no chems to worry about except dust from the magnets if powdered and eaten.
really, though you have got to be trolling as no one is that paranoid who doesn't also have a reasonable grasp of the technology and cost benefit analysis.
Let's face it: A simple dd 0 over a drive is sufficient for all the major recovery houses to say: "no can do" If the government has the tech to recover that data anyway (which I would presume they have), it would be a time intensive affair. You have to be a very attractive target to worry about them spending the resources on you for that. Your local PD / state can't do that. finally, if you really are that afraid of someone reading your disks then do the following:
buy a propane / mapp gas torch. Light it. burn the platters till the CVD media peels away from the platter, or till it glows deep red, whichever comes first. Done. -nB
You're also pretty damn clueless about atheists. An atheist may be just as likely to sacrifice their life. If you're an atheist, and you don't believe in the afterlife, would you not trade your life for your family's, so that they can live? Afterlife or no afterlife, most parents are willing to put themselves in the place of their child regardless of consequence, and most family members will sacrifice themselves to save *the whole rest of their family* regardless of consequence too.
I am not an atheist, and I am fairly selfish. That said I would easily stand in for my children or my family should that ever be asked of me.
Total environmental damage from my oil (fuel) burning Benz? relatively low. Vs. Prius? I win. Assuming I repair the car when it needs it (which I do), rather than tossing it out and buying the prius to replace it, I will have saved gobs of energy as follows: smelting bauxite to aluminum (high energy cost) mining Nickel (high environmental cost) shipping raw nickel to china for sintering and foaming into battery electrodes (high fuel cost) performing said sintering and foaming (high energy and environmental cost)
The list simply goes on and on. I can do so much more for the environment by simply keeping my 25 year old car and repairing it as needed (heck get two, they're cheap... now) than if I went out and bought the latest "eco car". As an added bonus I get to ride in something that's nice, comfortable, solid, that I can repair (sometimes with help), and that uses much less fuel than people think.
The Prius is supposed to be good in stop and go because when you're stuck there you're not burning fuel right? I can idle my car for 8 hours on only a sip more than 2 gallons of diesel. -nB
That's what I've done (though not for charging a car). I have a 20 amp 110 and a compressed air hose coming down from the ceiling on a rotating boom (like at the self serve car washes). It kicks ass for availability when working on a car. -nB
honestly, while you are trolling, I don't believe they would knowingly design a car with those issues. Problem is not that the design happened and made it through testing... problem is what they did after the problem was known. -nB
Intel V-pro is on even when the computer is "off" unless on battery or no AC then V-Pro is on.
You can configure it to be: on in S0 only on in S0 and suspend on in S0, Suspend, Hibernate, S5 (off, living on VSB power).
in the last mode listed it will accept a poison pill even when "off", so long as there is a network connected.
We've got a dozen machines with this in my shop right now. pretty cool tech. Not targetted at Joe sixpack, but I could see some hard-core geeks using it to turn on their machine remotely to save power on the vast majority of the time they don't SSH in, but allow it on the rare occasion they do need an SSH connection. -nB
 Local passphrase that was preprovisioned by user.
 Recovery token (one-time use) provided by IT.
 Simple, inexpensive way to restore notebook to full functionality without compromising local security features for data access disable or PC disable.
obviously we won't agree. However I'd like to point out one other aspect.
Sugar free chocolate has a laxitive effect and tastes nasty. Bitter lindt is better than straight unsweetened chocolate, and has little enough sugar to not cause blood sugar levels in diabetes patients.
no. Mars chocolate is vastly superior to hershies (think m&m's[mars] Vs. Kissables[hershies]). I can not stand hershies candy... I've been a huge fan of the alkali process (dutch, Droste) since I was a kid, and as I've grown Lindt has become my fave.
-nB (mom's dutch, dad's french, born and raised in California)
and it is the very same thing in FOSS. If you are able you should file bug reports, submit patches, or at least thanks the devs for their work. Possibly donate money to the org?
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no chems to worry about except dust from the magnets if powdered and eaten.
really, though you have got to be trolling as no one is that paranoid who doesn't also have a reasonable grasp of the technology and cost benefit analysis.
Let's face it:
A simple dd 0 over a drive is sufficient for all the major recovery houses to say: "no can do"
If the government has the tech to recover that data anyway (which I would presume they have), it would be a time intensive affair. You have to be a very attractive target to worry about them spending the resources on you for that. Your local PD / state can't do that.
finally, if you really are that afraid of someone reading your disks then do the following:
buy a propane / mapp gas torch. Light it.
burn the platters till the CVD media peels away from the platter, or till it glows deep red, whichever comes first. Done.
