Yes, exactly. And now the government has a record of some of the interesting activity he's been engaging in. Perhaps he's gone in a file somewhere, a separate memo has been sent to some higher up State or Federal organization, he's being catalogued in a database...
While I don't necessarily agree with it, I don't think having the poster's scenario documented in a Fed database is a horrible thing.
I'll use myself as an example. When I was young (18 or so) I had several friends involved in breaking into telco boxes, cloning cell phones, etc. Well, they got caught eventually, and I was called in to be questioned by the FBI. I sat and talked with them for a good hour or so (Which made me late for work - and the FBI won't write you up an excuse either hehe) and they took the laptop my friend had given me, which later turned out to be stolen from his place of work (Office Max I believe). So here I am, in talks with the FBI about stolen property and cell cloning - I know I must be in a database or two somewhere, especially since a few of my friends where thrown in jail for it.
But since then, I've worked for several federal and state government agencies as well as a half dozen Casinos (which really love to search into the background of people), so I've had many many state & federal record searches done on me. I'm sure there's a database somewhere that lists everything about me down to tattoos, blood type, allergies, surgeries, etc. But it's never been a problem. I've never had anyone ever say anything to me about that incident, not has it ever prevented me from getting a job.
So really, even though I'm in a DB or twelve somewhere, it hasn't affected me in any way. But if I was a criminal, and had done some illegal things, then these database entries would help the authorities find me if they needed to and maybe even solve a crime I was involved in. Look at Ca, they record the DNA profiles of convicted criminals now and it's actually helped them solve a lot of 20+ year old cold cases.
The only things you have to worry about these databases is that they don't get into the wrong hands. Any other worrying would be because you either did something wrong, or are thinking about it.
I do wonder if I requested my file from the FBI if I'd actually get something - I've always been hesitant to stir the waters up with it hehe.
this is actually written in your laws? everyone has the possibility to do (nearly) everything
I simplified it of course, but that's essentially how it works in a US civil trial. For a criminal trial, 12 people decide together that the client is guilty or innocent beyond a reasonable doubt. In a civil trial you usually go before a judge, and you only need to be, say, 51% guilty. If you had the opportunity and the motive and the prosecution can show a pattern, then you're nailed.
Civil trials, for the most part, almost always come down to who has the most money to begin with (and therefore, the better lawyers).
Allowing people to be prosecuted in a civil trial for file swapping is a bad bad thing.
For a criminal trial, the prosecution has to prove to a jury that you stole music beyond a reasonable doubt.
In a civil trial, all you have to prove is that it's possible and probable that you did it.
So it's basically taking out all the expenses that a criminal trial would have needed. There's no need to do any computer forensics, deep investigating, etc. All they would need to do (basically) is get your ISP records and show you have used *file sharing program*.
So it's very possible that you might have installed Kazaa, et al, to download a new game demo, OSS, independent 'free' music, etc - but if you have a NOFX mp3 on your drive that alone is enough to get some money out of you. If this thing flies, I fear the power RIAA will have. They will truly become a company to fear.
Indeed, the AC is right - Fujitsu (and a few others) is the way to go. Back when I used to work for a stock brokerage, all of the overwhlming amount of paper that customers had to fill out would be scanned in with a few high-speed Fujitsu's into Hyland's OnBase document management system.
Sadly, this approach is way out of league for the small budget the poster has. I'd have to wonder if a consumer scanner, even a nice one like that HP, can keep up with the constant use required of it. Much like Laser printers, the Fujitsu scanners have complete rebuild kits that you can use to bring them back to like-new state, which I don't think the consumer based HP scanners would have. But then again, if you get a good year or so out of a $300 scanner before needing a new one, that's a lot better then buying a high speed scanner (They easily run $3000 used)
E:\>uptime \\athena \\ATHENA has been up for: 423 day(s), 19 hour(s), 48 minute(s), 26 second(s)
It doesn't take much to make a box run indefinately - I've never had a problem with uptime on any machine except the one I'm in front of the constantly - whether it's Windows or *nix. Saying "This is why I run X" and flashing up some stats doesn't prove anything.
You're right, once your teeth have matured, your nerves serve only one function - to tell the difference between hot and cold.
