Not sure exactly what you are referring to. The virus infected iPoid? That's easy, somebody got sloppy.
So if I bought an iPod right now and got the virus, I'd be getting sloppy seconds?
Sloppy?! No, either Apple or a company who made a library that Apple licensed for use in the iPod software thought they could add in some neat features that could be used later to alter the media AND/OR the player and thought they were safe because no one else "knew about it." That's security by obfuscation and it never works; using it in practice is so beyond rational comprehension that calling it "sloppy" is, well... you get the idea. That said, I have nothing against Apple and in fact my next computer will most likely be an Apple Macbook when the new Intel Quad Cores come out. (I just remembered I haven't yet submitted a resumé to Apple on their CS end of things... )
I second (or whatever number we're on at this point...) the Zaurus fanboy train. But really, we're talking in English; shouldn't it be Zaurii rather than Zauruses?
Puh-leez. As you can plainly see in this example, Creative is represented by the stick-man with the small... stick, Creative's legal staff is represented by the stick-devil, and Apple is represented by the two stick-men who appear in the beginning. Any questions?
Now let's find out when that underground volcanic chamber beneath Yellowstone will erupt! That sucker is one of the two largest chambers of lava in the world! It's a time bomb, so why not study that, too?!
Leave the security cameras on.
Very recently, only two people still have office keys to my boss' office - him and his secretary. They recently changed the locks due to some weird things going on. Well, now that he's conveniently out of town for the week, the secretary came in this morning to discover that some douche screwed with her computer, which is now acting funny and can't connect, whereas the others work just fine. No one else has the keys except... you guessed it, the cleanup crew. I'm going in tomorrow to fix up the thing, and find out what the hell they were running, too. Man, it's weird to have that happen.
This 'buy-n-burn' mentality that our "throw-away" society has recently come up with in the workforce is the dumbest thing yet to come out of our USA (well, actually destroying our natural resources is the stupidest. Even the programmers of C&C had that figured out; you get more $$ if you sustain your natural resources rather than pull 'em all up out at once, attack everything, go broke, and get slaughtered like a moron, but the GNP doesn't account for that at all.), and our country has done some really stupid and spiteful shit in the past. More burnout in employees means more espionage and you end up with a bunch of vengeful ex-employees preying on unhappy current employees. How stupid is that? I'm not bitter, really!!!
Oh, please make sure to incorporate that into your speech:-D
A friend of mine is actually afraid to update his new xp 64 software for that reason, and it's a shame too. That's a fast computer and he stays on xp 32 since until he gets all the drivers and fixes for xp 64 (he's manually loaded as many as he can), it's going to be fast as molasses.
Ah, you are correct. My old-school Asus A7V mobo is still running strong... So my tag line should probably read more like, "AMD+ASUS! AMD+ASUS!" but for some reason it doesn't really have the same flow... or does it? Got a better tagline for enthusiasm in a six-year-old ASUS+AMD machine?
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You just opened the floodgates, Mister. But yes, I love AMD - look at my sig for the sake of/.
Intel is going nowhere, however - there are far too many consumer-oriented PC corps out there that adore Intel. And sheesh, AMD has been on the short end for so long, it's hard to imagine that a corp like Intel couldn't wait it out, too.
I'm not so sure about the first part (regardless, it's definitely a good idea -personally, I'm just not sure that I would take that route.)
As for the second part, as soon as you get bored of it, you should have already had a few zealous volunteer mods who would sell their toes (but not their typing fingers, of course) for the opportunity to enhance the XYZ technology for use on your site, and in return you could simply give them some somewhat restricted access to one of your servers so that they could start some pet service project (with your approval of course.) But you're asking for something that you will most likely only find in the discussion and help forums of the technology you're using, and from there, you should be able to find the gurus or at least the people in charge, who (if not being outright gurus themselves) will always know a few gurus of the technology you're using.
You hit the nail on the head, bud. The discussion forum for whatever distro you use should always be the number one starting resource.
I fully agree with that guy above who posted the starting thread comment on Gentoo - that community rocks - every single question I had was already asked and answered by others except the few which I directly asked and was given answers for, but I don't know if having a lot of questions is necessarily a good or bad thing (?), but the answers were all concise, and worked flawlessly. Waiting for things to compile before first use is a necessary evil when you know that all the software you use is optimized specifically to your machine. [/End long and boring Gentoo hype]
My eyes have enough blood flowing through them that they sometimes jerk in harmony with each pulse. I can see how it'd be "bloody" cool to be able to control the camera angle by eyesight, but I'm pretty certain it'd be a jerky ride for people like me.
