As astounding as it may seem, yes, even policy writers are bound by natural law.<br><br>Even the ones who try and legislate pi to be exactly 3.<br><br><br><br><br>ok. so those are are bound by the natural law of stupid and can serve as another test of the corollary of Darwin's theory that stupid dies.<br>
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Heat any magnet above the curie temp and it's no longer a magnet. This also works perfectly well for all hard drives. No three letter org can bypass the laws of physics.<br>
The shredding routine come from rule for paper docs as the rule writers don't understand computers.<br>
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You mean they are bound by laws of nature?:) <br>
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On Aug 26, 2011 10:29 PM, "Ron Frazier" <<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@c3energy.com" target="_blank">atllinuxenthinfo@c3energy.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Technically, based on my reading, A) not all platters are made of glass, <br>
> although some are; and B) to keep it away from people like the NSA, <br>
> you'd have to shred to particles smaller than a grain of sand because of <br>
> the insane areal density of modern drives. If you've got a 1/4" square <br>
> piece of platter, that could still have many KB or MB (maybe) of data on it.<br>
> <br>
> Sincerely,<br>
> <br>
> Ron<br>
> <br>
> On 8/26/2011 2:05 PM, David Hillman wrote:<br>
>> Why don't you just take them apart and shatter the platters with a <br>
>> hammer? You can make art out of the pieces. I crushed a bunch of <br>
>> drives that I had and put the chips in between two panes of glass in a <br>
>> wooden stand. It serves as a conversation piece. If that doesn't <br>
>> work, how about taking a blow torch to them? How much heat would it <br>
>> take to melt those drives down? I am sure there is a video on Youtube <br>
>> of someone melting hard drives. Good luck.<br>
>><br>
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Geoffrey Myers <br>
>> <<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com" target="_blank">lists@serioustechnology.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com" target="_blank">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I've drawn a blank. What is the name of that free software that I can<br>
>> use to erase a hard drive? It will run multiple overwrites?<br>
>><br>
>> I've got a number of old drives I need to dispose of and I don't<br>
>> want to<br>
>> bother trying to figure out what's on them.<br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> Until later, Geoffrey<br>
>><br>
>> "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent<br>
>> the government from wasting the labors of the people under<br>
>> the pretense of taking care of them."<br>
>> - Thomas Jefferson<br>
>><br>
> <br>
> -- <br>
> <br>
> (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to<br>
> call on the phone. I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy<br>
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> <br>
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