$50,000 To Solve the Most Complicated Puzzle Ever 180
An anonymous reader writes "A team from UC San Diego is using crowd-sourcing as a tool to solve the most complicated puzzle ever attempted, which involves piecing together roughly 10,000 pieces of different documents that have been shredded. (The challenge is designed to reveal new techniques for reconstructing destroyed documents, which are often confiscated by troops in war zones). The prize for solving this jigsaw puzzle is $50,000, which the UCSD team has decided to share among the people who participate. If they win, you would also receive cash for every person you recruit to the effort! The professor leading the team, Manuel Cebrian, won the challenge two years ago, so his odds of winning again are great"
10,000 documents for $50,000 reward? (Score:4, Funny)
SHHH!! (Score:5, Funny)
Everyone in the civilized world is worried about what will happen if terrorists gain access to this technology. That's why most nations have signed the Fire Non-Proliferation Treaty, and it's why the International Combustive Energy Agency is working round-the-clock to keep this technology from falling into the wrong hands (while somehow also promoting civilian use of combustive energy).
You've got to be a lot more careful about talking about such restricted technology and its possible uses.
Re:SHHH!! (Score:5, Funny)
See also United States v. Prometheus for more about the penalties for divulging such classified information.
Re:Why are the documents shredded to begin with? (Score:4, Funny)
>>Don't worry, the next contest will involve a $75,000 prize to reverse entropy
I hear students from UCSD have already summoned a demon to solve this puzzle.
Name's Maxwell, something like that...
Re:Why are the documents shredded to begin with? (Score:3, Funny)