You can "blame" someone if many people agree that the creating and the telling had an ulterior and potentially self beneficial, or destructive intent. Everyone who decided to click on the link to Samy Kumar's personal site got the Evercookies stuffed in their browser. You can confirm it with his handy little tools.
I'm sure you were smart enough NOT to visit Samy Kamar's site to see just who the heck this guy is. But if you did, you got 8 cookies for free. Never ending, ever sending cookies. Quoth the raven evermore.
It is great that spooky action at a distance is finally making it into the mainstream. You might consider updating your topic sentence though. Spooky action at a distance is what Einstein steadfastly refused to believe in. Einstein, Rosen & Podolsky's disbelief inspired them to published a paper about the incompleteness of quantum theory (I didn't do it - it was the hidden variables). Cheers
There is one underlying assumption here that should be looked
at more deeply. How long will the storage media last?
CD
Disks: < 300 years due
to degradation of plastics and reflective layers - (unless placed in vacuum
& chilled to liquid Nitrogen temps)
Hard
Disk: drive mechanism < 5 years due to
degradation of heads (oxidation) drying & degradation of lubricants (I have
two Apple LISA 5 MB HDD's that are still operational,
but that is probably just Apple over spec-ing
components and the robustness of the technology). disk platters < 10 years due to thermal
& magnetic noise affecting domain orientation
Scrolls:
ink on scraped goat or sheep skin
< 10,000 years (earliest Dead Sea Scroll is about 150 BC, or about
2,150 years old), Cuneiform on Papyrus < 10,000 years (earliest writing on
Papyrus is about 2,600
BC or about 4,600
years old)
Clay
Tablets: writing indentations in clay ~ practically imperishable
(earliest writing on clay tablets is about 3,000 BC
or about 5,000 years old)
We can come up with many ideas for universal data formats,
embedded universal virtual machines that can be run on future systems to read,
display, play... our data, but the underlying storage infrastructure must change
as well. It is a bit difficult to store a 17 MB JPEG image, or a Seu Jorge album on clay tablets.
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You can "blame" someone if many people agree that the creating and the telling had an ulterior and potentially self beneficial, or destructive intent. Everyone who decided to click on the link to Samy Kumar's personal site got the Evercookies stuffed in their browser. You can confirm it with his handy little tools.
I'm sure you were smart enough NOT to visit Samy Kamar's site to see just who the heck this guy is. But if you did, you got 8 cookies for free. Never ending, ever sending cookies. Quoth the raven evermore.
It is great that spooky action at a distance is finally making it into the mainstream. You might consider updating your topic sentence though. Spooky action at a distance is what Einstein steadfastly refused to believe in. Einstein, Rosen & Podolsky's disbelief inspired them to published a paper about the incompleteness of quantum theory (I didn't do it - it was the hidden variables). Cheers
There is one underlying assumption here that should be looked at more deeply. How long will the storage media last?
CD Disks: < 300 years due to degradation of plastics and reflective layers - (unless placed in vacuum & chilled to liquid Nitrogen temps)
Hard Disk: drive mechanism < 5 years due to degradation of heads (oxidation) drying & degradation of lubricants (I have two Apple LISA 5 MB HDD's that are still operational, but that is probably just Apple over spec-ing components and the robustness of the technology). disk platters < 10 years due to thermal & magnetic noise affecting domain orientation
Scrolls: ink on scraped goat or sheep skin < 10,000 years (earliest Dead Sea Scroll is about 150 BC, or about 2,150 years old), Cuneiform on Papyrus < 10,000 years (earliest writing on Papyrus is about 2,600 BC or about 4,600 years old)
Clay Tablets: writing indentations in clay ~ practically imperishable (earliest writing on clay tablets is about 3,000 BC or about 5,000 years old)
We can come up with many ideas for universal data formats, embedded universal virtual machines that can be run on future systems to read, display, play... our data, but the underlying storage infrastructure must change as well. It is a bit difficult to store a 17 MB JPEG image, or a Seu Jorge album on clay tablets.