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"Bottom line: Temper the information you reveal with the discretion you need or desire." But what about the tops?

You'll think twice about carrying your laptop on board after you read Joe Sharkey's excellent column in today's NY Times. Does your escort carry a laptop? On the Road To Do List: Rename Laptop Files ‘Grandma’s Favorite Recipes’ by JOE SHARKEY Published: November 7, 2006 A COUPLE of weeks ago, I wrote a column that reported two basic things about traveling abroad and back with a laptop that has sensitive business or personal information. One is that anecdotal evidence indicates a growing number of laptops are being randomly and legally scrutinized, and some are even being seized without a reason given by customs agents when travelers return to the United States. And two, the Association of Corporate Travel Executives, a worldwide trade group representing corporate travel managers, is worried about how much proprietary corporate information may be at risk, and how companies can re-evaluate policies. Association members are worried about what happens to sensitive data “if their computer with business information is seized,” Susan Gurley, the executive director of the group, wrote in a letter yesterday to officials at the Department of Homeland Security. She asked to know what the specific policies were. “Are copies made of the information?” she asked. “What safeguards do you have in place? Is the information destroyed? Is the downloaded and/or mirrored information stored somewhere and if yes, for how long? Who has access to it?” As I said in the previous column, the travel managers’ group recently surveyed its 2,500 members and found that nearly 90 percent had no idea that customs and border agents have the legal authority to scrutinize contents of laptops randomly and even confiscate the laptops for an unspecified period of time, without invoking probable cause. Last Friday, on behalf of a corporate client, the law firm of Arent Fox filed a Freedom of Information request with the Department of Homeland Security seeking all information related to “searches, forensic searches, temporary or permanent seizures and/or confiscations” of laptops at airports or other border crossings. The law firm also requested information about how many of these searches or seizures have been conducted randomly. From what I can piece together, there are not a lot of laptops being seized, but travelers tell me that they see a lot more being opened, turned on and briefly scrutinized, evidently at random. One e-mail correspondent told me that at Dulles International Airport several months ago as he returned from a business trip to Europe his laptop was seized in what he said he was told was a random search. “After giving me and my shoes a thorough search, they moved on to my laptop,” he wrote. “On the desktop I had a folder named ‘Blueprints’ which contained, as labeled, blueprints for several potential designs for our company’s expansion in Madrid and Houston.” He added, “My laptop was initially searched by one person, but he called for backup” when he saw the blueprints. “It seemed they were convinced I was sent to plant bombs in those nonexistent buildings.” He said he hasn’t seen the laptop since. Eddie Baron, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Oklahoma, suggested that a “simple solution to the possible confiscation of a laptop is subterfuge.” He said that all data should be kept on a flash drive “that goes in your checked luggage or is Fedexed back and forth.” Other readers had other ways to avoid losing, or losing access to, important data, and we’ll look at some of them later as this issue gains traction among business travelers. Personally, this all gives me some pause, even though there is nothing on my laptop that would have any conceivable value to anyone but me (O.K., maybe my long file marked “Cheryl Tiegs interview notes” is worth something on eBay). But it is possible to convey mistaken impressions. For example, after I was on a plane involved in a midair collision in Brazil on Sept. 29, I had understandable professional, not to mention personal, curiosity about the cause of it, and had a file on my laptop called, “Mid-Air Collision: Cause.” Returning through customs at Kennedy International Airport three days later, it did not occur to me that this file, had it been examined by a suspicious federal inspector, might have raised alarm, especially if the word “Cause” had been deemed to be an imperative. “Hey, that’s nothing. I got a file on my desktop called “Terrorist Notes,” said Jack Riepe, a spokesman for the travel executives’ organization. “I’m keeping notes on writing a thriller, but maybe I should change the file to “Grandma’s Favorite Cookie Recipes.” I told Mr. Riepe he should certainly do that before his next international trip, but that won’t buy him total safety, as even a Google inquiry will turn up the fact that he is the author of a 1999 book called “Politically Correct Cigar Smoking for Social Terrorists.” “You’ll like the weather in Guantánamo,” I assured him. “Can I take my motorcycle?” he asked. “No.”

