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Bitmap All the Things

posted by martyb on Sunday June 28 2015, @12:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the all-your-bits-Я-belong-to-us dept.

Tyler Pitchford writes:

In May, Google made international headlines when it announced that it was going to offer free, unlimited storage for photos and videos. If you read Google's press release, you'll see that the free storage plan limits images to 16 megapixels and videos to 1080p resolution. But if digital images are simply collections of binary data and if all other files on your computer also just collections of binary data then isn't unlimited photo storage simply unlimited storage?

If only something existed that made this easy to do; you know, something that could bitmap all the things....

[ Ed's Comment: This link points to the author's own personal software solution, but I'm sure that others will come up with alternative ideas.]

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2015, @01:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2015, @01:16AM (#202285)

    "International headlines" my ass. Nobody heard of the Google PR, and only idiots would rely on a hack on an ephemeral Google service to preserve your data, much less a large amount of it.

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  • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2015, @01:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2015, @01:19AM (#202287)

    Clearly you never used usenet.

    • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2015, @01:21AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2015, @01:21AM (#202288)

      STFU, Tyler.

      • (Score: 1) by tripstah on Sunday June 28 2015, @04:43AM

        by tripstah (4913) on Sunday June 28 2015, @04:43AM (#202340) Homepage

        Hi, actually I'm Tyler; nice to meet you. And you are (something other than a coward perhaps)?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @01:09AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @01:09AM (#202570)

          You are not Tyler Durden.
          GP was refering to the first rule of usenet, same as the first rule of fightclub.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2015, @02:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2015, @02:39AM (#202311)

    You do not remember other past storage hacks

    Audio cassettes. Storing as tunes
    Video cassettes. Storing as pictures
    Encryption. Storing in the background "noise" in a picture

    Just one more in in great hacks.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2015, @02:51AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2015, @02:51AM (#202314)

      Great hack my ass. You are comparing this bullshit to those?