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Barcodes: The Number of the Beast
Boomzilla continues: Barcodes were first developed in the railroad business to keep track of which cars went with which engine. The barcodes were imprinted on the side of the railway cars. The barcodes on each car could then be read together to compile information on that particular grouping; what station they came from, where they were headed, etc. thus automating the process of marshalling. When the business world realized how well this system worked, these railway barcodes evolved into the UPC system with which we are all familiar. To really be able to take in the wonder that are bar codes, check out the excellent FAQ created by Russ Adams and an article from the BBC.
Coming full circle, the clever folks at Bekonscot Model Railway in the UK have utilized barcodes at every turn of their expansive system. For example, an MP3 player is driven off barcodes attached to trains. The trains are announced before they arrive and when they are leaving, stating their destination, route and at what stations they will call.
Want a barcode of your name?
Bill Gate's picture were made of barcodes from products Micro$oft 'destroyed' through illegal competition. I'm sure there are plenty of them ;)
What about all those games that came out a year or so ago with commercials exhorting kids to run around grocery stores ripping things off of shelves in an attempt to "power up" their videogame creatures? Those were cool...er...stupid.
I got a big tattoo of my SSN in barcode format right on my forehead.
That way people know who I am.
It is unclear from any of those links if this makes me cool or not.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
The use on train cars was not without problems. Some roads ran the cars through a sprayer before trying to read the codes. Union Switch & Signal installed competing systems that used inductive loops; obviously more expensive but high reliability.
Barcodes would be a good way of keeping track of prisoners to see where they are and have been.
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Actually, the number is right here.
If you look at some barcodes on products, you will see that the number 6 corresponds to 2 thin lines with small spacing between them. Then you will also notice that all barcodes start with 6, have a 6 in the middle, and end with 6. So every product bought and sold with a barcode contains 666, the sign of the beast...
Glad to see those things got a use past Mail in rebates. Never did like sending in those UPCs though, seems like a huge hassle for a little picture of a bunch of bars. Why can't they just be like removeable stamps that you just tape to the envelope or something? oh well, so much for my troll. btw, nice artwork.
"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is." G.W.Bush
A surpremely ironic post, sir.
Barcodes: The Number of the Beast
It never occurred to me that Satan might be living in my UPC symbols. Now I need a priest to accompany me to the grocery store.
The coolest voice ever.
This reminds me of a recent escapade that my good friend Julius and I recently blundered through. Our favorite magazine is "Club", a prestigious journalistic wonderworld of intelligence and quality. We decided to have the barcode for that magizine tatoo'd onto our male members. Painful, yet oddly spiritual.
Standard UPC bar codes consist of a set of lines to mark the start of the code, the left hand part of the code itself, another set of marker lines, the right hand part of the code itself, and a third set of marker lines:The marker lines are "0101", "01010" and "1010" respectively, where 0 is white and 1 is black.
Now, the encoding scheme is complicated, but it just so happens that "0101" if treated as data on the left hand side would decode to the digit "6".
Similarly, "1010" on the right hand side would decode to a "6" if it were data. The middle also has a "1010" or a "0101" depending upon how you want to look at it.
Hence every UPC bar code has "6...6...6" built into it.
There are some technical niggles with the theory. The middle marker has that extra white bar on the left, but this can be explained away by saying that a gap is needed before the next coded part starts, or that it is to make the thing scan both ways. Yup, it even reads "666" if you play it backwards.
In "The Master of Space and Time" Rudy Rucker jokes about this theory by having an alternate universe where people pay for their groceries by having the checkout operator swipe a UPC code that's tattooed on their foreheads.
How did I ever go on in life without know this stuff?
I'm trying to replace my useless trivia knowledge with something more worthy of knowing. This isn't helping...
So, seriously, what's up with the barcode expose? Is it that slow of a news day?
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
We need smartchips, not barcodes.
The 666 bugaboo has been attributed to so many different things, it's impossible for anyone to take it seriously. The pope, Ronal Regan, barcodes, socal security numbers, driver's licenses, you name it.
Does anyone remember the game barcode battlers??? You used bar codes from anything you could find and swipe them through a reader and they would give you stats for your character to fight other characters. Really neat idea. Ahh early 90's technology... hehe.
I have seen UPC barcodes on everything, of course.
