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The Search for Secret Shuttle Parts
Slashdot readers have been submitting this story about the search
for secret shuttle parts with all sorts of insane conspiracy theories attached to their cut & paste of the URL. It's apparently just the box that handled encryption for messages, so of course Uncle Sam wants it back. Quite the needle in a haystack tho.
So this is going to be the next spam, get your secret shuttle part, only $30
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You have to be kidding.
Secret Government Property?
They should have disguised it as an 8-track tape player.
To ensure perfect aim, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target
It was bound to happen. It allways takes a week or so before the theories start popping up.
Anyway I think it was the Aliens with the Communists conspiering to destroy the Anti-terror pact by exposing that the space shuttle doesnt go into space ata all and instead just flies around the place.
Mouse powered Chips, Open source Processors and Lego
Slashdot readers have been submitting this story about the search for secret shuttle parts with all sorts of insane conspiracy theories attached to their cut & paste of the URL. It's apparently just the box that handled encryption for messages...
A Slashdot editor actually READ a submitted article, and posted comments that seem reasonable and logically thought out?
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
And of course, there's no better way to keep people from being interested in opening a little black box than to write "Secret Government Property" on the faceplate.
Libertarians somehow believe that private businesses should be stronger than governments but weaker than individuals.
NASA has put forth numerous lies about the space program, such as spreading the idea that the "Moon": is not a ridiculous liberal myth.
.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
I don't believe a word spewed from the mouths of those bureacrats.
Have you been stalked by Seth today?
Secret Shuttle Part Sought in Texas Search
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NOT ANYMORE!
God bless the media
Ok, the veil of secrecy is off - it's a black-box text conversion device. To encrypt communications, it takes the first letter of the word, moves it to the end of the word, and adds an "ay". This type of encryption is also going to be replacing CSS for DVD's, so there's a lot of money being poured into finding it now. ;) Shhhh....
wow i didn't know rush limbaugh read slashdot
Mmmm .. Hax0red Canadarm2 and can of spray paint!
Its Bush's brain cell.
If you find it please return it, he has been operating without it for years and really needs it back.
You would think that people would have learned by now that putting "Secret Government Property" on a box is not a good idea. Write "Spectrographic Differential Analyzer" on it and everybody will just think that it's a really boring and useless piece of scientific equipment and leave it alone.
/. geek would find it and immediately start pulling it apart to see how it worked. Then they would *never* get it back.
Either that or a
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When I'm looking for stuff I always look at google and ebay first. If it isn't there, it doesn't exist.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Just curious. Are they using WEP? Is that what they are trying to keep secret?
DaHat writes:
"While it is a crash investigation and it is illegal to withhold what you know, if this top secret piece of decryption hardware fell on your lawn, you legal own it as it is on your property and you have salvaged it."
I cringe when I consider the fact that this guy gets just as many votes as everyone else.
My
Limekiller
Hey, we've got tons of 'Secret Government Property' at work... but a spectrographic differential analyzer, THAT's something I could use in my garage.
Written instructions given to the searchers in Bronson showed a picture of a faceplate from the device, which in white letters on a black background spelled out "Secret Government Property."
I love how they just stamp "Secret Government Property" on this box and expect it to be left alone if it was ever found somewhere just lying around. Come on, if you really wanted to keep something safe, would you just stamp that on it? Thats like leaving a sack of money in the street with a giant "$$" on it. Who wouldn't take it? Wouldn't it just have been easier to leave it a plain black box, that wouldn't draw too much attention?
SIGFAULT
"Mr. Annan! Mr. Annan! There's no air up here!"