On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 05:20:33PM -0800, Lamont Granquist wrote:
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> On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> > > "Nicpon, John" wrote:
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> > > Please specifically define where data goes that is sent to /dev/null
> >
> > Answer 1. Data is not like energy. There is no "conservation of data"
> > law. So the data simply "disappears".
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> Doesn't thermodynamics second law actually imply that data has to
> disappear and that with the heat death of the universe data will be at a
> minimum? For meaningful data to exist there needs to be order, while the
> 2nd law requires that systems evolve to less ordered states.
Maybe, but the second law of thermodynamics is incorrect so who knows?
Joe
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