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Google's Academic TB Swap Project
eldavojohn writes "Google is transferring data the old fashioned way — by mailing hard drive arrays around to collect information and then sending copies to other institutions. All in the name of science & education. From the article, 'The program is currently informal and not open to the general public. Google either approaches bodies that it knows has large data sets or is contacted by scientists themselves. One of the largest data sets copied and distributed was data from the Hubble telescope — 120 terabytes of data. One terabyte is equivalent to 1,000 gigabytes. Mr. DiBona said he hoped that Google could one day make the data available to the public.'"
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The Political Programmer
Just because some morons decided to randomly invent new names and try to get people to change established usage doesn't give them any authority... Whenever I see someone pushing the *bibyte crap the only thing it achieves is to annoy me.