-nB
your venture would be correct. Also, I may have forgotten to mention my pedantry.... I believe "then" would be more appropriate than "than". :-)
-nB
You're also pretty damn clueless about atheists. An atheist may be just as likely to sacrifice their life. If you're an atheist, and you don't believe in the afterlife, would you not trade your life for your family's, so that they can live? Afterlife or no afterlife, most parents are willing to put themselves in the place of their child regardless of consequence, and most family members will sacrifice themselves to save *the whole rest of their family* regardless of consequence too.
I am not an atheist, and I am fairly selfish.
That said I would easily stand in for my children or my family should that ever be asked of me.
my %doll=(
hair => 'VB' ,
body => 'corn_husk' ,
pinT => 'hat_pin' ,
);
my $response = &pokeNose(\%doll);
unless (lc($response) eq 'yell'){&burnDoll();}
exit (13);
best example of -1 troll != disagree ever!
that was awesome reading, if morbid. Thanks.
-nB
+1 unknowingly insightful.
Total environmental damage from my oil (fuel) burning Benz? relatively low.
Vs. Prius? I win.
Assuming I repair the car when it needs it (which I do), rather than tossing it out and buying the prius to replace it, I will have saved gobs of energy as follows:
smelting bauxite to aluminum (high energy cost)
mining Nickel (high environmental cost)
shipping raw nickel to china for sintering and foaming into battery electrodes (high fuel cost)
performing said sintering and foaming (high energy and environmental cost)
The list simply goes on and on.
I can do so much more for the environment by simply keeping my 25 year old car and repairing it as needed (heck get two, they're cheap... now) than if I went out and bought the latest "eco car". As an added bonus I get to ride in something that's nice, comfortable, solid, that I can repair (sometimes with help), and that uses much less fuel than people think.
The Prius is supposed to be good in stop and go because when you're stuck there you're not burning fuel right? I can idle my car for 8 hours on only a sip more than 2 gallons of diesel.
-nB
why not run 50 amp 220 + neutral. Then you can draw 100 amp as 2x50 amp 110's or a single 220 at 50A.
-nB
That's what I've done (though not for charging a car). I have a 20 amp 110 and a compressed air hose coming down from the ceiling on a rotating boom (like at the self serve car washes). It kicks ass for availability when working on a car.
-nB
honestly, while you are trolling, I don't believe they would knowingly design a car with those issues.
Problem is not that the design happened and made it through testing... problem is what they did after the problem was known.
-nB
that and the tesla is build on top of a lotue elise chassis.
That bit of engineering was not trivial, and they nicely sidestepped it.
-nB
because the system won't boot. the protection tech is in the chipset not on the hdd.
-nB
Intel V-pro is on even when the computer is "off" unless on battery or no AC then V-Pro is on.
You can configure it to be:
on in S0 only
on in S0 and suspend
on in S0, Suspend, Hibernate, S5 (off, living on VSB power).
in the last mode listed it will accept a poison pill even when "off", so long as there is a network connected.
We've got a dozen machines with this in my shop right now. pretty cool tech. Not targetted at Joe sixpack, but I could see some hard-core geeks using it to turn on their machine remotely to save power on the vast majority of the time they don't SSH in, but allow it on the rare occasion they do need an SSH connection.
-nB
making simple removal and replacement of the HDD insufficient to make the notebook pawnable.
they don't.
at least not in my show where we are trialing it.
this plus seagate momentus FDE disks and we're golden.
Return notebook to full functionality via:
 Local passphrase that was preprovisioned by user.
 Recovery token (one-time use) provided by IT.
 Simple, inexpensive way to restore notebook to full functionality without compromising local security features for data access disable or PC disable.
plus the legitimate user just enters a passphrase and "poof" notebook is unlocked again.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22theft+deterrent%22+site%3Aintel.com&btnG=Search
http://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-2384;jsessionid=D59F43EDDFB0FCDAA907153C80E0539E
http://communities.intel.com/openport/community/openportit/vproexpert/blog/tags/at-p
some light reading for the paranoid. Besides this is targeted mostly at business (V-Pro?).
obviously we won't agree.
However I'd like to point out one other aspect.
Sugar free chocolate has a laxitive effect and tastes nasty. Bitter lindt is better than straight unsweetened chocolate, and has little enough sugar to not cause blood sugar levels in diabetes patients.
-nB
+google: touche
-1, texting while driving on a windows mobile device
mmmm troll fishing...
I'll never run OSX 'cause I'm a cheap bastard who won't buy a Mac and doesn't pirate software. (which happens to be why I have only one Windows PC...)
the 65 and 70 are very good, thankyouverymuch.
that's funny in my reality it self destructed
no.
Mars chocolate is vastly superior to hershies (think m&m's[mars] Vs. Kissables[hershies]).
I can not stand hershies candy...
I've been a huge fan of the alkali process (dutch, Droste) since I was a kid, and as I've grown Lindt has become my fave.
-nB (mom's dutch, dad's french, born and raised in California)
and it is the very same thing in FOSS.
If you are able you should file bug reports, submit patches, or at least thanks the devs for their work. Possibly donate money to the org?