Are they truly Universal? What is the namespace? Is there some trade association that keeps track of all of them? Or does each store have their own systems? How are collisions avoided? If you create a product, how do you register a UPC?
How about different countries? Does France have a different barcodes (or a different barcode system) from the US? How about other parts of the [non-western] world?
Rehearsal for extinct anatomies is a short animated film by the Brothers Quay that uses barcodes for backgrounds and sets. And as usual for their work, it's bizarre and surreal.
So exactly what does that bar code on the back on my neck mean? I had it scanned at the grocery store, it seems I'm cheap and can be bought for $6.66
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson
Bar codes have been in use for much longer than that - see for example these animal barcodes
Mediachest.com lets you scan in the UPC's and ISBN's on the back of DVDs, Games, CDs, and video games and keep track of your collection. You can even use an CueCat to do this.
http://www.mediachest.com/
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what does it mean for a person to be able to read and write in user group world, without being able to execute?
rw-rw-rw-!
My cat has a chip.
If you have a Cue Cat, save it. The patents and technology created by DigitalConvergence will again be available for business and consumer use.
If you are looking for a Registration code or To be continued...
Do you share this dream?
I think that if you scan this one with a Cuecat, the world might end ...
in becoming an 'ex-scouser'? Did you have to lose up your Liverpudlian accent?
For anyone who is interested, and doesn't already know: http://www.timandjeni.com/study/upc.html
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The 666 rumor comes about from illiterate, non-mathematical conspiracy theorists.. On a barcode, the black bars represent 1 and white bars represent 0. Most of us, I hope, understand that. When the barcode scanner reads the barcode, it must know when to start reading and stop reading, and it does this by finding the code "101" you see at the beginning and end of the barcode. Also, in the middle of every UPC is a 01010 combination, which basically tells the scanner that it has reached the middle of the barcode. The beginning, middle, and end lines are longer than the rest, and some people think that these longer lines represent the number 666. Actually, 101 in binary is 5, so if you are that paranoid and into conspiracy theories, the longs lines on the barcode read "555"
you realize that fortknox has a powerful troll that everyone knows, right?
the fortknox account is for karma whoring but piss people off at the same time.
a damn good trolling account if i've ever seen one!
Andy Deck has reinvented classic literature with Bardcode
Did anyone else read that as Andy Dick? I thought the only things andy dick did was get naked and fall down a lot.
Artemy Lebedev has almost the same name as me!
Even cooler than barcodes is RFID. You don't even have to aim to get it to scan correctly. The only problem is the printers that you let you arbitrarily mark the tags are expensive; about $1000, whereas barcodes can be printed on anything with black ink.
BUT!!... optical scanners are expenive ($250 and up). Yet you can get a RFID USB reader for about $60. It comes with a few premade tags. You can buy pre-signed RFID tags for less than $1.00 each, and a sheet of them can usually be run through a printer; then you could have barcodes AND RFID.
We're considering using such a system to do inventory control. Fun!
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
What about Star wars in ASCII in barcode?
If you do nothing else, be sure to raise the hair on the heads of these unsuspecting Russian artists as they see the traffic on their server spike beyond reason or expectation...
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And Now For Something Completely Different: The definitive book on barcoding is "The Bar Code Book" by Roger C. Palmer (4th ed., (c) 2001 Helmers Publ., Inc., ISBN 0-911261-13-3). How do I know so much about barcodes? Trust me - you don't want to know.
Laws affecting technology will always be bad until enough techies become lawyers.
...with the recruitment policy of our local hardware superstore.
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B&Q is a large DIY chain in the UK. They might be in the US, I don't know. They have a policy of only employing people over 95 years of age.
So you get to the checkout with your self install kitchen. A little old 97 year old lady has now got to try and
a) locate the barcode on each item of your self-install kitchen, containing many items that are several orders of magnitude BIGGER THAN SHE IS.
b) having located the barcode, get her scanner to it.
O.k. - I never thought I'd find a forum where this story might even have the slightest relevance but here we are.
For a few years I worked for Safeway Food and Drug as a File Maintenance Clerk. I printed pricing labels and hung them on the shelves. I made price signs, applied the batches to change prices, etc.
Safeway has a system in place on the registers where certain activities require a manager with an override card. Checks of a certain amount, large voids, all kinds of stuff.