To quote from the site: You might think that a tooth's nerve tissue is vitally important to a tooth's health and function, but in reality it's not. A tooth's nerve tissue plays an important role in the growth and development of the tooth, but once the tooth has erupted through the gums and has finished maturing the nerve's only function is sensory (it provides the tooth with the ability to feel hot and cold).
In regards to the normal day to day functioning of our mouths, the sensory information provided by a single tooth is really quite minimal. Dentists realize that on a practical level it is pretty much academic whether a tooth has a live nerve in it or not. If a tooth's nerve tissue is present and healthy, wonderful. But if a tooth has had its nerve tissue removed during root canal treatment that's fine too, you will never miss it.
Instead of a Hotel/Motel you could always look into corporate housing. It's a lot more expensive then a hotel, as you pay for essentially a fully furnished apartment, but you'd have the ability to be able to receive items in the mail the normal way without worrying about laws or company policies against delivering to a hotel or about the seemingly 'unwritten policy' of a majority of hotels to hire only the most shady, untrustworthy individuals around. I don't know about you - but there's no way I'd trust a big box plastered with "DELL" to actually get to me.
But, barring you don't have a friend in the US to have it delivered to, I don't know what else you can do. I consider myself a very trustworthy individual and know 110% that I'd forward it on to you, but you don't know that - and thus wouldn't trust me. (But hey... If ya wanna give it a shot - feel free - if your CC laws work like ours, if you ran into someone that offered to ship it to ya and they reneg on the deal and keep the laptop, you could always report the card stolen and/or deny the charge - it's not the most moral way to do things, but hey, it'd get you out of all but $50 of it (If your laws are like ours, that is))
Boening, US Marines, US Air Force, Coke, City of Orange, etc etc.
How much do you want to bet that those 'clients' are his in only the loosest sense - someone that works for the USAF bought a PC, so now the whole USAF is a client. Someone from boeing bought a PC, and had it delivered to their work address - all of a sudden Boeing as a whole is now a client hehe.
It's probably due to the lack of knowledge/tools to benchtest anything else. I'd like to see SQL benchtests, IIS/Apache test/etc but just like a lot of other people, I don't know exactly how to do that. Though if I ran a site which made it my business to test hardware I'd definately find out and learn how to do it.
I'd like to see more "Consumer Reports" type tests to. Test hardware configuration X as a high-volume SQL server, and show me how it's held up after a month, 3 months, 6 months, and a year. Yes, maybe I'd upgrade before then, but not everyone would, and I'd like to see common failures and problems down the line - not a 1-2 day test.
I hope you are upset with the 'hacks' presented before us, and not hardware hacking as a whole. Some of us just don't like working with software - I'm one of them. I'm much more at home with a soldering iron and dremel then I am with a function array and boolean operators.
I consider the hacks I do as being as 'real' and meaningful as the software hackers - I just choose a diffrent medium to play on.
It was a nasty hack - more or less proof of concept for me since it ended up looking ugly.
What I did was bought an old 1980's VCR from Goodwill and gutted it, then put in the parts of a more modern VCR which left room for a mini-itx board. The reason I say it was ugly was because it was a horrible scratched silver plastic/woodgrain thing that didn't even come close to matching my current AV equipment look plus the fact I wasn't as skilled with the dremel, files, etc then to transplant the face properly. It worked, but it didn't look good - seemed real out of place.
We've got a newer VCR and it looks like it just might fit a mini-itx board, but I'm not sure.
I do know that my Panasonic single-load DVD player from 2000 is mostly empty, so I'm probably going to put something into that.
As it is I don't have pics, since it was ~4 years ago (right after I got the DVD player hehe) and didn't own a digital cam at the time. If I ever do it again though I'll be sure to document the whole thing - but make it prettier this time hehe
I do it for the challenges. Things like: "Build a HTPC into a VCR, and keep the original funcionality of the VCR" "Build a HTPC in my receiver, and make sure everything works" (Side note: That one was only sort of successful - had to remove the amp and use an external one, to much EMI) I do it because I like having choices, I do it because I like to be able to stream show X to TV Y or burn it to DVD.
I do it because I'm a geek and a tinkerer, and it's in my nature.
