I OWN a trucking company now, and have been dealing with assholes like this for years.
Whats becoming even MORE of a problem is the illegals who go out and steal (borrow) an MC and/or DOT number and slap it on the side of their truck. Then they "go to work".
What with my insurance costing me > 1200 A MONTH, PER TRUCK, it is easy to see why someone would want to "run illegally". It's fairly hard to get caught, unless you run across state lines. Hence, most of the people don't.
If your truck is titled, with a sticker for the correct weight, you don't go over it, and you don't have any other reason for a scale to flag you, then they don't pull you in. You don't get pulled in, you don't get busted.
At the risk of being called a racist, the BIGGEST Lusers of this type of behavior, are mexicans. Period. And, this isn't a local trend (California), this is a NATIONAL trend.
Whats sad is this: The idiots doing THIS scam didn't have to hack anything. All they had to do is look up a legit DOT / MC number for a BROKER, and then go into business with the same business name.
And brokers licenses are CHEAP. Instead of my insurance rates (600/month liability (1 million dollars), 1000/6 months Cargo, 500/month basic liability (the 600 a month liability doesn't cover you, unless you have a loaded trailer or a load in the "box truck")). For a brokers license, you need a basic 10K dollar insurance policy. Costs, at most, about 250 a month, if you go to the right insurance agent. BOC3 filings cost another 100 a year.
These people are the reasons trucking businesses are going out of business. It's hard enough having to make 3.00 a mile, when most freight will pay you 1.50 to 2.00 a mile. Then you get the.ru faggots in there stealing business, etc.
They went even farther than that. According to the Owner / Operator Independant Drivers Association (http://www.ooida.org), they have pulled Russian's out of trucks who didn't speak A WORD OF ENGLISH, where UNABLE to properly identify 3 road signs, etc., and WHERE BEHIND THE WHEEL OF 80,000 to 120,000 pound trucks. However, if you REALLY research it, you can / will find that most people who are running illegally, carry names like Jose, Manuel, etc.
Sad state of affairs, having to try to make money while people operating illegally are competing with you. Even sadder state of affairs when legal companies are getting profits skimmed off them from illegal brokers, and having to deal with Hose-A and Hose-B running illegally.
Thank GOD I had dedicated accounts who paid me regularly, and everything else was handled COD.
This isn't going to stop, nor is it going to go away. It's a fact of life, and until they do PrePass on EVERY truck (somewhat like RFID, but uses EasyTag type devices in the trucks), everyone who operates on the road has to deal with people like this.
--Toll_Free
(disclaimer: I took a motorcycle into a wall at 130MPH 6 or so months ago. My company closed at that time, so read into this what you will. Unfortunately, this WAS work related, the motorcycle was a customers, and the throttle cable stuck in a 3/4 gear shift getting the bike to my trailer.)
Wearing a logo of a group convicted of racketeering can, in fact, get you in trouble.
Are you FUCKING stupid, or what?
I mean, really now.
Why not walk around with a shirt on that states "Im into killing, sell drugs for profit, and will rape your fucking mother, father, and children just for fun". Then, go actually do it.
Then wonder why the cops pull you over.
Stop bitching just because you don't like the copyright / trademark system. The laws are there, and they are acting on them.
And believe you me, if the laws DON'T agree with them, then so be it.... Doesn't mean courts won't MAKE IT SO.
But seriously, try my statement above, and then write (when you get some education unit time) from prison and let us know how it all went for ya, K?
It was done as a trademark to ensure that other gangs couldn't use it, and to ensure that NOBODY else could use it.
No, they didn't sue you. They killed you.
Same as the "rocker boards" the hells angels have. Used to be, anyone riding a bike in California that had a "California" rocker board on their jacket was at risk of being shot off their motorcycle.
Sonny Barger saw to that.
But then again, what do I know. DAGO tattoo and all.
Actually, your gooseneck comment is spot on for me.
I OWN a hotshot trucking company, and also worked in the towing industry.
They SWEAR by simple green in towing, and that might explain the "mysterious" cracks coming about some of the tow trucks I had to work on / work with.
Any my gooseneck trailers, at 20K a pop (for the really expensive ones), I can't afford to be purchasing every year because they crack. And once you get a stress crack, forget it... That trailer isn't going to be as good as it ever was.
Aircraft. I'm about half an hour from SpaceDev, Edwards AFB, and my grandfather is actually in the Encyclopedia Brittanica (forgot the year) for the SR-71 project.... He was one of Kelly's right hand men.