Since I worked on the computers all the time I was the one who changed the message on the bottom of receipt tapes- with the manager name- when we got a new manager. One day I'm moving around in the file that contained that information and I find all these long numbers in one location. They were all the managers override numbers.
Here's where the barcode part comes in. I wanted my own over ride card. I went into the software I used to print price labels and took a single record and changed the UPC of a product on the label to an override number. When I printed the label- the barcode in the corner for ordering now read the override number.
I cut the barcode part out, peeled the back and stuck it to a card I carried in my wallet. Now any time I needed an override I could just scan that card over the register scanner.
On a side note- I called company security and told them that all the manager codes were in plain text where anyone could see them in the machine. They told me it was o.k. because noone would ever look there. Kind of funny. It is probably still that way.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
It is, of course, Abbey Road not Abby Road and they are alive and well and still playing games with the famous photo (and have a webcam pointed at the zebra crossing so you too can see loads of tourists getting nearly run over while trying to re-create that photo). Plenty of geek technology there too, for anyone who's into serious playing around with analog and digital sound recording and manipulation.
Disclaimer: I do have links with people there, and yes it is a nice place to hang out (it's still the best place to record the soundtrack for big movies such as Star Wars, LoTR, etc).
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. - George Best
Let me guess. When decoded that barcode says "Paul is dead." are something similar. After all He IS barefoot in the picture. :)
That is what happened eventually with the NYC Deaf-Mute South American Slavers.
Instead of selecting submissive/non-assertive people, they selected Deaf-Mute people on the belief that they could not communicate.
Then they sent them out into NYC to sell junk (batteris, candy) at inflated "charity prices". It worked for about 2 years, then one of their "Deaf-Mute" people found someone that could understand the sign language they knew and told the cops.
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You know, I'm completely fed up with shit getting dressed up as art. Paint thrown at a canvas- it's just paint, thrown at a canvas. A bathroom sink, dragged out of a dump, is just a effin' sink, dragged out of a dump. I've seen both gussied up as "art", and it's not- it's a no-good, washed out artist, who couldn't think up something creative, got desperate to put the meal on the table...so they went "random", and dressed it up as creative; someone was stupid enough to fall for it(or they're hero-worshipping), and everyone else outright pretends, or convinces themselves to see something in it, all because they don't want to feel stupid. Random is not creative. Random is not unique, in the sense of unique = valuable; it's just unique.
Streaming the entire works of Shakespear as barcodes is just streaming the text of a book as a barcode. It has no creativity; it adds nothing to the original work; it serves no purpose; it cannot be appreciated or celebrated, and there would be no difference between using Shakespear or the latest copy of TPenthouse, as far as any observer could tell.
Please help metamoderate.
"Much creativity has gone into the use of barcodes for many more applications than originally conceived"
That's all well and good, but these sound more like art than applications...
(Sorry this post isn't longer, but I have to alphabetize my Harold Lloyd videos, hang a Finnish flag in my living room, and finish those bloody half-angle formulas before tomorrow.)
the nuber of The Beast was 555-1212!
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
but here you go:
Microsoft's latest wall poster
No, I don't remember who sent it to me. And I'm turning off the webserver in half an hour so I can go back to getting real work done, so somebody mirror the damn thing and stop hammering my home DSL. :-)
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
According to most slashdot posters: MSFT
That's gotta fit into your schema somewhere
Does that mean that my car has the sign of the beast, since the mileometer is currently sitting at 160,561.6 miles?
Wow, the subject says it all. The submitter gets off on barcodes a little too much I think...
Now, the encoding scheme is complicated, but it just so happens that "0101" if treated as data on the left hand side would decode to the digit "6".
It appears that the encoding is Gray Code, where successive numbers only differ by one bit.
Hence:
0000 = 0
0001 = 1
0011 = 2
0010 = 3
0110 = 4
0111 = 5
0101 = 6
Memepool?
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
My title to the post makes me think of shamen. Shamen throw bones to tell fortunes and future events. In the Bible they cast urem and thumen to determine selection of elders and clerics. I wonder if either of those are TRUELY read like barcodes or whether Shamen and Biblical figures made things up to suit the task at hand or the situation.
I had turned my name into a barcode a long time ago after watching THX 1138. They all had barcodes on them that told their names. I have my barcode printed onto a laminated card in my wallet. If I can think of it, I scan it in different stores. If read by a Walmart Barcode scanner I am a bouncy ball from the toy department 99cents.
