Then fix the law. I'll give my blood away for free when everyone working at the blood bank and the hospital start working for free as well.
Unless you are promising to spend 4 hours a day 7 days a week of your life continuously donating blood,
then you are insisting that these people be treated unfairly.
As is, they receive low pay working for a non-profit.
These people need to eat as well.
There is also not a sufficient supply of qualified individuals that volunteers working just a few days a week would be sufficient.
Plasma donation is likely not for transfusion into a patient; the plasma itself is valuable to
pharmaceutical companies for putting together various protein products and treatments for disease.
A fractionation process can be used on plasma to derive various components,
such as the immunoglobins, coagulation factors, and albumin solutions.
The components of plasma are absolutely vital for the creation of certain vaccines and treatment of certain disease,
such as factor VIII and factor IX proteins which may be administered in the hospital to hemophiliacs,
or people suffering from liver disease or anticoag overdose.
There is a much larger market for these products than for transfusions, and there is commercial interest
in obtaining the plasma needed to derive these products.
Then i found out how much blood banks were making selling donated blood to hospitals and other places that nneded blood or plasma.
Then donate to the red cross. They are not selling it for a profit.
People who won't donate for some perception of money changing hands -- should remember, that one day
you may be on the other side of this equation, and dependent on some stranger to make a blood donation,
as vital to your own survival.
The fewer donated units are available, the more expensive it will get, and the more people that may die,
because the supply or money wasn't there to get them the transfusion they needed.
By law, all the blood donations in the US have to come from volunteers -- donors are not allowed to sell blood.
It is very expensive to administer a blood bank; there are a lot of costs involved in getting
the product, maintaining the product, ensuring the safety of the product, and distributing the product.
Red cross says they do not charge for the blood itself --- but they do recover costs from hospitals
for each unit distributed which they say are the costs of recruiting donors, screening potential donors,
collection of blood by trained professionals, processing, storing, labelling, and the
testing of each unit of each blood unit in state of the art laboratories.
driving up the costs which are ultimately paid for by the taxpayer to make tokens for a pyramid scheme
He was just doing something with Bitcoins, not making tokens for a pyramid scheme. The bitcoin protocol may or may not turn out to be something that people ultimately find useful in the real world, but either way it's not a pyramid scheme.... It's not even like a pyramid scheme.
In fact: the protocol is open source, so all its details are readily knowable.
It can be no more a pyramid scheme, than the Linux kernel is a pyramid scheme.
so there isn't a whole lot of sweat to be subject to evaporative cooling
Your skin is made of mostly water and always contains exposed moisture... unless it's frozen,
cold air is very dry, and being bundled up with warm clothing can even increase the amount of moisture, so there will always be evaporation removing heat and moisture being replaced with cold air as air pressure fluctuates due to the wind.
However.. wind definitely does improve thermal conductivity, by increasing your contact with air particles, even beneath warm clothing, and by quickly blowing away and replacing cold gas particles that were recently heated when they came in contact with your skin.
Restitution is certainly warranted but whether it is a civil or criminal matter depends on the laws and whether he broke any.
Overt activities which permission was not obtained for that caused them damage by reducing the performance of their computer system $150,000 worth,
due to interference with their business activity.
In order for them to take civil action; it is not necessary for there
to already be a specific law addressing the researcher's actions.
Of course if they are intent on pursuing criminally; there is always some crime
that could be charged --- even if just "disorderly conduct" for failing to adhere to computer use regulations,
or CFAA - for 'fraudulently' accessing the computer system remotely from a mirror site.
Wind chill works because of evaporation on the skin, right?
Aside from the affects of evaporative cooling: wind chill also works due to air movement.
Moving air dissipates heat more quickly than stagnant air.
By the way.... since there is essentially little or no air on mars... there is essentially no wind,
so it follows and is quite expected that there would be no wind chill; however, this is not very interesting,
because: humans cannot survive in this environment.
It is necessary to have an artificial environment that includes air.
The environment that includes air.... if it is large enough: will be subject to wind chill,
whenever a sufficient difference in pressure or temperature from one area another is large enough
to cause quick air movement.
Personal profit so more like charging people to use the employers phone system and pocketing the cash
No... what you're suggesting is a different crime.
