PICTURE - Shredded Oracle Documents Seized by State Agents in California

Associated Press ^ | 05/05/2002 | Associated Press - Rich Pedroncelli

[Impeach98]

Here it is - a picture is worth a thousand words.

The first "images" to plant in people's minds of the Oracle scandal in California.

I hope everyone here can help make sure this gets disseminated. The slightly plump guard directing the truck with the dumpster containing shredded documents paints the picture in the minds of the public as to what Gray Davis has been up to - GARBAGE!

Private security guard Richard Avery directs a truck carrying
a dumpster taken from the office building were the California
Department of Information Technology is located Thursday,
May 2, 2002, in Sacramento, Calif. Gov. Gray Davis dispatched
California Highway Patrol officers to the office earlier Thursday
to prevent document shredding related to a much-criticized
state computer contract with Oracle Corp. The dumpster was
to be taken to a location for law enforcement officers to search
for any shredded documents. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

[GOPPunk]

I don't get it. It looks like a fat (not "slightly plump") guy showing off his truck.

[Impeach98]

The only better picture will be when Gray Davis has his black sunglasses on and is running off to Hawaii or wherever his political exile will be.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Do you work for Scott McNealy by any chance?

[Impeach98]

Punky Brewster - dude you've been watching the news lately?

Do shredded documents being seized...

Dumptrucks...

Security agents...

Oracle...

mean ANYTHING to you? How you been btw?

[Impeach98]

LOL! No, and I had no idea who "Scott McNealy" was until I just typed it into a search engine - Sun Micro.

Hey at least I knew who Ellison, Gates, Wang and Jobs were.

[GOPPunk]

All I am saying is, the guy doesn't look like an agent (he looks like he ate an agent). He needs some kind of bullet proof vest or "Law Enforcement" identifier. Not "do not cross" police lines or anything. Doesn't look they they take it seriously enough. And I can't see any shredded documents either. A picutre is worth a thousand words, but this one spells out only two, 500 times each: Fat Ass.

[Impeach98]

Fine - I will ask that the AP next time get some shredded paper to hang out the sides of the dumpster (punk!)

[Fish out of Water]

index bump

[Impeach98]

Here is the place to HEAR the hearings:

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO ORACLE SCANDAL HEARINGS

[Robert_Paulson2]

China.

[sarasmom]

I am glad I dont have to piece that truckload together!

Folks, FYI , "shredded" documents can be put back together.It is not fun,not fast, but you can do it.Important info is typically shredded,then burned.Less important info is just burned.A typical cheap straight cut document shredder is useless to a determined info gatherer.

Fire! First choice for document destruction.I guess California must have a lot of emission restrictions.hehehehe.

[supercat]

Folks, FYI , "shredded" documents can be put back together.It is not fun,not fast, but you can do it.Important info is typically shredded,then burned.Less important info is just burned.A typical cheap straight cut document shredder is useless to a determined info gatherer.

The difficulty of reassembling shredded documents is more or less proportional to the square of the number of pieces and inversely proportional to the size of each piece. Straight-cut shredders are pretty lousy on both counts; cross-cut shredders are much better, but document reconstruction may be possible unless a very large quantity of shredded documents are all inter-mixed. Even there, I would suspect that there may be enough clues to substantially reduce the difficulty from O(N^2) to O(n). For example, some printers which have not been cleaned leave a very faintly noticeable pattern of periodic smudging as they print. Such a patter would allow pieces printed of documents printed on the same printer to be grouped together, and would also help considerably in locating where each piece is supposed to go.

[IVote2]

Whoa! Is that Craig Livingstone?