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		wwkeyboard on June 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: /dev/zero has infinite electrons and /dev/null has... This reminds me of a problem we used to debate in college; on a perfectly efficient machine, would `cat /dev/random > /dev/null` violate the second law of thermodynamics?

garethadams on June 5, 2012 [–]

If you're violating the laws of physics in your assumption ("on a perfectly efficient machine") you can't expect them to hold for your hypothesis.

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