Cedric Chang wrote:

> No emotions, just measurements. Your emotions versus my facts. 

Actually, no. Not "just measurements" and very little fact. Most of what
you have are predictions. So far we don't have /any/ experience with long
term storage of anything. Heck, we already /know/ that most things we
create don't last longer than a few years. How many here have seriously
(professionally) designed something to last a century? I don't see any
hands. Nothing to take measurements off. Just predictions, and there's
plenty of precedence that we /won't/ be able to avoid many of the tempting
shortcuts that may make the difference between stuff going haywire after
we're dead and going haywire a few generations later.

I'm not saying that I know whether one or the other is more dangerous. But
you say you do, and that what you say is based on facts. I just don't see
the facts WRT long term.

Gerhard

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