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[twisterxiz]

Sorry thats me above ^^^ Apparently it didnt log me in for the post D=

[vapor]

Heh I was kind of interested to see if you'd get a reaction out of the script. It did kind of force the hand of the PMs. I'm sure they weren't ready for it to be solved yet (or at all)

I wonder if "outsider" is a reference to the virus. As the virus spreads, we'll see more text begin to become corrupted. In that case, 10,000 puzzle just may very well be a herring.

[AzureWolf]

[Nighthawk]

A small part of me is tempted to kick it off again, but it does seem obvious that they don't want that sort of thing.

I'm tempted to have it running for ONE account... It would take *only* 32 days to complete...

I don't think it's a matter of anger on their part... They should expect someone to try this, and I hardly consider this "hacking" or "brute forcing" a solution (especially if I have to wait 5 minutes after each attempt).

I think it's just a means by which they control the time it takes, slow down the game.

But if they expect that people are going to go through this amount of work for this long a time, got news for them... It's been almost a week and we've only gotten through 700!

[notgordian]

Status update to people who haven't been following along:

HelpEdna.com is host to an artificial intelligence that's currently trying to do some complicated DNA calculations, and needs our help. What an you do?

-REGISTER for the site by typing "login" at the command prompt. Now type "new." It will ask you for a username and password to enter for future logins.

-TYPE "GENETIC" and you'll get the puzzle. By typing certain letters, you can shift the beginning code to get it closer to the end code.

-STUCK? AzureWolf, awesome fellow that he is, created an applet that will tell you the solution to practically any combo. Go to http://peachmonkey.net/hackedna.php

-REPEAT AS NECESSARY. Sadly, the Powers that Be make you wait about 5 minutes between solutions -- that's why we need your help.

[Angelus78]

Very interesting.

[stinji]

what do you have to type in to enter the answer. it keeps saying invalid command

never mind. you enter each letter in one at a time

[stinji]

ill do as many as possible

[Angelus78]

What is the purpose behind helpedna?

[Xels]

so... this could mean that they want more people to join? the calculations will take about a month to finish at this rate...

by the way, hi, i'm new at the forum but not at the darkspore investigation,
you're amazing guys, i hope i could help you in the future

ps: sorry for my crappy english but it's not my native language

[Angelus78]

[Xels]

[stinji]

its possible, that since you have to log in, they are tracking how many you do, and maybe its just something to fill time for a month or two for some reason

[Xels]

for some reason, when i started to input the solution for one genetic puzzle, my operations count jumped from 100 to 443...

another finding: whe you type qr, np, rb or bn after genetic, the computer accepts the input and the operations count go down by one but nothing else happens...

[Nighthawk]