Talk:Data loss

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Delete topic?[edit]

Should this not be moved to the Wiktionary instead of being deleted? Thryduulf 10:37, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I think the topic is encyclopedic. Data loss is hardly a word or term on its own. It's closely related to Backup and other IT topics. -- Austin Murphy 19:50, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Organizational responsibility[edit]

The section titled Organizational Responsibility seems to be discussing data exposure rather than data loss. I personally think that section should be deleted as irrelevent to this article. Public Menace (talk) 22:50, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

JPEG, MPEG, and similar techniques which lose data on purpose[edit]

There should be a section on compression techniques which lose data on purpose to reduce the size of files, images, and video streams, but do not render the resulting file "broken" or "lost". This same section should also reference compression techniques used on data which are considered loss-less to prevent people from assuming all compression will lose data. § Music Sorter § (talk) 17:10, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not mentioned here: data loss is a fundamental natural law[edit]

Any systemic information in nature isn't lost, simply merged with quantum decoherence noise. Thus practically any systemic information gets lost if the system isn't degenerate and spatially confined, also time allows noise to accumulate. If someone dies here in Earth, we cannot revive him following each particle history, simply because that history is mixed with quantum noise. I repeat - time increases the noisy interactions. Noise can be statistically modelled, but never exactly. Thus information gets mixed with noise and practically lost to us. We theoretically know that quantum noise is fundamental and ubiquitous. We also know that we cannot predict accurately noise data, only their behaviour pattern. Believe me, if you want to revive the dead, you need the exact data, not a generic noise pattern modelling. If you cannot fundamentally revive the dead (even if you had the best future technology) then information can be mixed with quantum noise and practically lost. This is a fact. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:587:4112:1900:F40F:B2D3:70B5:9E51 (talk) 14:10, 3 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]