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  1. There is no overkill on The Homemade Hard Disk Destroyer · · Score: 1

    This is the contents of the special pack that the military used to destroy sensitive equipment. It was in some cases attached to the equipment.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite

    It's trivial to set up a system so that even with Hotplug you can still trigger it.
    http://www.engadget.com/tag/forensics

    This small gadget can do a number of interesting tasks by itself and is very cheap. It has enough inputs and outputs to set up a variety of sensors and can even be used with Zigbee and GPS devices.
    http://www.arduino.cc/

  2. Mexico on 88% of Electronics Exports Reused, Not Dumped · · Score: 3, Informative

    Has pretty strict rules on importing some items. When I worked for an electronics shop repairing TVs in the 90s we sold all of our scrap TVs to a Hispanic gentleman who would take them to Mexico and strip them of usable parts then sell them. He could do this with scrap televisions but could not do it with any part for a computer as those were even more restricted.

  3. Blasphemer! on Battlestar Galactica Feature Film Confirmed · · Score: 1

    God did it! It must be right!

  4. Re:Green is the new black on Rival Green Groups Bid To Snatch .eco Domain · · Score: 1

    *ROFL*

  5. How much will I get paid? on What Questions Should a Prospective Employee Ask? · · Score: 1

    This is the most important question to ask any corprat. They only think in terms of filthy lucre and by that you can measure the depth of them. Money is not the root of all evil lust for money is.

    Your second question is "Do I get free M&Ms?"

  6. Re:Green is the new black on Rival Green Groups Bid To Snatch .eco Domain · · Score: 1

    They are an organization and as an organization rule #1 is self preservation. What ever other rules they deem necessary they will implement after that has been taken care of. Otherwise the organization will cease to exist. They do what they do to perpetuate their existence, all other activities have to be secondary.

  7. Re:So, on LHC To Start Back Up In November At Half Power · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Death. on Contributing To a Project With a Reclusive Maintainer? · · Score: 1

    Or they wrote the program using some dos based C compiler that links to a several proprietary libraries which have no documentation. The libraries have no upgrade path as the companies no longer exist. The C compiler is I think an MS one with an unknown addon package.

    Of course the company had a down turn and let the person go and 10 years later they need the code 'fixed' to work on windows. I'm happy to say it won't be done by me. :)

  9. Re:Outrage calibration on Ubuntu's New Firefox Is Watching You · · Score: 1

    There is no appeal. They can offer no apology. I will never run their stuff again. I will never allow it to be run any place I work. I will provide substitutes to those friends who are running it for internet use.

    That's my level of outrage. I will actively do them harm in any way I can.

  10. Duke Nuked 'em? on StarCraft II Delayed Until 2010 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm just sayin'.

  11. Re:Cause or effect? on Psychopaths Have Brain Structure Abnormality · · Score: 1

    I'm for outcome based application of 50,000 volts of social reorientation applied at a currnet of 200 amps.

    If the outcome of your acts is a capital crime you need to be served extra crispy.

  12. Re:5000 bad joints != cutting edge, It's ineptitud on Large Hadron Collider Struggling · · Score: 1

    They're now all scrabbling like spiders to 'just make it work' to 'justify the use of public funds' so now you all can say it's a doom machine but it will probably just be doom to the machine.

  13. Re:Caizen is actually spelt with a K on KDE 4.3 Released · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes but since KDE can't do "good change" dropping the K is at least honest on their part. Caizen is a meaningless word and that fits KDE to a T.

  14. Re:4chan on Even More Restriction For German Internet · · Score: 1

    einsatzgruppen.net

  15. Re:Beware of namechanges on RadioShack To Rebrand As "The Shack"? · · Score: 1

    It's been ratshack i.e. worthless to me for a decade. They finally got rid of all the electronic 'junk parts' as one store manager called it and have not looked back.

  16. Re:Jesus Fucking Christ on UK Plans To Monitor 20,000 Families' Homes Via CCTV · · Score: 1

    You sound like a 1990's conspiracy theorist.

  17. Re:oblig. on Ridley Scott Directing Alien Prequel · · Score: 1

    There is that as a disgusting example but I've hated prequels for as long as I recall. I especially hate novel prequels but TV series and movie ones are just as much an abomination.

    I'm not sure what you call 'em but there's been 'galactica 80' and such vomitous disrespectful tripe as 'Walking Tall the series" without the zombie sheriff or at least an explaination at the resurrection. ;) Maybe call 'em posticles?

  18. Re:oblig. on Ridley Scott Directing Alien Prequel · · Score: 1

    Will they be as awful as Enterprise? Or any other lame assed dumbwitted diseased prequel?

  19. Re:Why consider this for academics but not music? on Should Copyright of Academic Works Be Abolished? · · Score: 1

    If any tax money goes to any student, the teacher, the school or the project in any way none of it should be allowed any copyright.

  20. Re:BLU-114/B "Soft-Bomb" on Electronic Armageddon, and No Electricity Either · · Score: 1

    That's actually a very clean weapon. It's reasonably easy to clean up the damage it does. The dust or even better 'lint' would be persistent and pernicious.

  21. Re:electromagnetic pulse bomb on Electronic Armageddon, and No Electricity Either · · Score: 1

    Explosively Pumped Flux Compression Generators use explosives and are orders of magnitude above what you can generate using standard electronic components.

    http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread59555/pg1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compression_generator

  22. Re:I was a little worried on SHA-3 Second Round Candidates Released · · Score: 1

    djb admitted a flaw? But his stuff is perfect and precious according to him! He may be getting senile if he's admitting flaws.

    Has he ever developed anything as part of a team and not as either a dictator or a team of one?

  23. What has been seen cannot be unseen. on Facebook Lets Advertisers Use Pictures Without Permission · · Score: 2, Informative
  24. An even easier hack on Electronic Armageddon, and No Electricity Either · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Carbon dust, preferably something that drifts easily, probably something on a nanoscale like carbon nanotubes. That will damage all kinds of electronics. Many Air Force military communications and computer facilities near flight lines have vents to cut off outside air. They're used mostly for when a plane crashes and burns though it can afford minimal protection against NBC's.

  25. electromagnetic pulse bomb on Electronic Armageddon, and No Electricity Either · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_bomb It's scary brilliant how they convert explosive energy to electromagnetic. It's also far easier to build than any nuclear device.