It all depends on how you do it. If you put the HDD in with the electronics facing up, a 10 second burst will ensure that not a single semi-conductor or chip on the board will ever operate again.
No amount of extra microwaving will destroy the data on the platters unless you open up the drive. Then, you might as well use a hammer.
Your graphene memory chip would also be a smoking mess after 10 seconds of microwaving.
If all small boats were warned that if they travelled at more than 10 knots they were liable to be sunk without notice the whole thing would fizzle out after a dozen sinkings or so.
Seems pretty straightforward to me. Add 'em up - photograph the lot in detail - store for possible examination and then send your insurance claim in. No insurance! An expensive lesson learned the hard way.
We simply do not have the technology to guarantee protecting power distribution grids against EMP attack.
The very best we can do is to encourage solar power generation for each home, and demand higher standards of impulse protection in all consumer equipment.
One large EMP today would take us back to the horse and buggy era.
But whatever it was, it happened so long ago and so far away that it is of interest only to scientists. If we see another one, very much closer, we will certainly learn a great deal more.
Pump your data out to a BIG star 12.5 light years away using a big antenna and as much power as you can muster. Spend much time on creating the very best receiver to capture the return in 25 years.
Burying stuff is for squirrels - Men go to the stars!
In many parts of the world women who have been raped are imprisoned for their 'Crime'. That the Nigerian High Commissioner thinks the same way about people who have been scammed does not surprise me in the least.
No point in declaring him 'Persona non grata', the next one might be even worse!
It really does not matter what these meters say as long as they are consistent. From long experience, my grey-ware then interprets the bars to give me a realistic expectation of battery life or signal strength. Move along now please. Nothing of interest here.
The warning given is timely but not too explicit. In my own experience, an acoustic neuroma took me very close to deaths door after some years of working with RF systems. As we do not yet know exactly what level and exposure time is required to damage cell tissue, some real caution is indicated. IMHO, anybody who spends a significant portion of the day with a mobile phone jammed against their head is just asking for trouble. The trouble may be delayed some years, as in my case, but can still be life threatening. Stop it already!
The entire Eastern seaboard to Cape Dyer and a major arc across to Alaska were linked, mostly by troposcatter, when I was last up there. Bandwidth wasn't huge but reliability was high. I understand some of the stations are now run for "research" by some alphabet government department.
Place a microphone at the focal point, and with a plated dish(not mesh) you could find out quite a lot about how your neighbours think of people with mysteriously moving dish antennae.
Change the law on this patent foolishness, but do it kindly. Wait until a Euro buys about 8 - 10 US dollars and then do it. The Spivs behind all this will hardly notice the extra pain!
It took millions of years worth of decayed vegetation, compressed and heated by natural processes, to produce the oil we have squandered in the last century.Just how likely is it that all today's plant waste, fully loaded with oil, has simply not been noticed in recent decades?
You can extract oil from waste plant material in small amounts, but small amounts only. This company is just one more of the many that promise everything, and deliver nothing. Run Away! Run Away!
Scratching my head at this one. I can see that the Music Industry is still grasping at any tiny straw it can, but what gain for Dell? Did money change hands, or was there some coercion? I just don't get it. Any ideas on this.
Stop the drip that ruins electronics.
Just remember to hold it keypad down while you wipe it with dilute Lysol. Then carefully dry it before you bring it right-side up.
You just don't get it do you? These days politics is all about getting brownie points for when you are out of office. Three or four directorships of big companies will rapidly make up for the less than stellar political earnings.
Some might look at this as a just reward - Why not see it as it is. It is bribery of a public official. The significant difference is that the pay-day is deferred some years and comes disguised as a seat on a board.....Usually with a bunch of crooks who have taken the same bait.
The P2P toothpaste is not only out of the tube, it is spread so far and wide that it can never be retrieved for repacking.
Only dummies, and the desperate, would even think that legislation will achieve the impossible.
Get a new business model or join the dinosaurs.
This will be less, and a lot more permanent.
I know a man whose cousins friend is developing a semi-flexible DVD disk made only of archival quality Mylar and gold flakes.
An archival quality burner will, using a suitable laser, punch holes clean through the disk rather than the wimpy phase change process used today.
Single layer only guys. Brand name "Methuselah"
In Sweden, AallemansrÃtt allows free passage through the countryside as long as you respect crops and farmers gates etc.
Clearly, the government now wants to tip-toe through peoples electronic mail in return.
