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Seriously. These " enumeronyms " drive me batty.

All things considered, 84 bit encryption is pretty impressive, considering DES was still considered "okay" even into the late 1990's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_…

If they ever... Boiling frogs, my friend. Boiling frogs.

I would not say a brute force copy must be necessarily lossy by default. In theory, if the picture is revealed on a display, upon which the full pixel raster can be distinguished f…

a typical cinema release is a pretty big file - frame-by-frame encoded as jpg2000 in 4k. Often shipped on hard drives, or downloaded via dedicated fiber lines. This is not a show s…

Modern DRM schemes like AACS employ methods to change keys for new works. So when crackers find a key that allows them to circumvent the DRM scheme they can't publish it or it woul…

on the security side https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist) http://nymag.com/news/features/michael-hastings-2013-11/ http://i2.wp.com/www.dcclothesline.com/wp-…

Here it comes. The next wave of propaganda, in favour of precogs. The concept of precrime will save us from ourselves.

I think some people know exactly what that situation involves and they are inviting it with open eyes. When you want to stay clean, you have others do the dirty work. The ones that…

NO U

Not useless. Just less useful. It pushes the capacity for your adversary to operate into (slightly) slimmer confines, which is a marginal improvement. Otherwise, your adversary can…

Jesus, I wasn't even going to read this article, but holy shit, am I glad I did. Using more precise sensors, the same MIT researchers went on to develop systems that can distinguis…

There's worse things than Snowden's revelations though, like cheerfully donating your organs to a government that executes you over some religious aerobics classes. [1] I hope this…

Oh, clickbait. Nevermind. I suppose maybe this identifies the polarity of backchannel.com's political alignment.

Boy, just like so many MP3 sharing services of yester-year. What a curious development! Standard practice to poison the well of your enemies. This is a phased approach by the way, …

I'm sure that's what the robot voices are for. The problem is, they only have ten or fifteen pre-sets, and all of them are useless.

Perception in humans seems capable of grasping data sets with billions of pieces of information each second, and distilling it all down to intuition. All this information is serial…

People literally take shits in subway cars, especially at night. When people aren't taking a dump in the corner, the new subway cars have air conditioning systems that smell like s…

If you like that, you'll love this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_of_despair

Certainly an easy way to keep people who suck from producing children.

Bikeshedding is when a group of people form opinions about, and squabble over something frivolous and irrelevant, but appealing to the lowest common denominator. Offer a group of p…

I thought it meant "turn up the speakers and head over to the mosh pit or die."