Did you even watch the video? Do you have any idea what the main topic is? Have you met anyone with down syndrome? Do you realize that the person in the video is an animation?
So that I'm not ONLY asking questions in this reply, I'll elaborate.
The model in the video is constantly looking left (prompting my original comment about the eyes never making contact with the camera). I didn't notice the eyes move at all.
I'll consider replacing some of my Linux servers with newer Linux servers, My new laptops and desktops will run Linux, I'll still have a Linux based PDA
So, it seems that 4 years from now will look much the same for me.
Speaking from experience here, I have one of these devices that I found in a used car I purchased.
The reason I found it, was that I lost dash and headlights while on the freeway at night. While digging around the fusebox, I found a mysterious set of wires (very badly) spliced into the harness under the dash. While removing the device and antennas, the cracked state of the dash and ac instruments was clearly explained.
I'm certain that the device wasn't meant for me, and it's safely disconnected now anyway. My problem is with the privacy and security of my vehicle. The police aren't installing GPS devices with solar panels or fuel cells, they're wiring them into your harness. Without a warrant, IMHO, this is breaking and entering, trespassing and destruction of property.
What if I'd had an accident while driving blind in a vehicle sabotaged by those I'm paying to protect and serve?
Try being the responsible party for 18 radio towers in 3 Texas counties, a dozen Cisco routers and switches, a few dozen servers, hundreds of websites, a few thousand customers and a few tens-of-thousands of email accounts, on-call 24/7/365 with no vacations and no benefits and not wish you could get sick just to have a day off. Employers, these days, want your blood in exchange for a milk-bone. "We recognize your value to the company, so we're giving you a $.50 raise, a manager title and moving you to salary." (hint, that's PHB speak for "bend over and prepare for double the hours with no overtime, now squeel!")
I almost wish I would get fired so I could take unemployment for a while and get a day off - but unemployment is for, as you said, "fucking pussies."
I would get another job doing what I enjoy (web development), but every job requirement that I read wants a Masters Degree and fluency in every language since COBOL (which I am fluent in)
The good jobs with good benefits are usually doled out to the candidates with the longest list of credentials, least experience and best ass kissing lips. And those guys are generally rabidly defending their positions against any up-and-comer who might pose a threat to their gravy train. Everyone else has to claw their way up to the bottom rung before getting kicked off the ladder to make way for someone who will work for less money, fewer benefits, and more heartache.
It started as a reply to a troll, but turned into a rant.
âoeComputer repair or support services should be aware that if they offer to perform investigative services⦠they must be licensed as investigatorsâ â" Texas Private Security Bureau Opinion Summary.
Worst case scenario:
I'm sorry ma'am, I can't fix your computer because that would require that I investigate the actual problem. Without a license, I'm not allowed to figure anything out.
or
Completely normal investigative scenario
I'm sorry ma'am, I can't retrieve your husbands browser history because that falls under the category of investigation, and I'm not licensed to do that.
or
Normal repair scenario
I'm sorry ma'am, your computer has a virus and I'm unable to determine which one it is because I'm not licensed.
The problem is with the interpretation and application of this law. The big freaking deal is that the legislators have made it so broad as to cover mundane tasks. Is it now illegal for me to sniff wireless signals on the radio towers I maintain? Wouldn't that be covered by the description "Review, analyze, and investigate" as stated in the law?
I have a slightly different view of this law and its intended application. In a former life I was a computer forensic examiner. The law was intended to keep the inexperienced from submitting spoiled evidence to the court.
Personally, I think they should write legislation to penalize lawyers who don't pay their bills. I might consider going back into forensics if I knew the bastards would actually pay.
You then run the risk of alerting the thieves that the systems are remotely accessible. This might prompt them to re-format and re-install which loses you the ability of remote access.
If it was me, I'd be installing keystroke loggers and seeing what kinds of information I can capture. Credit cards, phone numbers, email addresses, etc. can give you the ability to inflict deeper wounds than than the cd tray can cause.
Now, I'm not suggesting that you commit credit card fraud with captured numbers, but you could submit those credit card numbers to a newsgroup on the net read by people that would be more than happy to commit the fraud for you.
Heh, steal a computer and destroy your credit rating. All of their friends in the address book get spammed to death, their email accounts are suspended for spam. Capture a phone number, submit it to companies that will try to sell them crap during dinner. You get the idea.
