Something from Iain M. Banks The Culture. The best books, like Excession would probably be hard to adapt due to the protagonists being mostly ships, but others like Consider Phlebas or The Player of Games could probably make great films or miniseries (and Use of Weapons would probably be great as the later).
Probably excessively expensive in the CGI department if done well, but one can dream.
If he really wanted it to remain unfinished he could have pulled a Pratchett and have his hard drive steamrolled.
(Though, to be fair if you really want your data gone you should probably use thermite.)
English ain't my first language, but I've often seen “cleaning” being used without a direct object, either because it's implied (“put away after cleaning”) or because the action is meant to be generic and not limited to a specific object (“I'm going to do some cleaning”)... in this case it could be both (specific: the cat itself, or specific parts thereof, generic: the cat itself, the other cat, the coach, anything within reach; cats can often get carried away, when cleaning).
Wait, wasn't red their colour..?
Indeed. Thermite is usually the recommended method to erase hard drives you don't want to be recoverable.
Yeah, but million to one chances succeed nine times out of ten!
Right in the voonerables!
Very disco, though, the way it happened.
The story goes that, after watching the film, Reagan asked the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff ”Could something like this really happen? Could someone break into our most sensitive computers?”, and, after looking into it for a week, the general came back with the reply “Mr. president, the problem is much worse than you think.”, which prompted Reagan into setting off a series of interagency memos and studies that led to the signing of classified national security decision directive NSDD-145, “National Policy on Telecommunications and Automated Information Systems Security.”.
So... yeah, things probably actually were that bad, or even worse (except for the AI bit, of course).
Huh. English is my third language and, sure, the accent is quite thick, but I have no problem understanding him.
Brad Pitt in Snatch, now... he is completely unintelligible to me.
That isn't always as effective as you'd think, especially with SSDs...
Yeah, that'd probably do it (though I'm not sure what it'd do to your microwave.
Thermite is guaranteed to destroy your data (and probably the floor, or the floor and the table if you're dumb enough to do it on a table, and anything too close to your data... but that's besides the point, the data will be unrecoverable, that's the point).