" imbalance of the internet towards the US has always bothered me"
Don't worry the rest of the world will catch up. Just like telephone networks, automobiles and transistors the internet will follow the usual pattern of:
1. US Invents it 2. US then screws it up 3. Other countries improve on methods and make superior products 4. US consumers flock to the improved, cheaper products 5. US companies create something new to get people to 'Buy American' 6. Follow 2 - 6
I'm guessing that the reason we Americans go from a technological breakthrough to wondering why the hell everyone buys the product from overseas is we're either to arrogant and set in our ways, we spent a lot of $$$$ being early adopters and now the technology we use is antiquated just as the rest of the world adopts it, or a combo of the two.
I'm using Merak Mail Server, a cheaper better engineered alternative to MS Exchange and haven't had a problem yet. Like the others, it's AV learned about MyDoom and has promptly deleted several thousand emails without a single problem.
Now, the mail list I moderate on - that's another thing. From 6pm to 12am I've received roughly 3000 emails - and 5 where legit. MOST of them where those damn Anti-virus "Your email has a virus" bounce messages. I swear they are the work of evil. There needs to be a switch on em to the effect of "Send out virus warnings to sender, unless I receive X viruses in XX minutes." - This would really make my life a helluva lot easier.
It's ignorance like that that gives ADD a bad rap. I have it and have had it for years and I can certainly attest that it does indeed exist. The way I viewed life before and after treatment is night and day. Research things before you come to such a brash generalization.
Although, compared to other consoles it is quite powerful, its still fairly weak. It lacks the possibility for upgrades (such as the processor or memory) and by today's standards 800mhz is hardly anything (i think thats what the clock speed is off the top of my head).
Eh? Ps2 uses a 300Mhz CPU, and the Gamecube uses a ~500Mhz CPU. Neither of those platforms have upgradeable RAM or CPUs either.
So tell me again how the hardware is weak compared to the others?
the newest cases against 'John Doe' defendants -- identified only by their numeric Internet protocol addresses
Your honor, my client, 216.250.128.12, is innocent. He was coerced to download those files by RIAA's public enemy number 1 - 127.0.0.1. There is also plenty of evidence to implicate his cronies, 192.168.1.1 and 10.0.1.0 as well.
Check it out - this auction on Ebay is selling a 4-6 Cubic inch chunk of Aerogel with a "Buy it Now" price of $160. Considering the auction says it costs about $200 per cubic inch to make, thats a deal. I'm guessing some/.'er with deep pockets will be buying this pretty soon!
The company said that a state police agency in the Midwest found the lie detector 89 percent accurate, compared with 83 percent for a traditional polygraph.
Anyone that accepts that the traditional polygraph has an 83% "accuracy" is obviously starting from a different viewpoint than the rest of us. Still with law-enforcement agencies being willing to hire psychics and dowsers we shouldn't be too surprised at seeing contra-rational thinking being employed by people that don't understand science.
Indeed. There's a reason that polygraph tests aren't admissible as evidence - they are woefully inaccurate for the most part, and there are a lot of ways to fool the test as well. Personally, I wish they'd outlaw polygraph tests for the most part - the police use it as a way of squeezing confessions from people - even innocent ones.
I posted it above but I'll say it again heheSapien Primalscript. I've been using it for 2-3 years now and really like it. I write a lot of scripts, but few full blown programs so it really works well for me. I especially like it's "Snippets" - you can define whole pieces of code that you can save to it (Like I routinely write VBScripts for Win2k and have a custom logging function I use in all of them) and simply click on it to add it to the current script. Saves a lot of time. There's a 30 day full trial to test it out and it runs $179 - which isn't realy expensive for what your getting. Check it out.
(No, I don't work there - I just love the product)
What Windows IDE will do syntax highlighting for Python How about PERL? or PHP? or Ruby? or any of the other numerous languages that are not only supported, but are afforded real, working tools natively supported by the environment.
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Yes, exactly. And now the government has a record of some of the interesting activity he's been engaging in. Perhaps he's gone in a file somewhere, a separate memo has been sent to some higher up State or Federal organization, he's being catalogued in a database...
While I don't necessarily agree with it, I don't think having the poster's scenario documented in a Fed database is a horrible thing.
