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  1. You think you can be safe by destroying it? on Salon On Computer Forensics · · Score: 2

    Then takes the ashes and bits in an aircraft and scatter them over a 100 mile area.

    So you think that data is gone forever? Let's assume there was no van across the street studying van-eck emissions and no keyboard loggers, etc...

    Chances are your email was relayed through a few servers before it got to your destination. Those web pages made it through a proxy server, a few routers, and the logs of the GET and PUT requests may have been stored, backed up, and the tapes may have been sorted on a weekly rotation schedule.

    Not to mention some tapes are retired and put on the back shelf. Not all these servers were in the same building. Just how many of these tapes are there and where could they all be? Say, a word of panic gets around the company, its partners, and providers as law enforcement gets around asking questions. Darnit, this stuff keeps showing up. Where do these tapes keep coming from? Its like cleaning a dirty house, killing a cockroach, and 10 more pop up.

    Electronic evidence breeds and multiplies. A networked approach to data sharing encourages information to branch out be copied countless times.

    The only way to be safe is to carefully consider the method of how information is being delivered.

    Why people are so afraid of "dumb" workstations that use a single server for processing is interesting. These are not just black and white terminals any more, but now have mice and color monitors. All the maintenance and information is neatly on one server. Software upgrades and projects would not expand the distribution of sensitive information in a closed system like this.

  2. Re:A major problem on Public Procurement and Open Source · · Score: 2

    It's a standard way of thinking for government agencies. They will never adopt open source...

    It all starts at the top. I see it happening.

  3. Re:speed monitoring on IEEE Building Automotive Black-Box Standard · · Score: 2

    You *can* drive safely at 90...for a fine practical demonstration.

    Or flip a few words to define the American side of things: driving safely at 90 for a practical demonstration of a fine.

    The accepted belief here is that a person cannot handle certain levels of kenetic energy and that the car will spin off like an electron out of orbit and crash into the nearest object into a fissionable reaction. People are taught here that anyone caught driving over 65 is considered unstable and should be a restricted element.

  4. Re:Who needs a Microwave on 802.11b at 22mbps · · Score: 2

    Yessir! 100mW of coffee bean roasting power. A slightly longer wait, but surfing while you wait should be enjoyable. Use a highly directional 26dBi antenna to concentrate that power into a tiny area with an effective power of 25 watts. You might be able to see microscopic bubbles of steam...

  5. Re:My thoughts on reading this article on Tech Industry Versus Content Industry · · Score: 2

    A finite number of people who can use it? How would you explain radio stations? Any number of people can tune into the music. And play this music at work, which also may be considered a "public exhibition." I don't see the entertainment industry attempting to squelch that behavior, yet they promote it. They want maximum users.

    Unless it has to deal with technology. The entertainment industry wants total control how we are to view any multimedia experience, even the means to create our own. Smells like a monopoly brewwing to me.

  6. Re:What about external support? on Establishing the Maximum Speed of a CD-ROM Drive · · Score: 2

    Indeed, plastic laminated with Kevlar(tm) would not be effective as Kevlar itself. However, DuPont, does sell Kevlar reinforced plastics ready for extrustion into your favorite shapes. The only problem would be optical clarity.

    I used to have fun troubleshooting plastic extrusion machines with exotic plastics using up to 8" barrels on the night shift. Some of the plastics had such a high lead content, they to be refrigerated before use or else they would cure at room temperature.

  7. Re:DYI cdrom experiment on Establishing the Maximum Speed of a CD-ROM Drive · · Score: 2

    No, I'm just an electrician at a wharehouse in Kansas City, but I'm trying to blow up a CD again. So far, these things are taking off like UFO's into the air and bouncing off the walls in my "bomb shelter" in the basement. Got one to crack and shell off the silver laminate though.

    With any luck, I'll have an explosion before the night is over. Its all a matter of how many watts I dare to put into this little electric motor.

  8. DYI cdrom experiment on Establishing the Maximum Speed of a CD-ROM Drive · · Score: 2

    You can Do This Yourself with a commonly available Dremel tool like I did; however, I only found the outer tracks would skew at the rated 30,000. Note that the CD hole almost fits the collett of the drill. A little electrical tape fills the gap. A few wraps and there you go. Wear eye protection and do not put anything valuable in the spinning direction, such as your body.

    Was it really 30,000 rpm? I don't know, but I had the 30,000rpm dremel "overclocked" on an inverter at a much higher voltage and frequency. The speed was indeed higher than off 120VAC 60Hz current. Those cheap 300 watt inverters you can get at Walmart can be tweaked with a potentiometer and capacitor on its oscillator circuit. The circuit board layout is very modular and can be quickly seen for modifications. Maximum voltage is around 180 and frequency is around 400Hz before the slew rate overheats the transistors.

    Perhaps I will try again to the point of destructon tonight.

  9. Re:If cloaking becomes a problem... on Cloaking Detection? · · Score: 2

    If they did all this, could someone still detect it's a search engine robot and use cloaking?

    I am seeing "cable customers" with very interesting browsing patterns that suggests this is already happening. They appear to be normal IE98 browsers, but pick up one page per minute in no particular order. Something like that is more likely done from something like a search engine script list than a human.

    I have thought of setting up Junkbuster info string to make my browser appear as a robot when I view sites. ...just to be clever, checking out robots.txt first. I'd imagine the pr0n sites would give me the keys to the place...

  10. Re:Entrapment! Or, not... on Wireless, GPS-Loaded 'Bait Car' Traps Thieves · · Score: 1

    Forget those urban legend prison stories. Why don't you test this legal theory out and steal one of these cars yourself? You might be pleased to know justice does prevail.

