Almost everyone knows the aphorism that says "Just because you can, doesn't mean that you should." Nobody thinks it applies to them. One of the most prevalent problems of "content" on the Internet is that all the people who technically can but probably shouldn't, DO.
I had a second thought I intended to put here. Honest. But something distracted me and ... well, they say memory is the second thing to go. Damned if I can remember what the first is supposed to be.
As if mass cybersquatting, monetizing its customers' domain name ideas through its shell subsidiary Domains By Proxy, locking customers' domains to keep them from transferring to other registrars, actively conspiring in the theft of its own customers' domains, intentional violation of ICANN rules and regulations in order to extort additional money from customers, or many other complaints (some of which probably qualify as fraud) weren't sufficient reasons to avoid GoDaddy, it is now reported that GoDaddy stores customer account passwords in clear and will use them, without your knowledge or consent, to access private servers hosted with them.
Further, it transpires that GoDaddy just got hit with a class action suit by its own employees, alleging theft of employee bonus commissions, defrauding employees of overtime pay, violation of federal Fair Labor wage and hours standards, and wrongful termination of whistleblowers.
Just as an aside, it seems GoDaddy isn't the only hosting company storing customer passwords in the clear. Rackspace does it too.
Japanese researchers have discovered that titanium pentoxide can be used as the foundation of a storage medium to create optical disks that could store 200 times as much data as a Blu-Ray disc, while costing about a hundred times less than the germanium-based alloys used to make the data layer on DVD and BD discs. That's about 9TB on a single optical disc.
Though the article doesn't mention it, a 200:1 increase in data density would also facilitate the development of new optical micro-disks small enough to fit into pocket devices. A 1" 1TB optical disk would be something not to be sneezed at.
In related news, Hitachi Maxwell has just demonstrated a new tape medium that uses perpendicular recording to get a starting native capacity of 50TB per LTO-class tape. That's almost four times the capacity of the planned endpoint of LTO tape technology, LTO-8 (at a planned 12.8TB). For reference, LTO-5 just hit the market this year, with 1.6TB per tape.