POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Science : Re: Science Server Time
6 Sep 2024 01:26:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Science  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 15 May 2009 21:10:35
Message: <4a0e128b$1@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> clipka wrote:
> 
>> Just a quick question: *Why* would you want to dissolve it in the 
>> first place?
>>
>> If it is only about rendering it unusable, how about a nice 
>> oscillating magnetic
>> field? Microwave oven? Using a strong hole punch axially on the spool 
>> to convert
>> it to confetti? Cutting the spool in two halves using a strong paper 
>> cutter? ...
> 
> How do you prove that the magnetic field was strong enough to erase it 
> properly, all the way through? OTOH, if you cut it to ribbons or 
> dissolve it, there's little doubt that it's destroyed.
> 
> Microwave oven would be a tad hazardous, I suggest.
> 
> I have tried using a saw to cut it in half, but it's slow, hard work, 
> and if you don't manually tease the fragments apart, they tend to latch 
> on to each other at their friad ends, so you can still reconstruct the 
> correct sequencing. But it takes *ages* to seperate them all by hand...
> 
> I also tried the shredder. But it's like trying to shred clingfilm.
> 
Bah.. Thermite!

-- 
void main () {

     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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