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60 thousand years of short lifespans and high mortality rates.

Imagine a ...er, no..

I blame Mic..hang on..

The RIA...Uh..

In Soviet Ru...Damn..

SCO probably...fu..

Does solder run Lin...um...

Bah!

Destroy them. If they stored what you describe, you do not want proprietary information leaking out. Especially, if you are the one that is in charge of "doing something with said HD's". Safer to destroy them.

Of course, all slashdotters would say either build an array or donate. In reality, the company should keep the biggest for desktop usage and shred the rest.

Safer for you and the company in terms of liability.

Just in case you were wondering why businessmen run the world.

Bullshit...

They run it due to greed, period.

Ppl are upset and raise hell over it, ppl find Dilbert
hilarious because they see relational irony in it.

The only ppl that want that are the corrupt paid off power
brokers in DC that got elected on false promises, and
by screwing the American ppl.

Ask the "people" in India if they wanted the Union Carbide Disaster.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

Engineering things well costs more, and all the DRM crap is
just so they can extend control, and maximize profit.

If things stay as they are we will never see a Star Trek like
civilization because we are too wrapped up in making money
and actually engineering things to NOT last so they can sell more.

The disposable lifestyle is on a collision course with
sustainability, and humans are not going to like the outcome.

Government leaders in the US have meetings voicing huge concerns
over the monster landfills, and running out of places to dump
all the garbage.

If we do not start engineering EVERYTHING for sustainability,
we are going to have some serious issues down the road.

I know ppl working in the oilfield who are paid to research old
wells so they can go back and try to drill deeper even though
the vast majority of the time they find NOTHING.

You don't do that unless there are serious problems looming.

In the next few years you will see the price of food double
or triple, and anything made of plastic will as well.

"Suits" are just like the carpetbaggers that took advantage
of ppl after the civil war, and they have no soul, and don't
care who is screwed over in their infernal quest for share
price, and revenue.

Ppl like this are more and more prevalent in business:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Milken

It's time to fix this pump and dump shell game of billion
dollar white collar crime for all eternity.

The price of oil isn't just $135/barrel, add on the cost of
Team America - World Police, and these so called businessman
are in power due to "The Good Old Boy Network"

captcha_fun writes "Researchers at Penn State have developed a patent-pending image-based CAPTCHA technology for next-generation computer authentication. A user is asked to pass two tests: (1) click the geometric center of an image within a composite image, and (2) annotate an image using a word selected from a list. These images shown to the users have fake colors, textures, and edges, based on a sequence of randomly-generated parameters. Computer vision and recognition algorithms, such as alipr, rely on original colors, textures, and shapes in order to interpret the semantic content of an image. Because of the endowed power of imagination, even without the correct color, texture, and shape information, humans can still pass the tests with ease. Until computers can 'imagine' what is missing from an image, robotic programs will be unable to pass these tests. The system is called IMAGINATION and you can try it out." This sounds promising given how broken current CAPTCHA technology is.

qazsedcft writes "BBC is reporting that Astronomers have discovered what appears to be the youngest planet, being less than 2000 years old. If this proves to be true it could challenge our models of solar system formation."

phantomfive writes "Forbes is reporting that despite Radiohead giving their latest album away 'for free', more copies of the album were pirated than downloaded from their site. Commentators offered up the opinion that this was probably more out of habit than malice. People download from regular BitTorrent sources, and may not have fully understood the band's very new approach to the subject. Regardless, Readiohead's efforts are having some measurable effect, as noted by the chairman of EMI: 'The industry, rather than embracing digitalization and the opportunities it brings for promotion of product and distribution through multiple channels, has stuck its head in the sand. Radiohead's actions are a wake-up call which we should all welcome and respond to with creativity and energy.'"

Roland Piquepaille writes "A new composite plastic built layer by layer has been created by engineers at the University of Michigan. This plastic is as strong as steel. It has been built the same way as mother-of-pearl, and shows similar strength. Interestingly, this 300-layer plastic has been built with 'strong' nanosheets of clay and a 'fragile' polymer called polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), commonly used in paints and glue, which acts as 'Velcro' to envelop the nanoparticles. This new plastic could soon be used to design light but strong armors for soldiers or police officers. The researchers also think this material could be used in biomedical sensors and unmanned aircraft."

Dotnaught writes "The Computer and Communications Industry Association — a trade group representing Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, among others — has issued a report (PDF) that finds fair use exceptions add more than $4.5 trillion in revenue to the U.S. economy and add more value to the U.S. economy than copyright industries contribute. "Recent studies indicate that the value added to the U.S. economy by copyright industries amounts to $1.3 trillion.", said CCIA President and CEO Ed Black. The value added to the U.S. economy by the fair use amounts to $2.2 trillion."

An anonymous reader writes "A solar-powered, unmanned craft has flown for 54 hours — a record for both unmanned aerial vehicles and solar craft. None before has managed to store enough solar energy to fly through more than one night. There is also a video showing the 18m carbon fiber wing craft being launched."

ffejie writes "Verizon has announced that it will be spinning off rural assets to FairPoint Communications. These include all assets in the states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The deal will close sometime in 2007 and is worth $2.7 billion. 1.6 million phone lines, 234,000 DSL subscribers, and 600,000 long-distance customers will be moved to FairPoint in Verizon's effort to shed its low-margin lines in rural areas. The sale has been rumored since the summer at least. With Verizon aggressively rolling out high-speed FiOS (FTTP) in its service area, what will happen to the consumers stuck with a smaller telco like those moving to FairPoint?"