Riff, I haven't had the need to demagnetize or destaticize any of my 1s or 0s, so those products haven't been attractive to me. As to other scams, probably my favorite light reading is
this collection from an outfit that has quite a few entrants in the category. A British take on some of these wonders is found
here .
Why does such silliness exist? Possibly something that I read Dr. Kite say in a presentation applies, when he indicated that a desire to tweak in an increasingly untweakable world might be the answer.
