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Using Bacterial DNA For Data Storage
NPV writes "January ACM Communications has an article on the use of DNA in genetically modified bacteria to store information. This is an attempt to achieve the ultimate in archival storage (one of the modified bacteria can tolerate 1000X more radiation than a human being). Now just suppose that the "junk DNA" in the human genome is the documentation package for the machine code. Who wrote that manual?" Here's the article abstract.
Who wrote that manual?
I think the important question is... who has IP rights over it?
The Raelians, duh! That's how come Clonaid is so far ahead of other human cloning efforts... they read the documentation.
Java: the COBOL of the new millenium.
So when one of these engineered bacteria wipes out the human species, and some alien species comes along and ganders a look, the bacteria will be carrying a precise record of how we humans fscked ourselves.
--- Grow a pair, liberals... stop letting the Republicans bully you!
so much for P2P networks, if anyone wants the new Apache release, I just sneezed.......
Scientist have discovered that humans and all life on earth was just a discarded bacterial disk drive from a geek with pimples living in his mother's basement 5 million light years from the solar system.
...if only the machines had used the humans for data storage!
Morpheus coulda pointed to a SAN/NAS box!
Instead they make a duracell commercial and mumble about the "human body generating more bio-electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat."
Ok I'll quit ze bitching... it was spiffy anyway.
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"All right. Which one of you bastards put the penicillin in my hard drive?"