How about Making international calls to business associates on the employer's dime, many
of the calls for legitimate business, but then suddenly on some days a massive number of calls during
working hours which are actually used by the employee to work on a a side business or other
professional activity (such as personal training) that benefits the employee and is a business associate
only marginally related, if at all, to any kind of business the employer is doing, AND these calls
have disproportionately high cost; however, these calls are also interleaved with very similar legitimate business.
And.... also... the employee may install an automatic machine at his desk to place some of these calls as robocalls.
In other words: a telemarketing business on the side.
The employee is indeed wasting the employer's money, AND abusing a resource that they had
permission to use and that their job requires them to use -- not in 'excess' of their authority to use
the resource, BUT in a manner that is not acceptable,
AND they have personal profits tied to their intentional waste of the resource,
AND they probably have little idea what their usage costs.
And why shouldn't an office worker embezzling from an employer be subject to criminal penalties?
They should, but an office worker embezzling cash has no authorization from their employer to take cash, which is what makes embezzlement of funds not a mere abuse -- it is plain theft, pure and simple.
It's really easy.... if you break into a piece of employer property you had not been given any permission to touch and take possession of it, then you commit a crime. Fudge the books or take cash and lie about it, and you commit fraud. Misuse of property you were authorized to touch --- for example: Surfing slashdot.org on an employer workstation, or staying in your office after hours using your employer owned workstation or laptop to do some "side work" that generates a profit for you, or slipping a personal domain as an extra onto a company server [to take free hosting for your ecommerce site], is something fundamentally different.
They may be abuses worthy of termination, and a civil tort, but no crime.
Also..... Researchers and academics who have been provided access to NSF supercomputers have permission to the use the computers for educational, academic, or research pursuits germane to scientific inquiry, and they often have some
wide latitude from their institutions to use resources to run some experiments --- after all, that's what the supercomputers are there for.
There might even be a germane legitimate scientific question or two regarding how effective certain supercomputer hardware is at 'mining', and Bitcoin is so new.... there probably wasn't any rule banning using supercomputer resources to study BTC or experiment with BTC mining specifically.
Furthermore... it's not 100% clear that their intent was personal profit.
And the evaluation that they mined "$8,000 worth" of coins..... implies they got coins from this that they sold or intend to sell for cash, but it's not clear that was the case.
CPU based mining... even from a GPU or supercomputer has been ineffective for quite some time.
The NSF note indicated the researchers' access was suspended government wide.
There is no mention of criminal charges or the researchers' employment being terminated.
Although: it may just be, that investigation continues.
now, i sure hope they don't "throw the book at them"...I hope they don't get felonies unless unavoidable and either way no prison time...get them on a hardcore probation for 5 years....
I think it should be a civil matter..... bill the researcher for the computer time intentionally misappropriated
for non-work-related activities
This is really no different from an office worker abusing employer equipment for personal gain;
e.g. long duration international calls to family placed on the employer's dime.
Not at that I'm not... what I am surprised at is the fact that the bank didn't immediately have the kids locked-up and headed for a lifetime of prison.
Perhaps the kids were smart enough to get permission?
The only way to have something encrypted for a period of time is to not publish the encryption key for that period of time.
You can divide the secret key up into numerous pieces where M of N pieces need to be presented to reconstruct
the secret key.
Then make sure the actors are sworn to keep their key share vaulted in a safe place and neither release their share of the key NOR reveal/disclose that they have a share of the key, until the release date,
and M actors will not reside within the same legal jurisdiction.
In effect... nobody can be subpoena'd for the materials.
the real solution is, quit fucking putting such high-tech god damn road signs on the highways. Since when the fuck did the traditional pure metal signs go out of style?
The Low-tech metal signs are hackable too. Ever heard of this stuff called spray-paint?
You don't get a pass for sticking a spear in someone's chest, just because they exposed their belly.
It's an irrelevent analogy. A computer system is not someone's belly.
A more apt analogy is: Some shortsighted folks decided to setup a little tent somewhere in the middle of the interstate, and lie down to take a nap: and they are proposing to execute anyone running over these folks while they were asleep in their tent.
The real bad guys are simply undeterred by this, and botnets continue to expand.
Also... this seems wrong... it's like elevating a petty theft to a felony, because of some technicality,
the thief wouldn't even have known about.
The real severe sentence should be on the folks who negligently designed computer networks
that were susceptible to easy attack, And/OR the folks who broke policies and allowed them to come under attack.
For example: If you plug your waterworks into the internet, and some hacker logs in and screws it up, because some worker was surfing using Internet Explorer from a control system and "accidentally" deployed malware.
