KleinKlone - Slashdot User

Comment Easy answers (Score 1) 1016

by KleinKlone on Friday September 30, 2011 @08:50AM (#37565728) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives?

Four quick and dirty methods, depending on your paranoia level, how many tools and how much time you have. Its a simple case of determining acceptable loss versus the economy and efficacy of destruction (in other words, unless you have something the FBI or NSA wants, go for the easier solutions):

Trivial: Destroy the IDE connector. If you're just hiding your porn, few people will bother to rebuild an IDE connector.
Simple: Push a small screwdriver through the plastic filter port on the side of the drive, and scratch it over the surfaces of the platter. Scratched drives can't be read.
Easy: Undo the 7 or so Torx screws holding the cover, expose the platters, and give them a good hard *whack* with the ball end of a ball-peen hammer. Dented drives can't be read, either.
Easy, time consuming: Disassemble the drives, and rub each platter over some nice diamond sandpaper.

-Dan

Nearby Star Forecast To Skirt Solar System 135

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 12, 2010 @07:36PM from the we're-doomed dept.

PipianJ writes "A recent preprint posted on arXiv by Vadim Bobylev presents some startling new numbers about a future close pass of one of our stellar neighbors. Based on studies of the Hipparcos catalog, Bobylev suggests that the nearby orange dwarf Gliese 710 has an 86% chance of skirting the outer bounds of the Solar System and the hypothesized Oort Cloud in the next 1.5 million years. As the Oort Cloud is thought to be the source of many long-period comets, the gravitational effects of Gliese's passing could send a shower of comets into the inner Solar System, threatening Earth. This news about Gliese 710 isn't exactly new, but it's one of the first times the probability of this near-miss has been quantified."

Gaming With GPS On Your Smartphone 43

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday February 27, 2010 @03:33AM from the getting-lost-despite-two-meter-precision dept.

Barence writes "If your handset doesn't get you out and about, tramping through mud, climbing around and hunting for hidden treasure, then something needs an upgrade. The iPhone, Blackberry's Storm and Bold lines, and many Symbian and Android handsets, now sport GPS, which makes your smartphone the ticket to join a global movement of outdoor games. These are outbound challenges that pit teams and solo players against themselves and each other in the search for hidden treasure, undiscovered landmarks, and hidden spots all over the world. This article delves into several of the best smartphone-friendly real-world games, each of which is a bridge between the online and offline worlds."

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