Thanks for the info, again. I'd be interested in the paper, unless it is "eyes only" type crap, then I understand.
And, using your methodology, there will be no software to pirate in a few years.
Why write it, if it's just going to be given away, or do you not like, oh, I dunno... Paying rent / mortgage, paying insurance on your car, HAVING a car, etc.
Oh wait, most people in China don't own a fucking thing, do they?
Hell, the Chinese don't even own their own bodies / reproductive systems... 1 child left behind? lol
How are you pirating his book, when he gives permission by giving access on his own website.
I'd suggest actually reading about pirace from someone that doesn't have a confused idea about it in the first place./., please. Not so much do you have to do 100 percent due diligence in the stories you write, can you just do a basic sanity check?
Piracy is NOT downloading things you have permission for.
That's what I had thought. In researching it (when I had people calling me from spoofed numbers), it appeared VERY easy to do from ISDN or PRI type lines, so I wondered how long until legislation was introduced to actually deal with it.
Never thought of this, nor did I have the problem, but I washed mine with water as soon as I'm done.
I'm curious, though. My mother was an apt manager, and that's where I learned of simple green. We used it on ALL the painted and other surfaces when cleaning a unit for rent.... Latex based paint didn't seem to have the problems you state... What is the base of the paint, or was it the typical brushed aluminum and anodization that came off... I've had a LOT of problems with anodization coming off stereo and ham radio equipment with most cleaners, after a few years.
The old baked on stuff (think, tube era) doesn't have this problem, unless your using it on Collins style baked on crinkle finish.
Serious question, as I do a bit of restoration here on antique transmitters and receivers, and don't want to create more work for myself as newer stuff becomes "antique".
I had used that machine for about a year, and all she wanted to do was surf the internet. It was a Pentium class system, running Win95OSR2.
I had NEVER use AV software. I had NEVER had a virus. I wasn't an idiot.
Within 15 minutes, she had a "cool little parrot" that talked. And within 45 minutes, the machine was so fucking slow it would take, literally, 5 minutes to boot up.
People shouldn't be so quick to OS bash when security is only as good as the id10t behind the keyboard. Breaches of security are rarely the rulesets fault (firewalls, OS's, company policies), they usually come from idiots installing software.
If this wasn't the case, we wouldn't have security policies in effect, would we? (login scripts, locked down machines, etc.)
LOADS of electronics got wet. Some took, literally, years to get working again.
The BIGGEST thing you can do to save your stuff is this: GET IT DRIED THE FUCK OUT. Water is corrosive to the copper in the products you have (besides the electromechanical problems, like bearings in hard drives (old ones), etc), and if left to do it's thing, electrolysis will eat them up.
I ended up having the entire back of my truck filled with the style cartons you find at 7-11 or something similiar. Split top, about 12 to 18 inches deep. My tarp had a rip in it, unbeknownst to me, and when I stopped, THEY FILLED WITH WATER.
The next day, I made my destination, and the day after that, I got the screwdriver out. EVERYTHING was cleaned off with a rag internally, and I ended up losing about 10 percent of the devices.
Don't power them up until you KNOW everything is dry.
Any transformers, if your really worried about (read, if they are HEAVY and expensive), can be desoldered and heated in your home oven, on it's lowest setting (they can take > 150 degrees easily). That will bake out any moisture.
Ditto for some really high power transistors. One trick we used in making REALLY high power CB radio amplifiers was to bake the transistors for about 2 hours. This removed ANY moisture under the caps of the 2879s (part number 2SC2879). This netted us about 2 to 3 more volts on the collectors. After talking to engineers, we found that even a LITTLE bit of moisture in there, will turn to steam after the devices reach their internal operating temp. Higher voltage on the collector = higher temperatures (more dissipation). Baking them got us 2 to 3 more volts and that equalled a few hundred more watts (for every 50 percent increase in supply voltage, your Pout doubles) (think, 24 to 64 transistors being combined).
Simple green or even lysol does well for mold inhibition. You can also do a 5 % bleach solution, but then you run the risk of losing color, faceplates, some plastics, etc.
Why the fuck does everyone here quote wikipedia, instead of the manufacturers websites?
But, seriously, yes, they do. BUT, a car designed to fly, or a plane designed to also drive, has dual purposes.
