I know how much I charge my clients for forensic/investigative work. I cater to really small companies that have been hacked (usually 10 or less PC's and help them get the evidence they need in a presentable format so they can pursue legal action. I'm sure the RIAA tech's charge a lot more.
My Prices Initial Consultation/Site survey $100 Onsite time $65@hr (Usually get about 4 hours in) Evidence prep $40@hr plus $0.05 per printed page Court Time $90@hr
It ends up costing the client over $1000 if the case makes it to court. Multiply what I do by 1 billion and the RIAA is going to have a lot of legal bills to pay.
Should I be scared of RFID tags? This is a big game of "What if"
What if Johnson and Johnson puts RFID tags in my vitamins, and I poop them out. Should I be worried that RFID tag scanning trucks will be scanning my local sewage treatment plant?
What if they just built little sewer traversing robots that just sat at my connection to the sewage system analyzing my waste water in order to do data mining to see what nutrients would be better marketed in my area.
What if Law Enforcement took over that technology and had a sewer traversing robot that could scan RFID tags and analyze what drugs I take?
Tonight I was watching OZ on HBO (it's cable, so OT post here) Some white dude allowed some capo to "spoon" him at the end of the episode for protection. Can anyone enlighten me why they did this? What was the purpose of the spoon?
And if someone answers, it'll serve another purpose, I learn sicker shit on the internet than I ever did watching TV.
BugBear then goes searching for a modem, enables it, then tries to get the computer to dial out, probably to reach the virus author. âoeHe really wanted to get into those machines,â Kuo said. U.S. financial institutions probably arenâ(TM)t at risk from this technique, Kuo said, because most donâ(TM)t have modems attached to their critical computers any more.
Today I was at fry's electronics, and I saw a Quickbooks POS (point of sale, not peice of shit) system on display for small to medium business. This started getting me thinking back to my earlier days of consulting.
One of the companies I did work for had a retail chain of mall stores. At night the registers would dump their management reports to our AS/400 machine and someone would make neat reports out of them. It wasn't a huge amount of data, so each store would just phone home on those really nice $300 courier modems.
Most of our store managers kept in touch with us via outlook/exchange server.
Now another interesting side note is veriphone uses POTS lines for nearly %100 of their credit card processing. Tons of small stores have networks in them now, managers reading e-mail and such.
So which of these financial institutions has its shit so well together that they don't need modems? I just wanted to point out the author of the article is a stupidhead. Boo!
My mother smoked while I was in her womb, for years growin up, despite being geeky smart, my behavior was erradict. (noisiest in class, never sitting still)
Until I started chain smoking at 10 (I love you cigarette machine)
Despite school, and everyone else trying to deny my stoge, when I started to use nicotine on a consistant basis my grades IMPROVED because I could actually sit still for a minute and concentrate. No it wasn't ADD, I suffered from, I truly believe I was suffering from nicotine withdrawel all those years.
These last 100 years have been spent learning how to build wings that can lift a plane into the sky. Near the middle of the last century we learned how to make rockets which took us beyond our earth for the first time.
I think in the next 50 years we will see space travel as common as transcontinental passenger jets are today.
I'm only 30, heavy smoker but I think with stem cell research I can always get a new pair of lungs long enough to see the day I can fly me to the moon.
Cybiko does this. Am I supposed to dance around and clap at motorola's innovative entry into the teen PDA market?
P.S. I'm just P.O'd slash doesn't do more coverage on this device, I have 3, they're a hell of a lot better than luggin a laptop through the house for IRC or IM'ing. Really cool toy.
look what 'massive pirating and copying' did to the video game industry... and to the company who's boss was crying about it decades ago.
Would you be talking about Jack Tramiel of Atari? Piracy didn't kill them off, it was his families bad management. I knew ppl that worked there during time/warners time and were subsequently laid off during tramiels term.
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I am hated. I am one of "those" dot commers responsible for screwing up the economy.
This is the attitude I get from a lot of people. Since the crash all the non-tech people I know have taken every oppertunity to take a cheap shot at me, "Ya told you it wouldn't last forever" or my personal favorite, "It's never coming back"
"Bullshit" I say to myself as I try to keep my temper from flaring up.
