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Comment No source (Score 4, Informative) 342

The central claim of the summary is completely unsourced. If you click on the link in the article that purports to backup the claim of a 10% market share (which sounds outlandish to me, but not impossible), you get a pretty run of the mill domain name parking page. So, there's no way of examining the claim or questioning the methods. This doesn't belong on the front page.

Comment Secure encryption is all open (Score 1) 674

I don't buy the line that open source is "better because everyone is checking for bugs" line, but the bottom line point from my perspective is that the openness of a specification does not, in fact, make it easier to intrude upon an implementation of that spec. A completely valid argument -- and possibly a persuasive one as well, if the boss is smart - involves the comparison of an open and strong encryption algorithm vs and weak but closed one. This is where wars are won. If security through obscurity can't keep wartime governments in power, it probably doesn't do much.

Comment fleshes out secondary characters? (Score 2, Interesting) 134

Given how painfully bad the characterizations in the extant footage are, I can't imagine more minutes of "fleshing out secondary characters" would make it any better. The movie is amazing for its cinematographic innovations, not for its plot or characters. If the restored footage only offers the latter, it will be primarily of academic interest (and I say that as an academic).

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