It's not the hacker alone that should be sentenced for this crime, we should also sentence to an even longer term:
(1) The designer, who allowed the control network to connect to the internet, OR
(2) The admin/contracter, who connected a point on the control network to the internet contrary to the policies, OR
(3) The end user who breached policies by plugging in an additional connection or USB stick
Similarly.... facilitating a DDoS by failing to take measures to prevent IP source address spoofing should be a crime.
In addition to the court stipulating that whatever the EFF had claimed the evidence said:
everyone down the chain of management that was responsible for knowingly ordering destruction of evidence involved with their case, should be criminally prosecuted personally, (or impeached, if a cabinet official or elected official).
See this article,
on the subject, from back in 2009.
. Preliminary results from a dedicated research program have shown that planets around red dwarfs could be habitable if they can maintain a magnetic field for a few billion years...
The high-energy radiation is predominantly emitted by young stars. As they age, red dwarfs become less magnetically active, while continuing to shine steadily at visible wavelengths for 100 billion years or more.......
Therefore, if an orbiting planet can just hold onto its atmosphere through the wild early years of its red dwarf roommate, it could end up being a decent place to live.
Quite correct; however, unfortunately, it is not admissable in court as a defense against a charge to show that a specific law is so ill-defined that 50% of the population has broken it in some way, shape, or form, in the past 10 years.
I saw an ad in a floating box Contrary to Google AdSense policies.
I came back to the page later, and couldn't get a good sample again to screencast,
but i'm almost positive something uncool is going on here....
I'm curious exactly how narrow field such as infosec, like pen testing and software audits is not IT.
You may be mistaken. Information assurance is fundamentally a management discipline that requires some technical knowledge.
Auditing is an independent review engaged by risk managers in order to help reduce errors and ensure systems and people are adhering to policies developed by the information assurance teams in collaboration with other management and all stakeholders.
Within an integrated organization: IT has a role in security, just like accounting has a role in security, and the guard at the front desk has a role in security.
A penetration tester is a technical specialist who does work for an information assurance department.
A penetration tester is not necessarily engaged in the organization's IT: if the organization adheres to separation of duties for security officers, that would be a conflict of interest, since part of what they are to do, is to help verify that IT is following the security policies they agreed upon.
Similarly, a firewall administrator is a technical specialist who works for the security department, and configures security policies of the firewalls, which IT doesn't have access to.
There are of course technical roles involved in security.
In an organization without complete separation of duties in the security department, especially in a startup or small business: many security or crypto officer roles might also be held as additional roles by people working in IT, and information assurance may be just one of the business owner's jobs.
So technically the definition of treason encompasses ANY whistleblower about ANY National Security issues.
Perhaps, so.
It is mostly an academic point, however. There are plenty of crimes the feds can charge Snowden with.
Including the theft of data, CFAA violations including wire fraud, willful unauthorized disclosure of classified intelligence, unauthorized disemination of national defense information, and espionage charges.
They can essentially put him in jail for a few hundred years, or get the death penalty already:
without having to even invoke treason as a charge against Snowden.
and what he allegedly did doesn't fit the definition.
He allegedly adhered to enemies of the United States ("islamic terrorists"), giving them aid and comfort: in the form of disclosure/spoiling of secret information about government practices used to locate, investigate, and suppress activities specifically of the enemy.
There might or might not be an ability to find two witnesses to the act, or to get a confession in open court; however,
in principal, he could be tried with treason, if there were.
So it does, but at $240 a pop, and unlike Enterprise Ultimate is not restricted to Volume license customers;
however, ultimate is 'for enthusiasts' and actually more expensive per unit than Enterprise.
Most home users either have the $60 Home premium edition, OR perhaps they got Pro bundled
with their $500 PC, and the retail upgrade edition is $300..... in other words, cheaper to go
buy Ultimate OEM bundled with a $1 piece of hardware.
The value proposition of 'switch to Bitlocker' is nothing like "Download truecrypt to use for free with your Windows XP system".
It appears grc has created page
where the last final version of TrueCrypt and all source code could be downloaded.
My hope would be that someone will fork the project and continue development for Linux, and
Windows XP/2003, at least, AND preferably work on new Version of Windows.
Bitlocker is REALLY not good enough, for most users won't have access to it --
since it is only in the ENTERPRISE version of Windows 7; in particular...
Windows 7 Standard and Professional do not have the feature.