Well, I guess the votes are in. I can have this guy all to myself. I hope his butt is shaved!

Very clever, TY. Management has adjusted my membership here so that I cannot view the threads of the 8795 guys posting here today for the first time. Dang you! But I do appreciate KY's support, and will as a result go vote.

I am not in the least bit worried about it. I can't see where our discussion here about outing will activate the donut crowd to do anything. Assuming that it did, and an escort was busted, do you really think that the cops would then seize his computer to get info on his clients? If so, then Big Brother has arrived ahead of schedule. Cheney wasn't planning to do that until late 2007! The most they would learn about me is that I am a gay man who likes smooth, fit young guys, over 18, (really over 22) preferably Latin or Asian. Tell the world, I don't care! For the record, I do not support outing of customers or escorts. This is a business that can be conducted with discretion. However, I do agree with the outing of Ted Haggard given his active opposition to gay rights and his continued efforts to fuck up the minds of young gays who are told that they are evil sinners when in reality they are just as good in the eyes of God as anyone else. As one who was raised to believe that sex itself was sinful, only to find out that the priests who preached that were themselves horny little buggers diddling boys themselves, I can only only hold great contempt for them.

Hmmm, suddenly we are up to 8800 members. Prophetic? Or did someone stuff the box?

TY, you are obviously unaware of the 32 secret memberships that totallyoz granted "in pectore." These members are kept secret because they would be subject to persecution in their homelands if the membership became known.

A word to the wise: On Tuesday, all 8800 members here will be posting, so it is important that the five regular posters get their remarks in early so as to avoid the wait.

Then there's Ricky Ullman, who plays Phil of the Future on Disney and was in the LA producction of Dead End Kids. http://img25.exs.cx/img25/2892/tc15he.jpg

Why do so many guys post videos of themselves jacking off on XTube? I owuld never dream of doing that, now or when I was young. But I like it, and wish they had that back in the sixties!

Padalecki is definitely bigger than Franco.,..

This could be the sexiest guy alive, but I think it is probably photo-shopped? Does any one know? http://s1.xtube.com/?s=4DI0zWHkngK or http://s1.xtube.com//photos/200610231625_v...2yY50Nq2eqK.jpg

Mario Lopez would be the only one from Saved By The Bell who interested me. There is also Tom Welling, but I never watch the show and find him to be too squeaky clean to lust after. But he sure is pretty. And then there are the Lawrence Brothers. I can't wait until the young Andy hits 18 so I can talk about him... UPDATE: Andy turned 18 last January! Now where are the pix of the adult Andy?

Maybe so. But in this instance, the escort did not know that he was being hired by a homophobic televangelist actively seeking to hinder gay rights and actively teaching young gay men that their budding sexuality was evil and would doom them to hell. I think he did a public service by outing the "reverend." UPDATE: I am learning more about Haggard. It doesn't look like he was one of the more evil evangelicals from an article in the Denver Post, part of which states: Haggard briefly considered running for U.S. Rep. Joel Hefley's seat next year if the Colorado Republican were to retire. But he decided he could prove more influential in his current role and doubts he'll ever run for office. Though he preaches evangelical unity, Haggard has not hesitated to criticize better-known colleagues. He rebuked Pat Robertson for advocating the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and attempted to separate the evangelical movement from Franklin Graham's statement after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that Islam was an evil and wicked religion. And Haggard said last week that the White House erred in underscoring failed Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers' evangelical faith, saying her judicial philosophy was what mattered. He also set himself apart from the vast majority of evangelical Christian groups by applauding a 2003 Supreme Court decision that struck down a Texas anti- sodomy law. "I believe the church has to teach against immorality, but I don't believe it's the role of the state to spend money to find out what consenting adults do in their bedrooms and then haul them off to jail," Haggard said. The NAE, observers say, will need to weigh the greater prominence and energy Haggard has brought with the risk of associating itself too closely with one person - a person with close ties to a White House in trouble. In the meantime, the fresh new face of big-tent evangelical Christianity has an appointment to keep. Haggard is visiting New York next week to talk about poverty and AIDS in Africa with Bono, singer of the popular-music group U2.

