Jinn of Quality and Risk

Western Digital today announced that it is shipping its next-generation 80 GB-per-platter technology, which yields PC hard drives that can store up to 250 GB. 120 BG disks cost about $150, while 250 GB cost $400; that's enough space for 30,000 respectively 60,000 CD-quality songs, or 10-20 days of non-stop music. By 2010, it's likely to be one thousand times more, i.e. one disk will have room for 30-60 years of non-stop music... or 40,000 DVD-quality movies. Copyright as we know it is dead. Opportunities abound.

Update: Brad DeLong and others comment. 

Conversational Terrorism: First, we have the Ad Hominem Variants where you attack the person as a way to avoid truth, science or logic which might otherwise prove you wrong. Next are the Sleight of Mind Fallacies, which act as "mental magic" to make sure the unwanted subject disappears. Then we move on to Delay Tactics, which are subtle means to buy time when put on the spot. Then the ever popular Question as Opportunity ploys, where any question can be deftly averted. Finally, we have the General Irritants, which are basically "below the belt" punches and cheap-shots. ... [via Boing Boing]