I run a Dell PE2900 and run Proxmox VE on it. Total cost around $1500 so far and entire lab fits in a closet.

I have a really hot sister....

Already done, or at least predicted. www.prisonplanet.com

Man I wish Space Moose was still around. Imagine a post 9/11 Space Moose.

Wait, most of the people on /. was probably in grade school when that internet comic was strong.

I feel old.

I would say the 10th amendment is the one in question here.

An old ham radio saying is all an amplifier does is amplify crap.

People get amps to make up with poor cell service, and/or the fact that their tiny little handset does not work in a rural area/congested area.

Since the majority of people out there do not know how to properly install an antenna/transmitter, I am sure that the amps cause all kinds of headaches for the carriers.

Personally I use in my truck a Motorola M900 ( a full power gsm bag phone) for its excellent hands free and for the high power when I need it.
Otherwise I carry my N900 around for portablily and cool features, but I do not expect it to work 20 miles from the nearest tower.

While your statement is true.

I would think loosing fundamental rights for the rest of your life is a bit much for something like this.
When committing a real crime that actually hurts someone will get a less sentence for a first time offender.

But since this is a CYBER crime affecting someone important...

Yep.

It also guarantees that his life is now crap.

He will not vote ever again.
He will not be able to own a gun.
His ability to travel can easily be restricted.
His ability to get a future job is greatly impaired.

Amen

Also do not forget that prepaid plans in the US are also marketed as ghetto phones, or for poor people with bad credit.

Even t-mobile has does this. Flex play ( prepaid) customers are treated like second class citizens (bad customer service, no call forwarding, limit of two lines, etc.)
While their post paid plans get decent customer service, etc.


Boost probably has the best prepaid service out there but it is prepaid Nextel, or a very limited area Sprint CDMA. But it is marketed to the teenager, twenty something urban user.

I used to use Boost Iden, but now need rural coverage. So I went with Tmobile flex, since my cell phone company has no need for my social security number on a prepaid service.

So my choices were as follows.

1. Stick with boost and have excellent voice and 2way radio in urban areas, an no rural coverage, no realistic data, and phones that will survive the apocalypse ( i love the i355.) All for $100 a month.
2. Go with T-mobile Flex, get my choice of phones (n900), and good service as long as I do not have to use customer service, and have unlimited everything on two phones for $120. Also get treated like crap at the local t-mobile store.

3. Go with ATT, get stuck with a tolerable phone on 3g, or a great phone ( n900) on edge. Then pay $230 a month for a plan simular to T-mobile or boost, and have to pay through the nose if I ever go above 2 gigs in data ( rare, but when on vacation or holidays, it is close to 4 gig.)

There is a stigma with using prepaid service that is half the price, no contract, and usually unlimited usage.

Another case where the word consumer and slave are interchangeable.

Yes, it is a pain, but honestly, unless you are one of my friends ( one of the openbsd guys,) who maintains a working example of every machine that can run openbsd, why would you install the new version, instead of just keeping your working version patched?

I run openbsd on firewalls/vpns/etc. The only time I ever put a new os on them is when I am replacing them.

One of the best things about openbsd is that it is simple to install, simple to configure, and simple to maintain a production level system that is unsecured by your own stupidity.

How did I violate the spirit?

The floppy was useable r/w in windows, it was even formatted in windows.

I even copied data on it.

Encase is hard coded for the standard floppy formats. Although windows as of NT 4 could handle non-standard formats.

This is an old trick that we used in the early 1990s to get an extra 500k or so out of the floppy. It was first used in linux and then later the format trick was extended to windows/dos fat.

The data was hidden from Encase. That was my first encase class around 2004.

I was the only person in there from the private sector and to be honest I was getting tired of how elite the people in the class and instructor thought they were.

So I started to point out ways to defeat the system. Their answer was that there are plenty of idiots downloading child porn to keep them in business. People smart enough to defeat encase, can get real jobs and are not their concern.

