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Or would humanity "storm the reality studio" in grand fashion just to find out what lies beneath the bit-rot?
Archive 2006-09-01 Mac 2006
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And it also seems to suffer from some kind of bit-rot.
chron.com Chronicle chron.com 2010
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"That's pretty much inevitable given that people will not want to spend the money on hardware upgrades when their current machine becomes unusable due to bloat, bit-rot, and ever-more-resource-hogging anti-spyware/anti-virus/anti-whatever, and as applications get more platform independence, either by running in a browser, or via Java."
TechNewsWorld 2010
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"That's pretty much inevitable given that people will not want to spend the money on hardware upgrades when their current machine becomes unusable due to bloat, bit-rot, and ever-more-resource-hogging anti-spyware/anti-virus/anti-whatever, and as applications get more platform independence, either by running in a browser, or via Java."
TechNewsWorld 2010
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Sorry, but i would bet my money on hoping of bit-rot on the same block on both rotating rust mirrors of a dataset to corrupt data, given that there are no advances in precognition technology, i'm not aware of.
Sun Bloggers 2010
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Space shouldn't scroll the page if something is focused in it bug 476274 security. js: Fix typos and bit-rot bug 480389
unknown title 2009
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Space shouldn't scroll the page if something is focused in it bug 476274 security. js: Fix typos and bit-rot bug 480389
unknown title 2009
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Space shouldn't scroll the page if something is focused in it bug 476274 security. js: Fix typos and bit-rot bug 480389
unknown title 2009
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Space shouldn't scroll the page if something is focused in it bug 476274 security. js: Fix typos and bit-rot bug 480389
unknown title 2009
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Space shouldn't scroll the page if something is focused in it bug 476274 security. js: Fix typos and bit-rot bug 480389
unknown title 2009
alexz commented on the word bit-rot
at first, i saw this referred to as actual destruction of optical media over time even when it was stored in a cold dry space.
sometimes, this refers to a computer system getting crappy over time
stumbled across this years ago.
Wiki page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_rot
March 15, 2015