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dohtem
July 9, 2009 10:30 PM
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Whenever I read a Cuomo article, I visualize him as Kevin Costner's Eliot Ness.

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veg-o-matic
July 10, 2009 2:41 PM
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@dohtem: Ohhh but no Cuomo or Spitzer could fill out a three-piece suit the way Costner à la Ness did back before Waterworld was even a failing glimmer in his eye.

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I Love New Jersey
July 9, 2009 11:36 PM
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@dohtem: Whenever I read a Cuomo article, I think it is all part of a run for governor.

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WraithSama
July 10, 2009 12:30 AM
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@I Love New Jersey:
If he does run for governor, his campaign slogan should be, \"I'm not gay, I'm a Cuomosexual.\" Hey, can I write-in vote him into the governor's seat of my state, too? ;)

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Trai_Dep
July 10, 2009 5:15 AM
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@MostlyHarmless: He means to say that prefers his politicians to be corrupt, ineffectual and if possible, committing the type of adulterous affairs that merited a Yea impeach vote when a pol of the other party did similar things earlier.
But with great teeth. Needs to have great, sparkly teeth.

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farcedude
July 9, 2009 10:35 PM
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@dohtem: Exactly what I do! I need to watch that again, it was good. (The movie was \"The Untouchables\", for those not in the know)

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Megalomania
July 9, 2009 10:50 PM
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This guy is an internet hating machine.

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FrugalFreak
July 10, 2009 1:48 AM
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@Megalomania:

Seems like he is more of an \"Honest\" proponent. Even if the reasons are nefarious, they still help us.

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Corporate_guy
July 10, 2009 12:01 AM
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@Megalomania: Well it definitely sounds like he is running for governor in the next election.

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takes_so_little
July 10, 2009 12:03 AM
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@Corporate_guy: Well, I like the idea of campaigning by actually DOING stuff, instead of just hosting $1000 per plate fundraiser dinners.

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MostlyHarmless
July 9, 2009 11:39 PM
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@Megalomania: Technically more like a d-bag suing machine.

Seriously, how awesome is he.

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Laura Northrup
July 9, 2009 11:05 PM
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@Megalomania: Well, better than his predecessor, who used the Internet to find hookers.

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Trai_Dep
July 10, 2009 5:16 AM
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@Laura Northrup: But Laura, you say that as though that's a bad thing...

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wvFrugan
July 10, 2009 3:36 AM
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@Laura Northrup:
Cuomo deserves lots of free unsolicited blow jobs IMO.

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oldgraygeek
July 10, 2009 1:01 AM
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@Laura Northrup: um, before (or perhaps while) Spitzer was surfing for expensive hourly companionship, he also took down Direct Revenue, one of the worst \"legitimate\" malware companies the Internet ever saw. Their malware was almost impossible to remove because it installed a fake print driver that kept repairing whatever parts of their crap you managed to kill. Eliot Spitzer sued them, forcing them to change their practices and eventually shut down.

I wish Eliot had kept it in his pants, because he was a damn fine Attorney General. Cuomo is keeping the NYAG's office tradition of going after obvious lawbreakers alive. This is a good thing.

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Trai_Dep
July 10, 2009 5:20 AM
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@oldgraygeek: He also busted the balls of Wall Street insiders who were ripping off average investors. He was against Wall Street crooks before it was cool.
Given the choice, I'd rather have a philandering lawmaker that busts multi-million dollar crimes that one that - let's be frank - doesn't get caught who gleefully accepts contributions from them.
Bet if he didn't cross the Wall Street crooks, a deal would have been struck to make his \"dating\" disappear down a black hole...

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dohtem
July 10, 2009 12:14 AM
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@Laura Northrup: You say that like its a horrible thing. ;)

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Bryan_E
July 9, 2009 10:51 PM
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At least there is one politician out there who has the guts to stand up against these types of companies!

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Yoko Broke Up The Beatles
July 9, 2009 10:58 PM
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$60 million? \"Too Much?\"


No, NOT ENOUGH.

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Tamar Weinberg
July 9, 2009 11:09 PM
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I am absolutely dumbfounded that Tagged let this deceptive email practice go on for as long as it did. In June alone, I received about 30 emails from several friends and family members who unknowingly provided Tagged with their email addresses. My mother fell prey to the tactic too, and she's not so Internet savvy at all. She had clients' email addresses on her recipient list, and each received no less than 4 emails from her. After much criticism by me, she apologized to everyone and didn't BCC any of the recipients. In the end, Tagged just crated a huge mess for her and for a bunch of others.

Like Yoko says, NOT ENOUGH at all.

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Julia789
July 9, 2009 11:24 PM
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For those who are not familiar with the internet (parents especially!) Tagged creates nightmares when they click on an email that says (person they know) sent them a photo. Almost instantly, after trying to view this supposed photo, their entire address book is swiped and emails are sent out to not just everyone in their address book but everyone they've EMAILED (businesses, clients, etc.) saying THEY sent photos or invitations to others.

I volunteer at an animal shelter, and lots of sweet old ladies volunteer there as well. We all email each other about fundraisers, etc. At least once a week I get a \"Tagged\" email from one of them, because they can BARELY use their email and click on anything anyone sends to them!

