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You know, a shotgun will easily remedy that problem. Why not a few remote/proximity mines?

I couldn't thank you, Wess and Alli enough for having the release come out this particular week. Same situation as comcipher, I've had three exams this week and very little sleep. Episode 2x03 will make my week that much better.

Found this, could be of use for anyone wanted to learn more about how this works or possibly considering take a stab at it. http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/qs.html

The moment before I passed out last night I had the idea of the rainbow tables (I knew I should have gotten up and posted about it before others). If you could generate all primes up the the digit length of the given semiprime, one could brute-force every possible combination between the two data sets and discard ones that have been tried. Yes, it would take a while to generate all of the prime numbers from 1 digit to 212 digits (or whatever number one goes after) but once completed, it shouldn't take that much longer to figure out which two prime numbers are factors of the semiprime. Next question would be, how many prime numbers are there in 1 to 212 digit-length numbers and how much storage space would this take up.

Darren, have you forgotten to take your medication this morning? And on a serious note, thank-you for working hard to get the release out. In alll honesty, the show release is the ONLY thing I've been looking forward to in this whole week. Many thanks and much respect.

That's what I was thinking but the logic behind it wouldn't work. Say you wanted to factor a basic function say, f(x)=x^3 - 3x^2 + 2x. This is obviously x = 0,2, and 1. But let's say you wanted to distribute the load between two computers. You would split the problem in two: 'x^3 - 3x^2' and '2x'. * The same way folding@home works, splitting up the work * Then the first computer would factor x^3 - 3x^2 = 0, which would then be x = 0, 3. And the other computer would have '2x = 0' which is zero. The point of this rambling being, I don't see how it would be possible to 'cut-up' the work of one particular problem because the anwsers in the end would not be correct. But I could be wrong, there may be some formula out there that would make it possible, especially for semiprime numbers.

Haha, easy guys. I kinda like this idea. It's rather rediculous for the vast majority of us (no wait, all of us) as we've got no where near the necessary equipment to factor the number but it's still interesting to read about something like this and learn more about it. Just too I just can't just enter it into my ti-84 plus and have it spit out the answer.

What he's saying is that he wants help factoring a very large, semiprime number using the GNFS algorithm: into the two prime numbers that when multiplied, equal the origional. And by doing so, make lots of money. The problem with this however, is that it takes a HUGE amount of processoring power to factor the number (200+ digits) and therefore he's looking for help from coders to possible create a program that would be run by us to help factor the number. I don't see how we could, as a group, help factor the number as it would have to be some sort of international cluster but hey, if someone's got an idea, let's hear it.

Please, type your posts in word, open office, whatever and spell check them. I want to help but your posts set off migrains in the back of my head.

If you're thinking of factoring a 212+ digit number with the machines we have available to us, there's no way in hell we could beat MIT, Stanford, U of M and every other top college who's certainly pitting their best against the numbers. It would take machinery that surpasses even that of metatron's to efficiently factor the number and whos to say it would be done before someone else. If we were to somehow find a way to distribute the cpu load (much like folding@home), then we could stand a chance but we might as well aim for a higher number because the majority of people will be working on the next to be factored. I like the idea and more than willing to donate time into this but I'm no coder but I am rather good at math so that's where I could help. PS, someone get metatron on this, he's got the serious hardware and a fricken phd in advanced mathmatics. <Raises Hand>

There has got to be a bulk lot of those on ebay somewhere. Probably with free shipping.

Neither would I, that's why I...wait a second. Well, it's an interesting idea nonetheless. Not bad, not bad at all.

Here's my question then: How is data saved on a vhs? If it's magnetic then theoritically it would be capable of holding magnetic data just like a hdd. Right? Wrong? I honestly don't know. I hav't touched a VHS in about 5 or so years.

Please tell me you're kidding. 127.0.0.1 is the default ip address for re-routing traffic back to the local host, back to you. Everything you send to the ip 127.0.0.1 is send right back or should I say looped back. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/127.0.0.1

Interesting analogy. But, one can respect why moonlit would keep the source disclosed for the time being.

Here's my fav. http://www.engadget.com/2005/11/15/how-to-...d-dish-antenna/ Built one using my fam's old DSS dish and I was impressed with how far away I was picking up ap's. One of these with a orinoco gold and you're doing well. Of course you could by one of these http://www.hyperlinktech.com/web/copyright...hg5808p_500.jpg but why buy when you can build?

If metatron had an assult mech, I would pay him 5000 dollars (us) CASH to pilot the thing for at least two hours.

Creative! But there's no way I'm going to sit there and watch a picture change every 30 seconds. I do love the project though.

what service is it?

I know, I'm just a little bitter because of the great deal you got on a roomba.

All I can say to that is, well, you lucky bastard. And, you ripped off a church! Sinner!

Liquid nitrogen anyone?

Where on Earth did you find a working roomba for 15 dollars? I've wanted one of those for the longest time because I want to mount one of those usb-rocket launchers on the top, r/c control the thing with my cell phone and mount a small camera on the front. All to attack my flatmate with.

Wow, that's quite in-depth. Edit: Who tf is hauser? 90 active processors, holy cow.

Rofl, makes me feel like a tree-hugging hippie just for watching that.