So do YouTube videos. But is that really a problem?

A simpler approach would be to use a free web hosting service, and drop your encrypted data in there. Easy access from anywhere without needing to sign in.

QR's will look the same regardless of video format. If the resolution gets really scrunched down or if frame rates get jacked up in the conversion process, then it could be a wasted effort, but YouTube's internal conversion algorithms seem to be pretty effective these days. ...wait, am I defending the idea behind this article?

Also would have accepted "Babel Fish."

When I watched Prometheus, this episode came to mind. =)

I especially like how they threw a "!=" into the headline. It's the hip thing to do. Oh, Slashdotters will find that charming!

Of course, the more pedantic among us will twitch at the use of a logical operator as a copula. :)

It really begs the question of what could be so important to type that it needs to be done while standing in a checkout line.

(On another topic: your sig is feeding the trolls.)

Well, even a distro that provides a package management system does not force you to use a packaged kernel. You can roll your own from vanilla and have it coexist happily with other pre-packaged kernels in /boot. I did this in Debian for years.

Just the thing to pour into my space mug and drink with my space breakfast while I read my space newspaper.

No true astronaut puts sugar in his coffee.

In Rodney Dangerfield's voice:
I've heard of coffee with a citrus overtone, but this is ridiculous!

What do the residents of the planet have to say about this?

I have no idea.

I like how that got modded insightful. Only on Slashdot does one earn praise for arguing Star Wars on a science news post. =)

Maybe if you wrote the image of a btrfs volume to a tape?