I worked in a legal firm which specialized in e-discovery and forensics, they weren't data-recovery specialists, but they were able to pull data from slack space and previously rewritten areas. But that is besides the point. For client-privacy reasons, legal reasons, and corporate policy, they ended up with hundreds of hard drives per month that needed to be destroyed with no possible way to recover the data. A $24 sledgehammer is certainly a cheap and fun sounding answer. But after smashing five hard drives, this stops being fun, you're making a lot of noise, and someone would need to clean up the mess. I'm sure OSHA wouldn't approve of that either.
We were in a corporate office in the middle of New York City, so smart-ass solutions like thermite; sodium hydroxide; shooting them with a.45, a shotgun, or a bazooka aren't going to fly. Because of chain of custody, you couldn't even take the hard disks into an empty field to do this.
The guy responsible for destruction started unscrewing everything, taking out the platters, then punching a hole in the platters with a screw-press. But like the sledgehammer solution, this was slow labor-intensive. I believe they ended up using a qualified HD destruction service, who would come to your office once a month, and give you metal confetti back. This of course isn't cheap. Eventually, purchasing one of these Garner devices would make economic sense.
My point is, sure, given our own devices, we can think of quick and fun ways to destroy a hard disk. But when you are limited by government and corporate rules, companies like Garner aren't just greedy, but filling a real need.
Even though my family owned a full set of Encyclopedia Brittanica and Comptons, I don't feel too bad for them. EB later turned out to be a Patent Troll. I used to work for one of the Defendants in their bizzare lawsuits on GPS manufacturers.
http://thepriorart.typepad.com/the_prior_art/2008/11/encyclopaedia-britannica-patent-lawsuit.html
Apparently, if you search a CD you are stealing their IP or something.
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So she has a new pancreas, kidney, and now voicebox and windpipe!
"Gentlemen, we can rebuild her. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic woman. Brenda Jensen will be that woman. Better than she was before. Better...stronger...faster."
I am glad that there are no cellphone rules on airplanes. Someone sitting next to me gabbing all the way through the flight is just as irritating to me as a crying baby, a toddler kicking the back of my seat, or people who insist on bringing their yipping toy poodle on board in a pet carrier. The last three things are allowed on board planes, and it's something I must tolerate. Air travel experience is already getting crappier and crappier everyday with the no more free in-flight meals, the enhanced pat downs, and even making a bomb jokes in an airport is a federal crime! But, please, let's not allow more irritations! I don't want to hear some self-absorbed executive discuss his business deals or some twenty-something hipster updating their FP profile with "taking off now!". Ug. Just put everything away for a couple of hours and let me go to sleep, will ya?
Since when was NASA in the contracting-to-manufacture-computer business? NASA is more of a bureaucracy with a collection of labs all over the nation. They usually hand out the contracts. When they need computers they usually contract IBM or Silicon Graphics (maybe not lately) to do so.
SCO is offering a bounty of a quarter million dollars to anyone providing information that leads to the arrest of the virus writer. Here's the
article.
But what is SCO so worried about? It's not like their business model involes selling anything...
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I believe that HST and ISS is in a very different orbit angle. Getting one or the other to change would be a huge delta-v (meaning a lot of enery). Not very practical.
ISS is constantly losing altitude. It would require a shuttle nudging more often, and with the combined mass of HST and ISS, this would be more difficult.
Plus, what would be the point? The cost of maintaining HST is in the support facilities (communications, engineering, science) on the ground, not where its orbit lies.
All is not lost, they mention that similar problems came up the the Pathfinder mission.
Listening to the press conference, they said that the Spirit Rover did respond to a "give me a beep" signal. So the engineer said it looks more like a memory fault or software fault, rather than a more serious power fault.
I sort of agree. Reporting that a new network worm is working it's way around the Internet is like saying that there was an earthquake in California. There's probably 30 earthquakes a day!
However, a California earthquake is significant if people die or buildings collapse. What makes a net worm significant? Must be a slow news day.
I think spam is one of those things that require a mulit-pronged attack to fix. Here are some suggestions:
- Jail/Fine spammers - Fix mailing protocols so the sender must be authenticated, and force all mailers to have no open relays. - Enforcement at the ISP level, both the sender and recipient. - Opt-in/opt-out lists. - Boycott companies that use spam. There probably aren't too many legitimate companies that use spam, but according to the article, Omaha Steaks used to use it.