That means, more hydraulics / pnuematics to bring the wings in for driving around, more controls, etc. than the plane has.
Of course, build the plane smaller, and you negate some of those effects, but then it won't be comparable.
Hence the reason I would think that a plane designed to also drive on the ground would be heavier than the comparable (size, power, etc) airplane only device.
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This has been going on for years.
I OWN a trucking company now, and have been dealing with assholes like this for years.
Whats becoming even MORE of a problem is the illegals who go out and steal (borrow) an MC and/or DOT number and slap it on the side of their truck. Then they "go to work".
What with my insurance costing me > 1200 A MONTH, PER TRUCK, it is easy to see why someone would want to "run illegally". It's fairly hard to get caught, unless you run across state lines. Hence, most of the people don't.
If your truck is titled, with a sticker for the correct weight, you don't go over it, and you don't have any other reason for a scale to flag you, then they don't pull you in. You don't get pulled in, you don't get busted.
At the risk of being called a racist, the BIGGEST Lusers of this type of behavior, are mexicans. Period. And, this isn't a local trend (California), this is a NATIONAL trend.
Whats sad is this: The idiots doing THIS scam didn't have to hack anything. All they had to do is look up a legit DOT / MC number for a BROKER, and then go into business with the same business name.
And brokers licenses are CHEAP. Instead of my insurance rates (600/month liability (1 million dollars), 1000/6 months Cargo, 500/month basic liability (the 600 a month liability doesn't cover you, unless you have a loaded trailer or a load in the "box truck")). For a brokers license, you need a basic 10K dollar insurance policy. Costs, at most, about 250 a month, if you go to the right insurance agent. BOC3 filings cost another 100 a year.
These people are the reasons trucking businesses are going out of business. It's hard enough having to make 3.00 a mile, when most freight will pay you 1.50 to 2.00 a mile. Then you get the .ru faggots in there stealing business, etc.
They went even farther than that. According to the Owner / Operator Independant Drivers Association (http://www.ooida.org), they have pulled Russian's out of trucks who didn't speak A WORD OF ENGLISH, where UNABLE to properly identify 3 road signs, etc., and WHERE BEHIND THE WHEEL OF 80,000 to 120,000 pound trucks. However, if you REALLY research it, you can / will find that most people who are running illegally, carry names like Jose, Manuel, etc.
Sad state of affairs, having to try to make money while people operating illegally are competing with you. Even sadder state of affairs when legal companies are getting profits skimmed off them from illegal brokers, and having to deal with Hose-A and Hose-B running illegally.
Thank GOD I had dedicated accounts who paid me regularly, and everything else was handled COD.
This isn't going to stop, nor is it going to go away. It's a fact of life, and until they do PrePass on EVERY truck (somewhat like RFID, but uses EasyTag type devices in the trucks), everyone who operates on the road has to deal with people like this.
--Toll_Free
(disclaimer: I took a motorcycle into a wall at 130MPH 6 or so months ago. My company closed at that time, so read into this what you will. Unfortunately, this WAS work related, the motorcycle was a customers, and the throttle cable stuck in a 3/4 gear shift getting the bike to my trailer.)
Wearing a logo of a group convicted of racketeering can, in fact, get you in trouble.
Are you FUCKING stupid, or what?
I mean, really now.
Why not walk around with a shirt on that states "Im into killing, sell drugs for profit, and will rape your fucking mother, father, and children just for fun". Then, go actually do it.
Then wonder why the cops pull you over.
Stop bitching just because you don't like the copyright / trademark system. The laws are there, and they are acting on them.
And believe you me, if the laws DON'T agree with them, then so be it.... Doesn't mean courts won't MAKE IT SO.
But seriously, try my statement above, and then write (when you get some education unit time) from prison and let us know how it all went for ya, K?
--Toll_Free
Except for the simple fact that the mongols are a racketteering group.
So, if you affiliate with them, you are, in fact, affiliating yourself with people KNOWN for illegal acts.
Taking their IP from them is only to ensure they can pull someone over.
It's a tactic that I might not agree with, but you can, in fact, trademark your logo. Period.
The hells angels have, literally, taken a tattoo of their logo off people that they "kick out".
If the angels, or the mongols are going to kick you out, I'd think the logo tat would be the least of your worries.
--Toll_Free
Polygraphs aren't admissible as de facto evidence.
They can only be used as circumstantial.
And because of that, it's up to the judge as to whether or not they are let in as evidence.
