In homage to Jurassic Park, researchers store DNA in amber-like polymer Boffins at MIT have come up with an amber-like polymer that can be used to preserve DNA, which could allow it to be used for long term storage of information, such as genomes or digital data. The researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they were inspired by the movie Jurassic Park, in which DNA is …
See title. I followed the link. OMFG!!!! The incredible number of opt-in toggles already on to turn off for so-called "legitimate interest" cookies is far, far longer than I was prepared to wade through just to find out WTF "gumstick card-sized" means.
It seemed ok at first, scrolling down a relatively(!) short list, turning everything off, and then I click the "vendor preferences" sort of "hidden" at the end of the list and that increased the virtual length of the scroll bar at least 10 fold. I guess I'll never, ever be visiting ElRegs "sister site" BlocksAndFiles.
And El Reg want us to not block stuff. Sorry El Reg. If you offer some sort of payment system, I'll consider it, but I'm NOT allowing 1000's of "vendor" cookies/analytics etc.
(I'm on a company laptop at the moment, so don't have my own defences installed, so I'm getting to see the Internet in all it's "glory")
EDIT. Not being an Edge user normally (only browser allowed on this device) I just discovered uBlock Origin and NoScript in the Edge add-ons and installed it. Phew!! (I'm suprised MS allow them :-)
That doesn't sound like a good medium for a backup. As we all know it's not a backup unless you've tested a restore, tested being the operative word. After a test you need to retain the ability to do a real restore.
As reading this involves destroying it that falls short of being a test. Even if you make multiple replicates you still don't know for certain whether the replicates you didn't "test" are good.
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