nope. you would need a VERY old hard drive (it will work on floppies, ZIP or LS120), written to EXACTLY ONCE before overwriting with zeros. this can be recovered with AFM/MFM, with a 56% chance to get one bit correct. you do the math about the probability of reading one byte correctly. anything newer is too dense and, using PRML methods, they don't even write real 1s anymore, 0.8's are close enough. that rumor has been around for years, but its still not true.

but hey, I happen to have a still sealed 40GB drive in my desk, i can put some text on that, zero it once and you let great deeds follow your great words and recover that data. how about some real "less talk, more experimental proof" here?

thank you. ymmd!

either this, or vibrations caused by resonance.
i can also "hear" a 100kHz switching power supply, because anything carrying current or being magnetic in there that has resonance frequencies where at least one of the harmonics of current and component overlap will oscillate itself, and if its oscillation frequency (not the resonance frequency) is in the audible range, you can hear it.

thats what it sounds to me...

nope, since that's not what buddhism is about.
at least, when following Siddharta's teachings.
   

... and shit like this doesn't happen....

and stop building structurally sensitive parts out of cardboard...

my "el-cheapo (6€)" "made in china" "1mW" green laser pointer easily exceeds 20 mW of output power in green; and i'm sure there's much more coming out at 808 and 1064 nm since there is no IR filter. fixed that popping a plastic grey filter in there - but without it, the brightness is blinding even when reflected off a white wall, direct eye exposure will cause permanent damage. you can easily record holograms with it, pointing it at a landing aircraft will surely cause temporary blindness of the pilots for at least 30 seconds.

i, personally, would consider this aggravated assault or attempted manslaughter. imagine sitting in that plane.

Grab a recent Radeon HD 7790 for 100€ - done.
We WERE talking about DOING WORK on that thing, weren't we :-)

http://agtb.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/progress-in-algorithms-beats-moore’s-law/

http://beta.slashdot.org/story/145484

the model for GRB's is not one that's been carved in stone. to be honest, GRB's are not very well understood. the reason for this is that you have to be lucky to detect one AND then be fast enough to point enough telescopes at it to gather enough data for a somewhat stable mathematical model. not so long ago, we didn't really have any clue WTF happened, so I'm not surprised that the models fall short to explain rare occurrences. i've had gamma ray astronomers in the offices next door using satellites like GLAST or XMM for observations, and they were often discussing distinctly different possibilities for GRB.

a lot of technical and military explosives have metal powder or metal fibers added to make them detectable by x-ray or metal detectors, since it's required by law in many countries.

something like this could also apply to guns, but then it would make sense to apply it to ALL firearms - if they can't be detected by standard methods, they're illegal.

why not? if you're intentions are illegal, you don't care in the first place, otherwise you just pop in the detectable plastic and are done.

i don't see the problem in plastic guns as long as standard-off-the-shelf firearms are carried aboard planes by oblivious passengers checked by lousy trained, ignorant, tired or bored security staff....

the first versions i tried were pretty flawed, and ever since i found coolplayer i saw no reason to ever consider installing winamp again