April 1, 200620 yr comment_4807 Root beer flavoured Bottlecaps candy ... yes, I know you can get these, but it's just not the same ... Report
April 1, 200620 yr comment_4823 pop-rocks + mountain dew A girl in my class actually thought that would kill you. I gave her a break though, I think the bleach might have seaped into her brain, killing off a few cells. Report
April 2, 200620 yr comment_4859 Three Floyds Pale Ale beer, it's a local micro brewery here in NW Indiana. Report
April 3, 200620 yr Author comment_4905 to rock , or not to rock .. Well, that's an easy one for me to answer -- to rock! "Not to rock" just isn't an alternative. Report
April 3, 200620 yr Author comment_4911 That rock. This rocks: :rimshot: There's supposed to be a picture there. Report
April 3, 200620 yr comment_4923 Now this rocks...http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6265092168 Report
April 3, 200620 yr comment_4933 Now this rocks...http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6265092168 What is that thing? Report
April 3, 200620 yr comment_4934 Pay attention in history class. The engima machine is the code machine that hte germans (and japanese) used during WW2. That we were able to break the code and not let on is the real reason ww2 ended the way it did... Report
April 3, 200620 yr Author comment_4936 What is that thing?Dude, that's the Enigma Device. THE enigma device. EDIT: What he said. Tres cool. Rocks. Report
April 4, 200620 yr comment_4968 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine the eniac was cooler, but slightly larger.. they used it to crack the engima cipher http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/comphist/eniac-story.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC Report
April 5, 200620 yr comment_4970 Pretty sure eniac enigma was cracked by hand mathematically. The ideas lead to eniac, however. Report
April 5, 200620 yr comment_4978 ENIAC had nothing to do with Enigma, though ENIAC rocked. they used it to crack things encoded in engima. It was one of the applications it was used for, amongst other things. I've read that in a few places. Report
April 5, 200620 yr comment_4979 gawk is right also, alan turing who did help crack enigma was an important person in the development of eniac. maybe i'm smushing history together, but I do believe I read that somewhere. http://www.hacknot.info/hacknot/action/showEntry?eid=75 Report
April 5, 200620 yr comment_4982 My understanding is turing, who cracked enigma, was primarily responsible for the concepts, but never participated in the actual design of the hardware. He was more the type to enjoy ideas but who found actual implementations boring. I could be mistaken, I'm not sure how much of the character Alan Turing in Cryptonomicon was real and how much was fictionalized. In a bit of trivia, one of my college advisors was on the design team for eniac... Report
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