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Comment Re:It should be illegal..... (Score 1) 291

> Yeah, but it's not like Facebook performed a forensic analysis to obtain this data. Despite the user having 'deleted' the
> content, Facebook still kept the data indexed somewhere, just not accessible to the user. What is being asked for here is
> that Facebook actually delete the data, which isn't hard.

> Nobody is asking for Facebook to write their harddrives with 0's, just delete the damn data so that it's no longer indexed and
> that it will eventually be overwritten on the disk.

Actually, deleting the data could be very difficult...in "BigData" [Cassandra, Hbase, Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Pig, MapReduce, etc..] data gets written all over the place so it would have to be deleted from an ever growing list of locations. It is generally not as simple as deleting the data in a single place.

Comment Re:An Idea (Score 1) 147

There are many regions around the world, particularly in India and Africa that are desperate for fresh water. Why not send a tanker up there with a legion of laborers to harvest these icebergs? Instead of just letting it melt into the ocean.

People may not know this, but before modern refrigeration, workers used to manually harvest big blocks of ice out of lakes with saws. Then your local Ice-guy would walk up to the side of your house, open a little door and stick a smaller block of ice through your wall, and into your icebox. This was how you kept food relatively cool.

What a brilliant idea! I highly doubt such a concept has ever been conceptualized before!

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