I know this isn’t what people were expecting from Respawn, but I think it’s a great game. They released it in a clever way, especially since it’s honestly just a lot of fun to play, even with randos.

Gah, you got Kinja’d!

This. If you’re thinking about getting an XB1 and one of these, just get into PC gaming already.

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson includes some great historical fiction around Turing and the Enigma machine—among other encryption systems used during World War 2.

Elliptic curves fall directly into the wheelhouse of problems quantum computers can solve. What quantum computers are really good at is finding the period of a periodic function, and most current encryption systems are based on such functions, including RSA and ECC.

I just got V-Moda Crossfade Wireless through an early black friday deal on Amazon (deal has ended) and they just came in an hour or two ago. Initial experience has been fantastic: easy pairing, great sound, and they came with a case and a wired option (including eighth inch plug and and a quarter inch adapter.)

There’s only one place this is leading to..

If you’re going to be pedantic about being pedantic, then I’m afraid we’re going to require the correct form of the Latin phrase noscitur a sociis.

I think about that a good bit, because I like to watch stuff while I do things around the house. What sucks is realizing I’ve wasted like a half hour of cleaning time just scrolling through Netflix trying to decide what to watch.

I just got ‘setting up the car wash . . .’ the other day, and now I have to use sym more.

It’s actually not the easiest thing in the world to hard-code Asimov’s first law. The level of AI needed for something like Bishop from Aliens to be real would actually make it very difficult to program it not to harm humans. But it’s easy for a writer to hand-wave the necessary programming to implement Asimov’s first…

I was just going to head to the comments to say Cage’s games mostly aren’t fun, because you basically walk from one QTE-laden cutscene to another, which is terrible gameplay. Especially when failing a QTE just backs up the cutscene and forces you to try again.

Arnold Palmer plus vodka. That’s called a John Daly.

so it’s a corvette.

This is awesome.

[Filed to: Well, duh]

There’s also a fourth: it’s hard enough to make an encryption system secure without adding a skeleton key for the government to use to bypass encryption for everyone. If you make a system with a universal key ‘for the government to use’ then you’ve also created a single point of attack for your whole encryption system…

Exactly my position, although I don’t think I’m that inclined to sell. If anything, I might start mining with it when I’m not gaming.

If you go through the tips here and are still having trouble with your wifi, I highly recommend trying out some powerline ethernet adapters. They use the wiring in your house to send the signal to different rooms.