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On: Table Salt Could Help Boost HDD Storage Density By a Factor of 5

Expected the TFA to have any detail about read/write speeds - something that one would expect about a HDD (not a lame suitcase analogy). Higher densities on platters often resulted in slower IO speeds as the heads proved not to be that precise in deciding whether a bit was set or not and so ends up in verifying the data using some ECC type mechanisms. May be the real motivation is to say that disk is the new tape.

so this really happened..

On: Rat Attack Causes Broadband Outage In Scotland

http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/state_web_winter/tumblr2.jpg is no longer a joke then..