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Ha, ha, puny earthlings! TinoMNYY24 writes "The Independent broke the story of SpaceShipOne leaving the Earth's atmosphere. The headline of the story is "'SpaceShipOne' becomes first privately funded vehicle to break through earth's atmosphere." One more step towards the X-Prize."
A data recovery success story - please send more. bigdog1 writes "I also had the IBM 75GXP data loss problem reported on slashdot. Like the guy in this article, I was not able to pay someone to do my data recovery. However, I eventually was able to get almost all of my data back using a free program, NTFS Reader. The only problem was that the file names were not in the long format. From now on I am buying an extra hard drive, but has anyone else had success stories recovering their data? Long file names?"
Too little, too late. An anonymous reader writes "I recently e-mailed paypals's public relations department and urged them to restore Freenet's paypal account. Their reply indicates that they have reexamined Freenet's account and decided not to terminate it after all. No news on the freenet project page, but here's paypal's reply:
'I apologize that your concerns were not addressed in the previous email. Our Compliance Department has reviewed The Freenet Project account in question and the service has been fully restored. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us again.
Sincerely,
Andrew
PayPal Account Manager'"
ultranova writes "Because PayPal has offered no explanation or apology, the project does not intend to continue advocating its usage, and has migrated to Amazon Honor System."
'Adventure Capitalist' is a much better motorcycle story anyhow. malign writes "Mary Mycio notes that the 'Ghost town' photo essay is probably faked, and notes her reasons. There go my fantasies! :(" Rumors and grumblings to this effect have been around for quite a while, but this seems the most straightforward debunking I've seen of the trip a Ukrainian woman named Elena claimed to have taken through the Chernobyl area.
(We posted two stories about the alleged trip in March.)
Corporate machinations meet the mounties. los furtive writes "The CBC is reporting that HP has agreed to pay back the Canadian Government $146 million that had been defrauded from the Department of National Defense (previously mentioned here). HP claims it was the victim of 'a complex scheme designed to exploit both parties through contracts inherited through HP's merger with Compaq Computer Corp.' In the end they decided it was more appropriate to take action against those responsible and not engage in protracted litigation with the government."
lets Slashdot readers (and others) write to their Congresscritter with one click,
In other news: Amazon sues the EFF
Shame to hear that the Chernobyl story is probably fake, even more so that Elena has a husband!
Website was featured in The Mail on Sunday - so much for background research.
The HP/Compaq story seems to be implying that they are actually taking action against individual employees of the corporation who were responsible for doing such-and-such, as opposed to HP/Compaq itself.
This could set a GREAT precedent! As things stand currently, people within corporations can pretty much do whatever they want, while acting in the interest of the corporation, and they'll never see a personal fine or the inside of a jail cell. (Case in point: Bill Gates was never fined or jailed for all the things he did. MS just got a slap on the wrist, but nothing happened to Gates himself.) Maybe now, we'll see some accountability, as people won't simply be able to hide behind their involvement with $BIG_CORPORATION to avoid criminal charges...
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
PayPal's restoration of Freenet doesn't help at all. It's hard to unring that bell, and Freenet now doesn't want to deal with them anyway.
PayPal wanted to break their association with Freenet, and they just got what they wanted.
I think I have that much in my couch cushions ;) (Just kidding!)
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
I got MOST of my data back. Here is a step by step that I posted:
b[RESTORE YOUR LOST DATA]b - If your Deskstar drive is doing a click-click-pause, you can get your data back!
I have 2 IBM Deskstar 60GB drives, about 1.5 years old. A month ago, I was backing up data from one of them, and it froze. I rebooted, and WinXP took 10mins too boot, and the drive in question never showed up. So I ripped the case off, and to my gut renching surpise, the drive was giving me the r[click of death]r . So I spent the next few weeks trying to find a solution, as I am not going to RMA a drive with all my data on it. I *NEED* that data. So after trying just about every method I could find, I finally found a combination that worked.
