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Pioneer Ultraviolet Laser Promises 500GB Discs

Posted by samzenpus on from the i-love-lasers dept.

No Fortune writes "Here's an article indicating that Pioneer is developing an ultraviolet laser for data storage. Since the wavelength of ultraviolet lasers is shorter than the wavelength of blue lasers, the beams are finer and they can pack more data into per square inch. This gives a data rate 20 times more than the blue laser Blue-ray disk."

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  1. Sharks... by TheDarkener · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But will the FREGGIN' SHARKS with FREGGIN' LASER BEAMS coming out of their FREGGIN' HEADS have 500GB FREGGIN' capacity?

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  2. Re:Octarine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or octaroon, which is 1/8th black.

  3. ummm... i think i'm missing something by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    everyone seems to have gotten on the bandwagon that this is due to pictures taken at a rally in Geneva. I have a few minor issues with this line of thought.

    1. The government is a little smarter than this. If they were interested in going after the pictures, they would have also gotten the disks from the 3-4 mirror sites that were posting at the time. I'm putting my faith in the government workers doing a good job. I may have issues with the administration - but that doesn't mean the grunts are doing a bad job.

    2. wtf does Italy care about a rally going on in Geneva? I can see the Swiss and US ties - but no one has mentioned why Italy cares about these pictures at all. I'm not very politically versed, so maybe Italy just likes sticking it's nose in other people's business?

    3. If rackspace was issued a gag order, they most likely know why and can't tell anyone. That's kinda the point of a gag order - not to say anything. And yes, some gag orders do specify that you cannot stipulate why you were issued the gag order.

    I got a few more, but those seem to be the bigger items - and I expect that this will be mod'd to trolling. eh.

  4. Tattoo? by Dolly_Llama · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How about temporary tattoos via a UV laser attached to a tattoo gun?

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  5. Re:Octarine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Black"?
    Bigot! The PC expression is "colour of colour". Or possibly "coloured colour".

    (Maybe I should spell colour the American way, as it's only some Newspeaking Americans who have a problem with calling negroes negroes.)

  6. Re:Your sig by rco3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    [blushes] Thanks.

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