Amen. And this from a college prof.

In my department there are profs that, in a meritocracy, wouldn't stand a chance of being employed another semester. How can you possibly teach a CS class and never once log into a class computer?

Online classes are good for the disciplined students and those that have some prior knowledge of the course material and I'm glad my department is exploring offering more online. It frees the students' time to do other things other than spend gas money and time to warm a seat to learn stuff they already know. But it's really not for everyone. It is kind-of like the higher education equivalent of home schooling. It requires discipline and a routine in order to stay on top of assignments and do well. Some students just need that face-to-face verbal kick in the ass to get anything done. Like I say to my students "It's your time and your money. I don't care what you do with it, but I would rather give an A instead of an F"

Queue the pissed off people in 3... 2...

True. My Ranger had a Mazda tranny and my Neon has a Mitsubishi engine. But in-country seems a little odd.

Why would GM sell it to AMC? AMC was a Chrysler product.

This article was apparently tainted. I added crap to the list of tags so now it is tainted crap.

False. I'm 27 and have my Master's Degree paid in full. The truly creative class, in this economy, exploits whatever the hell it can in order to survive and grow. It doesn't matter if you're an Art History professor or an Engineer these days.

If the joists were as magnetic enough to do what they claim, I would hesitate to walk through the house with steel toed boots. One could lose a foot that way.

Oh definitely.

They did but it's still a pain in the ass. In Ubuntu at least, you have to edit grub.cfg and then "update-grub". I liked the old way of doing things where update-grub was unnecessary.

Godwined.

Thermite?

It's not a matter of whether or not it's recoverable. It's all about making it unfeasible to recover the data - by mechanical means or financially. Then again, the original poster of this article sounds like a regular everyday jackoff that is a bit paranoid about his own decade-old information. Just removing the platters would be sufficient in that case. Turn them into a piece of artwork or something.

"How better to better understand the Creator than through the creation?" - Albert Einstein

Ignorant... Much like you are with this comment.

*Slow clap* Your logic is sound.