Why annoy, when you can inflict real and lasting damage.
buy the components from Dell. I purchased a 2GB memory upgrade from a local store for $70ish, and a Dell replacement drive from a different laptop. The components are the same, they just have an Apple logo on them.
I'm fairly sure that Seagate doesn't manufacture anything specifically for Apple other than the stickers with Apple logos.
The big advantage to a CMS for a developer is that you can deliver a good site that will stay looking good (almost) regardless of what the inexperienced customer does.
For example, one of my customers is about 80 years old. His only request was that he be able to edit his price lists without my interaction.
Do I choose to teach this man frontpage (or some similar wysiwyg editor) or do I install a component that will let him do exactly what he asked. I'll go for the latter and reduced training time.
My customers are absolutely in love with their new sites.
At any rate, it's far easier to take advantage of an existing codebase and make minor modifications than to write from scratch. I wasn't a big fan of CMS applications until I found Mambo (later Joomla)
The last time I bought tapes (SDLT2 600GB tapes) they were $80 each. $80 x 6 = $480
Beyond that, the value depends on how resourceful you are. If it were me (running across tapes..not stealing them) I'd spend some time getting to know the data involved. Then, I might start investigating parties who might be interested in that data.
Your average car thief doesn't have the skills or the thousands of dollars of equipment necessary to really utilize that data.
If I had to guess...the case was sold (if it was a nice one) after the thief threw the tapes in a dumpster.
something that makes sense This is a phenomenon I like to call "talking out of the side of your neck" which is a method of communication where the words that one speaks do not pass the brain prior to arriving at the vocal cords. Essentially, the words take a detour at the neck to avoid the mean and logical brain.
Most likely, this was penned by a copy writer who assumed that email has attachments, why not FTP? Who really cares what l33t haxxors call files through FTP. I call it so 70's....SFTP anyone? Chroot jail anyone?
I run a couple of photo gallery websites (for free) which allow users to upload their pictures (for free) and print them through a partner printing service (for fee) of which I receive a percentage.
I have yet another site that hosts some 20+ million pages that are all available for free, monetized by Google ads.
Yet another site that I'm responsible for was built for free, because of their tremendous pagerank and my option to include my backlink in the site template, theoretically raising my pagerank (eventually)
Free has worked well for me. Most users don't object, or even question "free."
I can't say that I'm well fed, but that's due to a poor diet.
fiscal conservativeness and straight talking Is this a joke? The man wouldn't know a straight answer if it propositioned him in a public bathroom! Fiscal conservative, surely you jest! McCain has stated PUBLICLY that he believes the "war on terror" could last 100 years!
Straight talking McCain even managed to avoid a question during the Florida debates by dancing around it.
Hemp doesn't produce a sizable amount of food. But one of the by-products of producing those seeds is very popular. It's so popular, in fact, that an excise tax on it might generate might revenues that range from $2.2 to $6.4 billion per year (per a study that I'm not going to link.)
A quick look at the American Heritage Dictionary provides the following definition of inflation:...caused by an increase in available currency and credit beyond the proportion of available goods and services.
the specific portion of that definition that concerns this conversation is "increase in available currency" AKA monetary inflation which is the result of PRINTING MONEY, or more specifically increasing the amount of currency in curculation (bank accounts, credit, money markets, cds, etc)
What's interesting is that the FED stopped publishing money supply information beyond currency and small time deposits, so it's no longer possible to calculate actual inflation.
Now, if the money supply was bound to something tangible (like gold), it wouldn't be possible to manipulate the available currency in circulation.
Don't listen to this drivel, read the actual law which restricts the federal courts from hearing cases which should be heard at the state level (state issues)
Don't listen to me and definitely don't listen to Yunzil who repeatedly spews nonsense about the good Dr, read the bill yourself. HR 5739
Check out the archives of Ron Paul's newsletter that The New Republic put online. Chock full of racism. I've been doing that for years and I have yet to find anything like the racism you seem to think it's so chock full of. Have you read them yourself, or are you blindly following the lead of someone less informed than yourself?
I do recall, however, reading one article published sometime in the 80's where he wrote of how fast black gang members could run. If you think that's a racist statement then you should get your head examined.
Even the New York Times published a retraction to their racism story on Dr Paul. Why, you ask? Because it "contained several errors" according to the NYT, which goes on to say "The original post should not have been published with these unverified assertions and without any response from Paul. "
Smearing, slander and mudslinging only make you dirty.