Things to note:
- Freezing the drive had no effect, but try to keep the drive cool throughout the restore process. I had a fan blowing over the drive in question constantly
- Putting the drive in different positions (i.e. on it's side, end, etc) had no effect. Lay it flat.
- From what I can tell, the data is not lost. The drive seems to make sectors as 'bad' in certain sections of the drive, and thus 'can't read them'.
What you will need:
- 2 Drives of equal or greater size that are working
- A copy of "Media Tools Professional" [FULL] http://www.atl-datarecovery.com/mtl.htm (I had version 3.3)
- A copy of "Ontrack EasyRecovery Professional 6" [FULL] http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/
- A floppy diskette
[For these instructions, the BAD drive will be called Drive-B, and the good drive will be Drive-A. Drive-C is where the data will be restored (This CAN be an FTP site)]
1 - Hook up Drive-B and Drive-A onto your mainboards IDE controller (NOT any onboard HPT, RAID, etc)
2 - Boot off the floppy containing Media Tools Pro
3 - Select the Drive-B and choose Clone, Drive-to-Drive
4 - Select the Drive-A as the destination, and press Ctrl-S to bring up the options screen
5 - Change the rety attepts to '1', and click off the 'disable error control codes on last attempt'
6 - Choose to 'Invert' the clone (the last check box on the options screen)
7 - Start this process and wait for days (my 60GB drive took 49 hours) You will hear ALOT of clicking and it will the remaining time will bounce around from 200,000 hours down to 2 seconds. This is normal, but be prepared for a LONG wait.
--After clone is done--
8 - Reboot into WindowsXP, with Drive-A connected (disconnect Drive-B)
9 - Open up Ontrack EasyRecovery Pro 6 and do an advanced recovery
10 - Choose Drive-A and select the Advanced Options
11 - Choose Advanced scan, and 'Disable MFT'
12 - Start the scan (this took 1.2 hours). Then it will present you with a file list of what it files it found.
13 - Select the files/directories you want to restore and then select Drive-C as your destination
14 - As it starts to restore, it will prompt you to 'Overwrite' files. DO NOT OVERWRITE ANYTHING. Most of the files are cross-linked, and you will end up with garbage. You need to either 'RENAME' each one, OR, wait for it prompt you to rename, then in an explorer window, delete the files that it restored, and then click overwrite. Here is an example:
- You have selected the dir 'mp3'
- It starts restoring by putting all your *.mp3 files in there (ex: e:\mp3\*.mp3)
- After it restores all the files in that dir, it will restore the same files, with different data.
- At this point, it will ask you if you want to overwrite or rename
- Open Explorer, and delete all the files in e:\mp3\
- Then click 'Rename' in the dialogue box
- It will then write out the GOOD data
AND THANKS TO THE GRACE OF GOD, YOUR DATA IS BACK! I got %99 of my data restored, using this workflow.
The ONLY thing I didn't mention was that I updated the drives BIOS before I did this. I have NO clue if that made any d
The question I have is why did she fake it? I mean, the story says she went in the standard Chernobyl tourist ride with a helmet, in order to fake photos, so it was a deliberate, planned deception.
So why did she take the pain to do all this? I doubt it's the money, since she didn't sell her story AFAIK, and I doubt she wants to promote some form of radioactive tourism. So, unless she's completely mythomaniac and/or she really really wanted to delude herself that she had made the trip for real, I just don't get it...
So maybe she didn't motorcycle through... but the pictures aren't fake, are they? Are they ripped off from somewhere?
I'm on a couple of these "fax your representative and senators" alert systems now. I have two feelings on them, either they've opened a new avenue (or rather mass transport for an older one" for communicating with our public servants, or they will just further immunize our representatives from individual opinions.
So, as long as we don't use the EFF one-click interface to send campain contributions, we're ok?
Otherwise, it's buying congressmen with one click and we're back to "Amazon sues the EFF".
