Interesting. I view this from a completely different perspective: if DNA sequencing really is outpacing Moore's Law, that just means that the results become disposable. You use them for your initial analysis and store whatever summarized results you want from this sequence, then delete the original data.

If you need the raw data again, you can just resequence the sample.

The only problem with this approach, of course, is that samples are consumable; eventually there wouldn't be any more material left to sequence. So this wouldn't be appropriate in every situation.

The incoming data is image-based, so yes, it will be huge. Regarding the sequence data: yes; in its most condensed format it could be stored in 750MB. There are a couple of issues that you're overlooking, however:
1. The reads aren't uniform quality -- and methods of analysis that don't consider the quality score of a read are quickly being viewed as antiquated. So each two bit "call" also has a few more bits representing the confidence in that call.
2. This technology is based on redundant reads. In order to get to an acceptable level of quality, you want at least ~20 (+/- 10) reads at each exonic loci.
So that 750MB you mention for a human genome grows by a factor of 20, then by another factor of 2 or 3, depending on how you store the quality scores.

Your suggestion of deduplicating the experiments could work, but definitely not as well as you think because of all the "noise" that's inherent in the above two steps.

If you really just wanted to unique portions of a sample, you could use a SNP array which just reads the samples at specific locations which are known to differ between individuals. Even with the advances in the technology, the cost of sequencing a genome still isn't negligible. For most labs, it's still cheaper to store the original data for reanalysis later.

I often stumble across some product on Wikipedia that I'm interested in buying (album, book, etc.). I actually would find it very convenient if such pages had a "Purchase this Item" link. I'm sure Amazon would kick in a few million for that privilege, or you could use their pre-existing referral program. I think most users would view those links as added value to Wikipedia.

And in light of this, why are we assuming GPS? I can't get find GPS satellites through the metal in my car roof, let alone through my entire car. Is it more likely they they're just tracking the cellular connections?

This thing looks like "futuristic" technologies from the a 1980s movie: picture.

And the FCC ID is the same as the one in a mobile credit card terminal)...

I guess it's comforting to see that, in this instance, the government isn't decades ahead of the rest of us...

Of course! I'll just fix their laptops! Why hadn't I thought of that?

Passengers in cars (, boats, and trains) may object to that one...

Only on /. would this be rated as "Insightful" instead of "Funny"...

I wonder what it would mean to the RIAA (or any IP-based litigation) to have multiple ISP customers consistently NAT'ted to the same IP.

... Maybe this won't be so bad after all!

I bet you could help those people quite a bit by selling the computer you're using and donating the proceeds.

We might appreciate it, too...

I'm not familiar with the intricacies of the Torrent protocols, but it seems like this group would either need to be in one of two groups:
A.) Connect to a swarm as a "spectator" not uploading or downloading any data.
B.) Connect to the swarm and actively upload/download.

If A., it seems like it would be hard to prove that any IP logged as participating in the swarm is actively engaged in any malicious behavior. If B., aren't they (the group) guilty of the same crimes of which they're accusing these other people?

I guess I just don't see how they could assure the courts of a crime being committed without having to participate in the exact same action in order to prove it.

I guess most people aren't worried about incontinence AND sperm production, but I would not want a wireless transmitter hosted that close to my reproductive factories...

Agreed. I thought the black hole would envelop Earth much more quickly than this.