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Information Valuation - The Most Buck for the Bits?

Posted by Cliff on from the inflation-ain't-got-nothing-on-this dept.

Rational asks: "I've heard of Everquest accounts sold for upwards of a thousand dollars... Considering that what is actually for sale is just an username and password, which generally comes up to less than 20 bytes in total, this amounts to over $50 per byte. What are the most expensive pieces of information that you have heard of, in dollars per byte? Perhaps satellite pictures? The Human genome?"

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  1. $300,000,000,000 for almost nothing by rant-mode-on · · Score: 1, Troll

    USA: $300,000,000,000/year on 'intelligence' and still they didn't see 11/9 coming.

  2. Re:The most value has got to be in passwords... by 56ker · · Score: 1, Troll

    " lets you change your grades, retroactively, to all 'A's" - some of us don't have to do this as they're all As already (and A*s in some cases - as if A wasn't good enough anymore or something)!

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  3. The really funny thing about this post... by Wakko+Warner · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...is that if you'd included a goatse.cx link, your post would be at -1, Troll instead of +4, Funny.

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