Robots can be hacked. They also present a great disparity in power. They also have no soul; they didn't swear an oath to uphold, and defend this country, it's constitution, or it's people. For the use of deadly force on U.S. soil, give me a human to make that decision anyday.
Geez, folks...I'm so sorry that robot killed your whole family...it was just this darn BSOD! We'll make it up to, we'll cover your funeral costs!
It isn't just spying that is at issue. At least with ground combat, and small arms fire an individual would have a reasonable chance of protecting themselves from abuses of force by the government, or any other entity. With drones that carry anti-vehicle weaponry, and can deliver that ordinance from the air at stand off ranges. There isn't any reasonable chance to protect oneself. To my mind this is akin to allowing Law Enforcement Officers to utilize mortars, or missiles in the use of deadly force. Can you imagine a high speed chase ended via a surface to surface missile, or an abandoned structure razed to the ground via artillery to get rid of a meth lab? If we allow the use of deadly force on U.S. soil via drones then that isn't far off either. At least overseas in the context of actual combat against an actually well-defined enemy they are to me a somewhat worrisome additional military tool. The reason they are worrisome is because of bureaucratic nonsense like this..."Yeah, let's use them at home since they work so well overseas!"...
I am pretty sure it will. The arrogant folks of at M$ seem to not realize that they got to their position by giving the market enough of what it wanted for them to be worth any hassles. They are leveraging people too hard, and it does drive people away. What they should be doing is trying to slow the flow of R&D dollars to anything Android or IOS based as quickly, and effectively as possible (by pleasing the hell out of their current customer base), because when the ARM architecture catches up close enough behind Intel in terms of power, and large lightweight screen tablets are available for cheap, there really isn't a reason to pay them extra for windows at all. It's more likely at that point that Android will start seeing adoption in the PC space for the same reason M$ thinks it will happen in reverse...
I personally don't mind the tile thing too much. Though it is stupid on M$'s part to not have the option to revert. I swore it off for the following:
Requires agreeing to binding arbitration. Requires opting out of any future class action lawsuit. Has no mention of upgrade on the packaging, and activates just find from the RC, but isn't legal unless you read the fine print (needing a valid previous OS). When 'upgraded' removes the right to use the OS you 'upgraded from', and it's final death knell the being not allowing me to use my Core2 class processors because they don't have SLAT for HyperV, when the server doesn't require this, and the graphics card in my FILE server has I think 32mb of RAM, it being a PCI card (not E, or X, just PCI).
I'm done with them, and the time I have invested in Ubuntu (and kvm) has rewarded me more than similar amounts of time spent learning the certification material. I'll still support them, as that is what most clients are using, but will happily replace them as often as I can.
I don't understand this lack of a line of logic. Congress was granted the authority to protect works of art & science for the sake of their authors. They were also charged with doing it a manner that actually furthers the ENTIRE country's artistic & technical development. Patents are only good for 20 years...Did you cure cancer? That'll be 20 years that your work is protected...Did you invent Disney? That'll be 90?! That is thoughtless, and indefensible.
Copyright infringement penalties of $150,000 PER INSTANCE or there about are absurd in a age where I can make millions of copies in minutes by clicking a button.
Patenting molecules for drugs that we have negligently released to the market without adequate testing it preposterous. Drug PROCESSES should be patented, NOT the molecule, as this would actually spur innovation to find a more efficient process, as well as encourage companies that have a modicum of pride in their work to test the molecule perhaps more thoroughly, as they could sell it too...
Patenting genes, and then getting to sue farmers that have copies of these genes on their land (Monsanto), because the wind you know carries things is no small mix of absurd, criminal, ludicrous, unhealthy, and apparently dreamed up by those with no respect for reality.
Anyone who actually bothers to take anything close to a fair & balanced review of our current system regarding Patents, and Copyrights will find nothing short of a full blown kleptocracy.
Alot of people do not seem to understand the reason Congress was granted this authority in the first place. It was to balance the need to protect the creator of the work, with the need for the public to have to access to it. Another example of this is that Patents MUST contain enough detail about the invention that 'anyone similarly skilled in the art can recreate it', otherwise the work is unpatentable, and is to be rejected as such. The Authors have no more right to protection of their work than we have the right to demand it for free to further the good of all. It is a balance between the two, and it is currently quite broken. As congress has engaged in nothing approaching due diligence in the matter.
