My device would start screaming "I am a 30 second bomb,I am a 30 second bomb, 29, 28, 27 ..."

A full format does NOT. The difference between a Quick and a Full format is that a Full format will attempt to READ the full disk after a format, while the Quick, simply writes a new table.

Read Cory Doctorow's online book "Little Brother" (http://craphound.com/littlebrother/Cory_Doctorow_-_Little_Brother.htm) and ask yourself if KM went through it in real life.

Good lord. I met a woman in Iowa who did exactly that, and I assumed that she was a one-of-a-kind!

If I had studied for a test, and had to re-take it, I would only do better.

50,000+ dead... wait, don't a lot of people practice Voodo in Haiti? ... and Pat Robertson says they have a pact with the devil ... hang on... Sweet Jumping Jehoshaphat! It's happening! WWZ! No wonder we're sending a carrier.

A Google search on ReadBytes gives around 130,000 hits.

Fan of the double negative are we? Perhaps "doubt that anyone in the tech industry" might convey you intent better? Perhaps you meant "convey YOUR intent"?

Consider this:

A Rottweiler, a tall fence, and an 8 year old child.
Child taunts Rottweiler, and pokes it with a stick through the fence.
Enraged Rottweiler manages to scramble over fence and mauls child. Who's at fault?
Change child to 17 year old. Different?
Get him drunk. Different?