  11. Re:It was bad enough when I couldn't get into MSDN on U.S. Considers Microsoft Passport as National ID · · Score: 5, Funny

    We have detected a virus on your card and you will be detained until we release a patch.

  12. Re:what' I'd rather see... on At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference · · Score: 3, Informative

    The higher wattage power supplies are of higher quality. Just because its rated for 300 watts, doesn't mean it uses any more than a 200 watt power supply when idle. In fact, the larger diameter copper windings and larger capacitors may increase its efficiency. Operating lifetime is improved, since power components are under less stress.

    My computer has a 300 watt power supply and draws less than 40 watts (ok, its a 486, but...)

  13. Re:MIE = Unschooling on Web-Surfing Indian Slum Kids Ask: "What's a Computer" · · Score: 2, Troll

    Why is the National Endowment for the Arts pissed off about MIE or Unschooling?

    The National Educational Association, a teacher's UNION, has these few words about unschooling. It seems unschooling is not in their business strategy. Yes, its about money, while unschooling is about education.

  14. Laptops make great servers on No More Rebooting? · · Score: 2

    Or just get a laptop with the slight performance hit: 30 watts, plus a built in UPS supply. Other advantages include easy to transport to another location without removing dozens of cables or powering down.

    Less heat, less power, why haven't these caught on?

    Or do laptops have a habit of mysteriously walking away compared to their boat anchor bretheren?

  15. Re:dumb law, bad law on War Driving Version 2.0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The one I got from X10 runs at 2.4GHz. These things are like visual CB's or walkietalkies.

    All you need is the receiver to pick up a very nice picture and the range is incredible. Its too easy to fashion a crumpled up piece of aluminum foil around the antenna to concentrate the signal for dramatic range increases across the city.

    Pass laws against receiving these? That's like banning the receive mode on CB radios. Its pretty much public airspace. Its an anarchy that people need to learn how to use if they want any privacy.

  16. We already have enough databases on Silicon Valley vs. Your Privacy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    What about TRW and all the other information companies? Sounds like Leasure Larry just wants a snoop database for a few tax dollars.

  17. Re:Scientology sucks! on Google Publicizes DMCA Takedowns · · Score: 2

    Bad idea to use a rifle: potential to great for massive property damage. Use a shotgun or handgun. If a rifle can enter a deer from the front and exit through the rear, imagine the line of houses a rifle can get beside your attacker.

    A shotgun's energy will be efficiently dissapated in the intended target, not your neighor's house. A handgun is also a safer dispenser for easy self defense.

    If you are going to defend yourself in the city from a scientologist, use the proper tool. Don't use something that is designed to take down a herd of deer in the country.

  18. Re:Elements of good design I'd missed on Stopping Spambots: A Spambot Trap · · Score: 2, Funny

    but...but...a blind AND deaf internet user couldn't read your webpage.

    I'm sure you don't want THAT kind of lawsuit.

  19. Re:Ti Wedding Ring? on The Sexiest Metal · · Score: 2

    I have worked with enough exotic alloys (including radioactive thorium alloys) to know anything can be cut with a cheapo cut off wheel powered by a $50 walmart dremel tool. The precision is remarkable by skilled hands.

  20. Re:Titanium is also very flexible. on The Sexiest Metal · · Score: 2

    The ever common form of titanium: Titanium Dioxide. Its cheap and everywhere. Just about anything white as it is a strong pigment close to phosphorous. All white house paints, Liquid Paper, also food grade titanium dioxide is in toothpaste, ice creams, candies, etc... just look in the ingredients.

    You can buy raw titanium dioxide in the 50lb bag and it is some nasty stuff to clean up if spilled. Everything gets white and it takes lots of sweeping, soap, and water.

  21. Nike shoes on CNN Says Chat Rooms Are a Haven for Hackers · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Running shoes allow thieves and armed robbers to flee the scene from their victims. We must take away everyone's shoes. Won't anyone please think of the victims?

  22. Re:As much as I'd like the CBDTPA go down in flame on Copyright [CBDTPA] Bill Universally Rejected · · Score: 2

    Hollings has been in the Senate since 1966!

    I can understand the importance of keeping experience in office for your state, but someone has got to get the message to Holliings it is not cool to take away our rights. Its hard to believe someone who has built up a reputation for so long could sell out to large corporate interests. We need to reach him and ask him for help.

  23. Re:Wow on Internal MP3 Server? 1 Million Dollars Please · · Score: 2

    Ouch, I'm sorry to hear that. I didn't know they were true spawns of Satan. Not only do they get to screw people on a routine basis, they also get to be the posterchild for the RIAA. Sounds like capitalism in the fast lane.

    So, will they now sue me for expressing my opinion of them in an internet forum?

  24. Re:Wow on Internal MP3 Server? 1 Million Dollars Please · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The logic of this event smells as if it has been staged. Some of the owners or investors may have had relations with those of the RIAA. They don't tell us if the RIAA is also contracting them to do some work in a mutual relationship.

    For $1,000,000, a great many legal arguments could have been explored and may have helped the restrictive entertainment laws we have. Sounds like someone made a private win-win deal to me.

    So, as a result of this, its legal to listen to the radio at work, but illegal to play a rack of CD's. Fine with those laws? Uh huh... They were either without principle and spineless, or accepting a deal. No one caves in like that without taking a kickback.

  25. Re:Damn. on Globalism, Corporatism and Open Source · · Score: 2

    Katz doesn't have a salary. He's a bot. Katzbot is a proof of concept program brought to you from MIT, the next generation of RMS's "doctor" script. Katz takes information off the newswire and compiles it into psuedo-commentary and is further compiled into the buzzword filter. From there, it is parsed into an AI engine.

    Apparently, this version seems to be a bit buggy as it is spewing out some smelly shit. We hope to have it fixed in the next version