Yell & scream & rant & rave... it's no use... you need a shaaaave ~ Bugs Bunny
Bill Gates, Ronald Reagan, Oprah, and ..... Marilyn Manson?? That about sums up the people I consume.
Trying is the first step towards failure.
This guy seems to disagree with your assertion that 1010 should be interpreted as binary:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=62458&cid=583Also, the marker lines are "0101", "01010" and "1010". So, going by your theory, it would be 588, not 555. Nice try, though.
Sounds like a bunch of hooey to me troll.
Please try again Mr. AC troll...
"Michael, I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing - and it was everything that I thought it could be."
IPMDII!
aaaaaugh, get it out of my head!
-Zipwow
I don't know which is more depressing, that 2/3 didn't care enough to vote, or that 1/2 of those that did are crazy.
Sally: How'd your research go?
Harry: Great. I was at the grocery store and... watch this: [holds up a can of corn] fat skinny skinny fat fat skinny fat skinny... $2.49. I cracked the bar code!
Sally: Good work!
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This site has an interesting article that fully explains how classic barcodes work, how you can decode the bars, etc. An interesting read.
I made a PHP/MySQL library that prevents SQL injection & makes coding easier!
Standard UPC bar codes consist of a set of lines to mark the start of the code, the left hand part of the code itself, another set of marker lines, the right hand part of the code itself, and a third set of marker lines:
True...
The marker lines are "0101", "01010" and "1010" respectively, where 0 is white and 1 is black.
True...
Now, the encoding scheme is complicated, but it just so happens that "0101" if treated as data on the left hand side would decode to the digit "6". Similarly, "1010" on the right hand side would decode to a "6" if it were data.
Here's where you diverge from the truth. Numbers are represented by 7 bars, each either black or white. The code for 6 on the left is 1011110, and on the right is 0101000 (where 0 is white and 1 is black). Thus, there is no 666 in bar codes. Not even kinda-sorta.
See my website for more info. Or, read the Snopes article on the matter. But please, stop spreading this dis-information.
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It seems to be an appropriate story to post the URL of my quite old (7.5 years) EAN13 applet.
I actually do have a buddy who had his SSN in barcode format tattooed on the back of his neck (as a comment on privacy erosion, etc.), about 10 years ago... I think we were still in high school.
I just went to his wedding last year. Forgot to ask the bride what she thought of it, though.
There are only 10 types of people: those who understand decimal, those who don't, and, uh, 8 other types I forget.
Hexadecimal of the Beast!
My current license plate is CHY 6766.
Yep, that's "Christ Hates You", and 666 with a broken crucifix in the middle.
No, there aren't any other possible interpretations!
There are only 10 types of people: those who understand decimal, those who don't, and, uh, 8 other types I forget.
Why do I suspect there will be a new version of the AllYourBase song with barcoded "All Your Base..." everywhere?
Mmmm.. Donuts
How does one become an ex-scouser?
to thoose of you whom are wondering what a scouser is; It's someone who hails from Liverpool, Mersyside, England.
No matter how hard you try, you can not change where you are from
nor should you want to
unless you are a manc.
This reminds me of the typewriter art by Paul Smith. He creates pictures using a typewriter (primarily the @#$%^&*()_ symbols). Pretty cool stuff all in all.
"I have a porkchop, you have a porkchop. I have a veal, you have a veal".
I HIGHLY recommend everyone check out 'Jennifer Government' and the related simulation website 'NationStates'
An exerpt follows:
"Welcome to paradise! The world is run by American corporations (except for a few deluded holdouts like the French); taxes are illegal; employees take the last names of the companies they work for; the Police and the NRA are publicly-traded security firms; and the U.S. government only investigates crimes it can bill for.
Hack Nike is a Merchandising Officer who discovers an all-new way to sell sneakers. Buy Mitsui is a stockbroker with a death-wish. Billy NRA is finding out that life in a private army isn't all snappy uniforms and code names. And Jennifer Government, a legendary agent with a barcode tattoo, is the consumer watchdog from hell."
Jennifer Government
These people looked deep into my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined.
