Not if you are counting on the disk spinning. But if you are seriously going through the trouble because your data *is* really sensitive, (even a HIPPA breach is a serious liability), then i suggest to you that all the sections of the disk without holes are pretty much readable. So, the long and short of this is, if you have a real need to destroy data, better not leave it up to the kid with the Ryobi.

thanks for not actually saying anything but succeeding in being a real dick about it. I get in these moods too when conversing with morons who wouldn't know what to think if you unscrewed their heads and filled them in.
oh, what was my point again? doesn't matter whether snowden is hero or zero. You're a dick.

but i've come to expect it from the same people that don't believe in God. Most of the advice and sentiment and argument i see here is really lacking on both sides because they worship money. And they don't even know why. just for the record, i prefer being rich. but it's probably due to enjoying what i work for. some of the best times of my life were on a very low budget.

scientists have reaffirmed that magnetite has absolutley ZERO PRACTICAL value in transistor applications. "No way in hell" was the unatributed quote.

accept ALL interference. Including "lost my iphone" broadcasts. Russians are such rank amateurs. In soviet america we do as we please! at least our government does, anyway.

scientists have reaffirmed that magnetite has absolutley ZERO PRACTICAL value in transistor applications. "No way in hell" was the unatributed quote.

nokia was larger in market cap but not it reality i am going to kill myself now. That's how i read it in my mind. It's my brains way of avoiding being tortured.

damn right they teach 1984 now. It used to be a cautionary work of fiction. Now it's a users manual.

No, vanished in this case means destroyed. Before a bureaucrat can set up his own empire, he must incapcitate the former. If he can get paid a billion dollars without actually going through the trouble of setting up his empire, than so much the better.

My watch is made in china.

It was actually chosen in defense of Arizona standing up to the feds. I realize that using doubly ironic sarcasm invariably leads to my posts being modded troll, but no offense was directed at Arizona.

Throwing more hardware to compensate for bad code has been the practice for,uh,ever.
I appreciate good code as much as the next guy, but programmers are expensive, and good programmers are kinda weird. Besides, there is plenty of cloud left.

Most of the rest is cool and stuff, but way overrated. Man's quest for knowledge is the irony spelled out in the first few pages of a book despised by those described therein.

The entire world population in 1000 AD was about 250 million. Your dogma is worse than any church. Does your theatrics infer a murder of statistics?

I was thinking the same thing but then I realized nobody ever includes the cost and efficiencies of actually making giant storage batteries. So I suppose if you live next to a salt mine and have plenty of wind, it might be worth it.