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BuckRab,
Good luck with the film/history project. If you want to bounce ideas at all , let me know, I will happily comment if possible. Sounds like a cool cool thing. Glad to see your profile thang.
Tomahem….
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Tomyup, I agree letting Big Cat go has to be one of the dumbest moves I can think of, right up there with drafting McClown. Miller, I am not so sure. The Chicago Sun-Times had an article showing Jim Miller upset with the team’s loyalty. I would have loved for Miller to stay, as his heart and support of the team was the highest of any Bears QB I have seen in… well maybe ever. Somebody had to go, much rather it would have been Chandler. I just can’t bring myself to defend Angelo on how it all went down, not at all. I do see we might be in the Running for Stewart or Plummer. Not sure which I would take, but rather one of them than a rookie washout. Imagine Emmit in blue and orange…. I would love it but he will cost too much and where will they come up with money for a QB unless, they opt for a rookie starter. I am wondering who Angelo has his eye on. He is very sneaky.
Personal Info Remains on Old Hard Drives
Thu Jan 16,11:52 AM ET Add Technology – AP to My Yahoo!By JUSTIN POPE, AP Business Writer
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – So, you think you cleaned all your personal files from that old computer you got rid of?
Two MIT graduate students suggest you think again.
Over two years, Simson Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat bought 158 used hard drives at secondhand computer stores and on eBay. Of the 129 drives that functioned, 69 still had recoverable files on them and 49 contained "significant personal information" — medical correspondence, love letters, pornography and 5,000 credit card numbers. One even had a year’s worth of transactions with account numbers from a cash machine in Illinois.
About 150,000 hard drives were "retired" last year, according to the research firm Gartner Dataquest. Many end up in the trash, but many also find their way back onto the market.
Over the years, stories have surfaced about personal information turning up on used hard drives, raising concerns about privacy and the danger of identity theft.
Last spring, Pennsylvania sold used computers that contained information about state employees. In 1997, a Nevada woman bought a used computer and discovered it contained prescription records on 2,000 customers of an Arizona pharmacy.
Garfinkel and Shelat, who reported their findings in an article to be published Friday in the journal IEEE Security & Privacy, said they believe they are the first to take a more comprehensive — though not exactly scientific — look at the problem.
On common operating systems such as Microsoft’s Windows, simply deleting a file, or even following that up by emptying the "trash" folder, does not necessarily make the information irretrievable. Those commands generally delete a file’s name from the directory. But the information itself can live on until it is overwritten by new files.
Even reformatting a drive, or preparing the hard drive all over again to store files, may not do it. Fifty-one of the 129 working drives in the MIT study had been reformatted, and 19 of them still contained recoverable data.
The hard-to-erase quality of hard drives is seen as a good thing by some. Many users like believing that, in a pinch, an expert could recover their deleted files. Law enforcement officers can examine a computer and lift incriminating e-mails or porno images from the hard drive.
The only sure way to erase a hard drive is to "squeeze" it: writing over the old information with new data — all zeros, for instance — at least once, but preferably several times. A one-line command will do that for Unix (news – web sites) users, and for others, inexpensive software from companies such as AccessData works well.
But few people go to the trouble. Many ordinary computer users toss their old drives into the closet, or take a sledgehammer to it.
As it turned out, most of the hard drives acquired by the MIT students came from businesses that apparently had a misplaced confidence in their ability to "sanitize" old drives.
Tom Aleman, who heads the analytic and forensic technology group at the accounting firm Deloitte & Touche, often encounters companies that get burned by failing to fully sanitize, say, the laptop of an employee who leaves the company for a job with a competitor.
"People will think they have deleted the file, they can’t find the file themselves and that the file is gone when, in fact, forensically you may be able to retrieve it," he said.
Garfinkel has learned his lesson. As an undergrad at MIT in the 1980s, he failed to sanitize his own hard drive before returning a computer to his father. His father was able to read his personal journal.
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OH, Yeah…
If you’re going to write
Poems for chicks
Why not send them
On the PM click?If you’re going to wipe away
Mona Lisa’s smile
Why not do it
In five star style?If you’re going to write
About a world of debris
Why the hell do you even bother
To cover me?I put the response to this poem in my sig yesterday
Jerry Angelo, the owner of the Bears, is on the right track it seems. He is balking against drafting another QB and leaning more toward shoring up the defensive line. Looking at either drafting Terrel Suggs or Jimmy Kennedy.
Yeah those pics are quite horrible. One sargeant I served with in Okinawa was telling me that a tank commander had taken the laser sighting device that allowed for the firing of tank rounds and shined it in random Iraqis’ face, both cooking and blinding them on contact, long before the tank round ever hit.
Goodie, I saw ‘Dots’ on the net right before I came to FS. Never got the full scoop. It was in the same store this weekend as the ROIR. Hopefully, it will still be there when I go back for Nocturama. Thanks for the scoop.
Tom
P.S. Avail kicks fairly hard in their own right. Am new to them, but I like them quite a bit so far.
I went looking for Cave yesterday, but my hip (replacement) music store said "when it comes out, we will have it".
On a better note, I did find:
X- See How We Are (this was the first punk album I ever heard without knowing it was punk.)
Bad Brains- S/t
Slayer – Reign in Blood (no way on eartt to outthrash this disc.)
Avail- Front Porch Stories