Couldn't find it, I wanted to estimate the size of a Linux distro in Paperbyte form. Ow!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Do they support most standards, or only a specific one? Also, while its' convienent; i shy away from the ones that are designed to pretend you typed the product code on the keyboard (unless it shows up AS an additional usb-hid keyboard). Links, please!
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
Mmmmmmm....mustard and banana sandwich.....
If you thought the Latin names for animals were hard to pronounce, you're gonna hate this:
"Animal 'bar codes' to take over from Latin names"
Of course, you should have seen it coming... it was foretold in the Bible!
I work for a major political organization. We use barcodes to identify and check off people who vote in certain primaries. Using barcodes streamlines our processes and increases our accuracy.
Each registered individual is assigned a barcode. There's a person at every precinct in the state/district checking off names of people who show up and vote. The paper data is subsequently returned, and the bar codes of individuals that voted are scanned in.
The photo (is it a real photo?) "New Windows" by Sergey Pronin could be a very clever example of steganography. Who would read there a barcode.
But I suspect that after you send the first 2400 pictures of steamy windows to your partner, the authorities will start investigating.
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Men with no respect for life must never be allowed to control the ultimate instruments of death.
GW Bu
http://www.re-code.com/
choose your own price.
print your own upc.
and it's art.
Yesterday, Noone was saving our forests, now he's into security systems. I think Noone should be tracked down, sounds dangerous!
I just got a popup ad for barcodes after i went to "Read More..." link...
too bad i'm not using Mozilla at home.
check out the http://www.re-code.com
What was Re-Code.com?
It was a web site that allowed users to enter information about products they purchased into a database that was then publicly searchable. This inormation included, name, brand, store, UPC ID number, price, and packaging material. It used the UPC number of the product to generate a representative bar code in real time on the user's screen. The web site itself was made to look very similar to Priceline.com. A step through visual guide and a commercial that dramatized the act of switching UPC bar codes were shown on the site. It did not PROMOTE theft anymore than movies, books, art and other forms of media PROMOTE theft. We find it absurd to think that someone would visit our web site and then decide to go steal because of what they "learned" from Re-code.com.
How did you make money?
We didn't. We were just a few kids trying to find a voice. One of our major flaws was making our site and video look TOO PROFESSIONAL. We are not a corporation . It was not a scam to make money. We are not a threat to national security. We had absolutely no business model.
Where can I get your source code?
You can't right now. Funny thing is, the site wasn't hard to make. Try searching for "barcode generator" on google.com. You will find the same things we found. We expect that other people might create sites similar to ours with a different look and feel since all we had was a simple MySQL database that was searchable and a script to generate barcode images from a string of digits. Technically, it was not a difficult site to build and took only a few nights. Since we are in a very grey area if we distribute code right now, we instead encourage our fans to do a little extra work and, well, do-it-yourself. We were running MySQL and PHP4 with GD Library and TTF X11 support.
Why is it no longer around?
After pressure from the corporate thought police including a cease and desist letter and thousands of angry emails threatening such things as exile and eternal damnation, we decided to remove the site from the web. Many large global corporations were TEAMING UP to come after us. We should say we don't think Priceline.com was involved at all so we thank them for being good sports - after all they were one of our original main targets. We feel as though we did our job and we don't want to maintain a database forever anyways. People can be very mean though.
Heil Sig! -Rob
"Do you ever get the feeling that you're being followed?
Are you not familiar with the book of Revelations of St. John, the final book of the Bible prophesying the Apocalypse? They forced everyone to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead so that no one shall be able to buy or sell unless he has the mark, which is the name of the Beast or the number of his name, and the number of the Beast is 6-6-6.
What can such a specific prophecy mean? What is the mark?
Well, the mark is the bar code, the ubiquitous bar code that you'll find on every bog roll and every packet of Johnny's and every poxy pork pie and every bar code is divided into two parts by three markers and those three markers are always represented by the numbers 6... 6-6-6!
Now what does it say? No one shall be able to buy or sell without that mark. And now what they're planning to do in order to eradicate all credit card fraud and in order to precipitate a totally cashless society - what they're planning to do, what they've already tested on the American troops - they're gonna subcutaneously laser tattoo that mark onto your right hand or onto your forehead. They're gonna replace plastic with flesh!
FACT!
In the same book of Revelation when the seven seals are broken open on the Day of Judgement, and the seven angels blow their trumpets - when the third angel blows her bugle, wormwood will fall from the sky, wormwood will poison a third part of all the waters and a third part of all the land, and many many many people will die. Now, do you know what the Russian translation for 'wormwood' is?