Actually, I thought the elitism was due to horrible programming. If you've ever rummaged through Myspace's code, you can find a javascript gateway API that was made about 5 or more years ago. Last I checked, which was a little while ago, they also apparently still use cgi - there's your answer if you've ever wondered about their speed issues... and I can log in and visibly count major errors even without viewing the code, that still prevent me from doing certain things in Myspace. (But to their credit, they're working full-time to fix those errors, scrambling asap to beat 'em down.) Furthermore their methods of restricting viewers from private pages isn't secure, and I've been flamed by many users recently because some spammer touting a fake myspace feature used an AIM sidebar freebie I've been offering without incident for 4 years! ( Bizarrely enough, that same incident sent me an influx of new friend requests as well:-S )
Secondly, I feel at odds with Livejournal simply because they were the first to introduce locked comments and restricted viewing - a "feature" to some, and definitely useful to people trying to cut down on anonymous cowards (whatever for?!), but not to me. I don't want to search for something on Google just to find out it's on a password-protected page, even if I can get by the password easily. If you want to restrict viewing, just don't add your site to search-engines , tell your host to follow suit in whatever options you have, and in your code, or another host option, tell spiders not to scan the page either!
Thirdly, the idea of limiting user access of javascript and html to very specific conditions, along with preventing keywords from being typed is absolutely revolting imho, which both LJ and MySpace do. However, in Myspace's case, it's somewhat important because their javascript API is visible to everyone (otherwise there'd be no way to run it from the browser) and by reading it and downloading it, once upon a time, it allowed individual users to send pretty nasty "loaded" messages to large numbers of other users in bulletins, primarily demonstrating unauthorized replication of itself to be resent as a bulletin, but there were apparently worse results back in the day.
Finally, I just can't understand why the trend these days is for the majority of the completely tech-unsavvy to flock towards the worst examples of new community-content sites rather than the most efficient, automated(this is what they need), bug-free, and unrestricted (Blogger STILL has this, by the way. If I want to put javascript in my fucking index, they aren't going to fucking stop me! And journalspace! why haven't more people gone to them?! They have the best easy-to-use intuitive automated system AND full access to the html content AND image-hosting if I remember correctly! Furthermore, I hear there's an OSS project in the style of Myspace that's in the works, which is good, because there are so many nasty things in the news about the owner of Myspace.
I desire social contact (I may be in the minority here...), and like it or not, Myspace and LiveJournal are still fun ways to interact with your friends. (But if you don't know where I stand on the issue now, you never will...) I'm still heavily active on both sites, one for friends, and the other for talking with friends, few of which are even remotely tech-savvy! My belief is that it's another way to keep in touch with them, even though I may not agree with the medium. If the majority of your friends share too many of your same ideas, then you can't honestly claim that you're getting the full view on things just because you think you're right, or that you're better than everyone else... even though, of course, that's why elitism, peer-pressure, and anti-"peer-pressure" elitism (which is just peer-pressure under a different name) are so strong even outside high school, (A place where such forces should have died long ago and never seen the light of day... )
The bottom line is quite simple; that small handful of code accumulates very quickly until it is no longer a small handful, at least when compared to something that uses better (re:shorter) identification names for libraries, and that has sufficient mechanisms to cut down on function and variable names such as scope control, (and I do admit, I absolutely love java's handling of brackets and static brackets... you can validly place those suckers in the weirdest locations), enumerations, (which java finally added a few years back, albeit in their own ugly way) and much more-importantly, symbolic operator-overloading:-p You know I was heading there.
At any rate, yes operator-overloading can provide you with multiple ways to shoot yourself in the foot, but Java is already ready for these puppies; think interfaces! All you have to do is look at the most basic and commonly-implemented interfaces that java recognizes, and then say, "Okay, which operators should be overloaded to match these interfaces?," (i.e. the commonly-overloaded operators for queues, lists, stacks, and comparable types, etc) implement those into the virtual machine, and boom, you've got backwards-compatible operator-overloading in Java. No biggie, right? Makes SENSE, right?! Well, heck, at that point you've almost got a dynamic-by-default version of C++ without a macro preprocessor! In my book, that's progressive!