Slashdot Mirror
Then fix the law. I'll give my blood away for free when everyone working at the blood bank and the hospital start working for free as well.
Unless you are promising to spend 4 hours a day 7 days a week of your life continuously donating blood, then you are insisting that these people be treated unfairly. As is, they receive low pay working for a non-profit.
These people need to eat as well.
There is also not a sufficient supply of qualified individuals that volunteers working just a few days a week would be sufficient.
Plasma donation is likely not for transfusion into a patient; the plasma itself is valuable to pharmaceutical companies for putting together various protein products and treatments for disease. A fractionation process can be used on plasma to derive various components, such as the immunoglobins, coagulation factors, and albumin solutions.
The components of plasma are absolutely vital for the creation of certain vaccines and treatment of certain disease, such as factor VIII and factor IX proteins which may be administered in the hospital to hemophiliacs, or people suffering from liver disease or anticoag overdose.
There is a much larger market for these products than for transfusions, and there is commercial interest in obtaining the plasma needed to derive these products.
Then i found out how much blood banks were making selling donated blood to hospitals and other places that nneded blood or plasma.
Then donate to the red cross. They are not selling it for a profit. People who won't donate for some perception of money changing hands -- should remember, that one day you may be on the other side of this equation, and dependent on some stranger to make a blood donation, as vital to your own survival.
The fewer donated units are available, the more expensive it will get, and the more people that may die, because the supply or money wasn't there to get them the transfusion they needed.
By law, all the blood donations in the US have to come from volunteers -- donors are not allowed to sell blood.
It is very expensive to administer a blood bank; there are a lot of costs involved in getting the product, maintaining the product, ensuring the safety of the product, and distributing the product.
Red cross says they do not charge for the blood itself --- but they do recover costs from hospitals for each unit distributed which they say are the costs of recruiting donors, screening potential donors, collection of blood by trained professionals, processing, storing, labelling, and the testing of each unit of each blood unit in state of the art laboratories.
driving up the costs which are ultimately paid for by the taxpayer to make tokens for a pyramid scheme
He was just doing something with Bitcoins, not making tokens for a pyramid scheme. The bitcoin protocol may or may not turn out to be something that people ultimately find useful in the real world, but either way it's not a pyramid scheme.... It's not even like a pyramid scheme.
In fact: the protocol is open source, so all its details are readily knowable.
It can be no more a pyramid scheme, than the Linux kernel is a pyramid scheme.
so there isn't a whole lot of sweat to be subject to evaporative cooling
Your skin is made of mostly water and always contains exposed moisture... unless it's frozen, cold air is very dry, and being bundled up with warm clothing can even increase the amount of moisture, so there will always be evaporation removing heat and moisture being replaced with cold air as air pressure fluctuates due to the wind.
However.. wind definitely does improve thermal conductivity, by increasing your contact with air particles, even beneath warm clothing, and by quickly blowing away and replacing cold gas particles that were recently heated when they came in contact with your skin.
Restitution is certainly warranted but whether it is a civil or criminal matter depends on the laws and whether he broke any.
Overt activities which permission was not obtained for that caused them damage by reducing the performance of their computer system $150,000 worth, due to interference with their business activity.
In order for them to take civil action; it is not necessary for there to already be a specific law addressing the researcher's actions.
Of course if they are intent on pursuing criminally; there is always some crime that could be charged --- even if just "disorderly conduct" for failing to adhere to computer use regulations, or CFAA - for 'fraudulently' accessing the computer system remotely from a mirror site.
Wind chill works because of evaporation on the skin, right?
Aside from the affects of evaporative cooling: wind chill also works due to air movement.
Moving air dissipates heat more quickly than stagnant air.
By the way.... since there is essentially little or no air on mars... there is essentially no wind, so it follows and is quite expected that there would be no wind chill; however, this is not very interesting, because: humans cannot survive in this environment.
It is necessary to have an artificial environment that includes air.
The environment that includes air.... if it is large enough: will be subject to wind chill, whenever a sufficient difference in pressure or temperature from one area another is large enough to cause quick air movement.
Personal profit so more like charging people to use the employers phone system and pocketing the cash
No... what you're suggesting is a different crime.
How about Making international calls to business associates on the employer's dime, many of the calls for legitimate business, but then suddenly on some days a massive number of calls during working hours which are actually used by the employee to work on a a side business or other professional activity (such as personal training) that benefits the employee and is a business associate only marginally related, if at all, to any kind of business the employer is doing, AND these calls have disproportionately high cost; however, these calls are also interleaved with very similar legitimate business.
