Actually, the GPU is much faster, by far, than any* DSP setup. The GPU consists of hundreds or thousands of DSP building blocks, although more limited in what they can perform and in which order.

* Naturally you can build out a DSP system to match the speed of a GPU, as you can build a rack of CPUs to outperform a single GPU. That's not my point.

Megayear is actually very common in science circles when talking about time spans where using millions of years makes sense. It's usually written "Ma" or "mya".

That's not relevant. What's relevant is who the original creators wants to grant permission. They may very well be fine with people using these cats at random on the internet, that doesn't mean they have given everyone permission to use it in a commercial context by an anti-internet company.

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?