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Submission + - Ten ways to destroy a hard disk (pcpro.co.uk)

Barence writes: "Following his blog last week about the home-made hard disk destroyer, Bustadrive, Mike Jennings was deluged with comments from readers, both on the blog and here on Slashdot. Most seemed to like the product, but also offered up far more innovative and madcap methods of hard disk destruction, with a wide range of implements used — household and otherwise. In this follow-up post, he rounds up the best of an imaginative bunch of hard disk destruction methods."
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Submission + - Xbox 360 failure rate is 54.2%

Colonel Korn writes: The Seattle PI Blog is reporting that a soon to be published Game Informer survey finally shows the failure rate of XBOX 360s: 54%! The survey also shows the rates of failure for the PS3 (11%) and Wii (7%). Impressively, only 4% of respondents said they wouldn't buy a new 360 because of hardware failures.

Comment How they did it (Score 1) 537

Apart from their shipping from tax havens, there's a subtle detail I learned seven years ago from a Cisco Rep:

Software isn't subject to taxes on customs. So, what did cisco do?

a) They declared their hardware far low than the retail cost (say, USD 10 out of a 200 retail value)
b) the remaining USD 190 would be listed as IOS.
c) ???
d) Profit!

Really smart, huh?

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