This type of thinking perme-ates (sp?) our society simply because nobody likes being replaced by younger newer models. This is the way it's been since the dawn of time. Someone makes technology (Castles) and someone else makes a technology that makes the former irrelevent (gunpowder) With both the RIAA and Kodak, it's the same problem. Someone came up with technology that quickly made the foundation of these organizations obselete.
In the case of the RIAA, the combination of internet with Mp3 compression made the old models of music distribution obselete. I worked for a local music magazine for a few years, and often I would hear rockers cry about how Mp3's are sending them all to the poorhouse crying because they can't sell CD's anymore. No matter how many times I would try and tell them website+thawte+oscommerce=mp3 online store they just wouldn't listen because they were all brought up to believe that the RIAA method was the only way. Now apple sells songs 99cents apiece and is making a fortune. With all the money and power the RIAA has, it's a shame they didn't adapt the way apple did and just give their customers what they want.
A good sign of how well CD distribution is dying is the ill fated "Wherehouse" music stores. To my knowledge here in san jose, they are all gone. CD sales just slipped into the toilet and all their stores have just vanished.
Kodak isn't much different. For years they depended on film technology as the cornerstone of their business. By the time they entered digital photography other players had already developed cheaper and more mass producable camera's with higher quality than kodak. I suppose kodak never thought that digital technology would catch up with film, they should have paid closer attention to moores law.
Both companies are old hats, trying to milk every dime out of innovations that are already 100 years old. Let them die already so the new upshots can give us better, faster, cheaper.
Not to degrade Mr. Sheppard's discovery, but it's not that big a deal, really.
Got to disagree with you there...
What this guy did was add to a map of the solar system. Finding these moons means we don't have to worry about crashing billion dollar probes into them because "I didn't know it was there"
Your comment sounds more like jealousy than critique. As an undergrad student I was published twice and had posters involving my work presented at two or three conferences.
Yeah but I bet you never had your work published and slashdotted!
Not trying to knock you, but you sound like you're talking about vitamin suppliments using that word "formulated"
You're right though, they are "engineered" or "designed" to slowly let the air out of the tires by using small tubes, about 3mm in size to allow the air to slowly escape.
Perhaps a better name would be "Tube Strips" because they aren't actually spikes at all. (Note I learned this all from watching a discovery special about non-leathal weapons for law enforcement.)
A class-action suit has been filed charging that MSN and Best Buy combined to scam customers.
When I think of best buy and MSN, I think back to 1998 when MSN accidentally left a legal loophole in their marketing plan.
I can't find the story now, but MSN and BB had a promotion going where if you signed up for the MSN service, you got $400 store credit. This was legal in every state EXCEPT california. The San Jose Mercury ran a big story about it, which basically explained the law was created to stop car lots from forcing people to use a certain insurance carrier in exchange for a few dollars knocked off the sticker price.
Well, me and my co-workers took a long lunch that day, headed down to best buy and got our free $400 dollars. Everyone but me bought stuff on the spot, I was smart enough to turn my store credit into gift checks.
Those gift checks sat in my wallet for some time, I was waiting for the latest greatest nvidia card. My wife knew they were in there, and her constant nagging broke down all my defenses until I caved in and let her use them for our new TV.
Unfortunately I spend most of my time in front of this sun monitor tapping away at/. Damn I wish I had held out for that GF3.
You need: Package of Tin Foil Tape A cardboard PC Case
Measure the side of the case. For those with the skills, eyeballing the length is fine. Now tear out a sheet of Tin Foil the same length of the case. Use the tape to attatch the foil. Keep doing this until your entire case is covered in foil.
Voila! Now you can go tell the FCC or any similiar organization that you're compliant:D
Ever seen the movie Willard (lots of rats), I tried finding the quote, couldn't so I'm going to paraphrase it. This happened after Willards mom died and his deceased fathers business partner fires him from the company that still bears his fathers name.
Willard: You can't fire me! You and my father had a contract! Business partner: Then you take this severence check downtown and get yourself a $250@hr lawer and SUE ME! Then i'll tell my $500@hr lawer to keep your $250@hr lawer tied up in court until YOU RUN OUT OF MONEY! Willard: Well that's not fair! You know I can't afford that!