For what it's worth, the little old ladies also forward lots of pictures of kittens and sunsets, and every urban legend you can think of (deodorant causes breast cancer! carjackers leave notes on your back window to trick you! asparagus cures Leukemia! you will get $2,000 from Bill Gates if you forward this email to 10 people!) I don't even open their emails any more unless I can clearly see in the subject line it's related to an animal shelter fundraiser!

I think the more often someone forwards chain emails, the more likely they are to fall for stuff like \"Tagged.\" I'm in the wrong business. These ladies will click on ANYTHING. They probably answer those \"Bank of America needs you to update your account and password\" emails too!

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Trai_Dep
July 10, 2009 5:22 AM
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@Julia789: I made my aunt change her home page to Snopes.com as her Christmas present to me. It did miraculous things to the quality of her emails from then on.

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Paul Carr
July 10, 2009 3:08 PM
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@Trai_Dep: Best idea ever! I really need to set up all of my families computers like this.

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Julia789
July 10, 2009 12:59 PM
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@Trai_Dep: That is such a great idea, making it her home page!


I gave up emailing back to these sweet old ladies \"sorry to tell you, but deoderant does not cause breast cancer/terrorists are not mailing ebola virus on a sponge to your front door/dead babies are not being cooked into sweet muffins in Korea.\"


They are so dumb. They think the person who FORWARDED it to them determines the validity! \"Well I don't care what you say, my friend who works at City Hall forwarded that email to me, so I know it's true!\"

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theblackdog
July 10, 2009 12:55 PM
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@Trai_Dep: That rocks, there's a few people I should do that to.

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KMan13 still wants a Pontiac G8
July 9, 2009 11:29 PM
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I <3 when Cuomo does stuff like this.

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NotYou007
July 10, 2009 1:27 AM
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I signed up with Tagged.com just to see who a friend of mine was typing and view his profile. He had a lot of friends and telling me about all these women and the only way I could view his profile was to make an account.


I used a lot of false information and an e-mail account I don't care about. At one point in time after the 10 plus times it asked me for my cell phone number it asked me for my username to the Gmail account I was using as well as my Gmail account password.


Now being someone who is very computer savvy my brain said something is not right. It did clearly state that they wanted to access my e-mail account but it also stated that the password would not be stored.


Again, a huge red flag. I will not give any sort of third party my password to any of my e-mail accounts. I choose to skip this offer as well.


If any site ever asks for your e-mail address and password to that e-mail account DO NOT enter your password.


I don't use my Tagged.com account for anything other than to view his account and I just canceled the account. They asked for a reason.


I told them to suck my ass.

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NoPornstar
July 10, 2009 11:16 AM
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@NotYou007: \"If any site ever asks for your e-mail address and password to that e-mail account DO NOT enter your password.\"

Twitter asks for it. It's optional, but they do ask, so that they can check your contacts and see who you know that is already on Twitter. Then it gives you the option of following those people.

I vaguely recall other social networking sites asking for it, as well. So, Tagged doing the same probably didn't raise red flags for its users. At first.

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Laura Northrup
July 10, 2009 5:01 AM
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@oldgraygeek: Spitzer did a lot of wonderful things as AG, but only one that I can mention for pure comedic effect.

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Trai_Dep
July 10, 2009 5:23 AM
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Whoa. The New York Office of Attorney General needs to lay off the Caps Lock key. Seriously.

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Nighthawke
July 10, 2009 2:24 PM
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@undefined: @Megalomania: NY AG's are always a little on the vindictive side. Keep in mind when the AG gets involved all hell usually breaks loose.

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dosdelon
July 10, 2009 3:15 PM
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Way to go, Cuomo!

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Laura Northrup
July 10, 2009 6:44 PM
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@Trai_Dep: Dude, I live in Albany. Of course it's not a bad thing.

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Anonymous
July 11, 2009 12:22 AM
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Cuomo makes some pretty stark accusations that, though shocking as they sound, aren't legitimate. The media and the Government as a whole have become a fraud in and of themselves. Look at what the US media market has become: a place to scare American citizens and sensationalize things far beyond the truth. It used to be that the National Enquirer was the only sketchy portal of news---but it seems other media sources have caught on to the tactic just to get a story out...a story that even the very people who run this country buy into. What happened to actual FACTS being given to the American readers? Please spare me the dramatics of it all...Tagged.com doesn't scam people. They sign up at their own free will. In a country where we say our educational systems are messed up, in a country where we encourage all people to be able to read and write----sure seems like a waste of an education if people don't even bother to READ what it is they are about to sign up for. Gimme a break.

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Anonymous
July 13, 2009 2:17 PM
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I hate to say it, but Tagged is not the only website that does this! It extends to FaceBook, Fubar, Yearbook, MySpace, and so many others. It is a ploy to provide all your IM account information for services including AOL, Yahoo, GMail, MSN, and others so that you get a FREE email marketing list. I know this becasue I have employed this practice myself.. but it is clearly stated that you are providing this information to invite your friends to join the website. In fact, many sites also pay a bonus in FREE Credits, or additional perks for each person who joins from your list.

THe biggest issue is that the practice was not disclosed properly, and the messages should only have been sent ONCE. But this is a deceptive marketing tool.

AND.... BEWARE.... never give your cell number to ANYONE.... since the practive of sending ads to your text service, or even worse, the practice of sending MMS pic services embedded with viruses to cell phones which not only hijaack your phone book, but in many cases also wipe out your phone and render it unusable.

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