Damn those benighted fools for having a preference that differs from yours!

Wasteland. The spiritual ancestor of the Fallout series.

1) Analog, used it just yesterday.

I can't remember what software it was, but it included samples labeled "8-bit" and "16-bit" to demonstrate the difference between 8 and 16 bits/sample audio.
I assumed the 8-bit audio file was deliberately made noisy and grainy, because it sounded much worse than the 16 bit file downsampled to 8.

Because Arduinos and plastic printers are enough for everyone.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator

Square the number of bits used in your asymmetric keys.

(Tongue in cheek.)

>RSA for example needs two prime numbers as a keypair, so while the key length might be 512 bit, there are actually not that many from those 2^512 numbers to choose from. Also, certain key values are prone to attacks.

How many is not that many? Bruce Schneier in Cryptography Engineering calculates that 1 in 1386 numbers in the 2^2000 bit range is prime. In the 2^512 range primes are even more frequent, according to prime counting estimates.

265? That's an odd number.

All the real nerds were doing circuits before Make and Arduino came along.

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It would get very tiresome for everyone to have to explain from axioms and first principles every opinion they held, even if they did reflect upon and study them.
Alternately, do you think people who agree with you on whatever subject have also been "culturally informed" that way?

I am, of course, not talking about capitalism, communism, chalk, or cottonballs, but wearing socks with sandals.

Just imagine: virtual hand-washing dishes, virtual weed pulling, virtual pebble sorting.
The video-game possibilities are endless!

> A 100MHz ARM core with enough flash and RAM on die to run a full operating system is about $1.

What operating system? What supplier and part number do you have in mind, exactly?

Let's not and say we did.

If my math is right, Planck's length as your resolution limit gives you 6.187x10^34 possible marking positions per meter of stick, which means you can encode about 115 bits with one mark on a 1m Planck-grade stick.