Anarchitect - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Overkill? (Score 1) 497

by Anarchitect on Monday August 17, 2009 @10:35AM (#29091681) Attached to: The Homemade Hard Disk Destroyer

This is so sadly true -- I work in a data processing facility for an eDiscovery firm. When our clients want their old drives destroyed, we run them over a large (no idea as to the specs, make, whatever) electromagnet for several minutes (long enough to heat the casing up) and THEN we ship 'em out at USD$10/per for physical destruction.

I'd rather give them a single-pass random write and then take them to the range -- faster, cheaper, and much more fu.

Submission + - USNS Hoyt S. Vandenberg to be sunk on Wednesday (yahoo.com)

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caffiend666

on Monday May 25, 2009 @01:58PM

caffiend666 writes: "The USNS Hoyt S. Vandenberg is to be sunk on Wednesday becoming the worlds second largest artificial reef. The USNS Hoyt S. Vandenberg, named after the Air Force's General Vandenberg, served as a missle tracking and space relay ship for decades. Ship was used as a part of project Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and the Shuttle Program. Was used as a set for some of the scenes the 90's movie Virus as the Russian MIR relay station. Should be one of the more awesome diving spots soon..."

Submission + - ZigBee Pro: the New Home Automation Standard?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25, 2009 @12:19PM

An anonymous reader writes: Echelon, Microsoft, Intel, Sun and the Electronic Industries Alliance have been trying to create a home automation standard for two decades — to no avail. Now the ZigBee Alliance, proprieter of a low-rate two-way wireless mesh networking technology, says it will prevail. In six weeks, automation vendor Control4, which has about one million ZigBee nodes installed, will flip the switch on the new ZigBee Pro, which promises interoperability among light switches, thermostats, door locks, motorized shades, security systems, remote controls and some 36 million electric meters.

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