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ZeoSync Makes Claim of Compression Breakthrough
dsb42 writes: "Reuters is reporting that ZeoSync has announced a breakthrough in data compression that allows for 100:1 lossless compression of random data. If this is true, our bandwidth problems just got a lot smaller (or our streaming video just became a lot clearer)..." This story has been submitted many times due to the astounding claims - Zeosync explicitly claims that they've superseded Claude Shannon's work. The "technical description" from their website is less than impressive. I think the odds of this being true are slim to none, but here you go, math majors and EE's - something to liven up your drab dull existence today. Update: 01/08 13:18 GMT by M : I should include a link to their press release.
"how long would it take"
Who cares? If you can download a whole CD`s worth of music as a 7 meg file, who cares if it takes 1,2,5,10,20,100 mins to unpack it?
Totally unrelated, and I imply no correlation and similarity in facts, however I came across this old story which is always an interesting read: http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,16368,00 .html?body_page=11. Again it's totally unrelated to the ventures of these data compression people, but just is an interesting read for Slashdot folks.