You seem to be familiar with that though, you last 4 posts have negative (and incorrect) things to say about Dr Paul
bible thumping.....no you're confusing him with ex-pastor huckabee
Ron Paul has announced that he is a christian and said nothing further regarding his religion. You'll be hard pressed to find a candidate that isn't a christian (yea, even with the obama islam bs, obama still claims to be christian)
Save your name-calling for the less informed. Slashdot isn't the place to spread mis-information.
From someone who is in the industry, the requirements extend far beyond the courtroom. The collection process is considered a "forensic collection procedure". Password cracking and general processing is considered "forensic processing". There is a chain of custody that must be maintained throughout the life of the data (from collection to presentation in court to storage afterwards).
And, by the way, forensic evidence is not always presented in court. Several cases I worked on never made it to court as the evidence was too damning....it was useless to fight against the obvious.
Now, to help your argument, you might say that forensic evidence has been prepared for presentation to the court. It is, however, still forensic evidence even if it hasn't made it to court yet. To expand your incomplete and misinterpreted definition above, the term "forensic" means "legal", so the process of collecting forensic evidence provides that the evidence maintains its integrity until it reaches court in a legally presentable form.
My advise though, is to stay out of the industry. Lawyers cannot be trusted.
You would think so, but it's surprisingly easy to get a PI license (assuming you have a clean record) and computer forensics is an extremely difficult field.
This hasn't become law yet, and it's unclear in Texas how to apply PI license requirements to IT professionals. Personally, I think this will weed out some of the less desirable from the industry as they won't be able to get past the background check. On the flip side, this will be worse for the industry, as any Tom, Dick or Harry who has a PI license will try his hand at destroying electronic evidence....
Ultimately, it really doesn't matter to me anymore. I've left that industry with a bad taste in my mouth. It turns out that lawyers cannot be trusted. I have never been cheated out of more money in my life. It's extremely difficult to sue a large law firm.
Now, a good law that needs to be written, would allow contractors to include a "baseball bat" clause in their contracts. If the contractor isn't paid, he gets 1 hour with a baseball bat per $1000 owed. If that law existed, I'd have 4 or 5 days of beatings to administer.
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Did you even watch the video? Do you have any idea what the main topic is? Have you met anyone with down syndrome? Do you realize that the person in the video is an animation?
So that I'm not ONLY asking questions in this reply, I'll elaborate.
The model in the video is constantly looking left (prompting my original comment about the eyes never making contact with the camera). I didn't notice the eyes move at all.
She has those Angelina Jolie lips....possibly even Steven Tyler lips....too wide.
What bothered me was the eyes. They never looked at the camera. It's like watching an animation of a person with downs syndrome. No eye contact.
Four years from now, lets see...
I'll consider replacing some of my Linux servers with newer Linux servers,
My new laptops and desktops will run Linux,
I'll still have a Linux based PDA
So, it seems that 4 years from now will look much the same for me.
Speaking from experience here, I have one of these devices that I found in a used car I purchased.
The reason I found it, was that I lost dash and headlights while on the freeway at night. While digging around the fusebox, I found a mysterious set of wires (very badly) spliced into the harness under the dash. While removing the device and antennas, the cracked state of the dash and ac instruments was clearly explained.
I'm certain that the device wasn't meant for me, and it's safely disconnected now anyway. My problem is with the privacy and security of my vehicle. The police aren't installing GPS devices with solar panels or fuel cells, they're wiring them into your harness. Without a warrant, IMHO, this is breaking and entering, trespassing and destruction of property.
What if I'd had an accident while driving blind in a vehicle sabotaged by those I'm paying to protect and serve?
I'm only 34 and I know COBOL
COBOL was the first language I learned in college after playing with BASIC as a youth.
State of California Officials - Call me! Lets talk about fixing your COBOL problem and start planning an upgrade path! SAP, perhaps!?!
Some of us aren't fortunate enough to get sick.
Try being the responsible party for 18 radio towers in 3 Texas counties, a dozen Cisco routers and switches, a few dozen servers, hundreds of websites, a few thousand customers and a few tens-of-thousands of email accounts, on-call 24/7/365 with no vacations and no benefits and not wish you could get sick just to have a day off. Employers, these days, want your blood in exchange for a milk-bone. "We recognize your value to the company, so we're giving you a $.50 raise, a manager title and moving you to salary." (hint, that's PHB speak for "bend over and prepare for double the hours with no overtime, now squeel!")
