RE: Optical media destruction

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Herman Frederick Ebeling, Jr. wrote:
> There is just one SMALL problem with Wikipedia, that is that is an
> "open encyclopedia."  Meaning that ANYONE and EVERYONE can go in to
> any article and change words, delete words, or whole passages or
> even whole articles.  So I'd take anything "published" there with a
> rather LARGE grain of salt.

The problem that some "published" information is false is not
unique to wikis, actually, there are mistakes (or deliberate
disinformation) in any media: newspapers, books, web. The positive
side is that you can correct any nonsence once you see it and thus
save the next visitor from disinformation, whereas if you see some
nonsence in a newspaper most likely you will do nothing...

>  And then let me add one more step, take those "gazillion" pieces
> drop 'em into an OLD double boiler and melt them.  So that after
> nuking, "grinding" both sides on a sidewalk, breaking into a
> "gazillion" pieces, and melting I think that ANYONE private citizen
> or government agency would have a VERY hard time retrieving ANY data
> from it.

This time it is much better, and, btw, if you are going to melt it you
can skip that "gazillion" pieces stage -- what if you lost one of them
doing it? :-)

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Regards,
ASK