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- screensnot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Another myth:
All external or removable HDs are "flash" drives. - 3Den, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Half of these don't deserve to be called myths.. they are common sense.rnrnYes, Windows is over-zealous in removing some devices without unmounting them (the mac is worse, actually), however, there's a REASON behind that. If the filesystem in use doesn't sync out all the time, you can and will corrupt data.rnThe SAME goes for just yanking the plug on windows. Ohh.. so they did 30 tests and norton disk doctor detected no physical problems? Does anyone think this is a good, accurate test? Chances are, if you boto windows, then yank the plug, it'll be okay.rnIf you yank it mid-write, you risk corrupting stuff. It DOES happen, and it's good advice to shut down your computer and NEVER hard-reset the thing.rnrnMagnets won't hurt hard disks? Dunno about that sam... fixed magnets built into the drive are accounted for in teh calibration of the drive.. but if you start waving fairly powerful magnets over the drive chassis, you will screw it up... perhaps not as easy as a 3.5" floppy disk, but it WILL screw up.rnrnCell-phone on plane: It's not like it will just crash the plane.. but do you want to take that chance? For the love of god, turn off your goddamn phone. The other 300 people on the 4 hour flight will be happier for it. Also, consider that it's not just your phone that's the problem.. but say 300 people using variou sbands of cellphone, wifi, etc, not all necessarily operating within spec. Do you want that? I don't. Disconnect for a few hours, read a ***** book. Sheesh.rnrnCookies: The evil of cookies is overhyped, however, the amount of inferred data that google, yahoo, doubleclick, and others can get by cross-referencing things is astounding.. cookies really can be used to profile you quite well. That said, they aren't the devil, and can be useful.rnrnWindows japanes uses haiku error messages: Heard some of the haikus before, but have never heard anyone say they were actually used in japanese windows.. are we sure this is a myth?rnrnOpening spam gets your more spam: YEs, it does. Spam from legitimate companies, ones you registered with and have unsubscribe links, generally aren't even spam, and will unsubscribe you. Anything else, if you are llowing the spam to load external images to render properly, you ARE letting htem know the address was valid, and when/who/where you opened it. Don't open spam, delete it. Don't click unsub liks to disreputable sites.rnrn"Hackers can destroy data on your compute'rs hard drive.": True, they generally don't, but they *absolutley* CAN.rnrnTurning computers off: Haven't turned my mac off for months... not sure why I'd need to, and not sure what performance gains there would be. Windows does have memory leak problems and such... but what can you do.rnrnThe government can read everyone's email:rnThe processing power and infrastructure to do this are easily within reach of the government, and who's to say the NSA isn't doing this? It's not like you'd know, anyway.rnrnPlaystation 2 for iraq: Definately a myth, but originated from the fact that the total processing power of a PS2 allegedly was higher than a limit set years ago, making it requier an export license as munitions, or somethin like that. There are limits to how much computing power you are allowed to export.rnrnOnly a good usrge protector works: This is true. Not to say some cheap ones aren't good, but living in a country where the power is ***** and goes out repeatedly, havin ga good UPS/surge protector is a MUST. There is a big difference between a ***** surge protector and a good one... let's not suggest people buy cheap ones, okay?rnrnWrist-strap: Although it's not as dangerous as it was in years past.. if you work in dry air and have carpet, you should be making every effort to properly ground out before working on your PC. If you work on PCs and electronics every day, you SHOULD be using anti-static mats and wrist and/or foot straps. You will eventually fry something, and then say "oh yeah, that's what the strap was for"rnrnPretty un-factual article.. most of the myths mentioned are still good practices.rnrnrnrnrnrnrnrn
- Durrok, on 10/12/2007, -4/+61. Not all Digg users have been here since the dawn of ***** time
2. If a story is on the front page is a dupe, it's too ***** late to do ***** about it so just skip over it. Report it if it makes your sleep better at night. Most of you calling dupe did so before it hit front page but I'm just putting that out there. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I see, a few minutes of testing by this expert at PCWorld makes it ok to do a bunch of stupid dangerous crap with my computer stuff.
I remember when this article came out, it was stupid then and its stupid now. - Mimorox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That thing about the magnet is wrong. A few months ago, I accidently dropped a fairly strong magnet onto my laptop, and it completly screwed the computer up. Tons of data went corrupt, and barely anything worked.
- pingviini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I once had a 46.7 Gig flash drive, but it wasn't very good for storing data on.
What they said about pulling usb drives without unmounting them doesn't quite do justice to losing my semester long project. But thats why I keep backups. - botoxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0
So, the Feds aren't really reading all my email? I'm crushed. - pugfug90, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Windows' Japanese edition uses haiku error messages.
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
HAHAHA - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0aiwha, let me get this straight, you have a 200 gig flash drive which you bought for $50 from a store thats been out of business since August of 2001. So this tidbit of ***** you are sharing would indicate that the price of storage has actually gone UP from 4 years ago? Thats pretty amazing; I'm going to assume that you are one of those people who fart in the bathtub and try to bite the bubbles.
- dharm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1>I once had a 46.7 Gig flash drive, but it wasn't very good for storing data on.
>What they said about pulling usb drives without unmounting them doesn't quite do justice to >losing my semester long project. But thats why I keep backups.
umm... ya right.... you had a 46.7 GB flash drive?... BS - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"If a story is on the front page is a dupe, it's too ***** late to do ***** about it so just skip over it. Report it if it makes your sleep better at night."
quoted 4 truth - skydivingdutch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"A magnet powerful enough to disturb the electrons in flash would be powerful enough to suck the iron out of your blood cells," says Frank.
