Travel tip: Keep your laptop in your lap!

>> ^schmawy:
Travel tip: Keep your laptop in your lap!


That is exactly the first thing that came to my mind... I wonder if that field is strong enough to damage a hard-drive?

Is that a paperclip in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

A perfect example of something we ordinarily can't see, so we ignore. Good video.

*degauss

magnets do not affect hard disks... at least not any you could find easily. floppies and tape backup media? yes.

a hard drive contains a magnet. a rather powerful one at that.
in order to wipe or corrupt data on a hard drive with a magnet, you would either need a degausser, or a magnet powerful enough to remove the iron from your blood cells.

(See: http://www.pcworld.com/article/116572/busting_the_biggest_pc_myths.html)

i'd be more worried about my credit cards, but that's such a small field that it probably wouldn't even affect them anyway.

*asia

Adding video to channels (Asia) - requested by lucky760.

Your all fools this train is simply doing a loop the loop.

I... I uh..

I sence a disturbance in the force...

I knew the machines would become sentient sooner or later...

But i never suspected they would start with their smallest primitive life Form!

is this a maglev train or just a regular subway.

and why aren't these magnets affecting the video camera?

Obviously Michael Jackson has been reincarnated as Clippy.

I have got to try that!

I'm more shocked by the sight of an apparently EMPTY train car IN JAPAN.

>> ^quantumushroom:
I'm more shocked by the sight of an apparently EMPTY train car IN JAPAN.


Well that seals it then. The clip is fake!

>> ^Payback:
Obviously Michael Jackson has been reincarnated as Clippy.


Now i'm going to have "Smooth Criminal" stuck in my head all night. Thanks a lot, jerk.

wow, that pcworld article is some of the most shameless fox news level horsepoop i've read in a while
just making up facts as you go when you run out of genuine ones is not cool
probably correct on the HD and magnets though

Ooh! Ooh! Do iron filings next!

Also the hard drive is basically housed in a faraday cage inside a faraday cage...

Ahem - let me correct some of this attempted nerditry.
Yes hard drives do contain powerful magnets but they are shielded pretty heavily to prevent data corruption via electromagnetic fields. The way data corruption would occur is either on the silicone of the motherboard (or other cards) OR through the ide/sata cables (in both cases they are shielded but not as much as the hard drive and thus are more susceptible to EMF)

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