What are you talking about? You specifically settle out of court just so that you're not setting a precedent. Legally, they would gain nothing doing this.

This is a problem that has already been solved. The answer is: You treat it like it's simply "security by obscurity" and assume it will be broken any day soon. The sad fact is that this is true for most of the encryption schemes thought up over the years.

And honestly, if homomorphic encryption can't work with a well tested and analyzed encryption algorithm, I'm not sure I'm very impressed about it..

You can generally not compress an encrypted stream of data.

Good encryption masks all the structure/redundancy from the data, which the compressor needs in order to remove useless bits.

So how much did the slashdot ad cost, and how do I block this kind of ads with adblock?

Did timothy and Zothecula share the cash equally?

I thought that was what wikipedia was for.

Every file system is/should be labled "experimental" in a way. The long answer from the btrfs FAQ is pretty good, and makes some sense:

Yeah, it's not the privatization that's an issue, it's the profit part. You know, the incentive that according to the great invisible hand in the sky should improve quality and decrease overhead..

Pretty much anything open source. If you're not allowed to see the source (skype, hardware disk encryption, proprietary encryption, windows built-in encryption) you can bet that FBI has a master key.

Doesn't mean it's safe just because it's open source, but broken or bogus encryption solutions which are open source are quickly found out.

Scrolling all that text without 2D accelerated hardware (not likely to be in place that early) likely adds more to the startup time than loading and displaying a graphical progress bar, especially considering how any drive will read far more than necessary for booting in one go, so the extra load time will be virtually zero.

That's been taken care of by modern file systems.

Also, do you apply security patches to your kernel on-the-fly somehow, or how come you don't have to reboot?

Lies.

The balloon program is just 16 lines, and expanding it to the full version as presented in the book it's just 25 lines. :(

How about Piet?

You're not "wasting" electricity. Those calculations are what makes bitcoins secure. In order to cheat and double spend an amount that was spend three days ago, you would have to redo all the calculations that has been done in the bitcoin "universe" since you spent it the first time. This is also why it's a good habit to wait a while until you can trust a transaction. You can pay people for mining your transaction in particular, to make this trust happen faster.

So... you managed to read far enough to find that it's going to be shot on film, but not far enough to read that it's going to get edited digitally.