A ridiculous patent for arbitrary compression

Re:A ridiculous patent for arbitrary compression by DarkShikari on Saturday November 12, 2011 @02:54PM (#3228723)

Actually, it is possible to write a compression program that can compress any file, even random data, by one byte: http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/barf.html

(See if you can spot the evil trick.)

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Re:A ridiculous patent for arbitrary compression by bane on Saturday November 12, 2011 @04:35PM (#3228985)

My favorite is a lossy compression method that results in any file(regardless of entropy) compressing down to 1 byte.

Just throw out the rest of the file after the first byte.

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Re:A ridiculous patent for arbitrary compression by amalcon on Saturday November 12, 2011 @04:59PM (#3229042)

I was about to reply to this with "My favorite fake compression scheme is..."

...but it turned out to be this.

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Re:A ridiculous patent for arbitrary compression by StavrosK on Saturday November 12, 2011 @05:56PM (#3229175)

Haha, that's clever! It works, too.

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Re:A ridiculous patent for arbitrary compression by inportb on Saturday November 12, 2011 @06:01PM (#3229192)

Very nice ;D

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