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I'm a student myself. Funny enough, some of us are actually intelligent and can handle complexity. To me, this is the equivalent of teaching military science by telling someone how…

I'll agree I could be a little less demeaning. The point is though that cryptography more then anything else is about its practicality, and so by ignoring the difficult parts of it…

Wow! Does this say that as long as key generation, key distribution, and message authentication are trivial, unbreakable cryptography is a cinch? What a shock, here I thought that …

Hilarious. This is what happens when you have compulsory military service as a nation which (although constantly under threat) rarely if ever actually sees combat. I can't decide w…

PG County is Maryland, not DC. It's the county that wraps around the eastern side of the District, and includes the University of Maryland. The rules of the District don't apply to…

Looking at it through the economic lens that the author does, I think what he fails to recognize is the payoffs. War has immediate and substantial payoffs. Whether that is material…

It's Plato's Ring. Frankly though, people around here are generally as reasonable as you'll find out on the interwebs. Sure you'll have people come in and stir things up, but gener…

Religion was created to answer three questions. Why are we here? How are we here? How should we carry ourselves? Its secular cousin philosophy was designed to answer the bookending…

Knuth's up-arrow notation and the Ackermann function are both designed to make very large numbers easy to notate, but unfortunately I don't know how difficult it would be to write …

You can't tell me one and even larger one of these isn't going to cause some Q factor issues. This (the Truvativ) is designed for gravity riders though, where pure pedaling efficie…

As a former bicycle mechanic and salesman, and someone who is still very tuned into the industry, I'd give this a zero percent chance of actually being successful. There are three …

Why do I have a feeling that for the majority of CS students, Shakespeare would be a less intuitive language then Brainfuck? Some more programming and CS errata for those intereste…

Quite true, but what your post doesn't do enough to recognize is how much this type of thinking has pervaded our culture, and the damage it is doing. The current generation of up-a…

There are so many awesome and fascinating things being made and discovered now. I don't see why you need to go and make some ridiculous predictions about the future to be inspired …

From the guidelines: Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.

Is that a comment on the article or on Israel? Because this is a site fundamentally about start-ups, especially incubators, and so news about them is relevant. If you think the pos…

I have the Washington Post from Jan 1, 2000. Below the fold is an article on what the future would hold tech-wise for a child born that day. By 2010, we were all supposed to be wea…

Great story. I was expecting the team to win the tournament when a local official with no governing power stepped in and allowed them three chances to score a last-second buzzer be…

This was also my initial thought. Mao as well...

Gold has a number of internal checks to massive price swings that Bitcoin does not, however. First, and most notably, it is a fully developed market that has been around for thousa…

The points I'm making don't have anything to do with transactions in a primarily Bitcoin marketplace. The issue is that there is nothing in place to maintain price rates, even incl…

Exactly. "No explanation why the price would have soared so high" is the exact reason why Bitcoin will have issues trying to tie into the larger financial structure without series …