The solution for these high profile people such as actors or preachers is to come out of the closet. Then they wouldn't have to worry about exposure. The closet is also a hiding ground for hypocrites and gay homophobes who love to damage us as a way of justifying their own sins.

That's easy....it's Steve Howey who plays Van on the Reba show. (I like Reba a lot too!) What I wonder is howzcum you never hear anything about this guy. He's really cute and is a regular on the show... http://image.com.com/tv/images/processed/p.../e0/b0/7813.jpg

Today being All Saints Day, what better to contemplate the Saints than to post a pic of the sexiest saint of them all? The connection with Hooboy has never been revealed, probably because there is none, but statistics show that threads mentioning Hooboy get a lot more hits around here! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/t...a_Sebastian.jpg

Ben it is a serious misconception that a male rape victim would not come during the attack. You do a disservice here by suggesting that orgasm equals consent.

"This theory, of course, assumes, that when the enemy is defeated, then the rights of those combatants or those sympathetic to the combatants will be restored" Good luck with that.

"Is Lucky looking to replace Roger Ebert ?" Well, yes! At least I could meet the stars. I also saw The Marine this past week. What a hunk that John Cena is.

ummm, yes I did. It's amoot point since the thread is so popular that it is clear we haven't moved on, but here is what Oz said: "History and a time to move on" Tue Sep-19-06 09:04 PM by TotallyOz The bitter back and forth between myself and others on Daddy’s site is finished. It has been a very long period of time since Hooboy died and it is time to move on. It is not only unproductive to get into these little verbal spars with members on the other site but it is destructive for the integrity of this site. I do not apologize for anything I have said. I do however apologize for loosing focus. The focus should have been on moving the site forward instead of keeping it on a path which only history will be able to describe. Unfortunately, those who are the most vocal instead of those who have intelligence on the true story often shape history. If you scream loud enough and long enough, people start to believe. I kept quite too long in the beginning. I have now said my peace. I am now moving toward the future and away from the past. One of the things I hated about Hoo’s message center was all the nutty drama queens who only bitched and moaned about everything possible. I hope I have not become one of them. If so, I will have to get out and have a few wild nights to shake my system back into shape. Hooboy had a site. He died. The site died. We are here to carry on with his vision. Best of luck to Rock/Daddy/Deej in their future. Oz

Has everyone been so enraptured by the threads on Hooville that they forgot to go see The Departed? Here we have Leo, Matt, Marky and Jack all in one movie, testosterone flowing everywhere. Leo has never looked so sexy and yet not one of us has written about it...until now!

"Curiously, I ask, for the sake of discussion, please tell us what rights you believe that the citizens of our nation have given up under the leadership of the right?" Have you been to the airport lately, used a cellphone, taken out a library book, been detained as an "enemy combatant" or tried to access a public building? All of those things are affected by the right-wing Cheney agenda.

You can read more about this in a fascinating book available online: Great Conquerors (History Makers) by Claire Price-groff Synopsis: The history of the world turns on the deeds and lives of certain pivotal individuals. This book provides insight into the personalities of seven such men who, though they represent different periods of history and different cultures, have directly affected our present culture and civilization. These lively, well-documented short biographies cover: Alexander the Great; Hooboy; Augustus, the First Roman Emperor; Attila, the Scourge of God; Charlemagne the Great; William the Conqueror; Genghis Kahn, Emperor of all Mongols; and Napoleon Bonaparte. Table of Contents Two thousand years of conquerors — Alexander the Great —Hooboy- Augustus the Great — Attila — Charlemagne — Genghis Kahn — Napoleon Bonaparte.

This movie has received some criticism for its subject matter, especially given that it postulates the death of the existing president. There is nothing about the movie though that takes any glee in that occurence. Rather it is a studied view of our political system and the roles of the media and the government, particularly the Secret Service and FBI. I can't say it is a flawless production, but it had me fascinated from start to finish. One thought I came away with is that the right needs only one more terrorist incident before it takes our civil liberties and puts them into a museum. A second thought...President Cheney? Perhaps they should have called it Scary Movie 4...