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if you find a usb stick be careful
Monday, July 09, 2012 7:05 PM
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Re:if you find a usb stick be careful
Monday, July 09, 2012 7:59 PM
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All the ones I find only have spreadsheets and noodz. Never any spyware :/
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Re:if you find a usb stick be careful
Monday, July 09, 2012 8:12 PM
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I step on "lost" USB sticks. Data you don't have 3 backups of is data you don't care about.
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Re:if you find a usb stick be careful
Monday, July 09, 2012 8:29 PM
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i found one a few months ago outside of microcenter plugged it into my ubuntu machine to check it out, had a few family pics and a few files on it, i just tossed it, was only a 1gb anyway
I was made a cannibal to fix problems like you   
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Re:if you find a usb stick be careful
Monday, July 09, 2012 9:04 PM
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I would always plug it into a extra system I have that I don't care about to check it and format it if I found one.
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Re:if you find a usb stick be careful
Monday, July 09, 2012 9:08 PM
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I never pick up thumbdrives. I don't use them, So why waste my time? =P So I'm safe.
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Re:if you find a usb stick be careful
Monday, July 09, 2012 9:33 PM
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I found one years ago with the entire first season of "The Shield" on it. Cool show...
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Re:if you find a usb stick be careful
Monday, July 09, 2012 9:39 PM
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Eh, if I find em I don't bother seeing what's on em I erase them and put portable apps on them then give em to ppl whose PC's i've worked on. that way in case they mess things up (like uninstall IE) they will have a browser and other things to get them by till i show up.
If they are more than 4 gigs I keep em and use em for windows install drives or something.
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Re:if you find a usb stick be careful
Monday, July 09, 2012 10:34 PM
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Chrome-M-Dragon
Eh, if I find em I don't bother seeing what's on em I erase them and put portable apps on them then give em to ppl whose PC's i've worked on. that way in case they mess things up (like uninstall IE) they will have a browser and other things to get them by till i show up.
If they are more than 4 gigs I keep em and use em for windows install drives or something.
thats assuming they don't delete whats on the thumb drives as well  
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Re:if you find a usb stick be careful
Monday, July 09, 2012 10:59 PM
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ONLY 1 GB
I paid like $70 for a 512MB drive. I still have it too! No way in hell am I stepping over a free flash drive, so much potential......
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Re:if you find a usb stick be careful
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 6:23 AM
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If anyone happens to find one in the hi desert area that is purple and black (8 gigs) it's mine. I had all kinds of cool stuff on there too.  
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Re:if you find a usb stick be careful
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:45 AM
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Kanti
ONLY 1 GB
I paid like $70 for a 512MB drive. I still have it too! No way in hell am I stepping over a free flash drive, so much potential......
I still use floppy's no lie, there good for putting midi's and other tracker files on them
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Re:if you find a usb stick be careful
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:45 AM
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The Second Amendment. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. The answer to 1984 is 1776! -Alex Jones- Veni et capient eam! 
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Re:if you find a usb stick be careful
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:50 AM
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I pick them up but I don't tend to actully look at there content. My latest find was a sandisk 64gb thumb drive :D
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Re:if you find a usb stick be careful
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:59 AM
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I learned from my mistake and now if I take them with me, I attach a lanyard or a long bright string to them. I lost one for a month one time and I happened to go back to a job on a dirt road and found it again, I should have learned my lesson that time.
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Re:if you find a usb stick be careful
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 10:09 AM
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How do you loose them thats what I want to know. My thumb drive's are in a zipper compartment with my laptop because I only use them for work not personal storage, my personal backup is a 3tb External drive + cloud storage lol.
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Re:if you find a usb stick be careful
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 10:24 AM
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I usually put them in my safety vest front pocket so I can watch tv shows or movies on my work tablet during lunch in my truck. If I put them in my normal pocket, they may get washed (I have done it a few times and they are still working!) the problem is, I usually take it out and put it in my cup holder in the truck but sometimes I forget and when I am out in the field, I will bend over and it will fall out. The front pockets have Velcro in the middle but they have just enough of an opening on the sides to let them slide out. A few times, they will fall out of the cup holder and fall between the mobile tablet carrier mounted on the floorboard on the passengers side. I checked there though...
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Re:if you find a usb stick be careful
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 10:35 AM
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Ah that makes sense, but thats why I have a clear 4g USB internet connection I just connect to netflix and watch TV or any of the movies/TV shows on my hard drive, but its a 640gb laptop drive
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Re:if you find a usb stick be careful
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 10:48 AM
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My tablet at work has everything blocked. We have a usb aircard but all exe are blocked as well as 99.9% of internet sites on explorer. Good thing they didn't think about firefox on a usb stick and vlc mobile media player. WHA HA HA! I just install everything on a hidden folder and just in case they need to update my maps or something, I hide or delete the folder. I don't think they even care really. I was told one time that my data transmission was high and was told to "fix it" so I don't play all the flash games and watch all the youtube stuff I used to. ROFL
That's why I use flash drives
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