I'll tell you why one would need a sensor connected to wifi, plugged into the grid, on a high speed line, to a 'gaggle' or cloud servers. My weather station and associated partner sensors. I can monitor from work which is 40km away, which can help me when flash storms are passing. In the past I've had instances of flooding or, unfortunately, a roof leaking while I'm at work, with powerful localised storms. (I'm talking serious rain - 65mm (2.5 inches) rain in 15 minutes). In a 30 min trip home, I'd never make it in time to stop any immediate damage - but I can stop it getting worse. Having access to that rain and wind information for *my house* remotely is very useful.

You're obviously doing something wrong.

I agree with you. I've used Netscape Navigator, Firefox, internet explorer, Chrome, chromium, brave and edge. Edge is good and has gotten a lot better lately. I assume anyone slagging it off hasn't actually used it, and if they have, not for very long.

Chromium is Edge without Microsoft.

I must be missing something. Is this copper all the way from exchange to the premises? Or fibre supplemented? FTTC has the XGFast protocol. It can push up to 2.5GBPS across copper phone cable. We've got FTTC DPUs that theoretically can push those speeds over copper phone cable, all over Australia.

We, in Australia, call this a classic DUMMY SPIT.

I think I could do better than 200 meg. It doesn't sound like a significant enough jump and nor is it a huge improvement over the previous proof of concept. Plenty of companies (particularly asian ones) to long/large scale custom synthesis. The reading of the code isn't difficult these days. Assembly of the sequences into meaningful files is probably the trick. I think a true advance would be making synthetic or highly modified polymerases which can incorporate synthetic pyrimidines/uridines into a "hyper DNA" which could improve on the 4 base nucleotide array available. Imagine a 5, 10, 26 base code. If the "DNA" doesn't have to be duplicated by an organism, it can be anything. Imagine the packing density then.

Very little "Junk DNA" is junk. miRNAs, gene regulatory regions, histone folding and regulation systems, chromatin folding hotspots. Anyway, if there is true Junk DNA, it will be under less selective pressure and very quickly become riddled with mutations and errors. Moreso than protein encoding regions. The best way to do it would to be to place an index somewhere in the genome containing references to locations within the existing coded/exome areas -- which already contain a pre-existing massive dictionary of 4-5-n base sequences. Mapping the data would be a bitch, but if you're that desperate to encode data long term, it might be worth it. Providing your mouse/rabbit/fly/c.elegans colony doesn't die in flood/heat/poisoning/infection etc.

You're being pedantic. I've been releasing .MODs since ~1993, and then rendering them as MP3s since 1996.. (haven't been so since about 2001 now). I know of course, the format means nothing, or the distribution of sound files mean nothing.. Its the copyright violation on the work that is the problem.