Polygraphs are fairly easy to beat. Train in some esoteric martial arts, as well as yoga, and it's a done deal.
--Toll_Free
It was done as a trademark to ensure that other gangs couldn't use it, and to ensure that NOBODY else could use it.
No, they didn't sue you. They killed you.
Same as the "rocker boards" the hells angels have. Used to be, anyone riding a bike in California that had a "California" rocker board on their jacket was at risk of being shot off their motorcycle.
Sonny Barger saw to that.
But then again, what do I know. DAGO tattoo and all.
--Toll_Free
Trademarks control and protect logo's as well.
The mongols logo is what they are trademarking, not their name, as the article says.
And the person above was correct, it's go give LEO's a reason to pull them over.
--Toll_Free
Actually, your gooseneck comment is spot on for me.
I OWN a hotshot trucking company, and also worked in the towing industry.
They SWEAR by simple green in towing, and that might explain the "mysterious" cracks coming about some of the tow trucks I had to work on / work with.
Any my gooseneck trailers, at 20K a pop (for the really expensive ones), I can't afford to be purchasing every year because they crack. And once you get a stress crack, forget it... That trailer isn't going to be as good as it ever was.
Aircraft. I'm about half an hour from SpaceDev, Edwards AFB, and my grandfather is actually in the Encyclopedia Brittanica (forgot the year) for the SR-71 project.... He was one of Kelly's right hand men.
Thanks for the info, again. I'd be interested in the paper, unless it is "eyes only" type crap, then I understand.
--Toll_Free
And, using your methodology, there will be no software to pirate in a few years.
Why write it, if it's just going to be given away, or do you not like, oh, I dunno... Paying rent / mortgage, paying insurance on your car, HAVING a car, etc.
Oh wait, most people in China don't own a fucking thing, do they?
Hell, the Chinese don't even own their own bodies / reproductive systems... 1 child left behind? lol
--Toll_Free
More drivel advertising.
How are you pirating his book, when he gives permission by giving access on his own website.
I'd suggest actually reading about pirace from someone that doesn't have a confused idea about it in the first place. /., please. Not so much do you have to do 100 percent due diligence in the stories you write, can you just do a basic sanity check?
Piracy is NOT downloading things you have permission for.
--Toll_Free
Chernobyl was two things.
It was a mistake
It was a power supply for the largest radio transmitter in the world
(search OTH Radar)
--Toll_Free
I typically take my nuclear risk analysis from cryptographers and glider pilots.
--Toll_Free
That's what I had thought. In researching it (when I had people calling me from spoofed numbers), it appeared VERY easy to do from ISDN or PRI type lines, so I wondered how long until legislation was introduced to actually deal with it.
Thanks for the input.
--Toll_Free
Never thought of this, nor did I have the problem, but I washed mine with water as soon as I'm done.
I'm curious, though. My mother was an apt manager, and that's where I learned of simple green. We used it on ALL the painted and other surfaces when cleaning a unit for rent.... Latex based paint didn't seem to have the problems you state... What is the base of the paint, or was it the typical brushed aluminum and anodization that came off... I've had a LOT of problems with anodization coming off stereo and ham radio equipment with most cleaners, after a few years.
The old baked on stuff (think, tube era) doesn't have this problem, unless your using it on Collins style baked on crinkle finish.
Serious question, as I do a bit of restoration here on antique transmitters and receivers, and don't want to create more work for myself as newer stuff becomes "antique".
Thanks!
--Toll_Free
I would think it would fall more under the Hacking laws of a telcosystem.
Similiar to boxing in the past.
--Toll_Free
My question was serious.
Is it a case of fraud? Who are you defrauding? Fraud needs to have basic premises met before you can throw it at someone.
I don't think lying is really fraud. I'm not in the legal profession, so I dunno for sure.... Hence the question.
--Toll_Free
TPB is for lames.
Real pirates still use encrypted FTP.
Soccer moms and people who have to have people come clean their machines from virus' twice a week are the ilk that keep TPB running and profitable.
--Toll_Free
I equate it like this:
I gave my sister a computer once... (BIG MISTAKE)
I had used that machine for about a year, and all she wanted to do was surf the internet. It was a Pentium class system, running Win95OSR2.
I had NEVER use AV software. I had NEVER had a virus. I wasn't an idiot.
