12 Jan
1999
12 Jan
'99
3:16 a.m.
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Sam Ismail wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Geoff Roberts wrote:
I don't think that's unsporting at all. With the latest and greatest
Pentium, all you have to do is plug a stupid little mini-tower into a wall
outlet. Victor and his gang will have to haul this huge behemoth home,
then figure out how to get the right power to it, then figure out how to
get the right cooling into it, then *pay* for that power and cooling to
run it, etc.
If anyone is audacious enough to take on such a challenge then they
deserve the advantage :)
Ok, upon reading further it seems that this is not quite the challenge
that I had imagined, but still, if they have to carry this up a flight of
steps or something then they deserve the advantage :)
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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Whether
participating in distributed crypto challenges (like RC5)
qualifies as "unsavory" is yet to be determined.
Nah. I suppose some might think it "unsporting", but it's just
jealousy...:^)