The piecemeal "lab" releases that were functional but only 75-85% complete were okay 10 years ago. Anymore, they just give the appearance of not really giving a crap. Overlay that with an Apple-esque approach to usability and terms of use and it just becomes gWorld over and over again.

At least one study has shown that it isn't out of the question that electronic devices can have an impact on cockpit GPS systems. Inherently this is really only vital for landings.

But the rule isn't really the problem. The problem is cheating.

Day in and day out we all abide by questionable rules not because we agree with them, but because we are civilized human beings. Flaunting rules which could, even in the most remote chance, endanger not just your life but the lives of everyone around you is bad. Forget politics, forget gender, forget class, forget intelligence. If you aren't going to abide by the rules, then don't play the game.

Um... what about NerdBullies?

I suppose if the US was 1/3 its present size it might have better coverage.

Sure. The answer, on any drive > 15GB, is 1-Pass.

Stunning eh? I'll challenge anyone to prove that it is possible to recover anything from a modern hard disk that has been overwritten once with anything other than a magnetic microscope. And even that is questionable.

Modern drives are so dense that drive makers have a hard enough time getting data back off of them after its been written.

But you asked for documentation:

NIST Guidelines for Media Sanitization
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-88/NISTSP800-88_rev1.pdf

Storage Networking Discussion
http://storage-networking.org/Discussion/forum_posts.asp?TID=59&PN=1

Guttman's Revised Paper
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html