I think the business partner goes onto to say something about how that's life, tough shit, ect, after which Willard launches an attack of rats at the business partner which overwhealm and consume him.
This just brought me to an interesting side junction of thought... Perhaps the method of everyone contributing to class action and other large type suits is moot. If the current legal tactics of class action were compared to a network, it would basically be a T1 line trying to DOS. It's not that hard for the RIAA to defend on just one front.
On the other hand, hundreds of thousands legally filed nasty attorney letters filed by peoples private lawers for a fee of $100 bucks could overwhelm the RIAA because legally, they have to respond to them.
So you have 10,000 people spend $100 to have their attorney send it off. Cost. 1,000,000
Now the RIAA responds with their $500@hr lawers. Cost $5,000,000.
So basically, for 1 packet, we recieve 5. Since it's a distributed system, they cannot really focus their defense against 1 paticular individual.
Bah, mod me how u want. This is my first post in days.
That's in UK, not USA (btw it's 4am here, what time is it there?)
In the USA, I think the VBI is completely unused. I dunno, maybe we should go post our findings in the mythtv.org discussion forums, or in the very least look if anyone else has thought of it.
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I had an Atari you insensitive clod!!
What the hell is "where it's at "?
Don't you listen to Beck? The song goes..
Where it's at, I got 2 turntables and a microphone,
Where it's at, I got 2 turntables and a microphone,
Where is it, I got 2 turntables just doesn't sound right.
HAhAHa Come get me you shitards!!
I know how much I charge my clients for forensic/investigative work. I cater to really small companies that have been hacked (usually 10 or less PC's and help them get the evidence they need in a presentable format so they can pursue legal action. I'm sure the RIAA tech's charge a lot more.
My Prices
Initial Consultation/Site survey $100
Onsite time $65@hr (Usually get about 4 hours in)
Evidence prep $40@hr plus $0.05 per printed page
Court Time $90@hr
It ends up costing the client over $1000 if the case makes it to court. Multiply what I do by 1 billion and the RIAA is going to have a lot of legal bills to pay.
RIAA, soon to be owned by lawers.
Should I be scared of RFID tags? This is a big game of "What if"
What if Johnson and Johnson puts RFID tags in my vitamins, and I poop them out. Should I be worried that RFID tag scanning trucks will be scanning my local sewage treatment plant?
What if they just built little sewer traversing robots that just sat at my connection to the sewage system analyzing my waste water in order to do data mining to see what nutrients would be better marketed in my area.
What if Law Enforcement took over that technology and had a sewer traversing robot that could scan RFID tags and analyze what drugs I take?
OMG what if aliens are taking over mars?
Sorry to sound unworldly here but...
Tonight I was watching OZ on HBO (it's cable, so OT post here) Some white dude allowed some capo to "spoon" him at the end of the episode for protection. Can anyone enlighten me why they did this? What was the purpose of the spoon?
And if someone answers, it'll serve another purpose, I learn sicker shit on the internet than I ever did watching TV.
Point is they provide POTS as a connection medium. If I wanted to DDOS the veriphone dialin, I would just simply have my worm clog up the phone lines.
Your comment wasn't flaming at all either, it's good to try and post counterpoints because you can go back and learn stuff.
I disagreed with one point the article made.
BugBear then goes searching for a modem, enables it, then tries to get the computer to dial out, probably to reach the virus author. âoeHe really wanted to get into those machines,â Kuo said. U.S. financial institutions probably arenâ(TM)t at risk from this technique, Kuo said, because most donâ(TM)t have modems attached to their critical computers any more.
Today I was at fry's electronics, and I saw a Quickbooks POS (point of sale, not peice of shit) system on display for small to medium business. This started getting me thinking back to my earlier days of consulting.
One of the companies I did work for had a retail chain of mall stores. At night the registers would dump their management reports to our AS/400 machine and someone would make neat reports out of them. It wasn't a huge amount of data, so each store would just phone home on those really nice $300 courier modems.
Most of our store managers kept in touch with us via outlook/exchange server.
Now another interesting side note is veriphone uses POTS lines for nearly %100 of their credit card processing. Tons of small stores have networks in them now, managers reading e-mail and such.