Seems fair enough to me;)
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It all depends on how you do it. If you put the HDD in with the electronics facing up, a 10 second burst will ensure that not a single semi-conductor or chip on the board will ever operate again. No amount of extra microwaving will destroy the data on the platters unless you open up the drive. Then, you might as well use a hammer. Your graphene memory chip would also be a smoking mess after 10 seconds of microwaving.
If all small boats were warned that if they travelled at more than 10 knots they were liable to be sunk without notice the whole thing would fizzle out after a dozen sinkings or so.
Seems pretty straightforward to me. Add 'em up - photograph the lot in detail - store for possible examination and then send your insurance claim in. No insurance! An expensive lesson learned the hard way.
We simply do not have the technology to guarantee protecting power distribution grids against EMP attack. The very best we can do is to encourage solar power generation for each home, and demand higher standards of impulse protection in all consumer equipment. One large EMP today would take us back to the horse and buggy era.
But whatever it was, it happened so long ago and so far away that it is of interest only to scientists. If we see another one, very much closer, we will certainly learn a great deal more.
Pump your data out to a BIG star 12.5 light years away using a big antenna and as much power as you can muster. Spend much time on creating the very best receiver to capture the return in 25 years. Burying stuff is for squirrels - Men go to the stars!
In many parts of the world women who have been raped are imprisoned for their 'Crime'. That the Nigerian High Commissioner thinks the same way about people who have been scammed does not surprise me in the least. No point in declaring him 'Persona non grata', the next one might be even worse!
It really does not matter what these meters say as long as they are consistent. From long experience, my grey-ware then interprets the bars to give me a realistic expectation of battery life or signal strength. Move along now please. Nothing of interest here.
The warning given is timely but not too explicit. In my own experience, an acoustic neuroma took me very close to deaths door after some years of working with RF systems. As we do not yet know exactly what level and exposure time is required to damage cell tissue, some real caution is indicated. IMHO, anybody who spends a significant portion of the day with a mobile phone jammed against their head is just asking for trouble. The trouble may be delayed some years, as in my case, but can still be life threatening. Stop it already!
The entire Eastern seaboard to Cape Dyer and a major arc across to Alaska were linked, mostly by troposcatter, when I was last up there. Bandwidth wasn't huge but reliability was high. I understand some of the stations are now run for "research" by some alphabet government department.
Place a microphone at the focal point, and with a plated dish(not mesh) you could find out quite a lot about how your neighbours think of people with mysteriously moving dish antennae.
Change the law on this patent foolishness, but do it kindly. Wait until a Euro buys about 8 - 10 US dollars and then do it. The Spivs behind all this will hardly notice the extra pain!
It took millions of years worth of decayed vegetation, compressed and heated by natural processes, to produce the oil we have squandered in the last century.Just how likely is it that all today's plant waste, fully loaded with oil, has simply not been noticed in recent decades? You can extract oil from waste plant material in small amounts, but small amounts only. This company is just one more of the many that promise everything, and deliver nothing. Run Away! Run Away!
Scratching my head at this one. I can see that the Music Industry is still grasping at any tiny straw it can, but what gain for Dell? Did money change hands, or was there some coercion? I just don't get it. Any ideas on this.
Stop the drip that ruins electronics. Just remember to hold it keypad down while you wipe it with dilute Lysol. Then carefully dry it before you bring it right-side up.
You just don't get it do you? These days politics is all about getting brownie points for when you are out of office. Three or four directorships of big companies will rapidly make up for the less than stellar political earnings. Some might look at this as a just reward - Why not see it as it is. It is bribery of a public official. The significant difference is that the pay-day is deferred some years and comes disguised as a seat on a board.....Usually with a bunch of crooks who have taken the same bait.
The P2P toothpaste is not only out of the tube, it is spread so far and wide that it can never be retrieved for repacking. Only dummies, and the desperate, would even think that legislation will achieve the impossible. Get a new business model or join the dinosaurs.
What we really need are delay lines we can load and freeze until we need the data again.
This will be less, and a lot more permanent. I know a man whose cousins friend is developing a semi-flexible DVD disk made only of archival quality Mylar and gold flakes. An archival quality burner will, using a suitable laser, punch holes clean through the disk rather than the wimpy phase change process used today. Single layer only guys. Brand name "Methuselah"
In Sweden, AallemansrÃtt allows free passage through the countryside as long as you respect crops and farmers gates etc. Clearly, the government now wants to tip-toe through peoples electronic mail in return. Seems fair enough to me ;)
I like it. Hammer their switchboards until they extend WinXP. That'll larm 'em!
So that is what happens when you switch on a Hadron Collider!
Hi Johnny Appleseed! Nice to see you back. Did those trees just get boring?