Yup, took about 20 minutes with the hint of a longer piece of text written in the code. I just worked out the key just now. The hardest parts were 1. (as mentioned by another poster) reading the message from the photos -- try viewing only the red channel on the sharpest image). 2. whoever encoded the hint text can't bloody spell!!! (decipher it and you'll see what I mean).
while UK residents using Coke's new music store are getting ripped off at nearly $1.80US per song
This is hardly surprising - many things in the UK seem to have a US price point but with a pound sign attached in place of the $. While you're all chearing about the sub-$1000 notebook, in the UK it's a sub-GBP1000 (...then they slap 17% tax on it).
An iPod in the UK atarts at GBP249, which is about US$443.
It's an expensive place. Tokyo prices without Tokyo wages.
No I wouldn't, but several years ago when intenet access in Japan was a novelty a bar in my neighbourhood started offering internet access via a single PC on the bar top - cost Y1,000 per 30 minutes, which is give or take US$10 per 1/2 hour. People used it, but the bar eventually went bust. A bad business model? I'm sure people voting with their wallets will briing the price to a sensible level - everything's expensive at first.
Doesn't this explain it? Nasa's Mars Odyssey orbiter...failed to detect the expected message - a nine-note tune composed by the pop group Blur.
The Martians just don't like BritPop!
If the moon flew planes into our skyscrapers, we would have people on it inside of a week.
More like if Venus-funded terrorists flew planes into your skyscrapers, there would be a smoke and mirrors act to avoid upsetting the lucrative shady business dealings you and your pals have with the Venusians, so you'd quickly divert attention away from it by blowing up Mars and landing on the moon.
Meanwhile, the whole world looks on in disbelief going "What the...?" but the UK stands up and says "We too would like a piece of that lucrative Venusian business...oh sorry I mean of course let's go liberate those moonies that blew up your buildings. Rah rah rah!"
You'd send people and they'd end up mired in shit, with moon people chicking rocks at them screaming "SOD OFF! We don't want you here"
And meanwhile, back at home everyone turns on the Simpsons and has another Coke(R).
...none of them were built to still be running by the 2 year mark.
There's an interesting bit of indie film making here (requires quicktime) on what looks like the 18 month shelf life of the non-replaceable battery in the iPod.
There's some more information here.
Brief quote:
Brothers Casey and Van Neistat, who collaborate on video projects using Mac editing software, said they were told by a technical support representative at Apple Computer that the cost to replace the dead battery in an 18-month-old iPod would be $255--comparable to the cost of a new device. Irked at what seemed to be the early obsolescence of the music player, the brothers trekked around New York City stenciling the words "iPod's unreplaceable battery lasts only 18 months" on all the iPod posters they could find.
...this is eggsactly what they need. Imagine all the eggs they could deliver to the poor, repressed people of insert_name_of_country_with_oil_here when the US liberates them from the evil dictator insert_name_of_embarrassing_US_funded_right_wing_l oony_here
...this means that "based on the cultural diversity and sensitivity of Los Angeles County" they'll require the police to refrain from beating black and hispanic men to a pulp
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It's a good idea to nip outside to see this one as it's unlikely we'll get much (if any) of a November leonids show this year.
Easy to find too, just look for the Pleiades if you can't find the proper radiant in Perseus. Mind you, if you live somewhere without a rainy season, just looking up should do fine.
It's interesting to note that since their discovery of DNA's double-helical structure, neither Watson nor Crick have discovered or published anything significant since then.
This cracks me up, as here in northern Thailand, CDs are still new technology that many have yet to adopt (despite the wholesale piracy, which is mostly for the tourists). Go into a (legal) music store here and it's cassettes all the way - the CDs are at the stalls in the night market surrounded by Germans.
Matrix? Animatrix? C'est terrible!
I am tres confused mes amis, I thought this was about a menhir salesman.
Goscinny and Uderzo's lawyers will slap this down so fast for copyright infringement (along with those other indomitable characters, the Mighty Unix, Merry Linux, and the nasty legionnaire Weetabix): As described in this article .
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Yup, took about 20 minutes with the hint of a longer piece of text written in the code. I just worked out the key just now.
The hardest parts were
1. (as mentioned by another poster) reading the message from the photos -- try viewing only the red channel on the sharpest image).
2. whoever encoded the hint text can't bloody spell!!! (decipher it and you'll see what I mean).
This is hardly surprising - many things in the UK seem to have a US price point but with a pound sign attached in place of the $. While you're all chearing about the sub-$1000 notebook, in the UK it's a sub-GBP1000 (...then they slap 17% tax on it). An iPod in the UK atarts at GBP249, which is about US$443. It's an expensive place. Tokyo prices without Tokyo wages.
Call me when you've tried this and it works. My guess is BZZZZT! goodbye warranty, goodbye laptop.
will they be able to inspect Dubya and Jeb's financial information without a c/o? Now that would be interesting and ironic.
