23 Feb
2007
23 Feb
'07
3:16 p.m.
At 02:04 PM 2/23/2007, William Donzelli wrote:
So clearly the proper way to preserve our antique data is to use
steganography to embed it inside of pictures that people will
want to keep for generations, collected and redistributed in a
redundant fashion all around the world.
Why, the Internet is halfway there already.
I'll stop now.
- John
Good answer :)
Certainly not permanent. Could we (as a species) theoretically
make something that will last for a fairly significant (from a human POV)
length of time, such as a few hundred years?
Art. 
23 Feb
23 Feb
3:21 p.m.
On 2/23/07, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
At 02:04 PM 2/23/2007, William Donzelli wrote:
So clearly the proper way to preserve our antique data is to use
steganography to embed it inside of pictures that people will
want to keep for generations, collected and redistributed in a
redundant fashion all around the world.
Why, the Internet is halfway there already.
I'll stop now.
- John
Pictures do fade after a while you know so those aren't perfect means of
storage either (rats!) ;-) :-p
>Good answer :) Certainly not permanent. Could
we (as a species)
theoretically
>make something that will last for a fairly
significant (from a human
POV)
length of
time, such as a few hundred years?
Art.
3:22 p.m.
On 2/23/07, Hex Star <hexstar at gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/23/07, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
perhaps the best means of storage after all these years in regards to
longativity was those punch cards? :P wonder what a 1GB punchcard would look
like...
At 02:04 PM 2/23/2007, William Donzelli wrote:
So clearly the proper way to preserve our antique data is to use
steganography to embed it inside of pictures that people will
want to keep for generations, collected and redistributed in a
redundant fashion all around the world.
Why, the Internet is halfway there already.
I'll stop now.
- John
Pictures do fade after a while you know so those aren't perfect means of
storage either (rats!) ;-) :-p
>Good answer :) Certainly not permanent. Could
we (as a species)
theoretically
>make something that will last for a fairly
significant (from a human
POV)
length of
time, such as a few hundred years?
Art. 
6:51 p.m.
> > So clearly the proper way to preserve our
antique data is to use
> > steganography to embed it inside of pictures that people will
> > want to keep for generations, collected and redistributed in a
> > redundant fashion all around the world.
> > Why, the Internet is halfway there already.
NOT pictures that people "will WANT to keep", just stuff that won't go
away. Snopes.com may ultimately be the primary depository of the world's
knowledge.
> storage either (rats!) ;-) :-p
howzbout:
steganography in the DNA of rats?
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Hex Star wrote:
perhaps the best means of storage after all these
years in regards to
longativity was those punch cards? :P wonder what a 1GB punchcard would look
like...
It looks like a room full of file cabinets. (about 10,000 boxes)
(about 35 years ago, National Space Sciences Data Center at Goddard SFC)
23 Feb
23 Feb
4:30 p.m.
In article <6.2.3.4.2.20070223141423.07dcc340 at mail>,
John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> writes:
So clearly the proper way to preserve our antique data
is to use
steganography to embed it inside of pictures that people will
want to keep for generations, collected and redistributed in a
redundant fashion all around the world.
I wondered what that weird oscillating pattern was in the shaved head
of Britney Spears.
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24 Feb
24 Feb
3:56 p.m.
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:30 -0700, Richard wrote:
I wondered what that weird oscillating pattern was in
the shaved head
of Britney Spears.
That's Coriolis Cranialis. <Grin>
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