#23. It's far more difficult to completely erase data from a hard drive than most people realise. Formatting is simply the equivalent of tearing out the index pages of a book and leaving the contents as they were.

Overwriting with new data usually random strings of '0' and '1' is better, but even this approach can lead the unwary into a false sense of security, since the tolerances on disk writing are relatively high, meaning writes can be carried out on marginally adjacent tracks, thus leaving the original data intact, and readable by specialist disk recovery software.

Multiple passes of random data writes finally provides an acceptable level of security, but just think how long this would take on a 1TB drive?

This is my last post on SNOTR. Thanks for entertaining me for the past couple of weeks. I'm fit enough to leave hospital now, and work beckons.

Adios.

#18. Not if he had longer legs...

He could easily have avoided that if he'd used a much shorter pole.

#11. You would if you could afford it.
And if you couldn't.....?

LOL. USA. What a great country.

And at the precise moment that it all starts to go pear-shaped (become interesting), we get a great shot of...... grass and feet. Great camera work there.

Excellent video....... for SNOTR(Russia).

#11. Huh?
Can you run that one by me again?

There are 10x as many minutes of nothing in every episode, and you reckon that makes it a great show????

"Why are you winding the window down?"

"Because I'm a know-all twit who thinks that this will equalize the pressure inside the car, when in actual fact what it will really do is enable the partly open window to shatter more easily, and thus shower us with broken glass."

#21. So... you think 1Kg is too much....?

Mr samxgx, I can't take you seriously with make-up like that.

"The sniper who made the most incredible shot in combat history was Carlos Hathcock during the Vietnam conflict, killing an enemy at 2,286 m "

... with a cruise missile.

To prevent this happening in the future, the ball should contain 1Kg of dynamite which is automatically detonated at the precise moment that the game ends.

#17. It's possible that I didn't explain myself too well, so I'll give it one more shot shall I?

Take a look at what you wrote in your previous comment:

"we understand you dont like that, but when all u can do is say that u find it lame while the vid is cool, u can skip ur comment..."

Now try to grasp the concept that we are all entitled to our opinions, and entitled to not be intimidated into changing our views or modifying our behaviour to fit in with someone else's subjective view of things.

This is why I reacted the way I did to your attempt to prevent me from making my own comments, simply because they did not agree with your own.

It's possible that you have fallen into the trap that many people do on forums, most especially the ones who have been posting for a considerable time. Such people often believe that gives them some kind of special status, allowing them to make sweeping generalisations concerning the posts of newbies.

I think you may well have fallen into this kind of trap. But I just thought you might like to know that I don't think you deserve any special respect simply because you registered here a number of years before myself, and I shall certainly continue to post my comments as I see fit, with no thought whatsoever of whether or not you think I should.

Consider these points then Reaperdaddy, and then reflect on whether your last reply was a mature one, or the knee-jerk reply of a spoilt child who is not getting his way.

Oh, and do please, have fun.

#15. Thanks for the advice Reaperdaddy. But here's the thing: I submit my comments based on my view of the video in question. If you don't like that, it's unfortunate, but I'm sure you'll get used to the idea of people having and expressing different opinions to yourself, if you give it a bit of thought.

You see, I understand that you and others feel compelled to scribble "Awesome!!!!!" at every video you see, especially the ones with big boys on little childrens' bikes, but that's OK by me. I'm perfectly comfortable with you almost wetting yourself with excitement over lame videos which you believe to be extremely cool. In any event, I expect you'll grow out of it as you mature.

There's a serious side to this. She already has a perfectly good phone. Millions of people do. But every day, millions of people fall prey to an industry dedicated to making them believe that their phone isn't good enough any more. How else, in a saturated market, would the phone companies be able to continue to sell more phones.

My phone is several years old, cost a fraction of an i-Phone, and is perfect!

I counted only nine million!

Hi #9. I didn't mean to upset you Daire. Yes, it does look very demanding. I imagine if I did that, I would be quite out of breath at the end.

That's a childish thing to say msavio008. I admire skillful people. My father is an engineer, he's collaborated on huge projects in our country. My mother is dead now, but she was an architect, my boyfriend is a student of medicine; he plans to become a surgeon specialising in heart surgery. I am a computer programmer. All these are useful skills which can bring benefit to the community and society in general.

Hopping around on a little child's bike somehow doesn't fall into that same category.

The tank camouflage is great!

Somehow, I don't think that all boys who play on their little bikes like this, are going to win tournaments in the future, become rich and take their pick from the girls, but I guess that's what a lot of them believe, and that is really funny.

Yeah, my bf has an X-box (and so do I), but he also has a brain and has a great career ahead of him.

Oh, and as for me 'doing it wrong'.... really? Well.... that's not what my bf says.