joke. eBay would be even more ripe with fraud if hundreds of users didn't make reports to the "support" staff. Read what a joke the support is like: http://forums.ebay.ca/thread.jsp?forum=7&th read=36 270&start=0&msRange=189
Just when I throw all my old floppies away and start stocking up on Pringles Spicy Cajun cans I find out I didn't have to eat all those chips or throw away those disks./. is just too slow at getting the news out;-)
We know that this won't be a universal standard unless we get the center of the universe to change too [the USA].
If they didn't have their wonky 5 OR 9 digit Zip code system and joined the rest of the Commonwealth, and who knows what other countries then we would have a nice system.
Andale hosts the counters for most people. They are not eBay owned [at least not to my knowledge]. And they rarely work properly. Sometimes they reset themselves to 0.
I had 18000 hits on an auction once, and then it managed to get back to 16000 a few weeks after being reset.
"can sniff out cancer by sampling people's breath."
Yeah, it is called cigarette smoke, and we've known it is a carcinogen for 40 years now. I do have trouble identifying which stench is the benzyne, and which is the nicotine though;-)
It would be much better if we could combine this growth in the industry, into producing CF cards that can hold 2+ GB, and give us mass storage on small microchips.
Just look at the User Agreement that every eBay user agrees to when the join, or when eBay revises it as they have in the past week to deal partly with the leak of private information by leaving a chat board admin tool open to the Internet.
http://pages.ebay.com/help/community/png-user.ht ml
In there it says eBay is not responsible for feedback, and you agree to not list things they deem unsuitable for sale. Among that list is anything that is not legal to sell. It also mentions that they will remove feedback on a court order.
I'm trying to help someone else right now with this scam. Add me as a friend, and I'll let you know if I find out anything. The difference in this other case is that the "lawyer" is in California, and the victim is in Canada.
Definitely inform eBay of these harrassing emails.
Isn't being connected to the Internet all the time sort of... creepy?
I mean, don't even corporate execs need to get away from the World Wide Web a few minutes in the day, and just zone out while on the subway, or riding the bus?
Just because we can do it, doesn't mean it is a good idea. If Paris suffers a spike in crazy CEOs, then I say we call the trial a failure.
They had a tablet for demonstration at the MS student tour across Canada. I was at one of the demonstrations where they showed an "informational video of a survey conducted by students at MIT, not an ad," as the presenter tried to claim as we chuckled at the attempted brainwashing.
Despite MS evil intentions to force yet another PDA device into our lives, these looked actually useful, because of the advanced handwriting recongnition software. You can literally handwrite your notes, and either save them as plain text, small picture files, or move them to another PC. You can even do a text search through handwritten files. The angle you write at doesn't always stop the words from being found even. Truely an innovation in PDAs.
"Does that mean he can't stick his penis in there?"
Right. Protect hole.
Remember on floppies they work the opposite way though. The open hole means you can't catch a virus on your floppy. Slide back the dust cover and begin accessing.
All/. posts by me that happen to have been simultaneously posted by other/. users could have been prevented if the evil bit was implemented. All redundant post packets would be assigned evil bits, thus rendering the newest evil redundant packets dead, and avoiding the repost.
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A few months ago I witnessed an "incident" on an eBay discussion board. A user's auction was posted for people to look at, which is a violation of the board posting rules. The user who's auction was being criticized by some was tipped off by an annonymous coward that they were being talked about and people were "trying to ruin him". This user stormed into the board and accused everyone there of a crime and said he had called the FBI.com to take care of us all. The problem was that the police really did become involved because he started harrassing people, mailbombing them, and making threatening phone calls after bidding on people's auctions so that he could obtain their address and phone number. He was suspended the next day, and then his 2nd ID. His main ID is now registered again last I checked, but his 2nd ID was still suspended.
It is a rule violation to use one eBay ID while owning another that is suspended.
This is the thread in the .ca forum
http://forums.ebay.ca/thread.jsp?forum=7&thread=36 270&modifed=20030701134051
I don't know why the other one didn't work.
On many occasions people report scam artist's auctions, often on hijacked IDs, and eBay does nothing for days. Shill bidding [bidding on your own items] is strictly forbidden, but if you present eBay with the evidence, they often don't suspend all of the accounts involved.
m l user agreement
c y. html privacy policy
h read=36 270&start=0&msRange=189
Remember a few months ago when the chat boards were comprimised because Live World who runs the boards left an admin tool open to users on the Internet? Dozens of people's account information, and snitch information was made available to hackers that just needed to modify an address in Internet Explorer.
http://pages.ebay.ca/help/community/png-user.ht
http://pages.ebay.ca/help/policies/privacy-poli
The "six investigators" bit is a joke. eBay would be even more ripe with fraud if hundreds of users didn't make reports to the "support" staff.
