Stanislav Shalunov writes "Jean-Luc Cooke posted a Usenet article
describing a distributed webpage-based effort (Chinese Lottery) to
find a collision in the ...
Collisions in T905/04/2004 06:25 AM T9 is the predictive text technology used by mobile phone vendors for
SMS input. If you tap in, say 269, T9 will guess that you mean "BOY,"
since 2 codes fo ABC, 6 for MNO and 9 for WXYZ. But what about
number-patterns that can stand for multiple words? T9 presents a list
of possible words, and invites you to pick the correct one. Sometimes,
these lists can be quite long: here, a perl hacker has written a
script to uncover common English words that share the same T9 numeric
code:
In Lab's High-Speed Collisions, Things Just Vanish
In Lab's High-Speed Collisions, Things Just Vanish03/29/2005 02:05 AM The bits and pieces flying out from the high-speed collisions of gold
nuclei at a laboratory have not been behaving quite as physicists had
expected.
Space Traffic Control: Steering Clear of Collisions
Lottery for Losers08/19/2004 09:27 AM The new Florida Lotto ad campaign is a real gamble.
Beat the Lottery!
Beat the Lottery!04/05/2005 12:30 PM Scientific Games expands its relationship with the Massachusetts State
Lottery.
How to Win the Powerball Lottery
How to Win the Powerball Lottery04/25/2004 02:39 AM Powerball is the poster child for the Multi-State Lottery Association
(MUSL). It is currently played every Wednesday and Saturday in 30
states by millions of people who are dumb enough to think that they
can actually win the jackpot. The truth of the matter is that somebody
will win the jackpot... just not you. And it's not because the odds
are against you. It's because you don't know how to successfully play
the lottery. Inside, I'll go over winning techniques from "how to
pick winning numbers" to "how many tickets to buy" and "which rituals
have the best payoff". I also go over a sure-fire way to win the
jackpot. Please gamble responsibly. If you decide to gamble
irresponsibly, smoke while you do it so that you at least look cool.
I booked myself a teleconference at 8 am on Friday - just because I
calculated a timezone difference the WRONG WAY! And now it's too late
to change it. ARG! Either timezones, or people who are bad at maths
should be declared illegal. I really, really don't like this timezone
lottery...
People who are not working for global companies do not know what they
are missing.
Update: Luckily other people did also screw up with the
calculations (I mean, out of like, five engineers, apparently only TWO
can count!?!?), and so the meeting's off. Phew. Saved by a
calculator.
Woman Who Won the Va. Lottery Is Broke (AP)
Woman Who Won the Va. Lottery Is Broke (AP)05/03/2004 10:55 AM AP - A woman who won millions in the Virginia lottery 11 years ago is
now deep in debt to a Florida company that lent her money using the
winnings as collateral.
Lottery Numbers and Books With a Voice04/09/2004 04:03 PM Telltaleweekly.com offers super-cheap audio books by MP3;
Randomnumber.info generates random numbers; Studyresponse.com tries to
centralize the recruitment of volunteers for online research.
Prisoner wins '£7m' Lottery prize08/10/2004 11:04 PM A man serving a life sentence for attempted rape wins a large sum on
the National Lottery.
'Medicare Lottery to Cover 50,000 People (AP)
'Medicare Lottery to Cover 50,000 People (AP)06/25/2004 03:44 AM AP - The Bush administration will give "50,000 lucky individuals"
chosen in a lottery up to a 16-month jump on Medicare prescription
drug coverage, paying for costly medications for cancer and other
illnesses this year.
Spam-A-Friend Lottery Tickets
Spam-A-Friend Lottery Tickets08/12/2004 04:30 AM Back during the first dot com boom years, the "email a friend" option
was particularly popular with most new sites, until it quickly turned
into the "spam a friend" offering. Most sites have worked to limit
the spamming -- and many people have finally realized that their
friends don't want to be bombarded by never-ending offers for things
they don't want over email. However, the online lottery service
LottoFun (based in South Africa) had a little glitch in their
spam-a-friend system. Even worse, since they promised to pay people
for each spammed friend that signed up, someone figured out a way to
send out more than the 5 friend spam limit the site set up. He
actually ended up spam
ming 8,000 "friends" before the site shut him down. The best
part, however, is that the man in question claims that all of those
8,000 people really are his friends, family or "people who have
e-mailed him before," and therefore doesn't believe he's done anything
wrong.
Orlando Wins NBA Lottery to Get Top Pick (AP)05/26/2004 09:12 PM AP - The Orlando Magic won the NBA Draft Lottery on Wednesday night,
giving hope to Tracy McGrady and company after a league-low 21 wins
last season.
Appeal to missing lottery winners01/04/2005 04:52 AM Lotto operator Camelot searches for winning tickets, as millions of
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