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Submission + - Toyota to borrow, test Woz's Prius for a week (jalopnik.com)

Submitted by iamhassi
iamhassi writes: Only a day after Steve Wozniak mentioned at Discovery Forum 2010 (and reported on slashdot) that he was having sudden and repeatable acceleration issues with his 2010 Prius, the Toyota U.S. President has passed Woz his personal number and his Toyota dealer will be testing the car for a week and giving him a loaner. They're also recalling the 2010 Prius, but of course this has nothing to do with Steve.
Government

Submission + - U.S. rules may raise cost of buying gadgets online (computerworld.com)

Submitted by ericatcw
ericatcw writes: Buying your next laptop or smartphone online could suddenly get a lot more expensive if a little-known U.S. Department of Transportation proposal to tighten rules around the shipment of small, Lithium-Ion battery-powered devices by air goes through, says an industry group opposing the move. The changes, designed primarily to reduce the risk from Lithium-Ion batteries, would also forbid air travelers from carrying spare alkaline or NiMH batteries in their checked-in luggage, according to the head of the Portable Rechargeable Battery Association. The proposal is under review until March 12. It can be viewed and commented upon by members of the public here.
Cellphones

Submission + - Official Google Voice Blocked From iPhone Store

Submitted by LanMan04
LanMan04 writes: Apple has rejected the Google's Voice application for the iPhone saying that it duplicated features in the popular smart phone. In other words, Google Voice — one of the best things to happen to telephony services in a very long time — will have no presence at all on the App Store. The move has called into question the control that Apple exerts over approving applications and whether the rejection and others constitute anti-competitive behavior.
Privacy

Submission + - The Pirate Bay sued, again (thelocal.se)

Submitted by
BuR4N
BuR4N writes: "The American movie industry today decided to take another stab at the people behind The Pirate Bay the Swedish newspaper "Dagens Nyheter" reports. The last time it was IFPI ( http://www.ifpi.org/ ) that sued and won the first round in the court, the verdict was much debated especially when details about the judge being member of organisations around the copyright lobby emerged. The Local (Swedish news in English) has a good summary of this new turn in The pirate bay story. http://www.thelocal.se/20954/20090728/"
Sun Microsystems

Submission + - VirtualBox 3.0 Released (virtualbox.org)

Submitted by royallthefourth
royallthefourth writes: VirtualBox 3.0 was released today. In addition to numerous other fixes and feature additions, it includes experimental support for OpenGL 2.0 and DirectX 9 on Windows guests. This sort of 3D support is a first for freely available virtual machines on Linux.
Intel

Submission + - Moblin 2.0 Released, Intel's Linux for Netbooks (computerworld.com)

Submitted by eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: Yesterday Moblin, the joint OS project between Novell and Intel, was released as V2.0 Beta for netbooks with the image available for download. We've talked about Moblin before but Computer World has an article speculating this is Intel's direct affront to Microsoft's Windows 7 by pointing out that Moblin is designed to optimally use Intel's Atom Processor and smaller screens so popular with Netbooks. Windows 7's netbook competition doesn't stop there as GoodOS's gOS3 Gadgets and Canonical's Ubuntu Netbook Remix are being designed to also take advantage of Intel's Atom, especially from a UI perspective. Back in April, Intel said it would support Windows 7 on the Atom later this year and Intel also says Windows 7 is a good choice for Intel's netbooks so it doesn't look like they're intentionally burning any bridges between them and Redmond.

Comment Re:overwritten once CAN NOT be recovered (Score 1) 780

by the1337g33k (#27964745) Attached to: Hacker Destroys Avsim.com, Along With Its Backups
Here in Minneapolis Minnesota, the data recovery services Kroll Ontrack http://www.krollontrack.com/ are headquartered here. Their company does a lot of different things other then data recovery, but their data recovery services DO cost an assload of money.

When the shuttle columbia burned up, NASA recovered some 6gb or something seagate drives and they brought them to kroll and were able to pull a 90+% recovery rate off those drives. I don't have a source on this, but im sure a simple google search would find it.

However the above wasn't data that was overwritten, just burned and partially melted. Also as for your questions, it widely depends on a multitude of factors. Sometimes you can pull most all of it, and sometimes you just can't.

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