A virus needs DNA (or RNA) and a protective shell that helps protect and deliver it's payload. Here there's no shell.

Also, any commercial hardware and all research hardware i know of would encrypt the data before writing to prevent this from happening intentionally. No implemented encryption scheme is perfect but it would be far easier to just order your "virus" DNA with a credit card then it would be to hack a DNA hard drive that only makes DNA a 100-200 bases long.

Actually I think that millions of times faster statement in the summary came from a misquote or misunderstanding. For archival storage(write once read VERY seldom). It should have been millions (or trillions really) more bytes. 20 hours to write an archive and 1 hour to read it isn't bad. I believe amazon glacier has a similar read latency.

This is an excellent question! In principle any (hetero)polymer would work.

For context, in the short term we're targeting archival storage and not high speed storage (it'll probably never be low latency in the same way an SRAM is). The amazing thing about DNA is that it's not only long lived under reasonable storage conditions but also eternally relevant. Try reading a 30 year old 8" floppy today. The data may still be okay but you'll have trouble finding the hardware. Since DNA is so important to humans in other contexts (medicine), we can be fairly certain that DNA reading (sequencing) will be easy and available in 30 years, or 300, or 3000.

DNA is also much easier to manipulate. Nature provides us with all the tools (enzymes) we need to copy and select specific sequences. Academia provides us with a better understanding of DNA than other polymers. And industry provides us with wonderful machines like high throughput DNA sequencers. Watson-Crick base paring also allows DNA to do computation, which in some cases can be done directly on the data encoding DNA.

As for safety, you are right in that many microbes are quite good at finding and incorporating DNA but such an even would still be quite rare and there are many things to consider:
1) DNA data payloads are stored as just DNA, typically frozen or dried. And DNA alone is not sufficient to be pathogenic.
2) Generally when scientists store data in DNA right now it's encrypted first. This make it hard to pick out payload data that will encode for something specific.
3) It's far easier for a malicious person to just get parts of genes synthesized from different vendors and stitch them together at home. That ship has already sailed.
4) Currently the best way to synthesize the data payloads is in short sequences of DNA that aren't long enough to encode for anything but short peptides.
5) Randomly coming across a working pathogenic DNA sequence is technically possible but practically impossible (much like it's possible that you'll spontaneously quantum tunnel to the center of the earth but that'll never actually happen). An average gene in e. coli is about 8000 bases long. Of that size alone there are 4^(8000) (a beyond astronomically large number) of DNA sequences and only a handful of those do anything at all. Of those most would be toxic to the microbe it self or be a useless metabolic load (proteins are expensive to make and useless genes get cut out or turned off VERY fast in a population---days in continuous culture).
6) If desired, you can also trade off a little density to insert stop codons occasionally, limiting the size of anything translated to only a few amino acids.

but googleapis.com, which is what the GP was refferring to is google APIs, which allows google to track who's downloading APIs from googleapis

Specifically, how is this different from other projector based stereolithography printers such as the muve3d DLP (http://www.muve3d.net/press/)?

I think it's in quotes because it's not an established word for people outside your(physics?) discourse community.

In some places its even better. Mine is 40Mbit down/20Mbit up (attainable), which is near the top of what VDSL can do(AFAIK)

Saying tape has a longer life is silly. I'd have no idea where to get an 8-track player today even though it's an analog format.

Same with a record player, but I could make one pretty easily. (there's a reason why we shot a record into space instead of a tape)

Really, though a documented and uncompressed digital file, properly kept track of, could last forever similar to a record even if we lost our codecs it would be easy to write a new one.

Other respondents to this comment pointed out that these are fluorescent (ie need an excitation light source) not "glowing".

But another problem with this idea is that, in a population neutral alleles maintain their frequency (though can drift randomly) and deleterious alleles will decline in frequency. In other words, you'd have to release a LOT of rabbits before the glowing allele would be common enough to have an effect on average fitness and that allele would be unstable in the population. Unless you don't believe in evolution, but then you're better off praying for the rabbits to go away.

It is seriously about time! The D-pad on the current controllers is absolutely awful (for those who don't know, often times it registers the wrong direction due to poor mechanical design). It has made some games (especially live-arcade games like megaman 9) incredibly frustrating.

Its naive to think that buses are only good for storage.
1080p video is 1080*1920pixels/frame*32bits/pixel*60frames/second is roughly 4Gb (uncompressed). If history is any indication displays will get larger and denser (also remember bandwidth needed will scale by the square of the number of lines). Or what if you want an external GPU? 16x pci express is about 32Gbits/sec. Also more speed reduces latency, which may be helpful too depending on what you use it for.