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The Green Movement Hits Your Hard Drive? Now You Can ‘Recycle’ Computer Files
- Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:24am by
Mike Opelka
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Before you just delete those old files cluttering up your hard drive, consider recycling them via the “Dumpster Drive.”
This video shows you just how easy it is to re-purpose computer files you were no longer using:
Dumpster Drive: File Sharing For Your Digital Trash from Justin Blinder on Vimeo.
UNLIKE the government-mandated “Green Revolution” that is currently being forced down your throat, this is a voluntary program. But wait, there’s more. Another benefit of the Dumpster Drive? You can look inside the dumpster, and if you find something you want, it’s free!
H/T to GOOD.is
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Comments (83)
Cryptoportico
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 12:45pmIn the immortal words of Johnny Cochran: “If it can be read, you must shred.”
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TakeDat
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 12:35pmHmmm, sounds like another version of P2P file sharing to me….although placing something in here by accident, such as a doc with your SSn and address can’t be all bad, …can it? :)
Report Post »Socialism_Is_The_New_Black
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 1:09pmYou hit the nail on the head. Geeks think that will outsmart the law? DMCA violation anyone?
Report Post »RagingTiger
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 12:34pmThe bickest crock is that this not only *DOES NOT* save any energy or resources, it actually CONSUMES MORE energy!
The only thing an existing “trash” file is, is electron-manipulated media (magnets or similar.) When you “delete” something, it is simply marked for no further recognition or useage.
In order to “recycle” in this scheme, *MORE* electrons must be used to transfer that file over the internet (likely across many servers along the way,) to the holding server where it is again recorded to a media… then when the next person ‘downloads’ it the whole process reproduces itself all over again.
MOST IMPORTANTLY… what non-secure data would anyone want to use off of anyone else’s files???
This is as silly as the old “internet mall” idea from a decade ago…
Report Post »Baron_Doom
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 12:30pmWhat an awesomely stupid idea! When you delete a file, it‘s usually because you don’t want it AND don’t want anyone else to have it. If I want to share a file with someone, I’ll upload it for them.
Report Post »Drum Man
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 12:22pmThis has *RISK* written all over it. No thanks…
Report Post »BubbaCoop
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 12:15pmSounds like a Google joke
Report Post »love the kids
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 12:14pmThis is just a file sharing set up to follow govt. rules. They have the right to dig through your trash once you throw it out. This is set up to follow those rules. It can have it’s share of problems.
Report Post »jeff.cooper
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 12:13pmDumb. Dumb. Dumb.
Report Post »Vickie Dhaene
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 12:04pmWho in their right mind would do this?!
Report Post »1stAdmendment
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 12:02pmCongress is working on a bill right now, let’s stop giving our politicians ideas!
Report Post »salvawhoray
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:57amwhat a dumb idea for the computer age.
Report Post »DirtMonkey
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:57amI can see this being used for Peer to Peer file sharing as well as a way to distribute infected files. I think I will voluntarily choose to NOT participate in this bad idea just waiting to be exploited. It will probably suck in lots of gullible people, you know, the ones who send money in response to that email from Nigeria.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:51amWhoops. Accidentally through the turbo tax files into the dumpster diving app. Oh well.
Report Post »HOWTHESAUSAGEGETSMADE
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:45amWTF, this is a joke, right?
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 12:01pmI don’t know if it is a Joke but it will be for those that take advantage of this idea. What is not being said is that the way that the original files were deleted in M$ OS systems. They actually were not deleted and there are programs that can reclaim them that were part of the OS, anyone remember “UN-Delete”?, it proved that your files were never really deleted just renamed until that spot was rewritten with a newer file. M$ just replaced the first character with the tilde (~) to get the OS to overlook those files and then report the file deleted and that chunk of the HDD platter as usable for a new file…
Report Post »OhioRifleman
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 4:27pmNot a joke, amigo. There is someone this stupid in Existence, and may the Gods have mercy on them, because Darwin will not.
As to the file recovery of deleted files, I can do that, I have done that as part of my job function and as a side business. Nothing scary there. I can even point you in the direction of a really good and robust undelete package for the latest systems.
Report Post »Steel Awesome
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:43amThis is great news. I’ve been discarding old files around my yard for years. Now I can let those files slowly decay back into the earth and not worry about building up too thick of a layer which been hindering my lawn from flourishing. I’ll also be able to reduce my use of fertilizers as well. This is a win-win for me at least.