Read what a joke the support is like:
http://forums.ebay.ca/thread.jsp?forum=7&t
In fact, you can sell anything on eBay. Really.
How are you going to build anything without the handyman's secret weapon, Ducttape?
Babelfish
Hope the link works for you. Read English, right?
Just when I throw all my old floppies away and start stocking up on Pringles Spicy Cajun cans I find out I didn't have to eat all those chips or throw away those disks. /. is just too slow at getting the news out ;-)
We know that this won't be a universal standard unless we get the center of the universe to change too [the USA].
If they didn't have their wonky 5 OR 9 digit Zip code system and joined the rest of the Commonwealth, and who knows what other countries then we would have a nice system.
"academic papers
about videogaming"
Dream job, or make-work project?
" I'd MUCH rather have a wad of 50 1$ bills than a heavy pocketful of jingly coins"
This explains the Amerian psyche enough to explain why George Bush was elected, and an 18 cent coin isn't that far off.
Andale hosts the counters for most people. They are not eBay owned [at least not to my knowledge]. And they rarely work properly. Sometimes they reset themselves to 0.
I had 18000 hits on an auction once, and then it managed to get back to 16000 a few weeks after being reset.
"Yes, but can you sniff out the cancer in my ass?"
I can smell it, if you smoke cigarettes with it, or eat McDonalds Hamburgers everyday.
Not sure how you got an "interesting" mod, but good for you.
"can sniff out cancer by sampling people's breath."
;-)
Yeah, it is called cigarette smoke, and we've known it is a carcinogen for 40 years now. I do have trouble identifying which stench is the benzyne, and which is the nicotine though
It would be much better if we could combine this growth in the industry, into producing CF cards that can hold 2+ GB, and give us mass storage on small microchips.
Lawyer? You don't need no stinking lawyer!
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Just look at the User Agreement that every eBay user agrees to when the join, or when eBay revises it as they have in the past week to deal partly with the leak of private information by leaving a chat board admin tool open to the Internet.
http://pages.ebay.com/help/community/png-user.h
In there it says eBay is not responsible for feedback, and you agree to not list things they deem unsuitable for sale. Among that list is anything that is not legal to sell. It also mentions that they will remove feedback on a court order.
Have you visited the Feedback board before?n dex.html
http://pages.ebay.com/community/boards/i
You'll find counter-arguments to your idea there, if you are interested.
I'm trying to help someone else right now with this scam. Add me as a friend, and I'll let you know if I find out anything. The difference in this other case is that the "lawyer" is in California, and the victim is in Canada.
Definitely inform eBay of these harrassing emails.
Isn't being connected to the Internet all the time sort of ... creepy?
I mean, don't even corporate execs need to get away from the World Wide Web a few minutes in the day, and just zone out while on the subway, or riding the bus?
Just because we can do it, doesn't mean it is a good idea. If Paris suffers a spike in crazy CEOs, then I say we call the trial a failure.
I'm not sure why you got modded Informative. Brandon isn't even in the north half of Manitoba, so it can't be the geographic center of Canada.
"Which is to say, the brainwashing worked?"
.net is the way of the future and the way out of .dll hell. ::head shake::
The tablet is amazing.
Microsoft good, Open Source bad.
Kill all UNIX, kill all UNIX.
Yikes, maybe you're right!?
They had a tablet for demonstration at the MS student tour across Canada. I was at one of the demonstrations where they showed an "informational video of a survey conducted by students at MIT, not an ad," as the presenter tried to claim as we chuckled at the attempted brainwashing.
Despite MS evil intentions to force yet another PDA device into our lives, these looked actually useful, because of the advanced handwriting recongnition software. You can literally handwrite your notes, and either save them as plain text, small picture files, or move them to another PC. You can even do a text search through handwritten files. The angle you write at doesn't always stop the words from being found even. Truely an innovation in PDAs.
I think they have to give it a real proper name.
I mean, are you going to remember what "Browser 8472" would mean?
"Does that mean he can't stick his penis in there?"
Right. Protect hole.
Remember on floppies they work the opposite way though. The open hole means you can't catch a virus on your floppy.
Slide back the dust cover and begin accessing.
All /. posts by me that happen to have been simultaneously posted by other /. users could have been prevented if the evil bit was implemented. All redundant post packets would be assigned evil bits, thus rendering the newest evil redundant packets dead, and avoiding the repost.