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Censoring a Number
Rudd-O writes "Months after successful discovery of the HD-DVD processing key, an unprecedented campaign of censorship, in the form of DMCA takedown notices by the MPAA, has hit the Net. For example Spooky Action at a Distance was killed. More disturbingly, my story got Dugg twice, with the second wave hitting 15,500 votes, and today I found out it had simply disappeared from Digg. How long until the long arm of the MPAA gets to my own site (run in Ecuador) and the rest of them holding the processing key? How long will we let rampant censorship go on, in the name of economic interest?" How long before the magic 16-hex-pairs number shows up in a comment here?
Errr, make that Rafael Correa. Hard to keep track of which Latin American country is being demolished by whom, nowadays.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
unless there is a special 64 in your imagination. Okay, I'll assume this is a genuine query, rather than a further attempt to be pedantic. Here's a question: what prime numbers multiple together to form 1458?
Answer: 2 * 3 * 3 * 3 * 3 * 3 * 3
If I wanted to be brief, I could write 2 * 3 ^ 6. Or, more informally, I could say that the prime factors are 2 and 3 ^ 6. The latter way of saying it is technically incorrect, but anyone who is even vaguely familiar with factors and prime would instantly understand what I, or the original poster, meant to say. The fact the first AC did not implies that the AC knew very little, and if so, why was he writing such scathing criticism? Anyone with any sense knows that it's a bad idea to voice loud opinions about subjects you know little about, as there's a good chance you'll wind up looking foolish.
yeah, let's mod up internet profiteering on a lame-ass design sweatshop item where the profits apparently don't even go to an anti-DRM cause.
I'm generally "Interesting," "Insightful," and even "Funny" here. What the hell happens to me at parties?