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Da Vinci Code Message Revealed
Ironsides writes "The message embedded in the Da Vinci Code ruling earlier this week has been cracked. The message reads 'Smithy Code Jackie Fisher who are you Dreadnought' and is a reference to an event from about 100 years ago. The encryption scheme itself was based on the Fibonacci number Sequence which is the same one used in the novel."
I think that this has been a nice bit of fun... I'm wondering if maybe we could start to get interesting little bits like this in all of our judgements and maybe even legislation... we could make that the full time job of the chancellor of the dutcy of lancaster. Also it at least made people aware of a very important man who is all too often forgot, but did some mighty fine work.
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"I'm the only one allowed to endlessly recycle the plot of 'The DaVinci Code' into other works", said Brown.
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You might need to lighten up. Not everything anyone ever does needs to be 100% productive to society, you know. Posting on slashdot comes to mind.
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Maybe I'm just ignorant, but the article is about someone's own Da Vinci-like code, not THE DaVinci code, as the title/summary suggests.
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...about Jackie Fisher and Dreadnought.
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All Your Base Are Belong To Us I kid I kid. There is a very interesting article on Wikipedia about the Smithy Code right here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithy_code The code was a little underwhelming though :(
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The text as originally decrypted, with the judge's supposedly intentional typographical error, reads in part "Jackie Fister who are you".
I am not making this up.
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It's good to see our public servants have enough time on their hands to do these things in between dealing out justice.
This story is something like 48 hours old... the one about the centrifuge is just, well, boring...
Must be a really slow news sunday.
The only thing this code has to offer is the number to an endless account at an atm.
The title sure got me interested but the story only made me yawn.... Was'nt it supposed to be about the da vinci code, why was it talkin about some judge with too much of time on his hands.
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IANAL but doesn't a judge ruling on the da vinci code case, finding for the da vinci code author, and showing he is a closet fan of the book by putting his own da vinci code in his ruling give grounds for the plaintiff for a retrial?
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"John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, RN (January 25, 1841 - July 10, 1920), commonly known as "Jackie" Fisher, was a British admiral known for his efforts at naval reform. He had a huge influence on the Royal Navy in a career spanning more than 60 years, starting in a navy of wooden sailing ships armed with muzzle-loading cannon and ending in one of battlecruisers, submarines and the first aircraft carriers. The argumentative, energetic, reform-minded Fisher is often considered the second most important figure of British naval history, after Lord Nelson."
"The sixth HMS Dreadnought of the British Royal Navy was the first battleship to have a uniform main battery, rather than having a secondary battery of smaller guns. She was also the first large warship to be powered by steam turbines, making her the fastest warship of her size. So advanced was Dreadnought that her name became a generic term for modern battleships, whilst the ships she made obsolete were known as "pre-dreadnoughts". Her introduction helped spark off a major naval arms race as navies around the world rushed to match her, particularly the Germans in the build up to the First World War."
Taken from wikipedia.
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The article failed to mention how he solved it. It was a Polyalphabetic Cipher with the key being the Fibonnaci sequence. For those who want to crack it, the sequence of numbers for the key is 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34 etc, in recursive form: T(n+1)=T(n)+T(n-1)
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There were four, deliberate typos according to this article; the actual decoded message read: "Smithy Code: Jadkie Fisthr- who are bou? Dreadqought".
Im sorry, im not into that kinky shit.
... to use Windows built-in encryption!
anyone have a program that allows you to input a phrase and then have it generate the code to decript it from teh bible?
You might need to lighten up. Not everything anyone ever does needs to be 100% productive to society, you know. Posting on slashdot comes to mind.
I consider posting to slashdot more productive to society than say sending spam, writing and installing rootkits, worms, viruses, ssh dictionary attacks, DDOS attacks, not to mention what people do outside of computers.
Its at least harmless.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithy_code
There is a twist on the sequency not quite being the Fibonacci sequence. Evidently, a twist derived from the Holy Blood, Holy Grail work.
If you don't want to work through it, they even give python code so you can see the 'jackie fister who are you dreadnough' decode for yourself.
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As for Jackie Fisher, I like Al Stewart's song Old Admirals that is based on his life. While he did some great things, he should not have been recalled as First Lord of the Admiralty. He opposed Churchill's plan for Gallipoli. Although the operation went forward, it was Fisher's refusal to fully support the operation with enough ships and shells that lead to its failure and the death of thousands of Anzacs.
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Posting to /. isn't always harmless. There's a high percentage of bullshit on here that gets modded up, for instance, causing people to have wrong information. /. also serves as a left-wing feedback loop, which harms society's level of useful discourse.
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Spam, on the other hand, eats a little bandwidth. I'd say spam causes much less harm than
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Why are we hearing so much about this freaking novel? Is it the greatest novel written in the past 20 years or something? It feels like every week, I'm hearing something about "the Da Vinci Code," whether it's about the movie, or the book, or someone studying the history behind it, or saying it's real, or it's fake, or blah blah blah.
I'm just tired of seeing the phrase "Da Vinci Code." It's like the media is obsessed with advertising this book for the author--perhaps because of the premise involving Jesus having a wife and kid, which pisses Christians off, and anything pissing off a group of people who belief a certain faith is a-okay in this country as long as it's Christianity.
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... and this is the best "astroturf" campaign I've seen so far -- maybe because it (the book, supposedly the moive) is really not that bad!
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On the other hand, I moved on to read "Digital Fortress" and on the first couple dozen pages I realized "Hey, I can understand why a historian or a theologist might be all pissed at Da Vinci Code"! For starters, by definition you can not "brute force" all key length cyphers in almost constant time ("6 minutes to 3 hours"). I'd be much less distracted from the plot if the premise were that NSA knew about weaknesses in all modern stream cyphers which does NOT require brute force.
Of course there is a gem too obscure for general public but very funny for some people in my very small field of superconducting electronics -- the "top secret Cray/Josephsnon II computer". A group of would-be builders of just such a beast in late 90s (google for HTMT), which included myself, were appaled that it was already considered obsolete by the same organization which funded us!
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This contest was so year 2000... Reminds me of companies with lack of substance, lots of money and overrated employees, and a 1,2,3 business plan. Time will tell if history is repeating itself.
I wonder if there is something written in code.... ...within the novel The Davinci Code?
If I understand correctly, the authors of "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail," actually intended that book to be a historical perspective presenting the concept that the holy grail is the bloodline of Jesus. IE, they intended the work to present what they believe to be an actual historical event.
If that's the case, then I'm copyrighting the American Revolution, in my new book, "McGraw Hill: Reflections on American History."
Reminds me of Idaho's Napoleon Dynamite bill...be cute on your own time, Curly. I'm offended, as a citizen, in needing to remind you government is not a joke.
From a guy you have to address as "your honor" and to whom mouthing off is against the law, this caprice is extremely unprofessional.
A charming lawyer is called a politician. I like a hard line between my politicians and my judges, thanks.
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someone would take a crack at this.
it's been more than two years and no one has solved it yet.
Oh, must've been thinking RHINESTONES instead of runes and stones...
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From the viewpoint of an European centrist, Slashdot looks quite right wing ;) ;)
Just because you describe yourself as rightwing, not everyone not agreeing with you is a left wing nut. Some might just be wrong.
Posting to Slashdot might be less counter-productive than spamming, but I don't see it as being useful.