"which until recently required the use of powerful computers"

Sound like NP. If they are, and if the boy's solution is deterministic, it will be huge.

I found the method used by an old phone (don't remember brand and model) effective. If you enter incorrect password for the first time, it make you wait 10 seconds before you can try again. A second time, wait 20 seconds, third time, 40 seconds, 4th time, that 80 seconds for you, and it keeps going like that. It gives the real owner of the phone a chance to get it right, but if you brute force, the wait time goes up quickly

no wonder the images NASA shows us are sweet, warm, smooth, full, and very detailed. Must be a NOS tube they are using

it has to be rare and desirable to be a collector's item. I don't think the "Sony iPod" my friend bought back from Taiwan will be able to sell that high, even though it's pretty rare.

I don't think OQO is rare and desirable enough to demand 6.5K. Someone who is paying this amount of money either has a very specific reason to do so I think.

If they are advanced enough to visit our planet, they are probably want to study us more than anything else, pretty much like when we want to study animals in our own planet. And the best way to study those 'animals' is to not let them see you, right? They won't make contact with us perhaps because they couldn't find the effective way to communicate with us. I mean, just like we can't find the way to effectively communicate with the animals in the jungle we are studying.

If you don't believe me, just ask Lars.

the poor guy would not jump from the building, he would buy a gun, take it to his office, kill bunch of random people who happen to be there, and then kill himself.. mod me down all you like, but in a few months it will be office shooting again somewhere, as it always have been.

it says most of those who're leaving have Master or PhD. Master takes 2-3 years, PhD takes 4-7 years. So those people most likely started their H1 when they are around 25-30 years old.