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.
It means someone else can make a flip-book of how your butt has changed over the past 20 years.
I'd prefer they buy the licensed one.
That's what makes this revelation so threatening.
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.
This will go down on my permanent record.
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.
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.
What am I, overwritten .tmp files?
I always scan all my tax docs in at work and put them on my work computer, because.
But Hillary smashed her Blackberries.
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.
Against 2Gb RAM. What's all that memory for?
Damn, the butt jokes have already been made.
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.
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.
Forget copiers. Worry about this.
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.)
||turns out I probably shouldn't have told my kid to "spit on the floor" during their class trip to the Reagan Library|>
because now I have to explain to the teacher. I was kidding, mostly.
Have the teacher call me. I can explain.
At least your kid listens to the important stuff.
23: Is great. Halford should get a parenting medal.
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.
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.
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.
Maybe they figured making toner cartridges cost more than gold bars was as close as they could get.
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.
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.
Also, don't inhale lead fumes. That's bad.
The meltdown was fortunately contained in an outbuilding.
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.
I heard that was grandpa's plan, but never got the details. He died when I was very young.