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Storing Data For the Next 1,000 Years
An anonymous reader writes "This may be an interesting take on creating long-term storage technologies. A team of researchers at UCSC claims to have come up with a power-efficient, scalable way to reliably store data for a theoretical 1,400 years with regular hard drives. TG Daily has an article describing this technology and it sounds intriguing as it uses self-contained but networked storage units. It looks like a complicated solution, but the approach is manageable and may be an effective solution to preserve your data for decades and possibly centuries." Nice to see research on this using the kinds of real-world figures for disk lifetimes that recent studies have been turning up.
Almost as good as clay tablets or pyramids but easier to manage and with a higher data density. Cool!
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What if they did have petabyte-level holograms and optical storage 12,000 years ago but the whole lot got eaten by a fungus because of the organic die or something? And all that survived were those fingerpaints up in a French cave originally made by a Down syndrome kid...
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
Did anyone else notice that the lead researcher's name is Mark Storer? How perfect is that?
One thing remains constant in thousands of years of recovered cave paintings, manuscripts, papyrus drawings, and more. And that constant... is pornography. It lasts, it's popular, and it's always in demand.
Clearly, the answer for long term data storage is to use steganographic techniques to encode your data into various types of creative skinpics. Pick famous folks, pretty folks, strange fetishes... the whole gamut. Pick things that people will keep. A hundred years later, all someone needs is the key phrases to search for.
"We need that Higgs Boson experiment data from 2012, how will we get it? The infocalypse has destroyed all of our cataloged data!"
"No problem, my great grandfather left a note in his journal telling his descendants to search for 'Britney spears enema' and use 'wet riffs' to decode the LHC data in whatever we use for files."
"President Spears? That's crazy!"
Voila!
Find a chisel.
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
I did. Hence why I will not put my brain inside a Tachihoma tank :)
:)
That being said, i'm also not a fan of jacking myself up on drugs so I can "hack" wandering vehicles. I'm thinking any weapon I may wield in such a world would have to be capable of A, using some sort of warp singularity to disrupt all technological defenses of the target, and B, use that same singularity to power down the defender.
Why killem when you can simply turn them off? If that hot animated chick can kill people by fucking with their computerized brains, I can also generate singularity charges with my ham radio set and obliterate enemy cyborgs
Dear God, I really am overdoing the sarcasm lately, aren't I?
" What luck for rulers that men do not think" - Adolf Hitler
Only problem I can see with it is generation loss. Copy something over and you're missing a couple of bits. Okay, not too much harm done. Copy it again and you're missing even more. Okay.. a bit of a hit we can keep going. By the time you've copied it twenty times, it sounds like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI
What day is it? Could you please tell me?
As opposed to what? Single-drive RAID?
Then, if a super-termite or some sort of paper eating worm ravaged the world and ate all the paper in the world, then we'd be in the same situation.
I got some new Goat-Skin-RWs, and they work great. The smell a bit when burning, but the resolution is awesome.
I am having trouble playing them in my PS3 though.
Can't believe that this long into the thread, and nobody has mentioned OOXML. Obviously your data needs to be in an open and documented format, so that it has the best chance of being read and the metadata properly interpreted later. Since it's an ISO standard, OOXML must be the obvious choice to meet requirements.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
Do you think Microsoft Office 3008 will be backward compatible with Office 2K3?
My wife doesn't listen to me either...