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February 2009

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Waiting... watching...

—srikanth @ 21:00

Identify this gedankenexperiment…

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…and tell us what other famous term owes its origins to this experiment.

Part cracks: Kal, Ps, p vs np, udupendra, Vijay Shankar, Raghuvansh, Mo, Neeraj and Abhishek

Full cracks: sne, Dibyo, shrik, nisha’s thambi, username, duriel, priyananda

Har har I made a joke!

Kal, Ps, p vs np, sne, Dibyo, shrik, udupendra, nisha’s thambi, Vijay Shankar, username, Raghuvansh, duriel, Mo, priyananda, Neeraj and Abhishek


abcdefg

—devadutta @ 23:59

What are these a “bad choice” for?

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Latest studies :)

Cracked by: Raghuvansh , duriel , username , shrik , karthik , Dibyo , Nakul and nisha’s thambi.Nice job!

Raghuvansh, duriel, username, shrik, karthik, Dibyo, Nakul and nisha’s thambi

Show Answer

These are very bad choices for passwords!


Friday, February 6, 2009

City of angels

—srikanth @ 21:00

Super simple plaintext question for today. What eatery connects Leigh Brackett, Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, Robert Heinlein, Henry Kuttner, Emil Petaja, and Jack Williamson?

Cracked by username , AmK , priyananda , p vs np , nisha’s thambi , Ananth , Sharada , Raghuvansh , karthik , Jean Valjean , mach101 , Dibyo , Kal , Aparna , duriel , madhur , Pawankumar Hegde , sidsen , udupendra and piezocake (who must be getting a commission).

username, AmK, priyananda, p vs np, nisha’s thambi, Ananth, Sharada, Raghuvansh, karthik, Jean Valjean, mach101, Dibyo, Kal, Aparna, duriel, madhur, Pawankumar Hegde, sidsen, udupendra and piezocake


Thursday, February 5, 2009

Spectacles Needed

—devadutta @ 23:49

Before After

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What?

Cracked by: shrik , username , Kal , AmK , nisha’s thambi , karthik , yaksha , Goyal , Martin , abhinav k , Sharada , dheeraj , nishansolo , Prasad , Sridhar C , Ananth , Aparna , calvin , darthshak and duriel.

shrik, username, Kal, AmK, nisha’s thambi, karthik, yaksha, Goyal, Martin, abhinav k, Sharada, dheeraj, nishansolo, Prasad, Sridhar C, Ananth, Aparna, calvin, darthshak and duriel

Show Answer

Improvement in Hubble Telescope’s images after fixing the spherical aberration on its main mirror.


Wednesday, February 4, 2009

These results just don't make sense!

—srikanth @ 21:00

Identify and connect:

  • 004876b93d640327c6a2fba11913f5a1
  • 61eefd3ae5808191ea087cdca343c713

Cracked by udupendra , Kaiser Soze , Kal , Raghuvansh , duriel , username , Sharada , p vs np , Nakul , Aparna , priyananda , shrik and nisha’s thambi.

udupendra, Kaiser Soze, Kal, Raghuvansh, duriel, username, Sharada, p vs np, Nakul, Aparna, priyananda, shrik, Ananth and nisha’s thambi


Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Ding!

—devadutta @ 22:26

Although buildings like the one shown in 1 were technically possible, it was considered to be impractical and not built until people like 2 invented and perfected X. Identify 2 and tell us what is X.

  1. 10ddedc78d84b457766c96b9c7e8897c 2. c0bdb449d0c23c22ae0255c422091f84

Cracked by: Raghuvansh , Prasad , Kal , AmK , Dibyo , p vs np , Martin , username , udupendra , Rohan , Debasish , nisha’s thambi , karthik , sumo_ftb , Ananth , Aparna , duriel , Jo , darksideofchand , Pawankumar Hegde , Ps and sidsen.

Raghuvansh, Prasad, Kal, AmK, Dibyo, p vs np, Martin, username, udupendra, Rohan, Debasish, nisha’s thambi, karthik, sumo_ftb, Ananth, Aparna, duriel, Jo, darksideofchand, Pawankumar Hegde, Ps and sidsen

Show Answer

2 is Elisha Otis and X is the “Elevator”


Monday, February 2, 2009

Winge-ing it

—srikanth @ 21:00

What connects this exhaustive chronological list?

  1. Larry Wall
  2. Miguel de Icaza
  3. Brian Paul
  4. Guido van Rossum
  5. Lawrence Lessig
  6. Alan Cox
  7. Theo de Raadt
  8. Andrew Tridgell
  9. Ted Ts’o
  10. Harald Welte

Cracked left, right and center.

Ananth, Goyal, karthik, nisha’s thambi, mach101, Prasad, AmK, Martin, p vs np, Kal, duriel, Rohan, Ps, Raghuvansh, yaksha, Atul Mathew, Jean Valjean, akhi, Debasish, priyananda, BASAB, udupendra, madhur, Dibyo, Aparna, username, varun, Neeraj, shenoyvarun86 and blindo


Sunday, February 1, 2009

asdfgh

—devadutta @ 22:29

Who is this guy?

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Hint: His followers invariably hate the guy below and get into bitter flame wars on the internet saying the guy above is better(recent research has evidance to prove otherwise)

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Update: Fixed image. Thanks to duriel.

Cracked by almost everyone.

Dibyo, Rohan, Martin, p vs np, Gurupad, Ps, calvin, Debasish, shenoyvarun86, Goyal, akhi, Kal, duriel, username, Raghuvansh, Jean Valjean, Mo, Prasad, AmK, shrik, priyananda, Miraj C. Vora, malcaluffin, Aparna, nisha’s thambi, Siddharth Jain, Ananth, Atul Mathew, karthik, nishansolo and kiran