But Java's had a very crappy version of regular-expression support for ages. I wasn't able to understand it for a very long time and in fact I learned many other regular expression engines for various scripting/programming languages in far shorter periods of time (Perl, Python, PHP, Javascript, egrep, f/lex for C/++, etc). But with this newfangled magic era of software libraries (Java and VB and.NET) and toy languages (Primarily VB), if I can create a program that mimics tetris (C#.NET) in just about 7 hours, and the executible code is more than a few times larger than the source code, I call that a toy language - of course, in java, it took weeks for pacman - well, at least for us to do that in a three-student team for pac-man, but that was almost five years ago, in my first java class ever 8-B
I was such a die-hard C++ fan then. Now I say bring on the libraries and new languages, but save the Visual Basic software for your children to play with, just like almost all of us must have done, at some point.:-p )
Well, y'know, my real hope is that they're doing this so that they can perfect a realtime streaming video feed similar to what you'd find in Real Networks... er, only one that would actually stream data in a manner that was condusive to the particular network...
I simply mean my hope would be that Skype is doing this to streamline Video-over-IP, to offer Video+speaker phones along with those new WiFi phones, So you can see who you're talking to while you're talking to them --- although this wouldn't be one for the road!
This is what is known to the world as Carbon Sequestration, and in fact many very important advances need to be made in this arena. So far, it seems that Germany is leading the world in this area, especially with their development of a carbon-emissions-free coal power plant (by actively capturing carbon in the process.)
While I don't see much good in utilizing hydrogen-carrying fuels over non-carbon-emission methods including hydrogen itself, since one set of methods creates Carbon Dioxide and another set creates water (I hope someone starts an electrolysis debate), you'll still get mad props and points (at least from people like me) if you can get this to work, because I don't see how it could really be problematic especially due to the numerous capture-condusive properties of carbon in its many molecular forms.
This field of research is ripe for harvest, and I'd be willing to bet there are a lot of financial backers willing to invest in working demonstrations.
No no no, you're all wrong! It means we're going to see an uprising of nerds who have committed suicide after someone decided to wash their $3K gaming rigs, thinking they were just Levi's jeans!
So does that mean we geeks will finally start wearing $1000.00 clothing just like supermodels? (albeit clothing that runs at dual clock speeds of 6.5Ghz...)
:-) I'm actually not really trying to be funny.
Some "coincidences" do occur for many people often everyday mainly because of our own intuitive processes and subconscious processes picking up a lot more subtleties than our conscious minds are aware of - is this "telepathy" per se? Probably not, but many people make a very good business out of reading others almost as good as the real thing. Even then, our subconscious minds pick up so much of what we don't that often we'll get excited about something bad that happens because it might have affected a loved one - sometimes nothing happens, yet other times, you're glad you checked. Sometimes a last-minute reflex saves your ass from death - I'm pretty sure everyone has at least one of those stories, and I'm positive that most people have a lot more than one. Think about that! We evolved through unspoken communication and split-second deductive logic. ESP, or just good heuristic hypotheses generation in our brains? Both? Who knows, but think about the fact that we're able to communicate complex ideas to each other through small chunks of black-on-white markings.
Gosh, Neal Stephenson, Joseph Campbell, and Neil Gaiman should be so proud...
No excuses. The worst are the companies that advertise their Identity Theft Protection Service for $13.00 a month in their very own letter of apology to the victims (like mine, and yes, sadly it was authentic) when they should offer a free lifetime subscription due to the heinous nature of the offense.
Who wants to look forward to some idiot attempting to sell all assets 5-15 years down the line?
So now "Identity Theft Protection" is the most important service to have, a service that you wouldn't have needed if the original company had done its job correctly?
You've got built-in customers if you simply "lose" some files - that's so sick - that stuff needs to be protected with potent cryptographic schemes or a new identity scheme needs to be created immediately!
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Not sure exactly what you are referring to. The virus infected iPoid? That's easy, somebody got sloppy.
... you get the idea. That said, I have nothing against Apple and in fact my next computer will most likely be an Apple Macbook when the new Intel Quad Cores come out. (I just remembered I haven't yet submitted a resumé to Apple on their CS end of things ... )
So if I bought an iPod right now and got the virus, I'd be getting sloppy seconds?
