I was thinking about automated self-destruct sequences, how they are used in TV and film, and the human psychology behind them. The self-destruct is usually invoked by <I>our hero/ine</I> in the 11th ...

http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/08/10/blu/index.html<BR><BR>Self-destruct isn't correct of course. The player's firmware will actually be rewritten/scrambled if it ...

I don’t know how we missed the dramatic conclusion of Battle Beyond The Stars in our roundup of starship suicides. After all, how many other self-destruct sequences feature a Majel Barrett Roddenberry ...

Company CEO Elon Musk said the 394-foot-tall rocket took 40 seconds to respond to the self-destruct command—an interminable amount of time for a safety feature. Reading time 3 minutes During its ...

Here are just some of the cool things I learned while researching today’s Computerworld story on the solid-state disk security and data integrity: 1. Think Mission:Impossible. “This SSD will ...