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Old March 19th, 2010, 12:25 AM
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Default Re: LARG - LA Rich Game (Started)

With the architecture of the internet, it's really surprising that we don't get many more corrupt downloads. I watch some report about black holes in the internet (were info just gets lost). Anyway, while computers are very mechanical, the internet's weblikeness makes it require redundancy and checks and stuff and still stuff gets lost. I assume they're still trying to understand the mechanics of it themselves. Actualy lost bits (where, say, an extraterrestial neutron bounce an electron out of place) are actually rare but their incidence is predictable, and some programs can fix the errors.
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