tally whacker?

Earlier I had a Piranha. Now I am smoking a La Aurora. When will I try one of my new Siglo IV's?

My post would make a lot more sense and be better appreciated if only we had a new BBS program. Egad. Harrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrumph! --Maj. Hoople

Steve, send me a cigar. I am a oldbie.

For those of you upset that a recent or new poster could suggest chage: You have several alternatives. You can ignore him; you can welcome him; you can turn snob on him and you can insult him. I've been around this forum for quite some time but I don't say much of anything. Now it's time to chime in. Some of you guys aren't brothers of the leaf.

Teninx, could you name names? So we know who to shun? I don't want to go shunning recklessly and shun the wrong one. Or occasionally, I do shun someone only in fun. Who is a pariah and who is a messiah on higha?

HAHAH, This is classic Hog, I laughed hard when I read it!

"Hey Turbo Simple Message this (------00

why come on board and try and change things to your fancy in just one post????

Bite me

Hog "

Heh, I hadn't read through the whole thread, very entertaining. And yes Turbo, you should learn to be polite and self-deprecating like Magnified! LMAO!!!

And Hog just tells it like it is (says what’s on his mind) and doesn’t candy coat anything. I’m sure he’d trade with you later and you’d be pleased.

Night of the Living Thread ... this one just won't die.

there have been much worse threads that just wouldn't go away.

sorry to disagree but i would like to see when someone singned up and a profile and trader comments and be able to private message someone on the trades board. the rest is just B S jmo.

Okay, My .02 Cents...

First Off - I agree with Turbo site enhancements like Private Messaging, Number of Posts, Profiles, trading comments, etc. etc. etc. would enhance the experience.

Second - Teninx - Who Are You? I couldn't find an introduction anywhere from you. Anyway Welcome to the Board!

Regards,


B

Teninx --- we are all 'brothers of the leaf', or we wouldn't be here ... but just as in the 'real' world, credibility is very important in judging a person's character.

Many have ther reservations about taking a 'new' or anonymous poster seriously ... because we know nothing about them.

Nothing personal ... that's just the way it is when dealing with someone in the cyber-world ...

I would like to see new software that once you win a bid that the product is teleported to your home thus advoiding shipping cost. Oh while I'm at it I would also like to win todays $200,000,000 power ball jackpot. Thank you Thank you very much ! JonR

I just realized a modification to this site that would make me a little happier:

The use of cookies. Every time I come to this site, I have to log in to post. Since I am the only one who uses this computer, it would be nice if it would recognize me whenever I visit.

Not a good idea tarheel4lyf ...

That would leave your credid card number up for grabs (even though you would get the merchandise) by pranksters, or by anyone else who happened to come arcoss your computer ...

... not to mention that many others here that don't have that luxury.

but if the site used cookies, tgey could make it so you could choose whether or not to enable that function. Also they could make it only for the forum.

Come on slim ... cookies only store whatever info you tell them to store. And nobody stores credit card numbers in cookies. That's stored in the database at cigarbid.

Cookies are based on a two-stage process.

First the cookie is stored in the user's computer without their consent or knowledge.

For example, with customizable Web search engines like My Yahoo!, a user selects categories of interest from the Web page. The Web server then creates a specific cookie, which is essentially a tagged string of text containing the user's preferences, and it transmits this cookie to the user's computer. The user's Web browser, if cookie-savvy, receives the cookie and stores it in a special file called a cookie list.

This happens without any notification or user consent.

As a result, personal information (in this case the user's category preferences) is formatted by the Web server, transmitted, and saved by the user's computer.

During the second stage, the cookie is 'clandestinely and automatically' transferred from the user's machine to a Web server. Whenever a user directs her Web browser to display a certain Web page from the server, the browser will, without the user's knowledge, transmit the cookie containing personal information to the Web server.

In most cases, not only does the storage of personal information into a cookie go unnoticed, so does access to it.

... and all I was saying is, if CB set up cookies to automatically log someone in ... anyone using that individuals computer would automatically be logged-in under their information, thus that person could bid on anything they wanted without the 'owner' being aware of it ...

Tools
Internet Options
"Delete Cookies..."

That only gets rid of them temporarily ... and they will just come back.

A suggested way to handle this, was to delete the file and then replace it with a write-protected, zero-length file of the same name.

It's not my suggestion (and I don't remember who did suggested it) but I did that on my system and that same zero-length, write protected file is still there.

I surf to literally hundreds of WWW pages per month and if any of them handed me a "cookie", it sure didn't take. I can't provide a guarantee that this will prevent someone from handing you a "cookie" but if they do it will be very obvious by the non-zero length file size.]

Another way, is to find the "cookie" file (usually a txt file), corrupt it so that the 'cookie' recognizes it and doesn't replace it, but it gives it no information. Then lock the file.

It would not be a problem if CBID made it an option to remember who you are when you access the site, for those that actually want them to.