That is total BS, iron in hemogobin is in a compound, not as a metal. The same way the sodium in table salt does not behave like a metal.
An instant drop in credibility. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hackers can destroy data on your computer's hard drive!!! WTF! Thats a myth man! I dont believe that nonsense!
- jnorris441, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0digg users aren't too good at catching sarcasm
- Gneisbaard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I placed a harddrive on an unshielded speaker once. Some of the data could be recovered with recovery software.
- loveandrockets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Hear, hear Durrok. I'm amazed at all these people writing "dupe dupe" in the comments. Mostly these are dupes not from the front page but from the the "digg for stories" section. It's not a huge problem and it takes 1 second to ignore it and move on.
- MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"If you don't 'stop' a USB device before unplugging it from a PC, you'll screw things up."
They didn't point out that this is only true for pre-XP operating systems. XP doesn't do any delayed writing crap unless you specifically tell it to, and therefore, doesn't bother complaining when you yank out a USB drive. - aussiehuw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ok, apparently it's a dupe. Also, I hope this is a joke. Either it's a joke or the "journalist" is the biggest retard this side of the psychiatric ward.
- ChrisGranger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wonder how many people who claim magnets won't affect hard drives would be willing to pull the magnet out of a 10" or 12" subwoofer and place it on top of their system drive to prove it.
- alphgeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@skydivingdutch
Heheheh I was about to post the same....suck the iron out of blood, what a joke...everyone should watch out next time they get an MRI, it might suck the blood out of their body...sheesh... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I rather have this story making the Front page than some Apple/Ipod blog/crap inane comment/love story.
- 3Den, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hmm.. appears to be a digg bug if you mess up the captcha thingy
- binarypower, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1http://www.supermediastore.com/flashdrive-16gb-usb-20-usb-flash-drive.html
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0they probably have an external hdd asnd think it is a flash drive
- sakibomb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0and it keeps leaving the toilet seat up!
- tsupersonic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1BS on the two guys claiming they have a 46.7 GB and a 200 GB flashdrive. Why the hell would you choose such stupid numbers? Not even powers of 2.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1aiwha, you arent too bright are you?
200GB of flash memory at todays prices would cost... $16,000 of course that would be the retail price, so if you got it half off like you said you still paid $8,000 for it
The biggest one i've seen is a 16GB flash drive for $1,300 (see for yourself: http://www.supermediastore.com/flashdrive-16gb-usb-20-usb-flash-drive.html)
You MUST be reffering to one of these sizes which are currently the only available sizes for flash drives: 8MB, 16MB, 32MB, 64MB, 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, 16GB
I hope you reply and own-up to your mistake, but if you are sticking to your guns than I'll gladly give you $200 for your 200GB flash drive! - nymphetamine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"The government reads everyone's e-mail."
Thats a bold-faced lie and we all know it! - aiwha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yes, I am one of those people.
- aiwha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0No, this is a flash drive. I keep it on my key chain.
- aiwha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Swampthing, I got it at Ames.
- screensnot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0@aiwha
How much did it cost you? Where can I get one (besides the year 2011)? - dharm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0>Another myth:
>All external or removable HDs are "flash" drives.
so true... just read up for examples =p - mistermachine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0@skydivingdutchrn@alphgeekrnrndudes, i think he was being facetious.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Ames went out of buisness 2 or 3 years ago..
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1
Question: What happens to Metal Music when you place a magnet next to it? Does it turn into Air Supply? - screensnot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0@aiwha
I suspect you are confusing MB with GB. - aiwha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Yeah, it was half price.
- aiwha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0It was a lot. I think I paid like $50 for it at Ames.
- rafleming, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0THIS ARTICLE IS FROM 2004!
- binarypower, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0(you had an extra character in the link throwing it off)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0furthermore, $100 is a great deal for even an external harddrive. 2 years ago that would have been an absolute steal!!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I put a magnet on an ancient 2gb hdd, killed it dead.
- shazeubaa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0> "terrible things can happen if you don't shutdown windows blah blah"
Heh, add to that "terrible things can happen if you startup windows blah blah"
Viva la Unix and all it's children, baybee. - MadKennyP, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0They need to change the Bogus-O-Meter on "The Government Reads Everyone's E-Mail" to "true." The article cites the Patriot Act to show that the govt doesn't have the authority to read everyone's e-mail, but we know the President could easily claim the same inherent power he is using to justify warrantless wiretaps.
- screensnot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0And I'd buy 200GB of flash memory in a sec. Plus I'd talk my wife into blowing you as a thank you.
That is if I actually believed that you had a clue as to what you are talking about. - jondaa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0i remember this issue
- aiwha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Yeah, it's 200 GB. If you want it so bad I will sell it to you for $100.
- screensnot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I don't understand. If it's 200GB, then why did you say "Who the hell has ever heard of a 2 MB flash drive"?
Not that i"ve ever heard of a 200MB either. I figured you might be rounding to 200 from 192 or 256.
And a 2MB compact flash card was very common, just a few years ago. - Dan005, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"terrible things can happen if you don't shutdown windows blah blah"
It's 100% that bad things can happen. it just recently happened to my dads computer. His whole harddrive became corrupt. Windows died and he lost all his buisness data. PC World sucks. -
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