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Hitch-Hackers Guide To the Galaxy
An anonymous reader writes "Jay Beale, of Bastille Linux fame, has written a hacking puzzle short story based on Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It's called Hitch-Hackers Guide to the Galaxy. The short story is pretty funny and the puzzle lets you have some quick fun with web hacking. There are prizes for best technical answer and most creative (while technically correct) answer."
Its even funnyer when you relise what the question is, the ultimate question, "whats 6 times 7?", and why that question? Well, clearly the computer dirived that the awnser to the ultimate question about the universe, was that its so obvious, that the only way to express that, would be a number. And why 42? Because, it was bored, after soooo many decades of thinking, it decided that 42 was a number that made people feel good. You might hear horror stories about 48, religious hatred about 69, clearly anything over 99 is to big. anything less then 10 is to small. anything odd is just to weird, but 42? Nope, its a number people can see as neutral, a feel good number in a forest of hated, and scary numbers. Like a cup of hot coco with whiped cream and m&m's and a cold winter sunset, 42 is just a number people can enjoy, as its a number that isent feared. This is why 42 was chosen as the number, and that created the question to be "whats 6 times 7?", 6 and 7 multiplied creates 42, quite clearly, its the perfect question to the perfect awnser. Now, if this leaves you with a dry spot of "whats not a question!" or a hated "Thats not the awnser we wanted!!", then, you never asked the right question, as is clearly so, if the awnser you got was not for the question you asked. Since this is the case, its only safe to assume, the awnser to the question you dident ask, and the question you never wanted to ask, are related to your inability to grasp what you really wanted to know. For those with a better understanding of asking questions, then the awnser to the question you never knew to ask, the awnser you got, the awnser the biggest, and most expensive, and slowest calculator created from your inability to ask a actual question, will make more since, once you heard the question.
Now do you understand dear? Good, how about a cup of tea?