I pointed out that if our economy ever starts to look like Japan's economy we are going to have alot of unemployed smart people.

I once got a steak dinner by betting that I can create a floppy to hide data on that Encase could not read and still be used by windows.

The instructor and a fbi agent called bs.

I simply used fdformat to format 1.44 meg floppy to 1.9 megs or was it 2 megs.. Anyway it worked and to this day, encase can not read non standard floppy formats.

If any of you seen what is required to be a law enforcement forensics investigator in the US, you would be pissed.

In most departments the forensics investigator is the poor bastard who has some computer skills.

He gets selected to take a couple of encase or ftk classes and then they use a confiscated computer, add a write block to it and there you go.

Now lets say you get a CS degree, work for a while and decided that you want to do forensics. The odds of you getting a job is next to impossible.

In fact you will be specifically told that they do not want you around. There is a hatred of "nerds" in the law enforcement community.

Not only will you have to go back to school to get an associates in criminal justice, you will have to go through the police academy
and then work as a beat officer for several years before you will even get a chance to touch a computer.

Now lets look at requirements for other kinds of forensics. All of the other forensics fields have lab type people who are specifically trained in their field of expertise. for example, an dna specialist will have at least a masters in biology, a forensic pathologist, has an MD, a ballistics specialist usually has a degree in physics, or engineering. But a computer forensics specialist usually has a high school degree, maybe an associates degree in CJS, and must meet all of the active physical requirements as a patrol officer.

Note. I work in infosec and perform forensic investigations for private, defense cases, and the university level.

Every time I go to a continuing education class, encase/ftk, or other. There will be several leos in there that have no clue on even the basics on how a computer works. As a result the majority of the training is "point and click" as mentioned in the article.
In the days when everyone ran dos, this was doable.

At these classes I will point out the above issues and ask why computer forensics is differnet than any other forensics field.

I will point out that computers have gotten much more complex and standard procedure for most law enforcement agencies if they run into anything but a standard unencrypted windows computer is hand the case to the state police, or the feds, since they lack the skills to even process a linux box running reiserfs. Hell, what am I saying, most of them can not process a macintosh since the tools out there are windoze based and have very limited mac capability. So in order to investigate a mac, one must have core unix skills and treat the case as they would treat any other unix system. Yes there are newer tools to macs, but they suck. So be prepared to go through plists and file system attributes.

Their usual comment, you have to pay your dues son.

A friend of mine who only buys POS cars, repairs them to run for a while and then replaces them pointed out that he spends much less than what I used to when you compare MPD.

After looking at that. I sold my 2005.5 TDI that was due for $2000 in repairs and sold it for $12,000.

I paid off some debt and bought an old 1998 chevy 1500. for $1900. Put $1000 in repairs, and then $1200 in a LPG system.

Now I get 10 mpg local and 15 mpg hiway on lpg, but the lpg costs $1.80 a gallon and I get a $0.50 rebate per gallon on taxes. I get to pay a reduced licence and insurance since it is a lpg work truck, so my mpd = 5.49

On the jetta, my registration, maintaince, and insurance is higher, but the car gets in the mid 40s mpg on diesel. Its MPD = 5.88

So the POS chevy truck only costs me .33 miles than a TDI in MPD and is much more useful. Also if I get into an accident the truck is built much heavier than the plastic tdi.

This is based on paid for vehicles. If I bought new, the costs are dramatically in the favor of the truck since the jetta tdi is $10,000 more in cost and has higher operating costs in the long run.

If you want, take a standard toyota and then compare its MPD to a hybrid over a 10 year span.

I see that there are other one time virtual cards.
The other feature that paypal had was single vendor cards for a year. I used those alot for amazon, t-mobile etc.

This was to protect from either a vendor that I do monthly business with from getting hacked or in the case of vendors like T-mobile who require a credit card for monthly service and I want the ability to cancel the account without it affecting my actual bank account.