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…)
Convert data to binary. Use Amazon Mechanical Turk API to create tasks for people to remember the index of each bit (the value of the task would be $0.01 for binary 0 and $0.02 for binary 1). And, for reading memory, a new task to input the index they remembered and the value they were paid.
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#83There 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…)
Convert data to binary. Use Amazon Mechanical Turk API to create tasks for people to remember the index of each bit (the value of the task would be $0.01 for binary 0 and $0.02 for binary 1). And, for reading memory, a new task to input the index they remembered and the value they were paid.
You'd have to factor in a ton of redundancy to account for the human bits who just got bored and wandered off.
Anyway, people would probably just start saving the bits on this computers after first job or two. Which would be an amusing result for being just a convoluted interface to a remote hard drive, but it's conceptually less interesting then actually using distributed human memory as a digital storage medium...
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#84If this idea appeals to you, you may also be interested in the 2009 paper Graffiti Networks: A Subversive, Internet-Scale File Sharing Model [0] by Andrew Pavlo. tl;dr: the researchers discovered that MediaWiki instances were good soft targets. [0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/static/slides/graffiti-dc401-o...
The mini-saga embedded in the presentation was pretty funny
> Concluding Remarks > Off probation at the end of this semester!
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#85There 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…)
Connect ethernet cables in a loop, keep sending data back and forth "around" the loop. Data is stored in cables. I think this was from an old BOFH.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:786NsZY... and https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
OT: Let archive.org save your pages, people!
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder if there are any libraries that can do this? I was thinking of writing a password generator web-app that creates full diceware sentences (TheBlubberyPythonFloatedDownThePurpleFunicular == lots of entropy and easy to remember), but I'd need a decent language model for that. (And I don't feel motivated enough to write my own.)
Why not "Article Adjective Adjective Noun Adverb Verb Article Adjective Adjective Noun"? If you're making full sentences anyway, the grammar of the sentence doesn't need to change much. The vast majority of the entropy is already in the words themselves. Example sentence (generated by me, not a RNG): "the tiny hairy fish quickly paints a big scary monster". EDIT: With 10 words, each from the 252 most common words...…
To make it less obvious, have a few other kinds of sentence. But make those kinds clearly differentiated by length.
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#87how do you get a Mac OS X GUI around this if it is written in python? Can you do the same with perl, php, and other languages? Interface Builder has always been a stumbling block for me to even begin to learn Obj-C or Swift.
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#88There 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…)
Connect ethernet cables in a loop, keep sending data back and forth "around" the loop. Data is stored in cables. I think this was from an old BOFH.
Apollo 11 used Rope Memory on its voyage to the moon. [1] [2]
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This sounds like a /u/jedberg type of thing to do.
I'd only do it to people I know after backing up the original. I wouldn't want someone to actually lose their files.
One could argue that that's their fault for giving /u/rram "root" access to their "database."
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#90There 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…)
Connect ethernet cables in a loop, keep sending data back and forth "around" the loop. Data is stored in cables. I think this was from an old BOFH.
Mercury delay lines always fascinated me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory#Mercury_delay...