At least I took my vacation this week. I guess it's time to break out the end-of-the-world booze. Then I just have to travel to a place where you can actually see the stars at night...
Firstly the Nasa mistake was actually caused by Lockheed Martin. Lockheed's Deepwater fiasco cost an atrocious amount of money (Billions), and turned the Coast Guard's old (but still usable) cutters into scrap. According to congressional testimony these 8 cutters were unfit to gift to Panama to use in river patrol suffering from 'prematurely' cracked hulls. They would make those mistakes anyway, being (imho) the Microsoft of the Aerospace world.
As for the Tokyo incident, how do you not notice that an axle doesn't fit? If there is slop in it, it's pretty easy to tell there is a problem. The individuals responsible would find ways to make other costly mistakes. Besides these were ASIANS, come on man, if they can't do it, there is no hope for the rest of us. Unless Russians are better at math than Asians? Since we're all being so racist anyway...
I really dislike the idea of America having such racist standards, and it isn't that I am one of those double think monkeys, that loves the idea of celebrating our diversity through being 'Politically Correct', as celebrating diversity by removing it is impressively thoughtless.
I do agree that the metric system is a better system to use as it's flexibility, range, and ease of precisional use keep things more straight forward. I use it myself whenever I am calculating something that matters. I however recognize that it is a person's free choice to use whatever system they prefer. I don't believe in government mandates, I would rather have inefficiency with my freedom, so I won't gripe about it, and overall? It isn't that big of a deal. Converting from one system to another is just one small hassle of an engineering challenge, and life is not ideal. Think of the many many times that people throughout the world convert from one system of calculation, or measurement to another without error.
The biggest problem with our educational system is the way that we are taught. We should be presented with concepts, and have a very firm grasp of them BEFORE vocabulary is introduced. This gives the human mind (at least mine) a firm handle to actually conceptualize, and retain the area being studied. It is a lot like learning hands on for it's effectiveness. It needs to be known that understanding the concept is 90% of education. The vocabulary is necessary, but without a firm grasp on the concept, there is no foundation, and the inextricably linked series of memories that we like to call 'education' will be washed away, never to return. In our current state we would be far better of by polling people who have exited K-12 schools 5 years down the road, and only teaching the things that those people remembered...
I know those things are expensive, but we should really have a self destruct feature on those things...Lose communication while flying over Iran? BLOW IT UP. It pains me to see the amount of money we pour into things like this only for it to be pilfered by Chinese hackers, or this...
I want to see them put a datacenter in one of the endless expanse of factories downtown with all the busted out windows. Seriously though, It does look like an interesting idea. I wonder how they will hide the backup generators, and what will they have to rip up to run all that cable? At least they will have to employee more engineers to figure it all out...
Engineering failure meets the success of the slave worker. No one should have to be roused out of bed to retool an assembly line because some bright eyed idiots decided to switch things around at the last minute. Let the product be light, it isn't like people's lives are at stake, just their pride. This really makes me not even want to try apple.
It must have been all of those looters, and polluters leaving Europe, and moving to the Americas that caused Europe's little ice age. Yep, that must be it, blame the guys who lived half a millenia ago, and don't look at the sun too closely, it has nothing to do with this.
I don't know why everyone thinks global warming is a bad thing. I can buy up low priced real estate that will one day be coastal property. I like coastal property, it's just too expensive. It really is a good thing overall...
I second this post. Some hard drive media hits 4-10k Oersteds now, and my 2.1 Tesla NdFeB magnet can't erase today's hard drives while it is sitting on top of them, while they are running (they just slow down a bit).
Also any of my phones, cordless, or cellular haven't even noticed the same magnets sitting on the outside of their cases. (With regard to call quality, it does mess with the gelocation / magnetic sensor) There is no way that those 'steel joists in the walls' have anywhere near that strong field right next to them, let alone over the air gap of an entire room.
As for the T.V., throw away your crt, and get an lcd, led, or plasma, none of those technologies are effect by magnets.
I also second the post about ac permanently magnetizing steel (it doesn't happen). Let alone the fact that you would need thosands of Amps, turns, or meters of wire to have a noticeable effect.
Somebody never took their middle school physics class. Bloody Pagans.
From the text of the patent, it sounds like they are trying to find a way to take a still, in order count passengers. I would guess so that they can charge per person in the vehicle, or at least have the option in the future. Not that it couldn't be used for something more nefarious. Either way it's cash for me thanks.
