False. I'm 27 and have my Master's Degree paid in full. The truly creative class, in this economy, exploits whatever the hell it can in order to survive and grow. It doesn't matter if you're an Art History professor or an Engineer these days.

If the joists were as magnetic enough to do what they claim, I would hesitate to walk through the house with steel toed boots. One could lose a foot that way.

Oh definitely.

They did but it's still a pain in the ass. In Ubuntu at least, you have to edit grub.cfg and then "update-grub". I liked the old way of doing things where update-grub was unnecessary.

Godwined.

Thermite?

It's not a matter of whether or not it's recoverable. It's all about making it unfeasible to recover the data - by mechanical means or financially. Then again, the original poster of this article sounds like a regular everyday jackoff that is a bit paranoid about his own decade-old information. Just removing the platters would be sufficient in that case. Turn them into a piece of artwork or something.

"How better to better understand the Creator than through the creation?" - Albert Einstein

Ignorant... Much like you are with this comment.

*Slow clap* Your logic is sound.

Love him or hate him, Steve Jobs has earned a retirement. The amount he has contributed in the way businesses are run and how things are designed and marketed far surpasses the contributions in the same areas as anyone in this internet backwater. He's in poor health and he needs to enjoy what time he has left. I wish him all the best.

I store my old first generation SCSI magnets on drywall screws that have been plastered and painted over on my walls. I'm still like a little kid whenever I hang a new one up.

I have one metric shitload of neodymium from hard drive magnets. Where can I turn this fun to play with and fun to say metal into money?

Your argument boils down to one thing: iPads are for consuming content and not producing it.

How is it a sunk cost when they are considering $600 per unit investment in changing the way they do business that could cost considerably more? Please.