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Dream jobs for the QC cast?
TheEvilDog:
I've gone with accounting with Hanners, but honestly, I see her more as an actuary. Still, she'd end up counting something with something for someone or something.
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 06 Feb 2011, 10:57 ---(I've changed the poll's time to run to 7 days, so presumably you can now adjust it again if you wish.)
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Thank you! Unfortunately the box for the time limit still doesn't show in the "Edit poll" -window. May be that simply cannot be changed? I will ask jwhouk and/or BorderRiever for advice on how they run the weekly threads. My plan is for this to be a slow paced thread, but we'll see how it works. It may be simpler to start another thread at some point, so that I don't need to bug you repeatedly?
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 06 Feb 2011, 10:59 ---I've gone with accounting with Hanners, but honestly, I see her more as an actuary. Still, she'd end up counting something with something for someone or something.
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:-) An excellent suggestion! A very demanding job, where you need a lot of training. A junior colleague of mine started working on the exams taking him towards actuarial work. He's half way there now, I think. This has been on top of his math PhD, but a doctorate is certainly not required. He's quite happy. You can study for those exams while working. Every time you pass one of the exams it shows on your salary slip starting next month. Not a bad deal at all!
Akima:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 06 Feb 2011, 10:26 ---Meanwhile you are all welcome to start suggesting better poll options for Hannelore.
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I'm amazed she hasn't already been snapped up by the NSA as a cryppie. I suppose the mad-scientist Dad and Bond-villain Mum might have something to do with it. It would be embarrassing to hire a SPECTRE princess...
Actually Marigold (programming) and Hannelore (mathematics) could be a formidable crypto-combination...
DSL:
Hanners makes one mean latte, as I recall reading.
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: Akima on 06 Feb 2011, 15:08 ---
Actually Marigold (programming) and Hannelore (mathematics) could be a formidable crypto-combination...
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Another good suggestion. I added it to the poll. FYI: RSA2048 is a math problem. Easy to understand, but no one knows how to solve this kind of problems efficiently. Cryptocompanies like RSA posted this kind of challenges to get a good idea of how much breaking their system (at some limited key size) would cost.
At some point my friends in crypto told me that NSA no longer has the best cryppies. There is just so much money in the commercial applications and NSA can't match that. As evidence in favor of this is that NSA insisted cryptological techniques to be included in the Wassenaar arrangement. The joke was that limit was put to system with secret keys of length 112 bits, because that's the longest NSA can crack (the field moves fast, so that 112 figure probably has been outdated for a few years now). That's what the hulabaloo with making PGP public was also about. It is too strong for NSA to crack. Of course, it may well be that the NSA just wants the rest of them to think that...
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