I have heard the theories about injecting saltwater into natural gas wells causing minor earthquakes, and the fact that there are no recorded earthquakes form the Marianas trench region, supposedly due to the large amount talc rich mud that acts as a lubricant between the plates. Both of those make sense to me, and that is pretty much the limit of my 'expertise' in plate tectonics; The only way that I could see it being possible is if, somehow they were able to create waves in the magma, and peak the stress near a fault line.
It seems to me that it would be far too difficult with our present technology to do. I think it would be very difficult to even create a focused enough broadcast from HAARP to target a specific geographic area. The only way I could see doing this would be with standing waves causing constructive interference only over the target, of which I don't think the array is capable of producing a wide enough range of frequencies (based solely on the antennas' size) The only way I could see them coupling would be through the Earth's magnetic field, and since no one has noticed fluctuations of that in regard to earthquakes, and that the Earth's magnetic field is so weak to begin with, though it is over such a massive area... Also I don't know that EM energy on the Gigawatt scale would be enough to trigger such a massive earthquake, I couldn't rule it out, but I know of no experiments that dealt with it. I think it would be too difficult to do, even assuming HAARP has that effect in the first place. Let alone the list of targets, what would the government gain from it? If anything I would think they would have been opposed to it just because of the negative publicity that GE, and the Japanese government received over it. I don't think they would want to see a military contractor's reputation harmed in such a way, lol!
I am glad to see that I was not the only one to think of HAARP when I heard this, though I must say after looking into it I still don't see how something like HAARP heating the ionosphere could really trigger an earthquake. On the other hand I don't see how the Earth could be making the ionosphere fluctuate so much without at least the magnetic field going haywire. Bloody interesting to know what Phenomena would cause that regardless.
The best way overall is to dismantle them, and melt the platters. Most platters are composed of an Aluminum alloy (~660 Celsius max melting point). The media layer that actually stores the data can vary widely between manufacturers, and product lines (Usually based on a Cobalt Chromium alloy with Platinum or Tantalum). There is no reasonably easy way to get the curie point, or the coercivity of the platters. The curie point (temperature at which the magnetic domains randomize) varies widely due to composition, and the parameters of the CVD, or PVD process, as does the coercivity (which determines the strength of the magnetic field needed to degauss the platters). The curie point of a thin film (~micron) media layer is usually substantially less than the 'bulk' curie point of the alloy, and it may be that the thin film curie point is lower than the melting point of the substrate, however it still would be a feat to find this information for each drive that you needed to wipe. So if you melt the substrate layer, then the particles left over from the media layer will be randomly oriented (even if they haven't been 'erased' by the heat), and so there would be no way to recover the data from them. You would need some torx screwdrivers, and either an oven (that gets hot enough, not an oven for baking), or a propane torch (1,000 Celsius / 1800 Fahrenheit). I use the Craftsmen variety, but they can have a tendency to break in the middle as they aren't 'full tang', they will work alirght if you are careful though. Using software can be alright, though you can't really be sure the data is gone, since the first data written gets the deepest, and widest recorded track, there may be a thin area of the data track where previously written information is still stored. Also as Peter Gutmann described it is unknown what encoding scheme is used, his 35 pass method is only suggested for PRML encoded drives, he recommends as many passes as feasible of pseudo-random data for today's hard drives. Dismantling, and melting is easier, and more assured imo.
Doesn't Sweden now also allow the government to wiretap all of your communications without your consent? The NSA does it here, but at least they have to do it in darkness. When it hits the light of day people get pissed off.
Open competition is a great thing, and we do have mostly monopoly telecoms here. I don't believe that government enforcing open networks is the best move though. That is akin to saying that all your neighbors have the right to trespass on any property. You might get where your going faster, but it sets a bad precedent. I would just as soon keep them from getting any more 'bright ideas', and the means, and legislation to go snooping around where they don't belong.
Keep them out of the datacenter, and out the cable plant!
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You do realize that blowing up a terrorist who has a dirty bomb, is literally the same thing as setting off said dirty bomb early?
Robots can be hacked. They also present a great disparity in power. They also have no soul; they didn't swear an oath to uphold, and defend this country, it's constitution, or it's people. For the use of deadly force on U.S. soil, give me a human to make that decision anyday. Geez, folks...I'm so sorry that robot killed your whole family...it was just this darn BSOD! We'll make it up to, we'll cover your funeral costs!
