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Comment Integration with other Sony products (Score 1) 20

A unique selling point would be if Sony managed to integrate its phones with its other products. Like if the sold an adapter so that you could clip your phone on your Playstation controller and stream games from your Playstation on the go, then cast it on a Sony TV when you arrive at a friends house. Sony has a foothold in many tech and entertainment segments, yet for some reason doesn't do any integration between them.

Comment Re:Necessary evil (Score 1) 18

While that's true for many fields, software isn't one of them. You could easily hire people from academia or open source communities with the same level of expertise. And if you really wanted someone from the business world, hire a senior dev instead of an executive. That is if you wanted an expert, not a lobbyist.

Comment Re:DoD Destructive security (Score 2) 80

A software wipe is not reliable because many of those drives probably aren't being disposed of for no reason, many of them will be faulty or won't even start. You could disassemble them and put the disks in a working drive (which is exactly what an attacker will do if you decide to just throw out the bad disks without wiping), but that would require a cleanroom, staff proficient in data recovery and probably more manhours than what those drives are worth.
Relying on the data on the disk being in formats that are difficult to work with is not secure practice. And even if it was, how do you tell which disks in a junkpile were part of a raid array, and which weren't? What you could do is use disk encryption in your organization, and then you don't have to worry about wiping. But even then, can you be absolutely certain that every single disk in that pile is encrypted?

Comment Re:Nuke It (Score 1) 105

That "small nuke" was also seven times heavier. And I'm not sure where you got the 14,000mph from, the escape velocity of Earth is 11 km/s (25000 mph), and you need to go at least that fast in order to escape the gravitational well and be able to hit anything. Little Boy moving at that speed would have had 266 GJ of kinetic energy.

Comment Other metals exist (Score 4, Informative) 290

There is nothing magical about copper that makes it the only metal capable of conducting electricity. Yes, it's a good conductor, but you can make a steel or aluminium wire with the same resistance as a copper wire, you just need to make it thicker. That isn't done today because it's cheaper to use a thin copper wire, but it puts a cap on how much copper's price can increase.

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