...weeks ago that the site was a fake. The story in Swedish is here.
I don't think so. As far as I know the Amazon patent covers only buying with one click
So if I tried to corrupt a congressman with this system, then I guess Bezos could sue the EFF.
Man, that just ruined my whole day...not really, the pics were still cool. Why would anyone really care that someone thousands of miles away from them kinda lied?
We cared more that Slashdot presented it as fact when it really was fiction.
Slashdot: Fiction for nerds, stuff that doesn't matter... just doesn't have the same ring to it.
....MOON LANDING FAKED.
Also,
CHERNOBYL RIDE IS A TRUE STORY
I have provided the same amount of evidence for my point of view as that forum post.
Great. Now, instead of the whole company being held responsible for the actions of employees, the company will instead be able to throw a couple of those employees to the lions and go on with what they were doing. How much do you want to bet it will never be high-level management that takes the fall for this kind of thing? Personally, I think I kind of prefer it when the whole company takes a hit - at least it hits the managers (the ones ultimately responsible) in the pocketbook, if nowhere else.
I guess employees just better become a lot more careful - get all directives in writing, and ignore anything your boss tells you to do that they don't write down. Employees are going to be held responsible for what they have most likely been directed to do, or at least have done with full knowledge of their bosses, so they better learn to protect themselves.
Basically, my point is (if I actually have one), while it is great that "those responsible" are being held responsible, somehow I doubt they are the ones that are really responsible.
$146 million CDN =
$107 million US
or
89 million Euros
or
60 million UK Pounds
wouldn't a slash back be /..(slashdotdot)?
Are you serious? Look at the Tyco case...Dennis ain't exactly scott free, even if he did have a mistrial.
DAs are more than happy and able to go after individuals if they have the evidence to do so.
Please help metamoderate.
...that it's *not* a private matter. Freenet, as the account holder, has all the say in what's private. If they say that their account is frozen, and they want an explination, then paypal can't say it's private matter.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
Corporate "immunity" has more to do with the shareholders than the employees or management. It simply means that people who bought stock in the corporation and don't oversee/participate in day-to-day functions of the corporation, meaning they had no say in the wrongdoings of people within and on behalf of the corporation, can't be sued for misconduct that they weren't part of. It also means that, should the corporation go into horrible debt, etc. the shareholders can't lose more than they put into the company - their stock value can go no lower than 0.
I claim first use of "Error No. 0B" - or "No. 0B error." It'll be the new ID 10T!
It's a tour of an abandoned missile silo. Pretty kool. Don't try this at home (well unless your home IS a missile silo).
I still don't get the point why would she bother to make a story like that. Back when I read it the first time it did seem odd that anyone would let her into the zone by herself. What if she fell and broke her leg or something, or had an accident. But I guess the risk made the fantasy so much more thrilling. I suspect she might have wanted to try to either publish a photo album, or was expecting that someone from the West would pay her to go back and shoot some more, or maybe invite her on Oprah. I grew up and lived in those parts and I know that as nice and hospitable as Ukranians (and Russians for that matter) are, they can also be liars and manipulators (learned from papa lenin himself). I think the young couple wanted to somehow make money off of it, which if true, would be very sad.
(But I'm biased, since I was lucky enough to be present at that launch.)
What body decides what marks the boundary of space? I see all sorts of references to "officially defined" but no one says by whom.
Here is a link to Elena's updated website.
So, Freenet had their Paypal account shut down. It seems that from the get-go, Freenet (and its community) decided this was politically motivated and shouted to the world about it; y'know, instead of trying to work it out with Paypal. So now that PayPal has reversed their decision, Freenet is unhappy because PayPal didn't show the proper respect & apologize? Gimme a break.
