Is P vs NP solved?
Vinay Deolalikar from HP Labs claims he may have solved the P vs NP problem proving that P ≠ NP. It’s literally a million dollar problem. Millennium Prize is offering $1,000,000 for the solution. This is very important for a range of problems including: cryptography, logistics, biology, mathematics, and innovation.
If P ≠ NP is true, it would allow a person to formally show that a problem cannot be solved efficiently, so attention could be focused on partial solutions or solutions to other problems. Or as I say in my talks about applying information theory to science, “Being able to prove something is impossible helps you focus on the things that might be possible.”
The other implication is that some problems can be proven to be harder to solve than to test that the solution is true. This is very important to cryptography. If P = NP then many of the encryption methods would be easy to break and would need to be changed.
Hard to solve, easy to check also directly relates to innovation. I run into this all the time. A company has what they believe is an impossible problem. After we apply the Predictive Innovation® and find the solution they think the solution was obvious. It was far easier to check the answer than it was to solve the problem. In fact it was so easy to check the answer they didn’t understand why it was so hard to find in the first place. I would not be surprised if P ≠ NP was proved.
Medicare.gov Ignores Security Problem Loses Disabled Woman’s Identity
Marjorie, a disabled 51 year old woman, lost her identity and she doesn’t even know it yet. Her data was mixed with another person’s data. Worse than just losing her identity, Medicare caused the loss and failed to fix it when told of the problem.
My mother receives Social Security, and is on Medicare Part A, B, C and D. She was setting up her online access to her Part C. These programs each have a separate online account even though all of it is overseen by Medicare and linked to Social Security. So she has a minimum of three online accounts and possibly five depending on which Part D plan she receives. Naturally she forgot the login information for one of the accounts.
My mother went to the www.Medicare.gov web site tried to login and was frustrated so she clicked the “Forgot Password” button. She entered her SignInID and Secret word. She changed her password and a confirmation email was sent to her registered email account. No problem, right? WRONG!!!
My mother changed the password and logged on but it said the account belonged to a woman named Marjorie who lives in another state. When my mother logged in she got Marjorie’s account with all of her medical data. Read more
Medicare.gov Ignores Security Problem Loses Disabled Woman's Identity
Marjorie, a disabled 51 year old woman, lost her identity and she doesn’t even know it yet. Her data was mixed with another person’s data. Worse than just losing her identity, Medicare caused the loss and failed to fix it when told of the problem.
My mother receives Social Security, and is on Medicare Part A, B, C and D. She was setting up her online access to her Part C. These programs each have a separate online account even though all of it is overseen by Medicare and linked to Social Security. So she has a minimum of three online accounts and possibly five depending on which Part D plan she receives. Naturally she forgot the login information for one of the accounts.
My mother went to the www.Medicare.gov web site tried to login and was frustrated so she clicked the “Forgot Password” button. She entered her SignInID and Secret word. She changed her password and a confirmation email was sent to her registered email account. No problem, right? WRONG!!!
My mother changed the password and logged on but it said the account belonged to a woman named Marjorie who lives in another state. When my mother logged in she got Marjorie’s account with all of her medical data. Read more
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