So which of these financial institutions has its shit so well together that they don't need modems? I just wanted to point out the author of the article is a stupidhead. Boo!
Then comes a uniform with built-in tourniquets that one day might be tightened and loosened remotely.
Bored Soldier: Base I'm bleeding bad, I need my "arm" tightened.
Base: Our sensors show that isn't your arm.
What makes you think non nerds are going to see this video?
:D)
(btw, clicked the bt link, ran off to take a shower, came back and it was done! Go BC and BT
What are you cryin for?
My mother smoked while I was in her womb, for years growin up, despite being geeky smart, my behavior was erradict. (noisiest in class, never sitting still)
Until I started chain smoking at 10 (I love you cigarette machine)
Despite school, and everyone else trying to deny my stoge, when I started to use nicotine on a consistant basis my grades IMPROVED because I could actually sit still for a minute and concentrate. No it wasn't ADD, I suffered from, I truly believe I was suffering from nicotine withdrawel all those years.
THANKS MOM YOU FUCKING WHORE I HOPE YOU DIE CUNT!
These last 100 years have been spent learning how to build wings that can lift a plane into the sky. Near the middle of the last century we learned how to make rockets which took us beyond our earth for the first time.
I think in the next 50 years we will see space travel as common as transcontinental passenger jets are today.
I'm only 30, heavy smoker but I think with stem cell research I can always get a new pair of lungs long enough to see the day I can fly me to the moon.
Might as well keep the 8008 jokes on the same thread :P
How long before this is integrated into the
fufme unit?
Yah we all know konami ripped DDR from
DDK
Cybiko does this. Am I supposed
to dance around and clap at motorola's innovative entry into the teen PDA
market?
P.S. I'm just P.O'd slash doesn't do more coverage on this device, I
have 3, they're a hell of a lot better than luggin a laptop through the house
for IRC or IM'ing. Really cool toy.
look what 'massive pirating and copying' did to the video game industry... and to the company who's boss was crying about it decades ago.
Would you be talking about Jack Tramiel of Atari? Piracy didn't kill them off, it was his families bad management. I knew ppl that worked there during time/warners time and were subsequently laid off during tramiels term.
I am hated.
I am one of "those" dot commers responsible for screwing up the economy.
This is the attitude I get from a lot of people. Since the crash all the non-tech people I know have taken every oppertunity to take a cheap shot at me, "Ya told you it wouldn't last forever" or my personal favorite, "It's never coming back"
"Bullshit" I say to myself as I try to keep my temper from flaring up.
This type of thinking perme-ates (sp?) our society simply because nobody likes being replaced by younger newer models. This is the way it's been since the dawn of time. Someone makes technology (Castles) and someone else makes a technology that makes the former irrelevent (gunpowder) With both the RIAA and Kodak, it's the same problem. Someone came up with technology that quickly made the foundation of these organizations obselete.
In the case of the RIAA, the combination of internet with Mp3 compression made the old models of music distribution obselete. I worked for a local music magazine for a few years, and often I would hear rockers cry about how Mp3's are sending them all to the poorhouse crying because they can't sell CD's anymore. No matter how many times I would try and tell them website+thawte+oscommerce=mp3 online store they just wouldn't listen because they were all brought up to believe that the RIAA method was the only way. Now apple sells songs 99cents apiece and is making a fortune. With all the money and power the RIAA has, it's a shame they didn't adapt the way apple did and just give their customers what they want.
A good sign of how well CD distribution is dying is the ill fated "Wherehouse" music stores. To my knowledge here in san jose, they are all gone. CD sales just slipped into the toilet and all their stores have just vanished.
Kodak isn't much different. For years they depended on film technology as the cornerstone of their business. By the time they entered digital photography other players had already developed cheaper and more mass producable camera's with higher quality than kodak. I suppose kodak never thought that digital technology would catch up with film, they should have paid closer attention to moores law.
Both companies are old hats, trying to milk every dime out of innovations that are already 100 years old. Let them die already so the new upshots can give us better, faster, cheaper.
Not to degrade Mr. Sheppard's discovery, but it's not that big a deal, really.
