News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Ads Implant False Memories . Parent comment

Re:Ads Implant False Memories by antihero on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @01:07PM (#2584680)
A better analogy would be opening a document that had partial bits missing, filling in the partial bits the best you can, and saving it.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ads Implant False Memories by noelchurchill on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @04:28PM (#2585413)
Or better, the good ol' "copy of a copy" analogy.

Or you might compare it to re-compressing a jpeg over and over.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ads Implant False Memories by hartror on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @07:10PM (#2585926)
The re-compressing isn't quite accurate as it implies loss of information whereas the process we are discussing can add or remove information.
[ Parent | on HN ]