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The Limits To Perpendicular Recording

peterkern writes "Samsung has a new hard drive and says it can now store 667 GB on one disk, which comes out to be about 739 Gb/sq. in. That is more than five times the density when perpendicular recording was introduced back in 2006, and it is getting close to the generally expected soft limit of 1 Tb/sq. in. It's great that we can now store 2 TB on one hard drive and that 3-TB hard drives are already feasible. But how far can it go? It appears that the hard drive industry may start talking about heat-assisted magnetic recording again, soon."

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  1. Kikocracy is Kakocracy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    He was described as “undoubtedly the notional head of British Jewry” by the Jerusalem Post. He was arrested by the British police on Wednesday. He is Michael Abraham Levy, aka “Lord Cashpoint”, one of the sleaziest of the many sleazy Jews swarming around the open sewer that is modern British politics. Levy has been selling honours in the long tradition of the Jewish spiv: a fast-talking conman who makes his money from trash. It’s been possible to see the present scandal coming for over a decade:
    Levy's importance to Blair can hardly be overstressed. The two first met at a dinner party in 1994, given by senior Israeli diplomat Gideon Meir, and Levy soon became the politician’s tennis partner. After financially backing Blair’s leadership bid from his own pocket, the following year he was entrusted with setting up the so-called Labour Leader's Office Fund blind trust to finance the Leader of the Opposition’s private office. Although not a trustee, Levy had the job of bagman. No press release was issued proclaiming the fund’s establishment. Its existence only became public knowledge with an article in the Sunday Times in November 1996. The Blair camp was quick to defend its integrity. One unnamed spokesperson argued: “It is not a secret fund, it is a blind trust, which means that no one in the office knows who the donors are. Certainly not Tony.”
    Certainly not Tony? Given that details of four prominent businessmen backers were published in the newspaper, that argument hardly passed muster. Among those named were the late Sir Emmanuel Kaye and Sir Trevor Chinn. The other two persons named by the Sunday Times as Labour Leader’s Office Fund donors – printing millionaire Bob Gavron and Granada Television’s Alex Bernstein – both subsequently secured peerages. That all four of the backers, as well as Levy himself, were Jewish was a point picked up on by commentators as diverse as the Jerusalem Post and the British National Party.

    There are further Jewish connections. The trust’s books were handled by London accountants Blick Rothenberg, which also looks after many major Israeli companies operating in Britain. The Conservatives allege that Maurice Hatter, chairman of IMO Precision Controls, also gave to the trust. Hatter is known for certain to have given £1m [$1.8m] to government education initiatives, £10,000 to Labour election funds and £25,000 towards Frank Dobson’s abortive London mayor campaign.

    Late publisher Paul Hamlyn was already a substantial Labour donor and is also likely to have given to Blair’s blind trust. He was friend of both Gavron and Levy, who later extracted from Hamlyn a £2m donation to the party proper in 2000. But in this case there is no need to resort to anti-Semitic conspiracy theory to explain all this. (“Taking It On Trust”, Labour Party PLC: New Labour as a Party of Business, David Osler, 2002)

    That’s right: there’s no need to resort to a conspiracy theory. These Jews were just doing what comes naturally: paying traitorous White politicians to run the country for Jewish ends. Bliar, like Margaret Thatcher and Harold Wilson before him, knew that Jews weren’t helping him out of the kindness of their goy-loving hearts. They expected something in return and they got it. Massively increased immigration and the war in Iraq are two of Bliar’s payments on his permanent debt, but I don’t think he’s going to receive the protection of the Jews-media for much longer. Jews may be planning to use him as the fall-guy as JuLabour begins to crumble. On the very day “Lord” Levy was arrested, the Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland rushed to his keyboard to turn out a heart-felt “Cherchez le goy!”:
    This is lazy scapegoating
    Levy can surely look after himself, but his critics should bear two things in mind. First, Levy has been a convenient personification of what is, in fact, a wider p