Within 15 minutes, she had a "cool little parrot" that talked. And within 45 minutes, the machine was so fucking slow it would take, literally, 5 minutes to boot up.
People shouldn't be so quick to OS bash when security is only as good as the id10t behind the keyboard. Breaches of security are rarely the rulesets fault (firewalls, OS's, company policies), they usually come from idiots installing software.
If this wasn't the case, we wouldn't have security policies in effect, would we? (login scripts, locked down machines, etc.)
--Toll_Free
Which laws?
I've seen equipment and software on the internet to do just such thing thing, but I never researched it far enough to see if it was legal or not.
Seriously, what caller ID law is there?
--Toll_Free
She should change her number, if it's really that bad.
I mean, so you've had the same number for 50 years. How many people call you after 10 years you haven't heard from.
YES, it's an inconvenience. BUT, it's easier than trying to push the feds or local LEO's into doing something
Sometimes, doing what you don't want to do is the easiest thing, and the easiest way to solve the problem faced.
--Toll_Free
I agree 100 percent with your timings, but if you do the laws of averages, with how many people scanning vs. how many people using NAT, etc....
At that point, it becomes pretty hard to get infected.
Sucks to be me, my ISP is completely NAT'ed. I asked for an external IP, and they looked at my usage, and denied me.
Fuckers. They insist I'm running a server, maxing out my connection nearly 24X7 on the incoming side.
I informed them that I refuse to pay for satellite, and I only watch TV via the computer.
(incidentally, Fox on Demand is pretty good, although their "installable player" is a pile of shit, the rest of the service ain't bad).
--Toll_Free
Oh yeah, WD-40 is also your friend.
You know
Water
Displacement
4
0
WD formula 40.
Ensure you wipe it off, and don't use it in any controls. WD40 will cause dirt and grime to get in the potentiometers.
Someone else mentioned alcohol. Dunno, but I like drinking bacardi 151.
--Toll_Free
I moved from Ca to Co once. In winter.
In a storm.
In the back of a truck.
Get the idea?
LOADS of electronics got wet. Some took, literally, years to get working again.
The BIGGEST thing you can do to save your stuff is this: GET IT DRIED THE FUCK OUT. Water is corrosive to the copper in the products you have (besides the electromechanical problems, like bearings in hard drives (old ones), etc), and if left to do it's thing, electrolysis will eat them up.
I ended up having the entire back of my truck filled with the style cartons you find at 7-11 or something similiar. Split top, about 12 to 18 inches deep. My tarp had a rip in it, unbeknownst to me, and when I stopped, THEY FILLED WITH WATER.
The next day, I made my destination, and the day after that, I got the screwdriver out. EVERYTHING was cleaned off with a rag internally, and I ended up losing about 10 percent of the devices.
Don't power them up until you KNOW everything is dry.
Any transformers, if your really worried about (read, if they are HEAVY and expensive), can be desoldered and heated in your home oven, on it's lowest setting (they can take > 150 degrees easily). That will bake out any moisture.
Ditto for some really high power transistors. One trick we used in making REALLY high power CB radio amplifiers was to bake the transistors for about 2 hours. This removed ANY moisture under the caps of the 2879s (part number 2SC2879). This netted us about 2 to 3 more volts on the collectors. After talking to engineers, we found that even a LITTLE bit of moisture in there, will turn to steam after the devices reach their internal operating temp. Higher voltage on the collector = higher temperatures (more dissipation). Baking them got us 2 to 3 more volts and that equalled a few hundred more watts (for every 50 percent increase in supply voltage, your Pout doubles) (think, 24 to 64 transistors being combined).
Simple green or even lysol does well for mold inhibition. You can also do a 5 % bleach solution, but then you run the risk of losing color, faceplates, some plastics, etc.
Hope it helps.
--Toll_Free
Really? Maybe in your world, the way you think, etc....
But, I bet the courts disagree.
--Toll_Free
Most things that fly are heavier than air.
Why the fuck does everyone here quote wikipedia, instead of the manufacturers websites?
But, seriously, yes, they do. BUT, a car designed to fly, or a plane designed to also drive, has dual purposes.
That means, more hydraulics / pnuematics to bring the wings in for driving around, more controls, etc. than the plane has.
Of course, build the plane smaller, and you negate some of those effects, but then it won't be comparable.
Hence the reason I would think that a plane designed to also drive on the ground would be heavier than the comparable (size, power, etc) airplane only device.
--Toll_Free