'Chernobyl'!
FACT!
On August the 18th, 1999, the planets of our solar system are gonna line up into the shape of a cross. They're gonna line up in the fixed signs of Aquarius, Leo, Taurus and Scorpio, which just happen to correspond to the four beasts of the Apocalypse as mentioned in the book of Daniel!
Another FACT!
Do you think that the amoeba ever dreamed that it would evolve into the frog? And when that first frog shimmied out of the water and employed its vocal chords in order to attract a mate or to deter a predator, do you think that that frog ever imagined that that insipient croak would evolve into all the languages of the world, into all the literature of the world? And just as that froggy could never possibly have conceived of Shakespeare so we can never possibly imagine our destiny. Look, if you take the whole of time represented by one year, we're only in the first few moments of the first of January. There's a long way to go. Only now we're not gonna sprout extra limbs and wings and things because evolution itself is evolving. When it comes, the Apocalypse itself will be part of the process of that leap of evolution. By the very definition of Apocalypse mankind will cease to exist, at least in a material form. Well, he'll evolve into something that transcends matter, into a species of pure thought, you with me?"
The neutrality of this sig is disputed.
very nice. But damn, move the signature into either corner, not the middle of the picture.
what the hell are you going on about? I mean... christ, i thought all the religious nutters were confined to the streets of major cities, but evidently, they've found slashdot.
This is fantastic! I'm glad others are working in this field. I myself have developed a system for turning the classic works of Greek and Roman lyric poetry into dust, digitizing pictures of this dust, and sending them over TCP/IP to your cellphone, which you can then place in your ass.
<deadpan>It's really innovative<\deadpan>
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
Why was the price included as part of the barcode? I thought that the idea of a barcode was to contain a unique identifier that could be matched up with an item in the Stores database to get the price and inventory information. As I understand it the recode issue involved people printing their own fake barcodes with a reduced price and then using them to buy stuff in stores. I don't understand how this could have worked when the item price should not be a part of the barcode itself. Unless they were swapping the code on one item with one from a similar but cheaper product. But you hardly need to use a website to do that!
"Taligent is still pure vapor. Maybe they'll be the last who jumps up on Openstep... "
Nice quote, I thought of it too when I saw this story - I heard it sampled on CD1 of Nick Warren's GU024 Reykjavik album, know where the quote is from originally?
Nice quote, I thought of it too when I saw this story - I heard it sampled on CD1 of Nick Warrens GU024 Reykjavik album, know where the quote is from originally?
Just one click away from the FAQ is the Bar Code History Page which tells a very different story. Modern bar code began in 1948, from a project to automatically read product information for groceries store. The railroad system was implemented in 1967, but For many reasons, the system simply did not work and was abandoned in the late 1970's.
Get the facts straight.
Signatures are supposed to be funny?
What about Rouge City in the film A.I.? They used circular barcodes to make 3D-space reference points for the CGI designers.
Aquarius, Leo, Taurus and Scorpio, which just happen to correspond to the four beasts of the Apocalypse as mentioned in the book of Daniel
Water bearer (human?), lion, bull, scorpion.
The beasts in Daniel are lion (with wings), bear, leopard (with four heads and four wings), and an dreadful unnatural beast with eleven horns.
Not much of a match, really.
Revelation, like the rest of the bible, is about the gospel of Jesus Christ. If the interpretation has nothing to do with the gospel (like microchips), it isn't going to be right.
I have tracts on my website that directly relate those passages back to the gospel. They're standard witnessing tracts, except they also link prophecy.
http://home.fuse.net/gospel
I haven't put up a history section yet, but its the same interpretation the leaders of the Reformation gave: The pope is the antichrist. You can find that information elsewhere online.
When you scan it, it registers as a 6-pack of Milwaukee's Best.
The mark of Beast, if you will.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
The version I know and love appears on the Orb's criminally underrated Orblivion album, but the quote originally appeared in Mike Leigh's movie Naked.
The neutrality of this sig is disputed.
The Jews had a numeration system that gave each letter of their alphabet a number; 1 for aleph, 2 for beth, etc. until the 10th letter, then the 11th letter was assigned the value 20, the next one 30, etc. until you reach 100. The next letter would be valued at 200, etc.