It isn't just spying that is at issue. At least with ground combat, and small arms fire an individual would have a reasonable chance of protecting themselves from abuses of force by the government, or any other entity. With drones that carry anti-vehicle weaponry, and can deliver that ordinance from the air at stand off ranges. There isn't any reasonable chance to protect oneself. To my mind this is akin to allowing Law Enforcement Officers to utilize mortars, or missiles in the use of deadly force. Can you imagine a high speed chase ended via a surface to surface missile, or an abandoned structure razed to the ground via artillery to get rid of a meth lab? If we allow the use of deadly force on U.S. soil via drones then that isn't far off either. At least overseas in the context of actual combat against an actually well-defined enemy they are to me a somewhat worrisome additional military tool. The reason they are worrisome is because of bureaucratic nonsense like this..."Yeah, let's use them at home since they work so well overseas!"...
Scarlett Johansson as Mara Jade...diessss happpppy...
I am pretty sure it will. The arrogant folks of at M$ seem to not realize that they got to their position by giving the market enough of what it wanted for them to be worth any hassles. They are leveraging people too hard, and it does drive people away. What they should be doing is trying to slow the flow of R&D dollars to anything Android or IOS based as quickly, and effectively as possible (by pleasing the hell out of their current customer base), because when the ARM architecture catches up close enough behind Intel in terms of power, and large lightweight screen tablets are available for cheap, there really isn't a reason to pay them extra for windows at all. It's more likely at that point that Android will start seeing adoption in the PC space for the same reason M$ thinks it will happen in reverse...
I personally don't mind the tile thing too much. Though it is stupid on M$'s part to not have the option to revert. I swore it off for the following:
Requires agreeing to binding arbitration. Requires opting out of any future class action lawsuit. Has no mention of upgrade on the packaging, and activates just find from the RC, but isn't legal unless you read the fine print (needing a valid previous OS). When 'upgraded' removes the right to use the OS you 'upgraded from', and it's final death knell the being not allowing me to use my Core2 class processors because they don't have SLAT for HyperV, when the server doesn't require this, and the graphics card in my FILE server has I think 32mb of RAM, it being a PCI card (not E, or X, just PCI).
I'm done with them, and the time I have invested in Ubuntu (and kvm) has rewarded me more than similar amounts of time spent learning the certification material. I'll still support them, as that is what most clients are using, but will happily replace them as often as I can.
I don't understand this lack of a line of logic. Congress was granted the authority to protect works of art & science for the sake of their authors. They were also charged with doing it a manner that actually furthers the ENTIRE country's artistic & technical development. Patents are only good for 20 years...Did you cure cancer? That'll be 20 years that your work is protected...Did you invent Disney? That'll be 90?! That is thoughtless, and indefensible.
Copyright infringement penalties of $150,000 PER INSTANCE or there about are absurd in a age where I can make millions of copies in minutes by clicking a button.
Patenting molecules for drugs that we have negligently released to the market without adequate testing it preposterous. Drug PROCESSES should be patented, NOT the molecule, as this would actually spur innovation to find a more efficient process, as well as encourage companies that have a modicum of pride in their work to test the molecule perhaps more thoroughly, as they could sell it too...
Patenting genes, and then getting to sue farmers that have copies of these genes on their land (Monsanto), because the wind you know carries things is no small mix of absurd, criminal, ludicrous, unhealthy, and apparently dreamed up by those with no respect for reality.
Anyone who actually bothers to take anything close to a fair & balanced review of our current system regarding Patents, and Copyrights will find nothing short of a full blown kleptocracy.
Alot of people do not seem to understand the reason Congress was granted this authority in the first place. It was to balance the need to protect the creator of the work, with the need for the public to have to access to it. Another example of this is that Patents MUST contain enough detail about the invention that 'anyone similarly skilled in the art can recreate it', otherwise the work is unpatentable, and is to be rejected as such. The Authors have no more right to protection of their work than we have the right to demand it for free to further the good of all. It is a balance between the two, and it is currently quite broken. As congress has engaged in nothing approaching due diligence in the matter.
If by 'democracy' you mean chinese electronics, then I couldn't agree more...
At least I took my vacation this week. I guess it's time to break out the end-of-the-world booze. Then I just have to travel to a place where you can actually see the stars at night...
His knife wasn't sharp enough, wanna guess where it was made?
