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  1. Re:oven on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    You're kidding, right? With areal densities as high as they are, the odds of a person getting any useful information out of a device are becoming vanishingly small. The devices that have THAT kind of information on them...where the expense of the cleanroom and the million monkeys transcribing the bits are useful, should be encrypted in the first place. At which point nuking the keys will turn them into noise.

  2. Re:oven on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? · · Score: 2

    Harbor Freight Hydraulic Press. The data's hard to retrieve if things aren't flat and spinny anymore. $59 ($48 with 20% off coupon). I dare you to get data off this:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/33743995@N00/6197334169/

    (And at 2 minutes vs. Several Hours, it's faster, too!)

  3. HIDS that server! on Newb-Friendly Linux Flavor For LAMP Server? · · Score: 1

    Whatever you used, install AND CONFIGURE OSSEC.
    http://www.ossec.net/

    That way you have some kind of indication when the box gets hacked.

  4. Re:again? on Ask Slashdot: How To Monitor Your Own Bandwidth Usage? · · Score: 1

    Problem being, my bandwidth is three times higher than the 54Gl's WAN port.

    But I'm liking Untangle on a spare P4.

  5. You people are all bigots. on Samsung's Happy Galaxy Tab Users Are Actors · · Score: 1

    Don't be so harsh...Actors are people too!

  6. Lame on IPad 2 Teardown Shows Tablet's Guts · · Score: 1

    Boy. THAT was a lame article. It was, word for word (except where they doubled up on the same sentence twice) everything stated in the iFixit video. This guy must a spent a LOT of time copying off other people's tests.

  7. Total Perspective Vortex on How Sun Bought Apple Computer (Almost) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I love the trolls' complete and total lack of objectivity. Hundreds of millions of iDevices sold, arguably the first economically successful tablet, a company that could turn on a dime and recreate their hardware jumping from PPC to Intel, and OS 9 to OS X in a seamless fashion, and gain enough financial success to ecplipse Microsoft...and yet 'nothing of value is lost'.

    Here's a hint for the younguns: There's room for more than one successful company in the world, and one being successful doesn't mean no others will be. If you don't like 'em, don't buy 'em...but to ignore their success is foolhardy. It's what makes people like Nokia lose their position in the economy.

  8. Re:hmm on MacBook Pro Specs Leaked, iPad Event March 2 · · Score: 1

    Who you kiddin? Anybody making that kinda comment wasn't going to buy Apple anyway and you know it.

  9. Stale by release date on HP Unveils WebOS Tablet, Plans WebOS Computer · · Score: 2

    They announced all this happy goodness for a SUMMER release.

    By the time it's available, it'll look old and stale, we'll all be familiar with the NEXT version of Android, and Apple will have sold another 10 million units.

    Tablets have been the 'next big thing' for a good 18 months, when will they actually be DELIVERING these things?

  10. The extruded dingus! on What’s the Internet? (on 1994's Today Show) · · Score: 1

    Board Member 1: What if you tire before it's done?
    Board Member 2: Does it have rules?
    Board Member 3: Can more than one play?
    Board Member 4: What makes you think it's a game?
    Board Member 3: Is it a game?
    Board Member 5: Will it break?
    Board Member 6: It better break eventually!
    Board Member 2: Is there an object?
    Board Member 1: What if you tire before it's done?
    Board Member 5: Does it come with batteries?
    Board Member 4: We could charge extra for them.
    Board Member 7: Is it safe for toddlers?
    Board Member 3: How can you tell when you're finished?
    Board Member 2: How do you make it stop?
    Board Member 6: Is that a boy's model?
    Board Member 3: Can a parent assemble it?
    Board Member 5: Is there a larger model for the obese?
    Board Member 1: What if you tire before it's done?
    Board Member 8: What the hell is it?

  11. You guys and your delusions of grandeur on Apple's $1 Billion Data Center Mystery · · Score: 1

    Do you guys think iTunes downloads, Genius calculations, MobileMe, AppStores, GameCenter and whatnot all just exist for free? I wouldn't be half surprised if the datacenter wasn't, at least partially, to consolidate existing stuff.

  12. Re:Perhaps I'm a bit naive, but... on Drop Out and Innovate, Urges VC Peter Thiel · · Score: 2

    Where, perchance, does a person get access to the concepts and math associated with Optical Physics, if not at College?

  13. It's a wetware issue on The Clock Is Ticking On Encryption · · Score: 1

    It's not your complex 27 character password that's the problem, it's the 8 bit, John the Ripper-rapeable password of the person you email that's the problem.

  14. Re:UEFI has been around for years. on Swedes Show Intel Sandy Bridge Running BIOS-Successor UEFI · · Score: 1

    No. No. The GP is quite right. The same person that wants to tweak their BIOS because they think it's best is the same kinda person that would think changing the fuel injectors would be the Right Thing To Do.

    Your Sarcasm meter is off. I suggest you swap it out for a wide-band one. Perhaps in metric.

  15. Re:But, but on Early Review of 11" Macbook Air · · Score: 1

    They don't. They don't have to. And based on their stock price, I don't thing it's anything they care to try.

  16. Re:No on Antenna Arrays Could Replace Satellite TV Dishes · · Score: 1

    The change in size was due to a move to Digital, NOT just an improvement in reception technology.

  17. Re:Street view on Startups a Safer Bet Than Behemoths · · Score: 1

    They bought a local Colorado company, Looking Glass I think their name was.

  18. Re:Freenet on Web-Based Private File Storage? · · Score: 1

    You make it sound like that movie was a Historical Narrative.

  19. Re:so, not a hole on Wi-Fi WPA2 Vulnerability Found · · Score: 1

    He already could...you're not USING WPA2-enterprise at Starbucks.

  20. Re:OpenID? on White House Unveils Plans For "Trusted Identities In Cyberspace" · · Score: 1

    As opposed to your SSN and Driver's license?

  21. So it's not retina resolution...big deal on A Professional Perspective On Apple's Retina Display · · Score: 3, Informative

    So I played with one briefly yesterday. I thought, "oh, this is nice, it's about the same speed as my 3gs...this screen doesn't LOOK a whole lot better." Then I realized I really needed to clean my glasses. With my glasses off, and the screen 6 inches from my nose, it looks AWESOME. From any distance away, through my myopic eyes, dirty glasses, and the pollutants in the air, it's much better than it needs to be.

  22. Re:My best guess.... on Microsoft Lifts XP Mode Hardware Requirement · · Score: 1

    Naw, I'm over here, reminiscing about my 12 Mhz TURBO button.

  23. Re:Not to make fun of you on Why Are Digital Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    My hearing loss was caused by years of non-pain level wind buffeting from driving a convertible. They're learning that a lot of Dive Masters are going deaf from the sound of purging the SCUBA tanks. It's not just Rock Concerts and Jet Planes that cause deafness.

  24. My post is my +mod on AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA Over the Next 10 Years · · Score: 1

    Word.

  25. Pish, Overachievers.... on Secret Service Runs At "Six Sixes" Availability · · Score: 1

    That's better than our goal of Nine 5's...up a little over half the time!