Re: Copy and Save

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AIUI the margins on printers are shit, and the drives will therefore be as small as possible. So I'm guessing even the highest-end machines will overwrite everything more than a month or so old.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 7:51 AM
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That means I can copy my butt.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 7:52 AM
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It means someone else can make a flip-book of how your butt has changed over the past 20 years.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 7:54 AM
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I'd prefer they buy the licensed one.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 7:55 AM
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That's what makes this revelation so threatening.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 7:58 AM
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I forget exactly what I was trying to do, but I ran into an absurdly small file-size limit on a copier recently. And this was a good Konica Minolta machine, about the best you'll see in a normal office.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 7:59 AM
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This will go down on my permanent record.


Posted by: Grumbles | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 7:59 AM
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Isn't it scary that xerox machines are storing the dumb shit I copy as opposed to the past 15 years of archives at Unfogged and my personal blog.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 8:02 AM
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I always copy my tax returns, so I guess I should worry about identity theft. Of course, the reason I have to file tax returns on paper is because I've already been identity thefted.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 8:04 AM
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What am I, overwritten .tmp files?


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 8:06 AM
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I always scan all my tax docs in at work and put them on my work computer, because.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 8:11 AM
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But Hillary smashed her Blackberries.


Posted by: md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 8:11 AM
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It was a machine much like this, which has a 320GB HDD. At ~1MB per A4 scanned page, that's 320,000 pages. Ok, never mind.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 8:22 AM
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Against 2Gb RAM. What's all that memory for?


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 8:25 AM
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Things past.


Posted by: Opinionated Marcel Proust | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 8:27 AM
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Damn, the butt jokes have already been made.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 8:28 AM
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The article is from 2010 and I think I first heard of this in 2006ish. It's a racing certainty it's no better, though, and there's probably a strong case for buying ex-Trump Org copiers.


Posted by: Alex | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 8:31 AM
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Oh yeah? How do you know since I forgot to link anything? Maybe there's a brand-new shocking development! and they just happened to heavily plagiarize a 2010 article.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 8:57 AM
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Forget copiers. Worry about this.


Posted by: Brazen Hussite | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 11:17 AM
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Companies in the Defense industry buy only copiers without hard drives. They are increasingly rare. (Even some unclassified stuff is not publicly releasable. Not to mention IP concerns.)


Posted by: DaveLMA | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 12:13 PM
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19: whoa.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 12:30 PM
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I also came here to make a butt joke.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 2:13 PM
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||turns out I probably shouldn't have told my kid to "spit on the floor" during their class trip to the Reagan Library|>


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 2:50 PM
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23: Why not?


Posted by: politicalfootball | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 3:01 PM
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because now I have to explain to the teacher. I was kidding, mostly.


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 3:04 PM
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Have the teacher call me. I can explain.


Posted by: politicalfootball | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 3:06 PM
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At least your kid listens to the important stuff.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 3:09 PM
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23: Is great. Halford should get a parenting medal.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 3:11 PM
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Yes, 23 is magnificent.


Posted by: politicalfootball | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 3:19 PM
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I'm sure not wanting to start a flame-war. And there are things about Stallman that rub me the wrong way. But still and all, he's got a point about demanding that software be free, so that anybody getting a binary copy of code, can get buildable source. B/c then somebody could have inspected the source and discovered these things.


Posted by: Chetan Murthy | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 5:29 PM
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When I was studying engineering a very long time ago a prof told the class about some clever folks who hooked up a specially designed rf receiver, through some electronics to a line printer and drove the setup over by a military base. They were able to print out everything that was coming out of the on-base printer. Apparently, nobody has ever bothered to give a shit about printer security.


Posted by: lumpkin | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 6:12 PM
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Another example: I worked at a company that did both commercial and military aerospace work. I was on the commercial side, the stuff I worked on was export controlled in some cases. When we sent our IT infrastructure to India the company put it on the employees to avoid sending export controlled files or copying such docs on most of the office printers. You can imagine how effective that was. As I said above, seems like nobody has ever really cared about this.


Posted by: lumpkin | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 6:27 PM
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Maybe they figured making toner cartridges cost more than gold bars was as close as they could get.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 7:30 PM
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Printing in gold is cool.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 7:32 PM
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My dad had an embossing press. The first time he used it he thoughtlessly used lead type, which melted into a great solid solder-reeking lump. Hilarity was had by all but him.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 7:34 PM
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We had an apparently operable old timey printing press in the basement because getting drunk and planning to start a new hobby and making purchases of dubious utility predates the internet. Anyway, it was grandpa's and my dad eventually gave it to a man who was, among other things, a rodeo clown.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 7:39 PM
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Also, don't inhale lead fumes. That's bad.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 7:40 PM
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The meltdown was fortunately contained in an outbuilding.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 05-11-18 8:13 PM
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36. My grandfather had an old-timey printing press in his basement but actually made money with it by (e.g.) printing signature names on Christmas cards, or doing invitations. It was really cool. He also had an engraving machine which he made money with by doing things like sports trophies. He also had a Varityper.


Posted by: DaveLMA | Link to this comment | 05-12-18 6:02 AM
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I heard that was grandpa's plan, but never got the details. He died when I was very young.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05-12-18 6:31 AM
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