I'll use myself as an example. When I was young (18 or so) I had several friends involved in breaking into telco boxes, cloning cell phones, etc. Well, they got caught eventually, and I was called in to be questioned by the FBI. I sat and talked with them for a good hour or so (Which made me late for work - and the FBI won't write you up an excuse either hehe) and they took the laptop my friend had given me, which later turned out to be stolen from his place of work (Office Max I believe). So here I am, in talks with the FBI about stolen property and cell cloning - I know I must be in a database or two somewhere, especially since a few of my friends where thrown in jail for it.
But since then, I've worked for several federal and state government agencies as well as a half dozen Casinos (which really love to search into the background of people), so I've had many many state & federal record searches done on me. I'm sure there's a database somewhere that lists everything about me down to tattoos, blood type, allergies, surgeries, etc. But it's never been a problem. I've never had anyone ever say anything to me about that incident, not has it ever prevented me from getting a job.
So really, even though I'm in a DB or twelve somewhere, it hasn't affected me in any way. But if I was a criminal, and had done some illegal things, then these database entries would help the authorities find me if they needed to and maybe even solve a crime I was involved in. Look at Ca, they record the DNA profiles of convicted criminals now and it's actually helped them solve a lot of 20+ year old cold cases.
The only things you have to worry about these databases is that they don't get into the wrong hands. Any other worrying would be because you either did something wrong, or are thinking about it.
I do wonder if I requested my file from the FBI if I'd actually get something - I've always been hesitant to stir the waters up with it hehe.
this is actually written in your laws? everyone has the possibility to do (nearly) everything
I simplified it of course, but that's essentially how it works in a US civil trial. For a criminal trial, 12 people decide together that the client is guilty or innocent beyond a reasonable doubt. In a civil trial you usually go before a judge, and you only need to be, say, 51% guilty. If you had the opportunity and the motive and the prosecution can show a pattern, then you're nailed.
Civil trials, for the most part, almost always come down to who has the most money to begin with (and therefore, the better lawyers).
Allowing people to be prosecuted in a civil trial for file swapping is a bad bad thing.
For a criminal trial, the prosecution has to prove to a jury that you stole music beyond a reasonable doubt.
In a civil trial, all you have to prove is that it's possible and probable that you did it.
So it's basically taking out all the expenses that a criminal trial would have needed. There's no need to do any computer forensics, deep investigating, etc. All they would need to do (basically) is get your ISP records and show you have used *file sharing program*.
So it's very possible that you might have installed Kazaa, et al, to download a new game demo, OSS, independent 'free' music, etc - but if you have a NOFX mp3 on your drive that alone is enough to get some money out of you. If this thing flies, I fear the power RIAA will have. They will truly become a company to fear.
Indeed, the AC is right - Fujitsu (and a few others) is the way to go. Back when I used to work for a stock brokerage, all of the overwhlming amount of paper that customers had to fill out would be scanned in with a few high-speed Fujitsu's into Hyland's OnBase document management system.
Sadly, this approach is way out of league for the small budget the poster has.
I'd have to wonder if a consumer scanner, even a nice one like that HP, can keep up with the constant use required of it.
Much like Laser printers, the Fujitsu scanners have complete rebuild kits that you can use to bring them back to like-new state, which I don't think the consumer based HP scanners would have. But then again, if you get a good year or so out of a $300 scanner before needing a new one, that's a lot better then buying a high speed scanner (They easily run $3000 used)
Here's an example of why I use Windows:
E:\>uptime \\athena
\\ATHENA has been up for: 423 day(s), 19 hour(s), 48 minute(s), 26 second(s)
It doesn't take much to make a box run indefinately - I've never had a problem with uptime on any machine except the one I'm in front of the constantly - whether it's Windows or *nix.
Saying "This is why I run X" and flashing up some stats doesn't prove anything.
You're right, once your teeth have matured, your nerves serve only one function - to tell the difference between hot and cold.
To quote from the site:
You might think that a tooth's nerve tissue is vitally important to a tooth's health and function, but in reality it's not. A tooth's nerve tissue plays an important role in the growth and development of the tooth, but once the tooth has erupted through the gums and has finished maturing the nerve's only function is sensory (it provides the tooth with the ability to feel hot and cold).
In regards to the normal day to day functioning of our mouths, the sensory information provided by a single tooth is really quite minimal. Dentists realize that on a practical level it is pretty much academic whether a tooth has a live nerve in it or not. If a tooth's nerve tissue is present and healthy, wonderful. But if a tooth has had its nerve tissue removed during root canal treatment that's fine too, you will never miss it.