I almost wish I would get fired so I could take unemployment for a while and get a day off - but unemployment is for, as you said, "fucking pussies."
I would get another job doing what I enjoy (web development), but every job requirement that I read wants a Masters Degree and fluency in every language since COBOL (which I am fluent in)
The good jobs with good benefits are usually doled out to the candidates with the longest list of credentials, least experience and best ass kissing lips. And those guys are generally rabidly defending their positions against any up-and-comer who might pose a threat to their gravy train. Everyone else has to claw their way up to the bottom rung before getting kicked off the ladder to make way for someone who will work for less money, fewer benefits, and more heartache.
It started as a reply to a troll, but turned into a rant.
âoeComputer repair or support services should be aware that if they offer to perform investigative services⦠they must be licensed as investigatorsâ â" Texas Private Security Bureau Opinion Summary.
Worst case scenario:
I'm sorry ma'am, I can't fix your computer because that would require that I investigate the actual problem. Without a license, I'm not allowed to figure anything out.
or
Completely normal investigative scenario
I'm sorry ma'am, I can't retrieve your husbands browser history because that falls under the category of investigation, and I'm not licensed to do that.
or
Normal repair scenario
I'm sorry ma'am, your computer has a virus and I'm unable to determine which one it is because I'm not licensed.
The problem is with the interpretation and application of this law. The big freaking deal is that the legislators have made it so broad as to cover mundane tasks. Is it now illegal for me to sniff wireless signals on the radio towers I maintain? Wouldn't that be covered by the description "Review, analyze, and investigate" as stated in the law?
I have a slightly different view of this law and its intended application. In a former life I was a computer forensic examiner. The law was intended to keep the inexperienced from submitting spoiled evidence to the court.
Personally, I think they should write legislation to penalize lawyers who don't pay their bills. I might consider going back into forensics if I knew the bastards would actually pay.
You then run the risk of alerting the thieves that the systems are remotely accessible. This might prompt them to re-format and re-install which loses you the ability of remote access.
If it was me, I'd be installing keystroke loggers and seeing what kinds of information I can capture. Credit cards, phone numbers, email addresses, etc. can give you the ability to inflict deeper wounds than than the cd tray can cause.
Now, I'm not suggesting that you commit credit card fraud with captured numbers, but you could submit those credit card numbers to a newsgroup on the net read by people that would be more than happy to commit the fraud for you.
Heh, steal a computer and destroy your credit rating. All of their friends in the address book get spammed to death, their email accounts are suspended for spam. Capture a phone number, submit it to companies that will try to sell them crap during dinner. You get the idea.
Why annoy, when you can inflict real and lasting damage.
buy the components from Dell. I purchased a 2GB memory upgrade from a local store for $70ish, and a Dell replacement drive from a different laptop. The components are the same, they just have an Apple logo on them.
I'm fairly sure that Seagate doesn't manufacture anything specifically for Apple other than the stickers with Apple logos.
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but they it's for J1.5 only (I believe)
If I'm not mistaken, the 3rd and 4th in the Bill of Rights should prevent this.
3rd:prohibits the government from using private homes as quarters for soldiers without the consent of the owners.
4th:guards against searches, arrests, and seizures of property without a specific warrant or a "probable cause" to believe a crime has been committed.
The big advantage to a CMS for a developer is that you can deliver a good site that will stay looking good (almost) regardless of what the inexperienced customer does.
For example, one of my customers is about 80 years old. His only request was that he be able to edit his price lists without my interaction.
Do I choose to teach this man frontpage (or some similar wysiwyg editor) or do I install a component that will let him do exactly what he asked. I'll go for the latter and reduced training time.
My customers are absolutely in love with their new sites.
At any rate, it's far easier to take advantage of an existing codebase and make minor modifications than to write from scratch. I wasn't a big fan of CMS applications until I found Mambo (later Joomla)
The last time I bought tapes (SDLT2 600GB tapes) they were $80 each. $80 x 6 = $480
Beyond that, the value depends on how resourceful you are. If it were me (running across tapes..not stealing them) I'd spend some time getting to know the data involved. Then, I might start investigating parties who might be interested in that data.
Your average car thief doesn't have the skills or the thousands of dollars of equipment necessary to really utilize that data.
If I had to guess...the case was sold (if it was a nice one) after the thief threw the tapes in a dumpster.