Not a troll or a flame, just think its a pity that the Freenet leaders can't exhibit a little diplomacy in order to advance their cause.
lets Slashdot readers (and others) write to their Congresscritter with one click,
In other news: Amazon sues the EFF
I don't think so. As far as I know the Amazon patent covers only buying with one click, not writing. But iANAL
Er, I take it you're not familiar with how one influences a congressman...
If the reactor building in Three Mile Island wasn't strong enough to sustain the hydrogen explosion, the ghost town could have been Harrisburg rather that Chernobyl. I could have made a site similar to Elena's. The only difference is that nobody would take it seriously.
blast it all, I was hoping to mention e-gold first.
But such is life. e-gold is very much the way to go if at all possible.
Bob-
The Ludwig von Mises Institute. The reasoning individuals economics
"[HP] said it was the victim of a scheme run by an employee of Defence and others.
One employee of Defence was fired and is now living in the Turks and Caicos.
The article and its predecessor state that HP claims that it was acting as the programme manager for a number of subcontractors, one or more of whom allegedly colluded with a civil servant to submit fraudulent invoices, which HP then passed on to the Ottawa government.
HP is not going after its own employees, as it claims that none of them profited from the scam.
Corporate immunity is something of a given, BTW. If a corporate officer is sued for their actions in their corporate capacity, the corporation tends to foot the bill through its liability insurance - you won't get a penny from the individual themselves.
- Sig files: contemptibly familiar the second time around.
But for NTFS recovery, use GetDataBack.
Calling atheism and agnosticism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.
This might sounds stupid, but I managed to get access to a unreachable IBM click'o'death disk in a very simple way : The drive was installed horizontaly in my PC case, well, tried to run it in a vertical position. Believe me or not, it worked, the disk started fine. I didn't investiguate how long it could still run this way. 15 minutes was all it took me to make a complete disk copy, then it got dumped.
//TODO: put sig here
The high UID is because I got tired of posting at -1 (too many troll/flamebait mods). As you can see, I'm rather blunt.
Anyhow, I really don't _care_ if you trust me or not. I could give you the email of my old paypal account - what good would it do?
Let's see - friend and client FastModz (sells modchips, http://www.fastmodz.com/us/) - lost nearly $5000, because apparently Mod Chips violate the ToS. Legal, or not, PayPal should not have just pocketed the money.
http://www.lowcostfurnishings.com/ of my other IDs, if it would make you feel better.
Really want to get to know me? Google is your friend. Yes, every single search resultis about me.
So, screw you. Who needs karma anyway?
I am of the opinion that it was probably fakes, but the link does not in anyway disprove her claims.
In the former soviet union, we fake...unhem..excuse me, almost slipped.
In Russia(both before and after the fall) Anything can be had for money. I know someone who paid to have there military records marked them as deceased.
Now the link says:
" Zone Administration personnel were in an uproar over who approved a motorcycle trip in the zone."
of course, that doesn't mean she didn't give 100 bucks to the gate keeper. Or that they new about it, and became alarmed because of the media attention.
"Elena and her husband have changed the Web site and the story considerably in the last few days. Earlier versions of the narrative lied more blatantly about Elena taking lone motorcycle trips in the zone. That has been changed to merely suggest that she does so, which is still misleading."
That's called covering your ass, and in no way is proof of a fake.
I wonder what would be good proof that she did it?
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Fact is stranger than fiction: Amazon Presidential Candidates page
$107 million US =
r s/ story/0,10801,91916,00.html?from=story_kc
14,267 Indian programmers (for 1 year)
http://www.computerworld.com/careertopics/caree
Now, instead of the whole company being held responsible for the actions of employees, the company will instead be able to throw a couple of those employees to the lions and go on with what they were doing.
... if they break the law?
Just tell me why is it either/or?
What if the precedent for this gets set, then a) individuals can be targeted by law if they break the law, and b) corporations who have been proven to allow/permit/encourage such law-breaking by its constituent members also can be targeted by the law
Why does it have to be A vs. B all the freakin' time? Life is not dialectic unless you make it so!
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --