Bad form, I know, to respond to your own posting. But it occurs to me that data specific compression could accomplish the goal. Credit card numbers have structure. If you create a mapping between only valid card numbers and the minimum number of bits then encrypt that then it doesn't matter how the data is decrypted. It always produces valid looking credit card numbers. The catch, though, is that the bit mapping needs to be exact. If the total possible credit card numbers is not a power of 2 then there will always be decryption failures that produces detectably invalid results.

If the software is detecting that the key is bad then all the attacker has to do is use software that doesn't do this. This assumes that the attacker has direct access to the file. If not, then well known throttling techniques apply and the new wrinkle doesn't buy much.

Making bogus data come out without requiring specific software for decryption seems like a very hard problem. Every data type will need, not just unique software but unique encryption algorithms that are both secure and not trivial extensions to known algorithms.

It was not modified EGA at all. It had exactly the same video as the PCJr and output one bit per RGB + one bit luminance just like and compatible with CGA.

EGA was very different in memory layout and EGA monitors used two bits per component.

The only reasonable value to pay to a troll is zero. Actually, no. The correct amount is that the troll pays the victim for their trouble and legal fees. A reasonable compromise is zero. The company in question was 100% troll. They were not doing business under that name. They had no intention of doing business under the Tesla name. This is true regardless of whether Tesla was "competent" enough to defensively register its name in all markets before it had product to sell just in case a troll an idea how to make some easy, unearned money.

Not in this case. According to TFA:

So, no liquid bodies. Just solids and gas.

Liquid water requires a substantial atmosphere, which Ceres lacks. At low pressure, ice converts directly to vapor and visa versa.

Who is going to write, maintain, and keep secure this custom OS?

The trouble with custom embedded OS's is that, in spite of the best intentions to limit their scope, they almost always need more features than can be written from scratch by a small team and be obviously secure. So they port code from more commodity OS's. Due to limited resources, the code in the embedded OS tends to fall behind. The porting effort can introduce bugs too that are non-obvious to the guy doing the port because he doesn't fully understand what he is porting.

I was wondering how it could be 25% faster than javascript when it compiled into javascript so I checked out TFA.

So it has 25% faster javascript output. It is not 25% faster than javascript.

That depends on what sort of object it is. If it is merely a decoration then perhaps it doesn't matter. An approximation indistinguishable by the senses may be good enough. On the other hand, if it is an artifact worthy of detailed study then it may have more to tell us then we already know. Microscopic details may be important. The isotope ratios in the material may even be significant. We can never be sure that a copy is truly indistinguishable where it counts.

While that number could be determined, it would not be very useful. Hardware implementation, especially when targeting FPGA's, get most of their performance advantage by exploiting more parallelism than is achievable by running on a processor.

No, the manufacturer isn't make any assumptions about how the algorithm is translated. The deal in gates. Gates are the most direct measure of how much the hardware will cost to manufacture.

Without a direct number for gates you will to come about in in a more indirect fashion. How much memory does the algorithm use? What data structures are used how big are they? (*all* data structures. An integer is a data structure for this purpose) What operations (adds, subtracts, etc) are needed and how many are required to go from input to result? With those you can usually come up with a ball park guess of how many gates will be required. There are always optimizations and non-obvious operations that get overlooked but it is a good start.

When I think of wearable, I think of devices imbedded in clothing. Smart watches and smart glasses are just devices held in a slightly different manner.

For truly wearable computing, the devices needs to be survive in all the same conditions that clothing does and be comfortable enough to wear without a thought. Those are pretty hard problems. Not many devices today would still be functional after going through the washer and the dryer and are much too bulky and/or heavy to wear all the time.

Bah. I see no evidence that this Supreme Court is correctly dealing with the Second Amendment. I only see a slight tilt toward those who want to mostly ignore the second amendment but still keep their toys and away from those who want to get rid of the toys too.

Overthrowing an oppressive government (what the second amendment is about) requires modern military hardware. In this age, that means tanks, RPGs and military aircraft. When the Supreme Court rules that private ownership of these must be allowed then I will believe that it is handling the Second Amendment "correctly".

Less you think I am nut case who actually wants my neighbors to be toting rocket propelled grenades: I don't. But that is what the second amendment means. As long as we have a section of constitution that it is considered OK to grossly misinterpret, all of our rights are in danger.

The first ICBM's used cryogenic fuels. Atlas was vulnerable to a first strike but not considered useless. It took some time to create storable liquid fuels and solids with intercontinental range . No doubt these technologies were blocked too.

If starting from zero, cryogenic liquid fuel is the quickest way to deliver nukes half way around the world. It requires less development than storable fuels. They are easier to control and to scale up than solid fuels. That means better accuracy and you don't need to be as accurate because you can put a bigger bomb on there.

Tablets are just big smart phones. Bigger allows for a bigger screen and bigger (longer lasting) battery.

800x480 was a mid-range phone more than three years ago. Mid range and high range phones have more pixels now.

It is possible that this device has a decent battery but, at $50,I'm skeptical of that too. So, why should anyone buy this tablet instead of a three year old smart phone on eBay?

What peace and quiet? Airline cabins are noisy (what do think noise canceling headphones were invented for?) and uncomfortable. Some of us can sleep through this after a fashion. Others would much rather get work done so they have to time to relax somewhere that is actually relaxing.