And.... also... the employee may install an automatic machine at his desk to place some of these calls as robocalls. In other words: a telemarketing business on the side.
The employee is indeed wasting the employer's money, AND abusing a resource that they had permission to use and that their job requires them to use -- not in 'excess' of their authority to use the resource, BUT in a manner that is not acceptable, AND they have personal profits tied to their intentional waste of the resource, AND they probably have little idea what their usage costs.
And why shouldn't an office worker embezzling from an employer be subject to criminal penalties?
They should, but an office worker embezzling cash has no authorization from their employer to take cash, which is what makes embezzlement of funds not a mere abuse -- it is plain theft, pure and simple.
It's really easy.... if you break into a piece of employer property you had not been given any permission to touch and take possession of it, then you commit a crime. Fudge the books or take cash and lie about it, and you commit fraud. Misuse of property you were authorized to touch --- for example: Surfing slashdot.org on an employer workstation, or staying in your office after hours using your employer owned workstation or laptop to do some "side work" that generates a profit for you, or slipping a personal domain as an extra onto a company server [to take free hosting for your ecommerce site], is something fundamentally different.
They may be abuses worthy of termination, and a civil tort, but no crime.
Also..... Researchers and academics who have been provided access to NSF supercomputers have permission to the use the computers for educational, academic, or research pursuits germane to scientific inquiry, and they often have some wide latitude from their institutions to use resources to run some experiments --- after all, that's what the supercomputers are there for.
There might even be a germane legitimate scientific question or two regarding how effective certain supercomputer hardware is at 'mining', and Bitcoin is so new.... there probably wasn't any rule banning using supercomputer resources to study BTC or experiment with BTC mining specifically.
Furthermore... it's not 100% clear that their intent was personal profit. And the evaluation that they mined "$8,000 worth" of coins..... implies they got coins from this that they sold or intend to sell for cash, but it's not clear that was the case.
CPU based mining... even from a GPU or supercomputer has been ineffective for quite some time.
The NSF note indicated the researchers' access was suspended government wide. There is no mention of criminal charges or the researchers' employment being terminated. Although: it may just be, that investigation continues.
It's SCrypt Hashes per Second per Watt of energy consumed. And SCrypt Hashes per Second per Dollar of GPU.
now, i sure hope they don't "throw the book at them"...I hope they don't get felonies unless unavoidable and either way no prison time...get them on a hardcore probation for 5 years....
I think it should be a civil matter..... bill the researcher for the computer time intentionally misappropriated for non-work-related activities
This is really no different from an office worker abusing employer equipment for personal gain; e.g. long duration international calls to family placed on the employer's dime.
Not at that I'm not... what I am surprised at is the fact that the bank didn't immediately have the kids locked-up and headed for a lifetime of prison.
Perhaps the kids were smart enough to get permission?
The only way to have something encrypted for a period of time is to not publish the encryption key for that period of time.
You can divide the secret key up into numerous pieces where M of N pieces need to be presented to reconstruct the secret key.
Then make sure the actors are sworn to keep their key share vaulted in a safe place and neither release their share of the key NOR reveal/disclose that they have a share of the key, until the release date, and M actors will not reside within the same legal jurisdiction.
In effect... nobody can be subpoena'd for the materials.
the real solution is, quit fucking putting such high-tech god damn road signs on the highways. Since when the fuck did the traditional pure metal signs go out of style?
The Low-tech metal signs are hackable too. Ever heard of this stuff called spray-paint?
You don't get a pass for sticking a spear in someone's chest, just because they exposed their belly.
It's an irrelevent analogy. A computer system is not someone's belly.
A more apt analogy is: Some shortsighted folks decided to setup a little tent somewhere in the middle of the interstate, and lie down to take a nap: and they are proposing to execute anyone running over these folks while they were asleep in their tent.
The real bad guys are simply undeterred by this, and botnets continue to expand.
Also... this seems wrong... it's like elevating a petty theft to a felony, because of some technicality, the thief wouldn't even have known about.
The real severe sentence should be on the folks who negligently designed computer networks that were susceptible to easy attack, And/OR the folks who broke policies and allowed them to come under attack.
For example: If you plug your waterworks into the internet, and some hacker logs in and screws it up, because some worker was surfing using Internet Explorer from a control system and "accidentally" deployed malware.
