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Man Arrested For Enigma Theft
OwenF writes: "Well, the coppers have picked up some 50-year-old for stealing the enigma decoder. He's already out on bail, and they're still looking for a woman seen driving a red car at the museum. Very 'international superthief' type caper, if you ask me. Where's 007 when you need him?" I think it's clear to everyone that the woman in the red car is most likely Carmen Sandiego.
I think it's clear to everyone that the woman in the red car is most likely Carmen Sandiego.
Where in the world is she?
Breaks out into acapella song
Some anonymous coward dun wrote:
I would stand in shock, but I remember that not everyone on Slashdot is from the States or even from countries where the main computer in schools was either an Apple II or an 8086 (at least to my knowledge, a version of "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego" was never put out for the Speccy--pretty much the main computer, along with old BBC boxen, in the rest of the world outside of North America :).
Anyhoos..."Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego" was a game put out years back for the Apple II and for older PCs (I think there may have been a Macintosh version too, but my memory may well be addled there) that was ostenably to teach kids about geography and which featured this lady in a red coat named Carmen Sandiego and a large gang of henchmen who stole various and sundry historical artifacts/features/etc. Your goal, of course, was to find out just where the hell Carmen Sandiego and her henchmen were (and it subtly taught you geography and map-reading skills along the way). Definitely one of the better "educational" games that ever came out...
There were some sequels, if memory serves, such as "Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego" (where she was even going back in TIME to steal historically important stuff, the evil wench), but the original is still IMHO the best of the series...
And as for the little song folks have been posting, well...that's from the TV spinoff of the game (which was shown on PBS, our public broadcast/educational TV network here in the States--I'm not sure what the equivalent would be in other countries, other than the "cultural" channels) which was in a game-show format where kids had to (surprise, surprise) track down Carmen Sandiego and at the end take a bunch of markers and identify as many countries on a continent as they could in sixty seconds...great fun if you were a kid, and even educational for us grownups :) The song itself was done by a group called Rockapella that did (surprise, surprise) acapella songs, and they did all the music for the series (which ran for some two or three years at least).
Which is probably more than you ever wanted to know about Carmen Sandiego ;)
-Windigo The Feral (NYAR!)
IIRC, what the *British* navy were ordered to do was to get a hold of the code book (not the actual machine) used by the German Navy which gave the settings to be used for each day. The German Navy were a little more strict in this respect than the Wehrmacht, which allowed the operators to come up with their own settings.
The Code Books were made using special paper (rice paper?) and special ink (rose water?) and the enigma operators were under orders to throw the book into the water if they were ever captured. The water would make the book unreadable. However in this case, the captain just told the operator to abandon the sub, and he did not have time to destroy the code books.
MrCreosote Meow!Thump!Meow!Thump!Meow!Thump! "You're right! There isn't enough room to swing a cat in here!"
After the cracking of CSS, they must be looking for a replacement technology. The article said this was one of two Enigma machines in the world...I wouldn't be surprised if the other one goes missing as well.
Try out genigma. Runs on X, released under the GPL. Way easier than getting arrested.
-Waldo
Does this mean they'll stop questioning Kevin Mitnick about this latest computer crime?
Geoff
I think I see a trend here. Maybe for them it really would be easier to muzzle the entire internet than to produce p