Sloppy?! No, either Apple or a company who made a library that Apple licensed for use in the iPod software thought they could add in some neat features that could be used later to alter the media AND/OR the player and thought they were safe because no one else "knew about it." That's security by obfuscation and it never works; using it in practice is so beyond rational comprehension that calling it "sloppy" is, well
In Soviet Russia, Hand talk to YOU!
I second (or whatever number we're on at this point ...) the Zaurus fanboy train. But really, we're talking in English; shouldn't it be Zaurii rather than Zauruses?
Maybe the judge sympathized with the kid?
Heck, maybe people were glad he did what he did.
Regardless, I personally applaud him for exacting revenge upon the company.
When the code gets complex to a high degree, how can you ever be sure it's a bug in the JDK versus a bug in your code?
Puh-leez. As you can plainly see in this example, Creative is represented by the stick-man with the small ... stick, Creative's legal staff is represented by the stick-devil, and Apple is represented by the two stick-men who appear in the beginning. Any questions?
I think Despair.com said it best in their half-hearted, but sadly successful attempt in patenting the frowny-face emoticon.
If that's not screaming failure in our U.S. government, I don't know what is.
Yeah, him and the rest of us... :-(® :-D
Now let's find out when that underground volcanic chamber beneath Yellowstone will erupt! That sucker is one of the two largest chambers of lava in the world! It's a time bomb, so why not study that, too?!
Leave the security cameras on. ... you guessed it, the cleanup crew. I'm going in tomorrow to fix up the thing, and find out what the hell they were running, too. Man, it's weird to have that happen.
Very recently, only two people still have office keys to my boss' office - him and his secretary. They recently changed the locks due to some weird things going on. Well, now that he's conveniently out of town for the week, the secretary came in this morning to discover that some douche screwed with her computer, which is now acting funny and can't connect, whereas the others work just fine. No one else has the keys except
This 'buy-n-burn' mentality that our "throw-away" society has recently come up with in the workforce is the dumbest thing yet to come out of our USA (well, actually destroying our natural resources is the stupidest. Even the programmers of C&C had that figured out; you get more $$ if you sustain your natural resources rather than pull 'em all up out at once, attack everything, go broke, and get slaughtered like a moron, but the GNP doesn't account for that at all.), and our country has done some really stupid and spiteful shit in the past. More burnout in employees means more espionage and you end up with a bunch of vengeful ex-employees preying on unhappy current employees. How stupid is that? I'm not bitter, really!!!
Oh, please make sure to incorporate that into your speech :-D
A friend of mine is actually afraid to update his new xp 64 software for that reason, and it's a shame too. That's a fast computer and he stays on xp 32 since until he gets all the drivers and fixes for xp 64 (he's manually loaded as many as he can), it's going to be fast as molasses.
Ah, you are correct. My old-school Asus A7V mobo is still running strong ... So my tag line should probably read more like, "AMD+ASUS! AMD+ASUS!" but for some reason it doesn't really have the same flow ... or does it? Got a better tagline for enthusiasm in a six-year-old ASUS+AMD machine?
You just opened the floodgates, Mister. But yes, I love AMD - look at my sig for the sake of /.
Intel is going nowhere, however - there are far too many consumer-oriented PC corps out there that adore Intel. And sheesh, AMD has been on the short end for so long, it's hard to imagine that a corp like Intel couldn't wait it out, too.
I'm not so sure about the first part (regardless, it's definitely a good idea -personally, I'm just not sure that I would take that route.)
As for the second part, as soon as you get bored of it, you should have already had a few zealous volunteer mods who would sell their toes (but not their typing fingers, of course) for the opportunity to enhance the XYZ technology for use on your site, and in return you could simply give them some somewhat restricted access to one of your servers so that they could start some pet service project (with your approval of course.) But you're asking for something that you will most likely only find in the discussion and help forums of the technology you're using, and from there, you should be able to find the gurus or at least the people in charge, who (if not being outright gurus themselves) will always know a few gurus of the technology you're using.
You hit the nail on the head, bud. The discussion forum for whatever distro you use should always be the number one starting resource.
