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Subject: [Leica] Strictly OT: System Crash
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:11:48 +0530
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India & China because human life is cheap here.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:09 AM, philippe.amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> 
wrote:
>
> Le 10 juin 11 ? 07:09, Frank Filippone a ?crit :
>
>>
>> Data on a HDD is there and recoverable by the knowledgeable ( and not
>> necessarily honest) man. ?No, delete does nothing to the data, it just
>> erases the file pointers. ?Got last years' ( or 10 years ago) tax data on
>> it? ?Someone can recover that data ( including the social security number,
>> your employee number, maybe even your bank account numbers) to use in
>> nefarious ways.
>>
>> To wipe the disk really clean takes special SW. ?A hammer is easier and
>> faster, and works remarkably well. ?Uses less electricity as well. ?It is
>> also remarkably permanent.
>>
>> Just because Doug takes a hammer to his drive, does not mean that the
>> parts
>> can not be recycled at that point....After all, all the parts are still
>> there.
>>
>> In our community in California, electronic waste is collected at special
>> locations, and recycled appropriately. ?About twice yearly. ?I have 2
>> computers that will go out in about a month. ?They send them to India and
>> China where poor people are paid pennies to remove IC chips for the gold
>> wire.
>
> Why India or China? Don't local people need that fuel and work (money)?
>
>> ?They sit over vats of caustic acids, breathing in noxious fumes, for
>> hours daily. ?The metals are recycled. ?The health of the lives involved
>> are
>> ruined..
>>
>
> This way of
>
>> Recycling Is not all it is cracked up to be......
>>
>
> So in the end shooting a HD and dumping the mash in the countryside is less
> harmful to man and society than recycling it if I get it right.
> I'm off to buy a gun now.
>
> End of the ?start of polemics ;-)
>
> Tongue in cheek
> Ph, a bird and Leica R lover
>
>
>> Frank Filippone
>> Red735i at earthlink.net
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lug-bounces+red735i=earthlink.net at leica-users.org
>> [mailto:lug-bounces+red735i=earthlink.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>> philippe.amard
>> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 9:42 PM
>> To: Leica Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Strictly OT: System Crash
>>
>>
>> Le 10 juin 11 ? 02:45, Ken Carney a ?crit :
>>>
>>> So now we also use the sledge hammer - it just feels right, plus no
>>> ammo cost.
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The question remains, why?
>> And why not recycle?
>>
>> Ph
>>
>>
>>
>>
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