It's not the hacker alone that should be sentenced for this crime, we should also sentence to an even longer term:
(1) The designer, who allowed the control network to connect to the internet, OR
(2) The admin/contracter, who connected a point on the control network to the internet contrary to the policies, OR
(3) The end user who breached policies by plugging in an additional connection or USB stick
Similarly.... facilitating a DDoS by failing to take measures to prevent IP source address spoofing should be a crime.
In addition to the court stipulating that whatever the EFF had claimed the evidence said: everyone down the chain of management that was responsible for knowingly ordering destruction of evidence involved with their case, should be criminally prosecuted personally, (or impeached, if a cabinet official or elected official).
See this article, on the subject, from back in 2009.
. Preliminary results from a dedicated research program have shown that planets around red dwarfs could be habitable if they can maintain a magnetic field for a few billion years ...
... ...
The high-energy radiation is predominantly emitted by young stars. As they age, red dwarfs become less magnetically active, while continuing to shine steadily at visible wavelengths for 100 billion years or more.
Therefore, if an orbiting planet can just hold onto its atmosphere through the wild early years of its red dwarf roommate, it could end up being a decent place to live.
Quite correct; however, unfortunately, it is not admissable in court as a defense against a charge to show that a specific law is so ill-defined that 50% of the population has broken it in some way, shape, or form, in the past 10 years.
I saw an ad in a floating box Contrary to Google AdSense policies. I came back to the page later, and couldn't get a good sample again to screencast, but i'm almost positive something uncool is going on here....
I'm curious exactly how narrow field such as infosec, like pen testing and software audits is not IT.
You may be mistaken. Information assurance is fundamentally a management discipline that requires some technical knowledge.
Auditing is an independent review engaged by risk managers in order to help reduce errors and ensure systems and people are adhering to policies developed by the information assurance teams in collaboration with other management and all stakeholders.
Within an integrated organization: IT has a role in security, just like accounting has a role in security, and the guard at the front desk has a role in security.
A penetration tester is a technical specialist who does work for an information assurance department. A penetration tester is not necessarily engaged in the organization's IT: if the organization adheres to separation of duties for security officers, that would be a conflict of interest, since part of what they are to do, is to help verify that IT is following the security policies they agreed upon. Similarly, a firewall administrator is a technical specialist who works for the security department, and configures security policies of the firewalls, which IT doesn't have access to.
There are of course technical roles involved in security.
In an organization without complete separation of duties in the security department, especially in a startup or small business: many security or crypto officer roles might also be held as additional roles by people working in IT, and information assurance may be just one of the business owner's jobs.
So technically the definition of treason encompasses ANY whistleblower about ANY National Security issues.
Perhaps, so.
It is mostly an academic point, however. There are plenty of crimes the feds can charge Snowden with.
Including the theft of data, CFAA violations including wire fraud, willful unauthorized disclosure of classified intelligence, unauthorized disemination of national defense information, and espionage charges.
They can essentially put him in jail for a few hundred years, or get the death penalty already: without having to even invoke treason as a charge against Snowden.
and what he allegedly did doesn't fit the definition.
He allegedly adhered to enemies of the United States ("islamic terrorists"), giving them aid and comfort: in the form of disclosure/spoiling of secret information about government practices used to locate, investigate, and suppress activities specifically of the enemy.
There might or might not be an ability to find two witnesses to the act, or to get a confession in open court; however, in principal, he could be tried with treason, if there were.
Windows 7 Ultimate has it as well.
So it does, but at $240 a pop, and unlike Enterprise Ultimate is not restricted to Volume license customers; however, ultimate is 'for enthusiasts' and actually more expensive per unit than Enterprise.
Most home users either have the $60 Home premium edition, OR perhaps they got Pro bundled with their $500 PC, and the retail upgrade edition is $300..... in other words, cheaper to go buy Ultimate OEM bundled with a $1 piece of hardware.
The value proposition of 'switch to Bitlocker' is nothing like "Download truecrypt to use for free with your Windows XP system".
It appears grc has created page where the last final version of TrueCrypt and all source code could be downloaded.
My hope would be that someone will fork the project and continue development for Linux, and Windows XP/2003, at least, AND preferably work on new Version of Windows.
Bitlocker is REALLY not good enough, for most users won't have access to it -- since it is only in the ENTERPRISE version of Windows 7; in particular... Windows 7 Standard and Professional do not have the feature.