I fully agree with that guy above who posted the starting thread comment on Gentoo - that community rocks - every single question I had was already asked and answered by others except the few which I directly asked and was given answers for, but I don't know if having a lot of questions is necessarily a good or bad thing (?), but the answers were all concise, and worked flawlessly. Waiting for things to compile before first use is a necessary evil when you know that all the software you use is optimized specifically to your machine. [/End long and boring Gentoo hype]
My eyes have enough blood flowing through them that they sometimes jerk in harmony with each pulse. I can see how it'd be "bloody" cool to be able to control the camera angle by eyesight, but I'm pretty certain it'd be a jerky ride for people like me.
Actually, I thought the elitism was due to horrible programming. If you've ever rummaged through Myspace's code, you can find a javascript gateway API that was made about 5 or more years ago. Last I checked, which was a little while ago, they also apparently still use cgi - there's your answer if you've ever wondered about their speed issues... and I can log in and visibly count major errors even without viewing the code, that still prevent me from doing certain things in Myspace. (But to their credit, they're working full-time to fix those errors, scrambling asap to beat 'em down.) Furthermore their methods of restricting viewers from private pages isn't secure, and I've been flamed by many users recently because some spammer touting a fake myspace feature used an AIM sidebar freebie I've been offering without incident for 4 years! ( Bizarrely enough, that same incident sent me an influx of new friend requests as well :-S )
...), and like it or not, Myspace and LiveJournal are still fun ways to interact with your friends. (But if you don't know where I stand on the issue now, you never will ...) I'm still heavily active on both sites, one for friends, and the other for talking with friends, few of which are even remotely tech-savvy! My belief is that it's another way to keep in touch with them, even though I may not agree with the medium. If the majority of your friends share too many of your same ideas, then you can't honestly claim that you're getting the full view on things just because you think you're right, or that you're better than everyone else ... even though, of course, that's why elitism, peer-pressure, and anti-"peer-pressure" elitism (which is just peer-pressure under a different name) are so strong even outside high school, (A place where such forces should have died long ago and never seen the light of day ... )
Secondly, I feel at odds with Livejournal simply because they were the first to introduce locked comments and restricted viewing - a "feature" to some, and definitely useful to people trying to cut down on anonymous cowards (whatever for?!), but not to me. I don't want to search for something on Google just to find out it's on a password-protected page, even if I can get by the password easily. If you want to restrict viewing, just don't add your site to search-engines , tell your host to follow suit in whatever options you have, and in your code, or another host option, tell spiders not to scan the page either!
Thirdly, the idea of limiting user access of javascript and html to very specific conditions, along with preventing keywords from being typed is absolutely revolting imho, which both LJ and MySpace do. However, in Myspace's case, it's somewhat important because their javascript API is visible to everyone (otherwise there'd be no way to run it from the browser) and by reading it and downloading it, once upon a time, it allowed individual users to send pretty nasty "loaded" messages to large numbers of other users in bulletins, primarily demonstrating unauthorized replication of itself to be resent as a bulletin, but there were apparently worse results back in the day.
Finally, I just can't understand why the trend these days is for the majority of the completely tech-unsavvy to flock towards the worst examples of new community-content sites rather than the most efficient, automated(this is what they need), bug-free, and unrestricted (Blogger STILL has this, by the way. If I want to put javascript in my fucking index, they aren't going to fucking stop me! And journalspace! why haven't more people gone to them?! They have the best easy-to-use intuitive automated system AND full access to the html content AND image-hosting if I remember correctly! Furthermore, I hear there's an OSS project in the style of Myspace that's in the works, which is good, because there are so many nasty things in the news about the owner of Myspace.
I desire social contact (I may be in the minority here
The bottom line is quite simple; that small handful of code accumulates very quickly until it is no longer a small handful, at least when compared to something that uses better (re:shorter) identification names for libraries, and that has sufficient mechanisms to cut down on function and variable names such as scope control, (and I do admit, I absolutely love java's handling of brackets and static brackets ... you can validly place those suckers in the weirdest locations), enumerations, (which java finally added a few years back, albeit in their own ugly way) and much more-importantly, symbolic operator-overloading :-p You know I was heading there.
