[Bobboau]

a crapy acer computer and an HP 4L lazer printer, they both work fine, the printer alone is probly worth a couple hundred. but best of all the HD is (probly) filled with all of my (sort of) boss's deepest darkest secrets (or maybe just a bunch of porn),
I might finaly get that fat basturd fired woo hoo!

[Stryke 9]

DUDE!

All I ever got outta a dumpster was an eight-year-old PowerPC, a CD burner to match, a CO2 tank, and my first love *sigh*.

[pyro-manic]

Fat bastards in positions of power must be destroyed....

[Su-tehp]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
DUDE!

All I ever got outta a dumpster was an eight-year-old PowerPC, a CD burner to match, a CO2 tank, and my first love *sigh*.

Stryke, I thought your first love was a dumpster! J/K

[Stryke 9]

Was a joke. Though I suppose if you want to get technical, my first love was the electromagnetic catapult (parts for which were found in, yes, junkyards and dumpsters. Mostly the cooling fans and capacitators, which I ripped out of old power supplies), which I gave up on to drool over the Jackhammer when I realized I'd need a small nuclear power plant to fuel the damn thing.

And I was so hoping the senior prank for this year would involve launching a bus over commencement.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
Was a joke. Though I suppose if you want to get technical, my first love was the electromagnetic catapult  

you go along well with CP, after all

[Stryke 9]

Oh, shut up. Or I start up with the French jokes again.

[Bobboau]

I just did a search and the printer is worth $200 easily
though I have no intention of selling it,
I might be able to get $50-75 for the computer and monitor (and the mouse and keyboards and cables)

[beatspete]

personally i'd like to stumble across a large low quality ward-robe, a few smallish oil drums, and a sheet of tarpaulin in a dumpster.

Yes, local raft race is coming up.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Dumpster diving in this country is a non event, everyone in business thinks that you have to physically destroy old hard disks to permanently get rid of data. :|
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[CP5670]

$250 worth of computer hardware is quite a find. I should try sifting around in one of the IMF dumpsters at my dad's workplace sometime...

[Stryke 9]

Maeg: They're more or less right. If there's lots of corporate espionage out there, it'd be a good plan- some kid's not likely to pull a hard disk out of the junk pile and recover the deleted files, but a pro with the right software can. CIA's been doing it for at least a decade, and some of their equipment leaks out all the time.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
Maeg: They're more or less right. If there's lots of corporate espionage out there, it'd be a good plan- some kid's not likely to pull a hard disk out of the junk pile and recover the deleted files, but a pro with the right software can. CIA's been doing it for at least a decade, and some of their equipment leaks out all the time.

[color=66ff00]I was always under the impression that if you ran a disk zero'er (can't think of a better description) about 20 times you destroy any left behind data and the magnetic fingerprint it left. What a bummer.
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[Stryke 9]

Well, if you ran it through a pretty powerful electromagnet (or regular magnet, for that matter, though it'd be hard to find one that big), you'd do a job on it, all right, and I'd give up on one that had been ****ed up that bad, but when it comes to company secrets most corporations like to err on the side of caution.

[Ashrak]

Originally posted by pyro-manic


Fat bastards in positions of power must be destroyed....

yay ! death to bastards!!!! ayyayayayayay!


im sleepy

[Galemp]

I'm not going to ask what you were doing in a dumpster behind a meat plant.

*remembers the dumpster scene from Fight Club*

[Carl]

it doesn't matter, because he doesn't know. he just woke up there.

[neo_hermes]

[demon442]

Im not going to try to tell you what to do with your free time, nor what i think is a worthwhile investment of said tme.  But digging arround in a dumpster is not the best thing to do when you are trying to keep a good social standing.  Unless you are a hard core hacker, that is.  If not, it's more creepy than cool.

[Stryke 9]

Ooh, yes, must make sure that you don't lose social standing by being practical.