Most likely, this was penned by a copy writer who assumed that email has attachments, why not FTP? Who really cares what l33t haxxors call files through FTP. I call it so 70's....SFTP anyone? Chroot jail anyone?
I run a couple of photo gallery websites (for free) which allow users to upload their pictures (for free) and print them through a partner printing service (for fee) of which I receive a percentage.
I have yet another site that hosts some 20+ million pages that are all available for free, monetized by Google ads.
Yet another site that I'm responsible for was built for free, because of their tremendous pagerank and my option to include my backlink in the site template, theoretically raising my pagerank (eventually)
Free has worked well for me. Most users don't object, or even question "free."
I can't say that I'm well fed, but that's due to a poor diet.
Straight talking McCain even managed to avoid a question during the Florida debates by dancing around it.
The actual URL is: http://www.manning.com/reiersol/
It's as if you didn't know that Ben Bernanke stated that the FED caused the Great Depression. But you probably don't care to read actual information.
...caused by an increase in available currency and credit beyond the proportion of available goods and services.
A quick look at the American Heritage Dictionary provides the following definition of inflation:
the specific portion of that definition that concerns this conversation is "increase in available currency" AKA monetary inflation which is the result of PRINTING MONEY, or more specifically increasing the amount of currency in curculation (bank accounts, credit, money markets, cds, etc)
What's interesting is that the FED stopped publishing money supply information beyond currency and small time deposits, so it's no longer possible to calculate actual inflation.
Now, if the money supply was bound to something tangible (like gold), it wouldn't be possible to manipulate the available currency in circulation.
Don't listen to this drivel, read the actual law which restricts the federal courts from hearing cases which should be heard at the state level (state issues)
Don't listen to me and definitely don't listen to Yunzil who repeatedly spews nonsense about the good Dr, read the bill yourself. HR 5739
I do recall, however, reading one article published sometime in the 80's where he wrote of how fast black gang members could run. If you think that's a racist statement then you should get your head examined.
Even the New York Times published a retraction to their racism story on Dr Paul. Why, you ask? Because it "contained several errors" according to the NYT, which goes on to say "The original post should not have been published with these unverified assertions and without any response from Paul. "
Smearing, slander and mudslinging only make you dirty.
You seem to be familiar with that though, you last 4 posts have negative (and incorrect) things to say about Dr Paul
bible thumping.....no you're confusing him with ex-pastor huckabee
Ron Paul has announced that he is a christian and said nothing further regarding his religion. You'll be hard pressed to find a candidate that isn't a christian (yea, even with the obama islam bs, obama still claims to be christian)
Save your name-calling for the less informed. Slashdot isn't the place to spread mis-information.
From someone who is in the industry, the requirements extend far beyond the courtroom. The collection process is considered a "forensic collection procedure". Password cracking and general processing is considered "forensic processing". There is a chain of custody that must be maintained throughout the life of the data (from collection to presentation in court to storage afterwards).
And, by the way, forensic evidence is not always presented in court. Several cases I worked on never made it to court as the evidence was too damning....it was useless to fight against the obvious.
Now, to help your argument, you might say that forensic evidence has been prepared for presentation to the court. It is, however, still forensic evidence even if it hasn't made it to court yet. To expand your incomplete and misinterpreted definition above, the term "forensic" means "legal", so the process of collecting forensic evidence provides that the evidence maintains its integrity until it reaches court in a legally presentable form.
My advise though, is to stay out of the industry. Lawyers cannot be trusted.
You would think so, but it's surprisingly easy to get a PI license (assuming you have a clean record) and computer forensics is an extremely difficult field.
This hasn't become law yet, and it's unclear in Texas how to apply PI license requirements to IT professionals. Personally, I think this will weed out some of the less desirable from the industry as they won't be able to get past the background check. On the flip side, this will be worse for the industry, as any Tom, Dick or Harry who has a PI license will try his hand at destroying electronic evidence....
Ultimately, it really doesn't matter to me anymore. I've left that industry with a bad taste in my mouth. It turns out that lawyers cannot be trusted. I have never been cheated out of more money in my life. It's extremely difficult to sue a large law firm.
Now, a good law that needs to be written, would allow contractors to include a "baseball bat" clause in their contracts. If the contractor isn't paid, he gets 1 hour with a baseball bat per $1000 owed. If that law existed, I'd have 4 or 5 days of beatings to administer.
Remember, lawyers cannot be trusted.