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Daerk writes "ECCp-109 has been solved. A week ago. Now wonder my stats haven't updated. Now what am I going to do till climateprediction.net goes live..."
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Folding!
Get your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape
Guess what
/. got beat by Ars Technica. (in more ways than one)
You guys here at
We ought to get the people here behind some distributed computing project. I bet we could beat any other team.
check distributed.net for example!
perl -e 'printf("%x!\n",49153)'
I will admit there's some irony in my being a member of the alt.smokers.pipes team for this though :)
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
From the site, they haven't even confirmed if this is true or not..
"The announcement is being made now, a week later because we had to wait for comfirmation from Certicom that this is the solution. (Which we still haven't gotten, by the way)."
Must sit still. Must...find...something...cogent...to...say...
That wasn't it.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
Can anyone here prove the theory first suggested by Beavis that "the angle of the dangle is inversely proportional to the heat of the beat"?
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
No client to download. Just write "God, if you can see this, please show yourself!" in a large font on your screen using the blink-tag. If enough people do it, God will see it.
Note that once we make contact with God, He can cure cancer for us, factor larger integers, or tell us where the aliens are, so this distributed computing project subsumes every other one.
they can join my distributed project. Just download my program and it runs in the backround. It will be busy computing the number of Distributed Projects in the world. We currently have 30,000 users. We expect to know the exact number in 100 years.
FAQ:
Why will it take so long to figure out:
Short Answer: The number of Distributed Projects out there grows exponentially.
Why would anyone want to do this:
Short Answer: Nobody does
I hear that they are in huge financial trouble and barely have enough money in the bank to last them a couple of months. The last thing they probably want to waste it on is paying for this
Pointless, right? Well, does this cryptography cracking have a point? We know that the algorithm will be cracked when the right key is hit. It's just as much electrowanking as jumping up and down when your
computer counts to a million, with a bit of cryptography politics thrown in.
I don't get why people are drwan to these projects over more significant problems like OGM or protein folding.
Maybe the state's highest function is to grind out insoluble problems. (Zelazny, Hall of Mirrors)
How about a distributed project where millions of people around the world can correct spelling mistakes in Slashdot articles. Or cancel previously posted stories.
Tuus crepidae innexilis sunt.
Another datapoint. I used to date an Otolaryngologist (ears, nose, and throat) who worked at NIH (a (the?) main US national medical center).
In normal conversation, she would talk about the large number of cancer patients she had and how hard it was for them to stop smoking or drinking alcohol even after they were diagnosed.
One day, curious, I asked how many cancer patients she had over the years that didn't smoke, drink, or both. 30 seconds went by. A frown developed on her face. "I think, maybe, two over the past 10 years. One I know was the wife of a smoker." She went on to explain that most were both alcoholics and 1+ pack a day smokers, though nearly all the rest were either heavy smokers or drinkers.
While cancer treatment and diagnosis wasn't her primary responsibility, it was a large part of the practice's business and (when money was available) research. Other problems they encountered were related to smoking -- especially cronic childhood ear/throat infections where one or both of the parents were heavy smokers.
Take it for what it's worth. Me, I love going out with friends for a good beer or two (quality over quantity) and snacks. Her observations keep me out of the smokey bar area, though.
A firewall can not protect you from yourself. Turn off what you do not need. Do not use the firewall to do your work.
Oh, you're right. We should only run one at a time. Which one? RC-128 cracking? Go for it. Not interested. SETI@Home? Ok, but seeing as how I knew about it for years and never bothered downloading the client I suspect that would've continued for, oh say, eternity.
The UD Cancer project is what finally got me into the distributed computing bit. Is it useful? Dunno. I hope so. But it's far more interesting to me than trying to brute force encryption (which is a known solution, and for which the time estimate can be accurately determined ahead of time), or search for signals in space (which, while I believe in extraterestial life and intelligence, I also believe in the laws of physics and seriously doubt the likelihood of any other race wasting the time and energy in broadcasting when listening is far easier, not to mention light speed constraints, diminuation and attenuation of signals on stellar scales, etc.), or finding prime numbers (useful for crypto, but current crypto is either way secure or hopelessly insecure based on quantum computing).
My wife is running the UD agent on her computers now too. At some point I'll mention it to the rest of my family and they'll probably run it - curing cancer takes on a much higher priority after your father dies from it and your mother is diagnosed with it.
I'm not going to try and force anyone run UD though. To each their own. Which, of course, is the little thing you seem to have forgotten here.
So now we know distributed efforts can solve great big math problems. Don't get me wrong, that's good to know and all, but.. aren't there any math problems that would be of more use than giving people with 210 IQs something else to bicker over during Star Trek conventions? Really, I'm an engineer, and sometimes I actually have to use math to do things like MAKE A FRIGGIN CAR OR SOMETHING.
There are plenty of nontrivial engineering problems out there, especially when you take a trip into thermodynamics and fluid flow. Let's solve those. Or sequence the human genome to grow an extra arm or something. Or better yet, let's put the computing power of mankind to work to randomly generate a script for Episode 3 that won't make us want to beat Lucas senseless with our plastic lightsabers. Why can people scrape together all these prizes for pointless pseudo-intellectual drivel but nobody can get some money behind something worthwhile, or at least interesting?
Here's an idea: Instead of using distributed computing for all this junk science, let's start a central distributed network. This network would have a basic interface element for all the major OS configurations, and would be able to update from the web with whatever mathematic formula and trial space it was supposed to run at a given time. Everyone everywhere could download the client, and set it up to run with whatever processor load they wanted, update on a schedule, maybe vary processor load on a schedule so it works extra hard when you're not using the system. Not much of an interface really. Then some organization, say the NSF or better yet an international science conglomerate, could alot portions of the system load to projects they deemed worthy, depending on complexity and value. The cost is basically nothing, in fact since you could get somebody on the planet to write the code for free one weekend, and the bandwidth would likely be rather low, you would most likely not be talking about the cost of funding a minor research project. Users could still run other distributed clients if they wanted, and the system would be completely voluntary. But it would attract a lot of attention and users, do some good for mankind, and direct our computing power in positive directions.
The answer is.
k=281183840311601949668207954530684
Great movie, really hard to understand ending.
These things obviously decrease the risk, but I believe that you can't eliminate the risk of cancer via environmental factors entirely. Cancer is one of those "shit happens" things about life. Our bodies aren't perfect, cancer is really a product of this fact.
XML causes global warming.
Don't you realize that once we contact the aliens they can cure all earth diseases with a flick of a tentacle?
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Oh, and want to see what is "state of the art computation"? See here.
Actually right now he is in custody, explaining the ballistics of a fully laden .223 round.
Later on he goes to tryouts for the goatse.cx cover model, sponsored by the Federal Bad Guy Rehab Prison.
Yea, I'm going to hell for that one.
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
"Now" and "No" are not the same word. They vaguely sound the same and have much the same spelling, but CANNOT be used interchangeably. In fact, such interchange could be disastrous given the worst-case context. Imagine the questions "Should I shoot?" or "Is the building clear for demolition?" or "Is Windows ready for mission critical applications?". Clearly "now" and "no" are not the same word, and I trust slashdot editors will check for this in the future.