.NET) and toy languages (Primarily VB), if I can create a program that mimics tetris (C#.NET) in just about 7 hours, and the executible code is more than a few times larger than the source code, I call that a toy language - of course, in java, it took weeks for pacman - well, at least for us to do that in a three-student team for pac-man, but that was almost five years ago, in my first java class ever 8-B
:-p )
At any rate, yes operator-overloading can provide you with multiple ways to shoot yourself in the foot, but Java is already ready for these puppies; think interfaces! All you have to do is look at the most basic and commonly-implemented interfaces that java recognizes, and then say, "Okay, which operators should be overloaded to match these interfaces?," (i.e. the commonly-overloaded operators for queues, lists, stacks, and comparable types, etc) implement those into the virtual machine, and boom, you've got backwards-compatible operator-overloading in Java. No biggie, right? Makes SENSE, right?! Well, heck, at that point you've almost got a dynamic-by-default version of C++ without a macro preprocessor! In my book, that's progressive!
But Java's had a very crappy version of regular-expression support for ages. I wasn't able to understand it for a very long time and in fact I learned many other regular expression engines for various scripting/programming languages in far shorter periods of time (Perl, Python, PHP, Java script , egrep, f/lex for C/++, etc). But with this newfangled magic era of software libraries (Java and VB and
I was such a die-hard C++ fan then. Now I say bring on the libraries and new languages, but save the Visual Basic software for your children to play with, just like almost all of us must have done, at some point.
Well, y'know, my real hope is that they're doing this so that they can perfect a realtime streaming video feed similar to what you'd find in Real Networks ... er, only one that would actually stream data in a manner that was condusive to the particular network ...
I simply mean my hope would be that Skype is doing this to streamline Video-over-IP, to offer Video+speaker phones along with those new WiFi phones, So you can see who you're talking to while you're talking to them --- although this wouldn't be one for the road!
This is what is known to the world as Carbon Sequestration, and in fact many very important advances need to be made in this arena. So far, it seems that Germany is leading the world in this area, especially with their development of a carbon-emissions-free coal power plant (by actively capturing carbon in the process.)
While I don't see much good in utilizing hydrogen-carrying fuels over non-carbon-emission methods including hydrogen itself, since one set of methods creates Carbon Dioxide and another set creates water (I hope someone starts an electrolysis debate), you'll still get mad props and points (at least from people like me) if you can get this to work, because I don't see how it could really be problematic especially due to the numerous capture-condusive properties of carbon in its many molecular forms.
This field of research is ripe for harvest, and I'd be willing to bet there are a lot of financial backers willing to invest in working demonstrations.
No no no, you're all wrong! It means we're going to see an uprising of nerds who have committed suicide after someone decided to wash their $3K gaming rigs, thinking they were just Levi's jeans!
So does that mean we geeks will finally start wearing $1000.00 clothing just like supermodels? (albeit clothing that runs at dual clock speeds of 6.5Ghz ...)
:-) I'm actually not really trying to be funny.
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Some "coincidences" do occur for many people often everyday mainly because of our own intuitive processes and subconscious processes picking up a lot more subtleties than our conscious minds are aware of - is this "telepathy" per se? Probably not, but many people make a very good business out of reading others almost as good as the real thing. Even then, our subconscious minds pick up so much of what we don't that often we'll get excited about something bad that happens because it might have affected a loved one - sometimes nothing happens, yet other times, you're glad you checked. Sometimes a last-minute reflex saves your ass from death - I'm pretty sure everyone has at least one of those stories, and I'm positive that most people have a lot more than one. Think about that! We evolved through unspoken communication and split-second deductive logic. ESP, or just good heuristic hypotheses generation in our brains? Both? Who knows, but think about the fact that we're able to communicate complex ideas to each other through small chunks of black-on-white markings.
Gosh, Neal Stephenson, Joseph Campbell, and Neil Gaiman should be so proud
Wouldn't that be fun! Set it up to load everything to gddr2 memory or one of those new-fangled solid-state drives! (err, the fast ones, anyway)
No excuses. The worst are the companies that advertise their Identity Theft Protection Service for $13.00 a month in their very own letter of apology to the victims (like mine, and yes, sadly it was authentic) when they should offer a free lifetime subscription due to the heinous nature of the offense. Who wants to look forward to some idiot attempting to sell all assets 5-15 years down the line? So now "Identity Theft Protection" is the most important service to have, a service that you wouldn't have needed if the original company had done its job correctly? You've got built-in customers if you simply "lose" some files - that's so sick - that stuff needs to be protected with potent cryptographic schemes or a new identity scheme needs to be created immediately!
It's a rumor, folks. Can you say, "sabotage" ? No need to spell it out; you just read it.