Japala already submitted the exact same thing a year ago.
Not to mention his user info shows about 5 comments posted from him, most concerning mouse pads. Talk about a self-promoter
Instead of a Hotel/Motel you could always look into corporate housing. It's a lot more expensive then a hotel, as you pay for essentially a fully furnished apartment, but you'd have the ability to be able to receive items in the mail the normal way without worrying about laws or company policies against delivering to a hotel or about the seemingly 'unwritten policy' of a majority of hotels to hire only the most shady, untrustworthy individuals around. I don't know about you - but there's no way I'd trust a big box plastered with "DELL" to actually get to me.
But, barring you don't have a friend in the US to have it delivered to, I don't know what else you can do. I consider myself a very trustworthy individual and know 110% that I'd forward it on to you, but you don't know that - and thus wouldn't trust me. (But hey... If ya wanna give it a shot - feel free - if your CC laws work like ours, if you ran into someone that offered to ship it to ya and they reneg on the deal and keep the laptop, you could always report the card stolen and/or deny the charge - it's not the most moral way to do things, but hey, it'd get you out of all but $50 of it (If your laws are like ours, that is))
E.T. had this Magic Touch(R)(C) technology for over 12 years now - definitely old news!
Boening, US Marines, US Air Force, Coke, City of Orange, etc etc.
How much do you want to bet that those 'clients' are his in only the loosest sense - someone that works for the USAF bought a PC, so now the whole USAF is a client. Someone from boeing bought a PC, and had it delivered to their work address - all of a sudden Boeing as a whole is now a client hehe.
Any other blade? Oi - no IBM Bladeservers for them!
It's probably due to the lack of knowledge/tools to benchtest anything else. I'd like to see SQL benchtests, IIS/Apache test/etc but just like a lot of other people, I don't know exactly how to do that. Though if I ran a site which made it my business to test hardware I'd definately find out and learn how to do it.
I'd like to see more "Consumer Reports" type tests to. Test hardware configuration X as a high-volume SQL server, and show me how it's held up after a month, 3 months, 6 months, and a year. Yes, maybe I'd upgrade before then, but not everyone would, and I'd like to see common failures and problems down the line - not a 1-2 day test.
I hope you are upset with the 'hacks' presented before us, and not hardware hacking as a whole. Some of us just don't like working with software - I'm one of them. I'm much more at home with a soldering iron and dremel then I am with a function array and boolean operators.
I consider the hacks I do as being as 'real' and meaningful as the software hackers - I just choose a diffrent medium to play on.
It was a nasty hack - more or less proof of concept for me since it ended up looking ugly.
What I did was bought an old 1980's VCR from Goodwill and gutted it, then put in the parts of a more modern VCR which left room for a mini-itx board.
The reason I say it was ugly was because it was a horrible scratched silver plastic/woodgrain thing that didn't even come close to matching my current AV equipment look plus the fact I wasn't as skilled with the dremel, files, etc then to transplant the face properly. It worked, but it didn't look good - seemed real out of place.
We've got a newer VCR and it looks like it just might fit a mini-itx board, but I'm not sure.
I do know that my Panasonic single-load DVD player from 2000 is mostly empty, so I'm probably going to put something into that.
As it is I don't have pics, since it was ~4 years ago (right after I got the DVD player hehe) and didn't own a digital cam at the time. If I ever do it again though I'll be sure to document the whole thing - but make it prettier this time hehe
I do it for the challenges.
Things like:
"Build a HTPC into a VCR, and keep the original funcionality of the VCR"
"Build a HTPC in my receiver, and make sure everything works" (Side note: That one was only sort of successful - had to remove the amp and use an external one, to much EMI)
I do it because I like having choices, I do it because I like to be able to stream show X to TV Y or burn it to DVD.
I do it because I'm a geek and a tinkerer, and it's in my nature.
