OT: cd's again... one last question....

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting John Esak (Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:12:31 -0400):

> Just one question.   Who in the world would spend hundreds of dollars
> for a device to write over CD/DVD's just to render them unreadable????
> I'm in the wrong business if this scam can be pulled over the eyes of
> anyone.
>
> I mean, it takes 3 minutes!!!!  A pair of scissors and two or three cuts
> and not even the fictional CSI guys could put that data back together.

While a normal reader won't be able to do anything with it, I would
suspect that special hardware could still read the >99% of the data
that has been untouched by the "two or three cuts".  Think of it as
breaking an LP in several pieces -- the "data" is still nearly all
there, even if your standard turntable can't "read" it.

I could see use for a true "destroys all the data on the disk" device
for some companies and government agencies that have truly sensitive
data that needs to be 100% deleted.  But for most companies and people,
a simple "break the disk in half" would suffice for most things.

Of course, for "hundreds of dollars" one could simply get a sacrificial
microwave.

[...]
> Yes, I think global warming is a crock  Please don't send me the
> fractured "scientific" studies which cause you to believe otherwise....
> the Earth will take care of itself, no matter *what* we do to it.
> Thousands of H-bombs set off simultaneously in all parts of the globe
> wouldn't even  trouble it... a short, half life from then, everything
> would be back to normal with cockroaches running the local governments
> just as now

Yes, the Earth would survive thousands of H-bombs.  The human race, on
the other hand, along with >99% of all life on this planet, would not.
But, somewhere, deep under the ocean or underground, some microbe would
survive and start a new evolutionary chain of life.

As for "global warming", the Earth has gone through many warming and
cooling periods in its history, but we don't have enough data to know
if the current "warming phase" is normal or not.

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