Donna

Exciting Friday night at home, watching this lame show "Numbers."  Premise of this show (no joke): two guys kidnap the daughter of a brilliant mathemetician who is very close to solving the Riemann hypothesis. Supposedly they want this because it will necessarily produce an algorithm that can produce a number sieve, and therefore hack lots of encryption systems. 

Since I don't know enough about math, I don't understand all the ramifications of a proof of the theorem.  What is especially ridiculous is that clearly the details of the proof are relevant for creating the number sieve, and I'm not sure how the kidnappers are supposed to have known this.  I just don't see how a proof of this theorem makes it so you can factor efficiently.

As long as they have flimsy story lines, they might have well been having the guy prove that P = NP and produce an algorithm for factoring.

I'm experiencing the hell that is color calibration.  Given that I have a very low-end LCD monitor, this isn't too surprising, but it's still frustrating!  It's probably a pipe dream, but does anyone have a cheap and easy solution?  Do I absolutely have to get a big clunky CRT in order to do photo editing?