1) Factoring a 2-million-digit number 2) Concatenating the factors together in the correct order to produce a ciphertext 3) Which has been enciphered with AES(2048), and which must be broken.
First one to produce the plaintext wins. The plaintext becomes property of PuzzLotto, and is the current GPS coordinates of Osama bin Laden (with some random padding). Prize will be paid out of federal reward money, and is subject to verification.
Sure they've made some superfical changes, but until I have to remove the battery to change games and can turn it sideways to use it as a phone, I'll pass.
Why? IANAL, but as I understand it, the "fruits-of-poison-tree" argument only holds if it were the police (or investigative government body) who had accessed her account without her authorization or a warrant.
I would point out that CEOs actually are paid to be advocates for their stockholders, just as when I used to work overnight I was paid to stay awake and not be surly to customers.
The job you're paid to do and what you actually accomplish aren't necessarily correlated.
I disagree. You should be able to prune branches relatively quickly if you test the products of the candidates as you go along (starting with the least significant digit), testing against the last N^2 digits of the number you're factoring, where N is the number of digits "known-or-guessed" in your candidate pairs.
The real problem is that this method assumes that the factors are of similar size, and there are only two of them. Also, information is lost in the prccess of multiplication (for example, the number of bits is the product is not necessarily the sum of the numbers of bits in the multiplicands, though it often is). (From a guy who once tried similar methods to attempt factoring in log(n) time.)
Also, not to be a dick, but doesn't O(exp(lg n)) just reduce to O(n)? (even if you mean exp(n)=e^n and lg n = log-base-10 (n), you're really just multiplying by a constant...)
I've never used LexisNexis, but it appears the '!' is a wildcard.
'Racis!' would match to 'racism' or 'racist' - as in "he levelled charges of racism" or "was accused of being a racist." 'Controvers!' would match to 'controversy,' 'controversial,' etc.
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...the puzzle involves:
1) Factoring a 2-million-digit number
2) Concatenating the factors together in the correct order to produce a ciphertext
3) Which has been enciphered with AES(2048), and which must be broken.
First one to produce the plaintext wins. The plaintext becomes property of PuzzLotto, and is the current GPS coordinates of Osama bin Laden (with some random padding). Prize will be paid out of federal reward money, and is subject to verification.
...except as a country we're taking it about that seriously, and we're all losing.
[Me] But..I'm off your lawn! I'm standing in the street!
[ED 209] You have ten seconds to comply.
The blackdoor is known as "La puerta Negra"
Fixed it for you.
Sure they've made some superfical changes, but until I have to remove the battery to change games and can turn it sideways to use it as a phone, I'll pass.
at least he has a good story to tell! ...and a lot of free time in which to tell it.
Obviously it would inadmissible in court
Why? IANAL, but as I understand it, the "fruits-of-poison-tree" argument only holds if it were the police (or investigative government body) who had accessed her account without her authorization or a warrant.
Anyone who IAAL: care to clear this up?
It should be illegal to link to it.
Including internally.
I would point out that CEOs actually are paid to be advocates for their stockholders, just as when I used to work overnight I was paid to stay awake and not be surly to customers.
The job you're paid to do and what you actually accomplish aren't necessarily correlated.
Apparently, I'm one of about 5% of people they can't reliably find a mate for, so I've been using matC-14h.com.
Whoa there, sweetie. We don't use the "I" word in this house.
You too, huh? If you've got the time, that sounds interesting.
Uh, that should read N^2 - 1 because, well, I'm an idiot.
I disagree. You should be able to prune branches relatively quickly if you test the products of the candidates as you go along (starting with the least significant digit), testing against the last N^2 digits of the number you're factoring, where N is the number of digits "known-or-guessed" in your candidate pairs.
The real problem is that this method assumes that the factors are of similar size, and there are only two of them. Also, information is lost in the prccess of multiplication (for example, the number of bits is the product is not necessarily the sum of the numbers of bits in the multiplicands, though it often is). (From a guy who once tried similar methods to attempt factoring in log(n) time.)
Also, not to be a dick, but doesn't O(exp(lg n)) just reduce to O(n)? (even if you mean exp(n)=e^n and lg n = log-base-10 (n), you're really just multiplying by a constant...)
That joke is kind of old. They're now Dewey, Cheatam, Howe and Silverberg.
Can money buy you love?
Probably, but I'm still going to wait for Love SP2.
This ham gum is mostly bones!
I've never used LexisNexis, but it appears the '!' is a wildcard.
'Racis!' would match to 'racism' or 'racist' - as in "he levelled charges of racism" or "was accused of being a racist."
'Controvers!' would match to 'controversy,' 'controversial,' etc.
Maybe in base-13...dang.
Nice.
(For the real etymology of my nick, go here.
Hot dogs, ham radio, loud sex ... why does every suggestion in this thread involve pork?
Slashdot's "journalistic" process really suxors when it comes to this sort of stuff.
Wel of course it does. Slashdot is journalology, not journalonomy.
Thank god no one texts me duplicate Slashdot stories!
Me, I'd have gotten him a gift card to Tsotchke's. Or Flingers.
I'm surprised no one mentioned yet that this was the same computer that produced the oldest recorded computer music (found so far).