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I worked in a legal firm which specialized in e-discovery and forensics, they weren't data-recovery specialists, but they were able to pull data from slack space and previously rewritten areas. But that is besides the point. For client-privacy reasons, legal reasons, and corporate policy, they ended up with hundreds of hard drives per month that needed to be destroyed with no possible way to recover the data. A $24 sledgehammer is certainly a cheap and fun sounding answer. But after smashing five hard drives, this stops being fun, you're making a lot of noise, and someone would need to clean up the mess. I'm sure OSHA wouldn't approve of that either. We were in a corporate office in the middle of New York City, so smart-ass solutions like thermite; sodium hydroxide; shooting them with a .45, a shotgun, or a bazooka aren't going to fly. Because of chain of custody, you couldn't even take the hard disks into an empty field to do this.
The guy responsible for destruction started unscrewing everything, taking out the platters, then punching a hole in the platters with a screw-press. But like the sledgehammer solution, this was slow labor-intensive. I believe they ended up using a qualified HD destruction service, who would come to your office once a month, and give you metal confetti back. This of course isn't cheap. Eventually, purchasing one of these Garner devices would make economic sense.
My point is, sure, given our own devices, we can think of quick and fun ways to destroy a hard disk. But when you are limited by government and corporate rules, companies like Garner aren't just greedy, but filling a real need.
Even though my family owned a full set of Encyclopedia Brittanica and Comptons, I don't feel too bad for them. EB later turned out to be a Patent Troll. I used to work for one of the Defendants in their bizzare lawsuits on GPS manufacturers. http://thepriorart.typepad.com/the_prior_art/2008/11/encyclopaedia-britannica-patent-lawsuit.html Apparently, if you search a CD you are stealing their IP or something.
....oh there it is.
So she has a new pancreas, kidney, and now voicebox and windpipe! "Gentlemen, we can rebuild her. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic woman. Brenda Jensen will be that woman. Better than she was before. Better...stronger...faster."
I am glad that there are no cellphone rules on airplanes. Someone sitting next to me gabbing all the way through the flight is just as irritating to me as a crying baby, a toddler kicking the back of my seat, or people who insist on bringing their yipping toy poodle on board in a pet carrier. The last three things are allowed on board planes, and it's something I must tolerate. Air travel experience is already getting crappier and crappier everyday with the no more free in-flight meals, the enhanced pat downs, and even making a bomb jokes in an airport is a federal crime! But, please, let's not allow more irritations! I don't want to hear some self-absorbed executive discuss his business deals or some twenty-something hipster updating their FP profile with "taking off now!". Ug. Just put everything away for a couple of hours and let me go to sleep, will ya?
With a European Ariane 5 rocket. http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/launch.html
I think the American Association of Cocaine Dealers would object to arbitrarily getting rid of the kilogram!
in about a year that it's full of lead, heavy metals, and other chemicals that are bad for babies and pregnant mothers.
The MB 2010 E Class cars already have this. But I don't think it's calibrated for Asians. The thing won't shut off!
"I don't understand it, that was non-alcoholic champagne."
Since when was NASA in the contracting-to-manufacture-computer business? NASA is more of a bureaucracy with a collection of labs all over the nation. They usually hand out the contracts. When they need computers they usually contract IBM or Silicon Graphics (maybe not lately) to do so.
SCO is offering a bounty of a quarter million dollars to anyone providing information that leads to the arrest of the virus writer. Here's the article.
But what is SCO so worried about? It's not like their business model involes selling anything...
I believe that HST and ISS is in a very different orbit angle. Getting one or the other to change would be a huge delta-v (meaning a lot of enery). Not very practical. ISS is constantly losing altitude. It would require a shuttle nudging more often, and with the combined mass of HST and ISS, this would be more difficult. Plus, what would be the point? The cost of maintaining HST is in the support facilities (communications, engineering, science) on the ground, not where its orbit lies.
All is not lost, they mention that similar problems came up the the Pathfinder mission. Listening to the press conference, they said that the Spirit Rover did respond to a "give me a beep" signal. So the engineer said it looks more like a memory fault or software fault, rather than a more serious power fault.
I sort of agree. Reporting that a new network worm is working it's way around the Internet is like saying that there was an earthquake in California. There's probably 30 earthquakes a day! However, a California earthquake is significant if people die or buildings collapse. What makes a net worm significant? Must be a slow news day.
I think spam is one of those things that require a mulit-pronged attack to fix. Here are some suggestions:
- Jail/Fine spammers
- Fix mailing protocols so the sender must be authenticated, and force all mailers to have no open relays.
- Enforcement at the ISP level, both the sender and recipient.
- Opt-in/opt-out lists.
- Boycott companies that use spam. There probably aren't too many legitimate companies that use spam, but according to the article, Omaha Steaks used to use it.