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Wow, lol thats pretty amusing

I reverse engineered the answer, but doing "RClick->Play" is pretty funny

I'm betting the challenge is broken atm.

Perhaps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computatio ... operations would answer your questions.

You could come up with some equation as to how different each picture is from another and find the two pictures which have the lowest difference value. But thats assuming that the two pictures "look" very much the same.

I'm going to bet that they don't, but I haven't tested this to see

Don't put the <>'s in the URL. Also make sure you're doing proper URL escaping of characters if your password has anything unusual in it (punctuation, spaces, etc).

Other than that the url looks ok, thats how I did it for my solution.

I believe the server checks the input to the sql server and rejects certain patterns. /* comments must be one of them. BENCHMARK() is another no-no. Try something else

I don't remember the coordinates being in the water, but they may appear that way at first.

Thats basically the method I chose, only I had to write a fermat primality test, which I enjoyed
I switched the loops around, trying all possibilities of a given length, but basically the same idea.

Its indonesian. Something stupid about credit cards I believe.

If you're trying all possible characters for all positions, you will find the answer eventually.

The challenge is still in PHP.

That webpage is talking about submitting a web form through python. This isn't really necessary for the challenge as the challenge supports submitting your answer through the URL. Take a look at http://docs.python.org/library/urllib.html Thats the python library you'd use to download the challenge &...

This was a pretty fun challenge. Its method of "encryption" is not complicated. Theres no complicated dictionary/key/ or other external information needed.

The Chinese system is not being used for this challenge. Perhaps the challenge is flawed in that way, but the answer to this challenge doesn't use a complicated system for the beads. All beads have the same "meaning". Hopefully that isn't too much of a giveaway.

thats too big, so your method of using the abacus is too complicated. Its been suggested that, if you use the abacus in a very complicated way, you could represent very very large numbers. The answer to this problem doesn't require any terribly complicated method of using, however its not exactly th...

You have to figure out the password. Programmers have ways of making a program give up its secrets