Comment Brought it on themselves (Score 1) 499
It's funny how marketing departments/companies push for ever increasing ad revenue and then wonder why we want to get around them. You think they would have learned something from radio and TV.
It's funny how marketing departments/companies push for ever increasing ad revenue and then wonder why we want to get around them. You think they would have learned something from radio and TV.
Unless they have some new miracle system, coatings tend to come off over time. If it's anything like glasses, you'll start to see it coming off around the edges and slowly working towards the inside. You'd certainly lose that non-reflective goodness if you had to use a screen protector to avoid this.
You have a very dim view on technology. Not so long ago voice recognition was near impossible without training.
Since many security systems are based on large prime numbers (e.g. SSL), I've always wondered if having a huge list of primes would weaken those system? Seems like it would have to unless I'm missing something.
Usually if I buy a new drive, it's to rotate out an older one. My "test" is to copy the mostly full drive onto the new one and keep the old drive on the shelf for a couple months in case of problems. Most drives either suffer an early death or last a good number of years. After 2-3 months I'll reuse the old drive for other storage needs.
The main company doing the CGI work (Digital Domain Media Group) went under and was sold off. It was a quick sale, but no word if things are still on schedule.
If they are already getting monthly/yearly fees from customers, what's the incentive to produce good products? Now we get to vote by not buying that version and continuing to use an old one. With this new model they'll get money either way.
Their hard core users will probably pay, but many people are occasional users. Free and/or cheaper products will make out big on this. Word processing and spreadsheets aren't exactly cutting edge applications anymore.
Personally I have had one success swapping PCB's on a drive and getting the data off. Of course this requires that the PCB is bad and not the platters. Most bad drives don't sound good (platter issue) so I don't usually bother (ear to drive can tell you a lot).
I have tried the freezer method 3-4 times with no luck, though friends say they have had success.
Usually if the drive is semi-accessible you can use tools like Easy Recovery (OnTrack) or Recuva (Piriform) to get some data off.
Get nearly everyone to wear them and connect them live to the net. Then when anyone does anything "wrong", it will be captured by everyone around them and immediately routed to the authorities.
Thanks, Data Crow is new to me and looks fairly good (first impressions). I still have to figure out how easy it is to get data into it, and how good the export features are.
I've been in limbo since Collectorz destroyed their product by removing the web scraping features a couple years ago (they removed one of the best features and called it an "upgrade").
Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only specification is that it should run noiselessly.