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87GB On DVD-Sized Media
BostonMACOSX points to this report in the Detroit News that says, in part, "Boston College researchers have found a way to store about 19 times more data on a disk than a common DVD can hold, using optical media made with common products, the December issue of Nature Materials reports." And it's a mix of high and low tech: the disk is formed of "an epoxy glue sold at hardware stores and a glass-like substance," but written with a currently expensive laser.
The RIAA and MPAA has banded together with researches from Boston to create a "fail safe" copy protection technique. And in yet other news, Media companies sales have dropped 99% as now people can fit 19 times the copyrighted content on cheap media with faulty copy protection.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.
What next, you play it more times than your supposed to, it melts in your DVD drive as punishment glueing it shut to prevent future acts of piracy?!?
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
Headline reads "Researchers boost computer data storage with common materials". This discovery is, of course, nothing to the great Filo's "How to build plutonium out of common household objects".
I'd suggest you don't use Slashdot as your only news source, or you will suffer permanent brain damage.
Must go buy more popcorn now.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
GeneralEmergency
My brain inserted 'household' between Common and products. I got real excited when I thought something like Lemon Plegde would allow me to store more data on a DVD...
...kinda like taking a hole punch to a SSDD 5 1/4 floppy.
(ya see, when _I_ was your age, floppy disks were actually bigger, and floppy, not 3.5" on a side and 'stiff')
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
Yes but the fundamental difference is that you'd be able to store your DVD on the wall. Simply lick the glue side as you would a postage stamp and leave your dvd on the wall next to your entertainment center. In this way you can show off you serious 'bling-bling' to your geek friends.
...how many Libraries of Congress is this?
By John Stebbins / Bloomberg News
"and the data don't degrade"
Looks like Mr. Stebbins might be a slashdotter himself!
"It's a very tangled subsystem." --Windows kernel guru
Take it from me...pouring epoxy glue on a DVD does not increase the storage capacity.
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
Whoever implements this:
PLEASE BRING BACK THE CADDY!
Breathe the wrong way on this baby and you've wiped out HOW MANY library of congresses worth of text?
Okay, no panic, we're not there yet. But we will be.
CADDY! CADDY!
I'm tired of renting blockbuster dvd's with cigarette burns on them.
Um, yeah. I just got a down-mod shiver, so here's something insightful.
a DVD-size disk able to hold about 87 gigabytes, equal to 87,000 paperback books
EXCUSE ME?? Are you saying a paperback book is 87 megabytes? NOT EVEN IF YOU SCAN EACH PAGE IN BITMAP!!! (Because paperbacks are black and white.)
What's the writer smoking?
You will be happy to know that today,
I wrote into law legislation that will ban the RIAA forever.
The bombing will start in 5 minutes." - Former President Ronal Reagan
speaking on behalf of the US Air Force in response to the RIAA saying no.
How is it that one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
"...equal to 87,000 paperback books."
You also have to wonder what is being left out of the transcription of, say "War and Peace", to make it use the same amount of disk-space as "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing".
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
When did "paperback books" replace "Libraries of Congress"? Is this part of the U.S. metric system changeover?
They should start measuring storage space in hours of porn.
Anonymous Cowards suck.
Charlie: Excuse me, Lieutenant. Is there something wrong?
:)
Maverick: Yes ma'am, the data on the DVD reader is inaccurate.
Charlie: How's that, Lieutenant?
Maverick: Well, I just happened to see a DVD containing...
Goose: We!
Maverick: Uh, sorry Goose. WE happened to see a DVD containing 89 megabytes.
Charlie: Where did you see this?
Maverick: Uh, that's classified.
Charlie: It's what?
Maverick: It's classified. I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.
(All credit to IMDB and none to me - I didn't even try to make it funnier. I'd say I am a lazy karma whoring bastard, but I think i'm capped
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
given enough time, common sense will prevail.
:)
Why did Windows peak at W2K and start to get worse again then?
On another topic, I hate shit like:
"...equal to 87,000 paperback books."
My mother in law knows what a gigabyte is. I think it's safe to stop with the point-of-reference crap.
Actually, the most understood way would be to say "Can hold 174,000 songs that you haven't paid for."
sin(6cos(r)+5A)
I think they mean novels in word doc format. Oh wait, that would be 8.7
Someone you trust is one of us.
Imagine the implications this could have on the porn industry...
:)
Mmm...87 GB of pr0n...
Erm...eh what? Sorry...I was busy imagining.
That's Natalie Pr0tman to you...
graspee
Can I demand money from the RIAA when all I use it for is to burn copies of my home movies? Oh right, I forgot, only big corporations are allowed to fuck the consumer and get away with it.
Of course, you'll be able to fit the MOVIES on one of those, but who wants the movie? You already will have seen it in the theatre!
If you want the extended-super-extra-feature making of the movie 94 disc feature set, which includes the entire life history of every actor, including those guys in the orc suits, as well as how Tolkien came up with the idea, and the complete works of Tolkien and every author he liked as read by Charlton Heston and William Shatner (with special guest appearances by Macho Man Randy Savage for the part of Sauron), there's no way its going to fit.
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
Dr. Evil - "And with this 'Expensive Laser' I propose to encode the world's copywrited material onto tiny plastic disks, thus causing the collapse of the world's media giants." Dr. Evil mischievously places pinkie next to mouth. Number Two - "That too has been done. 87 gigabytes is just overkill. The average person's ISP would send hitmen to assassinate them if they downloaded that much content, and who really needs to see HDTV porn anyway."
...now I'm going to have to buy the White album again.
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The circumfrence of the earth is roughly 40,000 km, so the farthest you can be from a given spot is 20,000 km.
Add to that, that you also need to send the request, you somehow need to think up a transport medium, that can travel at 20,000 km / 0.0025 seconds == 8,000,000 km/second.
We'll get in tuch with you, when we manage to send data at 26 and 2/3rds the speed of light at a distance of 20,000 km.
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
You mean like this?
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
In other news, the RIAA has dispatched a team of snipers throughout Boston College with orders to kill any geeks on site.
I can store an infinite about of data on my hard drive.
Not all at once, mind you...