There's an old engineering joke that says: “Standards are great … everyone should have one!” The problem is that – very often – everyone does. Consider the case of storing textual data inside a ...

In "The Martian," astronaut Mark Watney is screwed. He’s alone on Mars after surviving a horrific dust storm. In addition to a limited supply of food and water, Watney has no idea how he’s going to ...

We've seen how easily weak passwords can be hacked, and we've also discussed how you can easily memorize or automatically generate and fill in secure passwords. Here's a great technique to add an ...