Report Post »mom4times
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:53amLmao
Report Post »TexasTBone
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:41ami dont know about you all, but i dont want other people in my computer files. i dont have anything to hide, but thats not the point. and not to mention identity theft!
Report Post »mom4times
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:45amI’d say chaulk this one up as the “World’s Dumbest Idea”
Report Post »adouglass1
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:40amDont do this you will be open up to all kinds of bad acts!! Your personal info from your files will be available to these losers.
Report Post »Mr. Nice Guy
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:37am“You can look inside the dumpster, and if you find something you want, it’s free!” Talk about a gift that keeps on giving! Anyone who uses this and gets an infected computer deserves it.
Report Post »thecrow
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:49amLook what I found:
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/the-ghost-in-the-machines-the-mystery-of-the-wtc-hard-drive-recoveries/
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:53amI already have one of these. That would be my email spam box.
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 12:47pmSounds like herpes.
Report Post »conservativemom99
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:35amthis is trouble waiting to happen…
Report Post »harumph
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:33amSucker born every minute.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:33amUm….hell no.
I’m not using that trashcan.
It isn’t like my recycle bin on my hdd.
That recycle can is alive.
I hate to see what monstrosities will appear from the conglomerated mass of files merging into some superhackprogram that becomes sentient and takes over all electronics.
No ty.
Report Post »mom4times
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:41amIt could probably eat your hard drive !!! =/
Report Post »Mannax
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 12:17pmSkynet… Terminators…. end of the world…. time travel… Sarah Connor…
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:30amNothing good can come from this….
Report Post »foobear
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 2:07amIt’s terribly evil for people to put out stuff for free, instead of throwing it away like a good red-blooded American, right?
At most trash places in communities, people will set things beside the dumpsters, which means “If you want it, take it.” It gets thrown away if not picked up on trash day. I picked up a 1900 edition of the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin this way.
This is just the high tech equivalent of it.
For my fellow hackers, there’s actually a much more sanitary way of doing this, and you can get paid for it too: gazelle.com will buy old electronic stuff (just got $60 for my old cell phone) which they turn around and resell for a profit.
Report Post »Kasey
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:34amFoobear, are you really that stupid? You don’t understand how this is different? I’m pretty deep into tech, and even I wouldn’t want to try this out on a throw-away computer to see if I could make it work without giving up any information. Dolt.
There are plenty of ways to ”share” data whos conception didn’t spawn from a concusion.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:29amI hear Bin Laden used this to dump his old porn.
Report Post »BiteMePETA
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:29amMight be good way to get a virus… just sayin.
Report Post »mom4times
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:29amOMG…..I Don’t think so :O
Report Post »bjc535
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:45amawesome concept….too bad it will just turn into a hacker haven…
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:49amI don‘t delete my digital trash just so I can pick up someone else’s.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 12:10pmLike I want someone else’s trash-NOT!
Report Post »Mannax
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 12:22pmYou don’t want to know the files, pictures, virus types, and other things you will find there. It would make a San Fransisco bath house look like a Convent.
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 12:45pmCan I find some not-so-used porn? How about some really vicious viruses or trojan horse programs? Would anybody be bummed if I did it?
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 12:52pmIsnt this one of the ways Skynet took over and wiped us all out? :)
Report Post »Texas Grasshopper
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 1:08pmIf you work for the Goverment now there no need to get pesky search warrents or actually wait for crime ..we can make one up using your old computers …or if you are a criminal ….wow Christmas came early to you ..no need to actually work rip people off ..heck now they to you *LMAO* ….are people really this clueless ? Wow ….
Report Post »anOpinion
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 2:51pmI hear you get a free DVD rewinder with it.
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 3:53pmGreat! I was wondering what to do with my old banking files, secret love letters as well as those “special” files. I was going to just delete them but what the heck, maybe someone else could use them. This about the dumbest thing I’ve heard in a while.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 3:55pmFknStoopid!!!
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 4:02pmand morons will use this lol
serves them right
Report Post »thinkinghuman
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 5:05pmThis is nothing more than an APP to let pedophiles share their naughty files.
Report Post »SonOfaCommunist
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 5:47amStupid is, is Stupid does! Unless you’re a criminal mind and this is your new sand box to play in!
Hey I have a “Recycle Folder for Social Security Numbers” and that’s how a criminal mind works…just a small example!
Report Post »SeanW
Posted on May 28, 2011 at 3:13amzoooooooom
is the sound it makes as it flies over people’s heads roflmao. Y’all are too funny sometimes.
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