Thursday, June 25, 2009



Scam of Indian student developing technology to store 450 GB of data on a sheet of paper

Update:
Mr. Sainul speaks up story here
Today I saw for the second time story coming up in Digg about this Indian student who developed and demonstrated a technology to store 450 GB of data on a sheet of paper. This story was first reported by Arab News and later other media outlets started quoting them.
This shows how technically illiterate the news reporters are.. The idea of storing something in paper is good, but trusting someone blindly when they say they are showing a movie from a piece of paper is absolutely naive.
For people who still believes such stories, please try to find answers for these fundamental questions.

... clearly exagerated claims ...
... but it stands one fact undisputable ...
... we have paper thousands of years old ...
... AND on paper the media is separated from the technology ...
... AND the data can be decoded with simple non-distructive algorythms ...
... at worse with simple trial and error ...
... and no need of "customized" "unobtainable" equipment ...
... two principles not very used in IT ...
... but fundamental for people who measure years in the thousands range ...
... he has a point, the "concept" is excellent ...


# posted by intcoex : 5:35 PM




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