Firstly the Nasa mistake was actually caused by Lockheed Martin. Lockheed's Deepwater fiasco cost an atrocious amount of money (Billions), and turned the Coast Guard's old (but still usable) cutters into scrap. According to congressional testimony these 8 cutters were unfit to gift to Panama to use in river patrol suffering from 'prematurely' cracked hulls. They would make those mistakes anyway, being (imho) the Microsoft of the Aerospace world.
As for the Tokyo incident, how do you not notice that an axle doesn't fit? If there is slop in it, it's pretty easy to tell there is a problem. The individuals responsible would find ways to make other costly mistakes. Besides these were ASIANS, come on man, if they can't do it, there is no hope for the rest of us. Unless Russians are better at math than Asians? Since we're all being so racist anyway...
I really dislike the idea of America having such racist standards, and it isn't that I am one of those double think monkeys, that loves the idea of celebrating our diversity through being 'Politically Correct', as celebrating diversity by removing it is impressively thoughtless.
Costly mistakes happen regardless (page iv)
I do agree that the metric system is a better system to use as it's flexibility, range, and ease of precisional use keep things more straight forward. I use it myself whenever I am calculating something that matters. I however recognize that it is a person's free choice to use whatever system they prefer. I don't believe in government mandates, I would rather have inefficiency with my freedom, so I won't gripe about it, and overall? It isn't that big of a deal. Converting from one system to another is just one small hassle of an engineering challenge, and life is not ideal. Think of the many many times that people throughout the world convert from one system of calculation, or measurement to another without error.
The biggest problem with our educational system is the way that we are taught. We should be presented with concepts, and have a very firm grasp of them BEFORE vocabulary is introduced. This gives the human mind (at least mine) a firm handle to actually conceptualize, and retain the area being studied. It is a lot like learning hands on for it's effectiveness. It needs to be known that understanding the concept is 90% of education. The vocabulary is necessary, but without a firm grasp on the concept, there is no foundation, and the inextricably linked series of memories that we like to call 'education' will be washed away, never to return. In our current state we would be far better of by polling people who have exited K-12 schools 5 years down the road, and only teaching the things that those people remembered...
I think that was the navy...
"chronic management problems". Maybe that's what all the bullets are for?
I know those things are expensive, but we should really have a self destruct feature on those things...Lose communication while flying over Iran? BLOW IT UP. It pains me to see the amount of money we pour into things like this only for it to be pilfered by Chinese hackers, or this...
I want to see them put a datacenter in one of the endless expanse of factories downtown with all the busted out windows. Seriously though, It does look like an interesting idea. I wonder how they will hide the backup generators, and what will they have to rip up to run all that cable? At least they will have to employee more engineers to figure it all out...
Engineering failure meets the success of the slave worker. No one should have to be roused out of bed to retool an assembly line because some bright eyed idiots decided to switch things around at the last minute. Let the product be light, it isn't like people's lives are at stake, just their pride. This really makes me not even want to try apple.
I don't even have a twitter account lol @ a nation-state-sponsored-twitter-terrorism.
It must have been all of those looters, and polluters leaving Europe, and moving to the Americas that caused Europe's little ice age. Yep, that must be it, blame the guys who lived half a millenia ago, and don't look at the sun too closely, it has nothing to do with this. I don't know why everyone thinks global warming is a bad thing. I can buy up low priced real estate that will one day be coastal property. I like coastal property, it's just too expensive. It really is a good thing overall...
I second this post. Some hard drive media hits 4-10k Oersteds now, and my 2.1 Tesla NdFeB magnet can't erase today's hard drives while it is sitting on top of them, while they are running (they just slow down a bit). Also any of my phones, cordless, or cellular haven't even noticed the same magnets sitting on the outside of their cases. (With regard to call quality, it does mess with the gelocation / magnetic sensor) There is no way that those 'steel joists in the walls' have anywhere near that strong field right next to them, let alone over the air gap of an entire room. As for the T.V., throw away your crt, and get an lcd, led, or plasma, none of those technologies are effect by magnets. I also second the post about ac permanently magnetizing steel (it doesn't happen). Let alone the fact that you would need thosands of Amps, turns, or meters of wire to have a noticeable effect. Somebody never took their middle school physics class. Bloody Pagans.
From the text of the patent, it sounds like they are trying to find a way to take a still, in order count passengers. I would guess so that they can charge per person in the vehicle, or at least have the option in the future. Not that it couldn't be used for something more nefarious. Either way it's cash for me thanks.