Got to disagree with you there...
What this guy did was add to a map of the solar system. Finding these moons means we don't have to worry about crashing billion dollar probes into them because "I didn't know it was there"
Your comment sounds more like jealousy than critique.
As an undergrad student I was published twice and had posters involving my work presented at two or three conferences.
Yeah but I bet you never had your work published and slashdotted!
cromulent?
:P lol!
woah! You better slow down or i'll have to look that one up
they're specially formulated
Not trying to knock you, but you sound like you're talking about vitamin suppliments using that word "formulated"
You're right though, they are "engineered" or "designed" to slowly let the air out of the tires by using small tubes, about 3mm in size to allow the air to slowly escape.
Perhaps a better name would be "Tube Strips" because they aren't actually spikes at all. (Note I learned this all from watching a discovery special about non-leathal weapons for law enforcement.)
A class-action suit has been filed charging that MSN and Best Buy combined to scam customers.
/. Damn I wish I had held out for that GF3.
When I think of best buy and MSN, I think back to 1998 when MSN accidentally left a legal loophole in their marketing plan.
I can't find the story now, but MSN and BB had a promotion going where if you signed up for the MSN service, you got $400 store credit. This was legal in every state EXCEPT california. The San Jose Mercury ran a big story about it, which basically explained the law was created to stop car lots from forcing people to use a certain insurance carrier in exchange for a few dollars knocked off the sticker price.
Well, me and my co-workers took a long lunch that day, headed down to best buy and got our free $400 dollars. Everyone but me bought stuff on the spot, I was smart enough to turn my store credit into gift checks.
Those gift checks sat in my wallet for some time, I was waiting for the latest greatest nvidia card. My wife knew they were in there, and her constant nagging broke down all my defenses until I caved in and let her use them for our new TV.
Unfortunately I spend most of my time in front of this sun monitor tapping away at
You need:
:D
Package of Tin Foil
Tape
A cardboard PC Case
Measure the side of the case. For those with the skills, eyeballing the length is fine. Now tear out a sheet of Tin Foil the same length of the case. Use the tape to attatch the foil. Keep doing this until your entire case is covered in foil.
Voila! Now you can go tell the FCC or any similiar organization that you're compliant
Someone shits on the keyboard and submits it to urinalpoop?
Ever seen the movie Willard (lots of rats), I tried finding the quote, couldn't so I'm going to paraphrase it. This happened after Willards mom died and his deceased fathers business partner fires him from the company that still bears his fathers name.
Willard: You can't fire me! You and my father had a contract!
Business partner: Then you take this severence check downtown and get yourself a $250@hr lawer and SUE ME! Then i'll tell my $500@hr lawer to keep your $250@hr lawer tied up in court until YOU RUN OUT OF MONEY!
Willard: Well that's not fair! You know I can't afford that!
I think the business partner goes onto to say something about how that's life, tough shit, ect, after which Willard launches an attack of rats at the business partner which overwhealm and consume him.
This just brought me to an interesting side junction of thought... Perhaps the method of everyone contributing to class action and other large type suits is moot. If the current legal tactics of class action were compared to a network, it would basically be a T1 line trying to DOS. It's not that hard for the RIAA to defend on just one front.
On the other hand, hundreds of thousands legally filed nasty attorney letters filed by peoples private lawers for a fee of $100 bucks could overwhelm the RIAA because legally, they have to respond to them.
So you have 10,000 people spend $100 to have their attorney send it off. Cost. 1,000,000
Now the RIAA responds with their $500@hr lawers. Cost $5,000,000.
So basically, for 1 packet, we recieve 5. Since it's a distributed system, they cannot really focus their defense against 1 paticular individual.
Bah, mod me how u want. This is my first post in days.
I thought these worked because static electricity charges the dust around it to stick to the collectors. Isn't static electricity bad for components?
I would think a hepa based filter product would result in less burned out hardware, despite messy filter changes.
That's in UK, not USA (btw it's 4am here, what time is it there?)
In the USA, I think the VBI is completely unused. I dunno, maybe we should go post our findings in the mythtv.org discussion forums, or in the very least look if anyone else has thought of it.
Thanks slim.
--toq