Using this system, the values of the Roman alphabet would be:
A=1; B=2; C=3; D=4; E=5; F=6; G=7; H=8; I=9;
J=10; K=20; L=30; M=40; N=50; O=60; P=70; Q=80; R=90;
S=100; T=200; U=300; V=400; W=500; X=600; Y=700; Z=800;
If this is indeed the way the prophecy intended for one to calculate the name of the Beast (the Antichrist), some of the names that qualify are:
A mere bar codes do not qualify as "the number of the beast": the number and the mark of the beast will be imposed on all, as a sign of allegience to the rule of the Antichrist.
To call any other common device or mark the "Mark of the Beast" is to make light of the Mark of the Beast.
Here is a mirror of your image, direct from the very same state as microsoft!
Microsoft's latest wall poster
Hold on, someone is knocking at my door...
Patent: from Latin patere, to be open
According to their "Interfaces" page, these guys designed the 'Re-get' download manager. It looks neat, but it contains the spyware called Cydoor and Timesink. Goes to show you that just coz someone can make pretty pictures about modern life, doesn't mean they understand it, or have a morals.
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" - George Orwell
Don't forget what'll happen if you try to transfer the support contract to another owner. You'll end up paying for a service that you'll never recieve.
I have a problem. In our store we sell a number of delicate fabrics (for example, silk) which people use to make clothing/curtains etc. We would like to put bar codes on them. However, we dont want to damage the fabric in any way.
There are also no tags (the kind you see on most clothing items) for us to simply append a barcode/price tag to. We thought about just slapping a barcode sticker directly onto the fabric, however, it is too much of a mess for the customer to remove the sticker after they have purchased the item (in fact, they could potentially damage the fabric itself).
So, I'm wondering if anyone has a solution to this problem. What other options are there?
I always buy my coffee at the grocery stores that have the generic coffee beans right next to the premium stuff. There is usually a $2-3 per pound difference in price, but it all looks the same when it's rung up in the generic-brand bags...
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
Some may be interested to know that barcodes have been applied to music, too.
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German artist Günter Schroth has done work in barcode-controlled music, releasing a full album of his results. It is a rather interesting method, with a modified turntable playing EP-sized "barcode records," with a pen scanner instead of a needle.
A web site with much more information, as well as downloadable sample music can be seen here:
http://www.archegon.de/BarcodeMusic/barcodemusic.
wow my first mod point!
"Taligent is still pure vapor. Maybe they'll be the last who jumps up on Openstep... "
Is it only coincidence then that almost every product has some kind of barcode that contains 666 ? and that the most used bar code is the one with 666 on it ? (UPC 13(!!!), isn't it ?)
It's hard to swallow the coincidence part. And if one combines it with the theory that says "it is the most likely that you have been born near the end times" (due to the fact that population grows with exponential rate, it's more possible to be born when most people are born), then we have a killer event (as we say "killer app"!!!).
I am not a believer, I don't go to church except on easter (and for 15 minutes only), but seeing this makes me shiver. It's hard to dismiss it. I wish it was only a coincidence.
I never thought you could ever be an ex-scouser. If you are ever a scouser, you are always a scouser. Until death.
I stole this
in munich is called barcode.
The UPC will be gone eventually, replaced by the EPC.
Do what hardware stores do for screws and other loose items. Put a list of bar codes at your register, including the name or description of each item. When someone wants to buy silk, you enter the quantity and scan the bar code for silk from your list.
There is nothing in Revelation that would not have been unfamiliar to early Jewish Christians, steeped as they were in the old Testament.
Triple negative idiocy. Of course what I mean is that there in nothing in Revelation that *would* have been unfamiliar to early Jewish Christians.
--- Hot Shot City is particularly good.
Sonofabitch, your trying to be edgy and cool belittles those people that were FORCIBLY TATTOOED BY THE NAZIs . (most of who where soon shortly dead.)
I'm not trying to be flamebait here. Your unthinking behavior really rankles.
You, and all the other little peewees like you, SUCK!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Faith is believing in something that no rational/logical person would believe otherwise. You can't make shit this funny up (oh wait, I guess someone already did).
It's really sad that otherwise intelligent people believe in the tooth fairy (whoops I meant god).
Flame away, I live in the fucking bible belt, "In God We Trust".