" imbalance of the internet towards the US has always bothered me"
Don't worry the rest of the world will catch up. Just like telephone networks, automobiles and transistors the internet will follow the usual pattern of:
1. US Invents it
2. US then screws it up
3. Other countries improve on methods and make superior products
4. US consumers flock to the improved, cheaper products
5. US companies create something new to get people to 'Buy American'
6. Follow 2 - 6
I'm guessing that the reason we Americans go from a technological breakthrough to wondering why the hell everyone buys the product from overseas is we're either to arrogant and set in our ways, we spent a lot of $$$$ being early adopters and now the technology we use is antiquated just as the rest of the world adopts it, or a combo of the two.
I'm using Merak Mail Server, a cheaper better engineered alternative to MS Exchange and haven't had a problem yet. Like the others, it's AV learned about MyDoom and has promptly deleted several thousand emails without a single problem.
Now, the mail list I moderate on - that's another thing. From 6pm to 12am I've received roughly 3000 emails - and 5 where legit. MOST of them where those damn Anti-virus "Your email has a virus" bounce messages. I swear they are the work of evil. There needs to be a switch on em to the effect of "Send out virus warnings to sender, unless I receive X viruses in XX minutes." - This would really make my life a helluva lot easier.
Says I, as I attempt to manuver my way through about 1500 emails I've received in the last 4 HOURS on the OOo mod list
By the way there's no such thing as ADD.
It's ignorance like that that gives ADD a bad rap. I have it and have had it for years and I can certainly attest that it does indeed exist. The way I viewed life before and after treatment is night and day. Research things before you come to such a brash generalization.
Although, compared to other consoles it is quite powerful, its still fairly weak. It lacks the possibility for upgrades (such as the processor or memory) and by today's standards 800mhz is hardly anything (i think thats what the clock speed is off the top of my head).
Eh? Ps2 uses a 300Mhz CPU, and the Gamecube uses a ~500Mhz CPU. Neither of those platforms have upgradeable RAM or CPUs either.
So tell me again how the hardware is weak compared to the others?
the newest cases against 'John Doe' defendants -- identified only by their numeric Internet protocol addresses
Your honor, my client, 216.250.128.12, is innocent. He was coerced to download those files by RIAA's public enemy number 1 - 127.0.0.1. There is also plenty of evidence to implicate his cronies, 192.168.1.1 and 10.0.1.0 as well.
Check it out - this auction on Ebay is selling a 4-6 Cubic inch chunk of Aerogel with a "Buy it Now" price of $160. Considering the auction says it costs about $200 per cubic inch to make, thats a deal. I'm guessing some /.'er with deep pockets will be buying this pretty soon!
The company said that a state police agency in the Midwest found the lie detector 89 percent accurate, compared with 83 percent for a traditional polygraph.
Anyone that accepts that the traditional polygraph has an 83% "accuracy" is obviously starting from a different viewpoint than the rest of us. Still with law-enforcement agencies being willing to hire psychics and dowsers we shouldn't be too surprised at seeing contra-rational thinking being employed by people that don't understand science.
Indeed. There's a reason that polygraph tests aren't admissible as evidence - they are woefully inaccurate for the most part, and there are a lot of ways to fool the test as well. Personally, I wish they'd outlaw polygraph tests for the most part - the police use it as a way of squeezing confessions from people - even innocent ones.
I posted it above but I'll say it again heheSapien Primalscript.
I've been using it for 2-3 years now and really like it. I write a lot of scripts, but few full blown programs so it really works well for me.
I especially like it's "Snippets" - you can define whole pieces of code that you can save to it (Like I routinely write VBScripts for Win2k and have a custom logging function I use in all of them) and simply click on it to add it to the current script. Saves a lot of time. There's a 30 day full trial to test it out and it runs $179 - which isn't realy expensive for what your getting. Check it out.
(No, I don't work there - I just love the product)
What Windows IDE will do syntax highlighting for Python
How about PERL?
or PHP?
or Ruby?
or any of the other numerous languages that are not only supported, but are afforded real, working tools natively supported by the environment.
Sapien Primalscript.
Supported Languages:
ASP, ASP.NET, ActionScript 2.0, AutoIt, Awk, Batch, Ch, C#, CSS, ColdFusion, Flex, HTML, InstallScript, JSP, JScript, JScript.NET Java, JavaScript, KiXtart, Livewire, LotusScript, NT Command, Netscape, PHP, Perl, Python, REXX, Rebol, Ruby, SQL, Tcl, VB.NET, VBScript, WinBatch, XML, and XSLT.