...and "lose", not "loose" ( http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling ), which is a mistake a simple spelling checker won't catch. For that you need to actually know how to spell.
And that kinda sums up the problem with this sort of technology. No technology will make a gun magically safe, for that you need to take personal responsibility for the education of gun owners (and parenting).
I don't think anybody is proposing to include a remote killswitch.
Yet.
The question is: How often is that a real situation compared to, say, bad people using guns to help them commit crimes?
(not seriously expecting the USA to disarm itself - the cat is well and truly out of the bag).
They can't figure out why? The guns are obviously smarter than their inventors.
The oldest known written texts are quite sophisticated and describe great cities and long ocean voyages, possibly based on events 14,000 years ago.
This great new discovery is younger than that. Is it really so surprising that lunar calenders existed in 10000BC, even in 'barbaric' places? We know that even the barbarians traveled quite widely and were exposed to other cultures.
Something else Invented In Scotland, then?
And the other world powers that have multicultural prime ministers and presidents are
The major cause of war/unrest in the world isn't skin color, it's religion. I'd be more interested in seeing an openly Atheist president than a black one but I'm not holding my breath on that happening in the USA anytime soon.
Mod parent up.
How the leader of one of the most warmongering nations on Earth got awarded a Nobel Peace Prize is beyond me.
This works pretty simply - when the phone hears the keyword it wakes up and starts listening for a query.
What if anybody says "NSA" or "Taliban" near it?
But as pointed out this is unnecessary and those PCs/disks could benefit a lot of needy people. Securely re-imaging a hard disk isn't difficult.
... for sensitive data, more passes is standard.
Somebody needs to question that standard. There's no credible evidence that data can be recovered after writing a single pass of random data.
Even if there was any evidence (and let's be clear, there isn't...), if anybody wants to spend that much money trying to recover data from machines bought randomly on eBay they should be encouraged to do so. The sooner they go bankrupt, the better.
Sigh.
OK, let's agree it more than 10 minutes.
Now can you address the actual point, which was: "It's not difficult to wipe hard drives in a time frame which is consistent with upgrading a room full of PCs."
Ok, let's agree it more than 10 minutes. Now can you address the actual point...?
(I should have known better than to put an actual number on slashdot...)
... mostly depending on the exact terms of the contract.
You know how I know you didn't read the article?
Formatting works perfectly well for data destruction.
(cue line of geeks with theories about why it isn't despite the fact that they can't come up with a single example of data recovery after formatting...)
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