I have heard the theories about injecting saltwater into natural gas wells causing minor earthquakes, and the fact that there are no recorded earthquakes form the Marianas trench region, supposedly due to the large amount talc rich mud that acts as a lubricant between the plates. Both of those make sense to me, and that is pretty much the limit of my 'expertise' in plate tectonics; The only way that I could see it being possible is if, somehow they were able to create waves in the magma, and peak the stress near a fault line. It seems to me that it would be far too difficult with our present technology to do. I think it would be very difficult to even create a focused enough broadcast from HAARP to target a specific geographic area. The only way I could see doing this would be with standing waves causing constructive interference only over the target, of which I don't think the array is capable of producing a wide enough range of frequencies (based solely on the antennas' size) The only way I could see them coupling would be through the Earth's magnetic field, and since no one has noticed fluctuations of that in regard to earthquakes, and that the Earth's magnetic field is so weak to begin with, though it is over such a massive area... Also I don't know that EM energy on the Gigawatt scale would be enough to trigger such a massive earthquake, I couldn't rule it out, but I know of no experiments that dealt with it. I think it would be too difficult to do, even assuming HAARP has that effect in the first place. Let alone the list of targets, what would the government gain from it? If anything I would think they would have been opposed to it just because of the negative publicity that GE, and the Japanese government received over it. I don't think they would want to see a military contractor's reputation harmed in such a way, lol!
I am glad to see that I was not the only one to think of HAARP when I heard this, though I must say after looking into it I still don't see how something like HAARP heating the ionosphere could really trigger an earthquake. On the other hand I don't see how the Earth could be making the ionosphere fluctuate so much without at least the magnetic field going haywire. Bloody interesting to know what Phenomena would cause that regardless.
This patent for instance clearly states 'redundant': http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=33&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=6714559&OS=6714559&RS=6714559 What about sites with only one wap? There are so many loopholes with this....it's ridiculous. Broadcom themselves never even claimed to own the only rights to wifi back when they had this paltry array of patents, let alone all of the others that they posses. Then I came across this: http://www.scribd.com/doc/50324501/Innovatio-IP-Ventures-v-ABP-et-al "JURY TRIAL DEMANDED" Good luck, assholes.
The best way overall is to dismantle them, and melt the platters. Most platters are composed of an Aluminum alloy (~660 Celsius max melting point). The media layer that actually stores the data can vary widely between manufacturers, and product lines (Usually based on a Cobalt Chromium alloy with Platinum or Tantalum). There is no reasonably easy way to get the curie point, or the coercivity of the platters. The curie point (temperature at which the magnetic domains randomize) varies widely due to composition, and the parameters of the CVD, or PVD process, as does the coercivity (which determines the strength of the magnetic field needed to degauss the platters). The curie point of a thin film (~micron) media layer is usually substantially less than the 'bulk' curie point of the alloy, and it may be that the thin film curie point is lower than the melting point of the substrate, however it still would be a feat to find this information for each drive that you needed to wipe. So if you melt the substrate layer, then the particles left over from the media layer will be randomly oriented (even if they haven't been 'erased' by the heat), and so there would be no way to recover the data from them. You would need some torx screwdrivers, and either an oven (that gets hot enough, not an oven for baking), or a propane torch (1,000 Celsius / 1800 Fahrenheit). I use the Craftsmen variety, but they can have a tendency to break in the middle as they aren't 'full tang', they will work alirght if you are careful though. Using software can be alright, though you can't really be sure the data is gone, since the first data written gets the deepest, and widest recorded track, there may be a thin area of the data track where previously written information is still stored. Also as Peter Gutmann described it is unknown what encoding scheme is used, his 35 pass method is only suggested for PRML encoded drives, he recommends as many passes as feasible of pseudo-random data for today's hard drives. Dismantling, and melting is easier, and more assured imo.
Doesn't Sweden now also allow the government to wiretap all of your communications without your consent? The NSA does it here, but at least they have to do it in darkness. When it hits the light of day people get pissed off. Open competition is a great thing, and we do have mostly monopoly telecoms here. I don't believe that government enforcing open networks is the best move though. That is akin to saying that all your neighbors have the right to trespass on any property. You might get where your going faster, but it sets a bad precedent. I would just as soon keep them from getting any more 'bright ideas', and the means, and legislation to go snooping around where they don't belong. Keep them out of the datacenter, and out the cable plant!