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• cosmic rays n. Notionally, the cause of bit rot.
  However, this is a semi-independent usage that may be invoked as a humorous way to handwave away any minor randomness that doesn't seem worth the bother of investigating....
• bit rot: n. Also {bit decay}. Hypothetical disease the existence of which has been deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will often stop working after sufficient time has passed
  even if `nothing has changed'. The theory explains that bits decay as if they were radioactive....
• bit rot n. [common] Also bit decay. Hypothetical disease the existence of which has been deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will often stop working after sufficient time has passed
  even if `nothing has changed'. The theory explains that bits decay as if they were radioactive....
• bit decay n. See bit rot. People with a physics background tend to prefer this variant for the analogy with particle decay.
  See also computron, quantum bogodynamic...
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• bit decay: n. See {bit rot}. People with a physics background tend to prefer this variant for the analogy with particle decay.
  See also {computron}, {quantum bogodynamics}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• link rot n. The natural decay of web links as the sites they're connected to change or die.
  Compare bit rot....
• unspots n. 1. Notional cause of an odd error. "Why did the program suddenly turn the screen blue?
  Sunspots, I guess." 2. Also the cause of bit rot -- from the myth that sunspots will increase cosmic rays, which can flip single bits in memory....
• Stray Alpha Particles from memory packaging caused Hard Memory Error on Server.