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October 25, 2008 at 6:53 am #29411Jeff HesterKeymaster
Did you know that if you try to guess someone’s password 5 times incorrectly, Yahoo will lock their account for 12 hours? That can mean that if you don’t like someone and you want to stop them from coming online for 12 hours, you can enter their id in the sign in box and intentionally enter false passwords 5 or 10 times to lock their account so they can’t log on for 12 hours, right? What is to stop everyone from doing this to others they don’t like?
October 25, 2008 at 6:15 pm #171795geetarplyrMemberAnd how did you come about this knowledge ? Let me guess , you forgot the password to one of your screen names and after 5 incorrect tries……..
And why would you want to piss someone off in the first place ? If you dont like them , dont bother with them any more . And , if someone appears offline to you , maybe they dont want to talk with you at the moment . Using a online invis scanner to find out if they are actually online , then sending them message saying something like ” hey , i know you are there ” surely isnt going to make you to many friends or keep the ones you have . If you message them and they dont respond and you know they are online , leave them alone . Thats what they wanted in the first place .October 25, 2008 at 7:59 pm #171789Jeff HesterKeymasterNo, ever tried to guess someone’s password just to see if you could but only did it a little and then not anymore? Also, you don’t know anything about the situation and no one who I care about on Yahoo is angry at me as far as I know. The person I tried that on wouldn’t take it as bad as most since she is from a more forgiving culture than USA’s culture and she knows me very well and I openly admit to her what I have done and I would always tell her why and anything she wants to know and I never lie to her. So don’t say things you know nothing about.
Another thing is I can use the invisible scanner all I want and I don’t need to make a lot of friends anyways since it isn’t a priority in life (especially at my age “an age in which most are too busy to have many friends or spend time with them”), it gets too distracting and annoying to have a ton of friends, and many just use you and lie to you anyways.
Of course you probably had an easy life, huh, with not many bad experiences? I guess you got lucky. So you could never understand that many people are selfish in this world. What are you, a teenager who never had bad experiences yet? I had bad experiences even before my teenage years and have to live with a very slight disability from the mercury that they have in those vaccines you get when you are a child. I’m much better now since I’m older and developed myself a lot, try in life, and never give up on living (having the mental power, self control, and determination to conquer this so-called disability, and I can take emotional and physical pain if needed), even if I feel lonely a lot and mistrust a lot.
Wake up and stop living in a dream world. Being smart, strong in body and mind, worldly wise, well balanced, and very careful with who you trust, and not losing yourself (your morals) by using people for selfish things is the key to living a better and more independent life with confidence and without feeling guilt; and choosing your friends and loved ones very very carefully since most people cannot be trusted. As for me, I will be honest and normally tell people how I feel (and maybe tell them what I have been through or what I have done, if I trust the person enough and depending on what it is I’m telling them) and I don’t go out and use people, like many people like to do, and I never go to bars, etc.
Instead of lying, if I don’t want to tell someone certain things I have been through or done, I would just not answer the question or I would change the subject or tell them it doesn’t matter so I wouldn’t have the guilt of lying or stooping down to a liar’s level and can avoid telling a lie all together (using fake email doesn’t count as lying since I’m not telling a lie and I usually let them know it is me after they open the email or make it obvious that it is me). Doing something (like acting stealthy and something not bad) or bluffing, or appearing in a way to make someone think certain things that are not true is not the same as telling lies, making up false stories, or saying “no” when the truth is “yes”, for example. Otherwise, everyone would be saying that appearing as invisible is a form of deception; but I don’t consider that lying since you would not be telling a lie or making up false stories.
I don’t want to get into too much about this on the forum or get off topic. So I will stop talking about myself and how I feel right now.
October 25, 2008 at 8:57 pm #171796geetarplyrMemberwell , alrighty then .First off , I’m not a teenager who never had bad experiences in life . I’m 41 and have had and still have plenty of issues . Secondly , I cant even begin to unravel what the hell you are going on about . But my thoughts about you are correct tho . And you posted in a public forum so I will have my thoughts and judge you as i want . I could write a novel picking apart your response , but I know it would be pointless , partly because I dont know whether you were talking to me or yourself , or both or what . Reply if you want . I wont be responding to you . Have a nice day 🙂
October 25, 2008 at 9:42 pm #171790Jeff HesterKeymasterNo problem and I have no hard feelings 😉 Thank you
October 26, 2008 at 1:28 am #171792NettiMemberFirst, It does lock you from trying passwords, however you can log into another server and unlock it.
Its not big deal. Doesn’t matter how many times you do it, you can always unlock it by logging in to your account, mail, or a foreign server.
October 26, 2008 at 2:20 am #171793imported_Ven0mMemberKnown about this for a long time now. This is what idiots in chat rooms try to do to people they dislike. It’s pointless because it’s easy to reverse it.
October 26, 2008 at 3:41 am #171791Jeff HesterKeymasterGood thing because if it was that easy to boot people off, I would be scared someone would do it to me. Of course I would never go to chat rooms (I don’t like to chat online with random people who I know absolutely nothing about, aside from a forum and Hi5 website, which isn’t really chatting).
November 18, 2008 at 10:42 am #171797KremlinManMemberi noticed it locks your account for 2 hours if you have 20 failed logins. even changing server wont help.
November 18, 2008 at 7:14 pm #171794imported_Ven0mMemberYeah, but I know how to get around it.
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