"Supposedly" is false. The sun doesn't produce cosmic ray-power particles and soft errors aren't affected by sunspot activity. It is affected by altitude and space weather, but not solar activity.
I was in the audience of the talk. All devices should be required to use ECC because it's a security risk. Not as much as http:// era, but silent corruption across networks and systems is a thing.
From the link in your comment: "The average rate of cosmic-ray soft errors is inversely proportional to sunspot activity. That is, the average number of cosmic-ray soft errors decreases during the active portion of the sunspot cycle and increases during the quiet portion."
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"Supposedly" is false. The sun doesn't produce cosmic ray-power particles and soft errors aren't affected by sunspot activity. It is affected by altitude and space weather, but not solar activity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_error
I was in the audience of the talk. All devices should be required to use ECC because it's a security risk. Not as much as http:// era, but silent corruption across networks and systems is a thing.
Space weather is solar activity.
Not entirely. Extrasolar activity is the most likely cause for energetic cosmic rays at the Earth's surface.
Well, mostly...
The link you provided contradicts your comment.
From the link in your comment: "The average rate of cosmic-ray soft errors is inversely proportional to sunspot activity. That is, the average number of cosmic-ray soft errors decreases during the active portion of the sunspot cycle and increases during the quiet portion."