There should be a contest: Who can find the most implausible data storage medium? (Rated according to various criteria such as ingenuity, reliability, max. data read/write rates, latency, storage size, costs…)
Here's my entry.
RedditStorage
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#12I like the proof of concept, but I hate that anyone would abuse Reddit this way.
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#13Please don't do this . . .
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#14Shame an encryption key is REQUIRED, could be a useful way to transfer files between Reddit users. Of course the file has to be encoded, but the encryption should be an optional extra.
You could always share the password, or even redistribute a modified version of the program with a hardcoded password.
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#15does reddit not have some sort of posting throughput limit?
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#16There should be a contest: Who can find the most implausible data storage medium? (Rated according to various criteria such as ingenuity, reliability, max. data read/write rates, latency, storage size, costs…)
My personal favourite:
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#17There should be a contest: Who can find the most implausible data storage medium? (Rated according to various criteria such as ingenuity, reliability, max. data read/write rates, latency, storage size, costs…)
A stenographed image embedded in a Word document, printed and faxed to a document archive that scans and digitizes it, embeds the scan in a PDF, and emails it back to you.
Can you make that fully automated from the end user's perspective?
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#18This is pretty much exactly how binary newsgroups got started. Not to be all "I thought of it first" but I had thought it would be funny to do something similar on Twitter.
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#19There should be a contest: Who can find the most implausible data storage medium? (Rated according to various criteria such as ingenuity, reliability, max. data read/write rates, latency, storage size, costs…)
The Bitcoin blockchain works fine, but is fairly implausible for interesting amounts of data.
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#20I've been preaching the similarities of reddit to newsgroups and IRC forever so this seems like a natural evolution to me. Probably fairly easy for reddit to shut down though unfortunately.
Now if ISP's would start offering their own cached usable versions of reddit we would be getting somewhere :)