Field Experiment:

I don't think it's a big deal to recover data that's been erased that way. Each layer of data, even after you've overwritten the information is all pretty much at the same strength so it can be picked out. I know erased tapes can be restored. Even tapes that have been over-written can be recovered. I would think…

I thought it was pretty easy to recover any drives, even drives that had been erased. I've been told that drives that contain top secret information have to be destroyed, that no erasure method was secure enough.

Didn't it take TJX months before they notified anybody? One day seems pretty reasonable to me.

I'm starting to think that we don't know dirt about hearing. If the Nyquist sampling theorem applies to hearing, why does music sampled at 192KHz sound so much better than music sampled at 44KHz? Even a cloth eared beet can hear the difference. I've got a $1000 turntable going into a $200 phono amp and they…

Check out the Mitsubishi DLPs. I paid $2100 for a 73 inch set a year ago.

Speaking of fail, the new format still sucks and it doesn't work with Firefox 4.

I think so. You can still buy them from Amazon. I've discovered a couple of hifi sites that sell SACD disks, like linnrecords.com. I think in the small world of high end audio, SACD never really died. With cheap ($500) universal players I have to wonder if there is going to be a comeback for mulitchannel…

I can hear a big difference even on my computer with an old pair of Cambridge Soundworks speakers and a basic soundcard. I just went through several nights of listening tests. The one thing that surprised me was how dependent the results were on the source material. The first cd I ripped as a FLAC was an old…

Very good article, but I've started to buy disks again! I bought an Oppo93 universal disk player mostly for blu-ray but it also plays SACD and DVD-Audio. I had a couple of DVD-Audio disks and they sounded so good, I've gone out and purchased a couple of SACD surround sound disks. I am actually surprised how good…

Vin Diesel

that's going to be an embarrassing announcement huh?

I've been a consistent reader of the NY Times for over thirty years. It was the last newspaper delivered to my house and now, I've deleted the app off my iphone. They just want to much money. Their international coverage just isn't that great. I've started reading the BBC again. I would pay to read and follow…

No way, nuclear nightmare number one is still Slim Pickens riding that bomb like a bucking bronco. Wow, that is just one of those images you can't shake.

Still, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki help to end a war.

I've already dropped the NYTimes. What they are asking is way over priced for a news outlet that is so heavily New York centric. Besides, the NY Post is way funnier.

If I designed the perfect pocket tool (for me, of course), it would be pretty close to Leatherman's Skeletool CX with a USB adapter and about 16G of storage.