What news item would you like to see the most right now?

[garo]

Welcome back Bob! Another vote for your headline though there is little chance of it coming true.

[R.D. Silverman]

Originally Posted by garo

Welcome back Bob! Another vote for your headline though there is little chance of it coming true.

I am not back. I will not participate in any technical discussions.

I simply posted a non-technical opinion.

BTW, They should be tried for murder AND treason. And W has clearly
violated his oath of office to uphold the constitution (by his own admission
vis-a-vis illegal wiretaps).

[moo]

Already voted but mabey
A stable primenet server -_-

[M29]

The headline should read:

Nice hijacking.

And don't assume that everybody on this forum agrees with you. Take it to the Soap Box.

[Mystwalker]

Originally Posted by R.D. Silverman

My vote is "other"

The headline should read:

"Bush and Cheney impeached. To be tried for murder"

I thought of a related headline: "World-wide terror found neglectable - no more seeming 'argument' for cuts in privacy and civil right"

[garo]

Originally Posted by M29

Nice hijacking.

And don't assume that everybody on this forum agrees with you. Take it to the Soap Box.

Hardly a hijack. Look at the thread title. Those who disagree are free to post their own headlines :p

[cheesehead]

My "other" vote, after double-checking my reading of the thread title, had a motivation not too dissimilar to Silverman's suggestion. :-)

I'll take further details to the Soap Box.

[M29]

Originally Posted by garo

Hardly a hijack. Look at the thread title.

Playing with numbers, not words, I'd like to see:

Yotta-Q-Bytes Machine Unveiled. 107 New Mersenne Primes Announced.

[ixfd64]

Here's one I made up:

June 17, 2006

Fastest known factoring algorithm discovered!

Sometimes, rivalry isn't a bad thing. Two professors from opposing universities, John Stephenson, Ph.D, from the University of California, Berkeley, and Jesus Carlos, Ph.D, from Stanford University, have, working together, developed the fastest known factoring algorithm.

Factoring means to break a number into its prime divisors. For example, 29 factors into 2 and 13. Small numbers are easy to factor, but as number get larger, they become harder. A number will still be easy to factor if their divisors are small, but if a number consists of only a few divisors on roughly the same order of magnitude, it would be relatively difficult to factor. This is used in RSA encryption.

But things are going to change now. In April 2005, a team of scientists factored a 200-digit number of such type, using over a century of computing time. Now, with the new algorithm, a 1-GHz PC could factor a 500-digit number in two days.

Carlos and Stephenson have carefully considered the impact of this new algorithm on society's security needs. They are delaying the publication of the algorithm specifically for this reason. "Companies and individuals have until the end of December to update their encryption," Carlos wrote in a statement.

But one thing that will not change is the RSA Factoring Challenge which carries a prize of up to $200,000.

An RSA representative, who asked to remain anonymous, stated, "It looks like that we will have to start writing some checks soon."

[garo]

Originally Posted by ixfd64

Here's one I made up:

June 17, 2006

Fastest known factoring algorithm discovered!
...
For example 29 factors into 2 and 13.

[ixfd64]

Argh, stupid typo. I meant to type 26 - I don't know why I typed 29 instead. :\