'sfunny....last time I used it it just continually conked out. maybe this phase thingy will be good in the long run.
No I wouldn't, but several years ago when intenet access in Japan was a novelty a bar in my neighbourhood started offering internet access via a single PC on the bar top - cost Y1,000 per 30 minutes, which is give or take US$10 per 1/2 hour. People used it, but the bar eventually went bust. A bad business model? I'm sure people voting with their wallets will briing the price to a sensible level - everything's expensive at first.
Just my Y2 worth...
Doesn't this explain it? Nasa's Mars Odyssey orbiter...failed to detect the expected message - a nine-note tune composed by the pop group Blur.
The Martians just don't like BritPop!
More like if Venus-funded terrorists flew planes into your skyscrapers, there would be a smoke and mirrors act to avoid upsetting the lucrative shady business dealings you and your pals have with the Venusians, so you'd quickly divert attention away from it by blowing up Mars and landing on the moon.
Meanwhile, the whole world looks on in disbelief going "What the...?" but the UK stands up and says "We too would like a piece of that lucrative Venusian business...oh sorry I mean of course let's go liberate those moonies that blew up your buildings. Rah rah rah!"
You'd send people and they'd end up mired in shit, with moon people chicking rocks at them screaming "SOD OFF! We don't want you here"
And meanwhile, back at home everyone turns on the Simpsons and has another Coke(R).
...none of them were built to still be running by the 2 year mark. There's an interesting bit of indie film making here (requires quicktime) on what looks like the 18 month shelf life of the non-replaceable battery in the iPod. There's some more information here. Brief quote: Brothers Casey and Van Neistat, who collaborate on video projects using Mac editing software, said they were told by a technical support representative at Apple Computer that the cost to replace the dead battery in an 18-month-old iPod would be $255--comparable to the cost of a new device. Irked at what seemed to be the early obsolescence of the music player, the brothers trekked around New York City stenciling the words "iPod's unreplaceable battery lasts only 18 months" on all the iPod posters they could find.
...this is eggsactly what they need. Imagine all the eggs they could deliver to the poor, repressed people of insert_name_of_country_with_oil_here when the US liberates them from the evil dictator insert_name_of_embarrassing_US_funded_right_wing_l oony_here
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Isn't it ironic?
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Rush, Bryan Adams, Frank Marino, and noises these guys make, and Celine Fucking Dion, so that leaves those of us with some taste in music in the clear?
...in Sweden right. So, not much point moving to Norway. Yes they're close, but does that mean you'll switch?
...this means that "based on the cultural diversity and sensitivity of Los Angeles County" they'll require the police to refrain from beating black and hispanic men to a pulp
...it's a handheld...You know...a palm pilot.
...I'm Yul Bryner and I'm dead now.
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Let me introduce myself to you.I'm Franka Guei, the former military ruler of ( cote d' Ivoire /ivory coast,). . ,as I confide in you hoping you will never betray me at last.n .com
I was killed on 19/9/2002 with some of my loyalist officers during a cross fire battle between us and government troops in an attempt to seize power through coup de eta in Abidjan on 19/9/2002
At the time of my death, I had the sum of Eighteen million united states dollars only(us$18m) which I still want to move out of here with most despatch despite being dead.
This money was deposited by me before I died in a security company for the purpose of using it to fine tune my administration in the invent that he succeed in the fail coup attempt.
Because of the present situation in my country cote d' ivoire, as well as my being dead, my I need a trust worthy foreign partner who can assist me to transfer the money out of South Africa for investment.
Please, I highly need your assistance both in transferring the money to your country and also investing it in a profitable venture with your kind advice
I have proposed (30%) percent of the total sum of the money for you as your own commission, so as for you to give us all necessary assistance and protection we may need in your Country. Please treat as highly confidential. All the vital documents covering the deposit of the fund in a security company are with me here and will be used to effect change of ownership in your favour for subsequent transfer to any account you may wish to use abroad.
What I want you to do is to indicate your interest that you will assist us by receiving the money on our behalf. Acknowledge this message, so that I can introduce you to my son (MIKE GUEI) who has the modalities for the claim of the said fund. The identity of the finance company where the fund is deposited, will be revealed to you by my son as soon as we recieve confirmation from you on your willingness to proceed, as seeing is believing.
Reach me through this mail box to discuss modalities on how to proceed.Reply to deadpresidentofsomeafricannation@untraceabledomai
Looking forward to hearing from you urgent.
It's a good idea to nip outside to see this one as it's unlikely we'll get much (if any) of a November leonids show this year.
Easy to find too, just look for the Pleiades if you can't find the proper radiant in Perseus. Mind you, if you live somewhere without a rainy season, just looking up should do fine.
NEVER?....Try the BBC?
No ads, quality programming, small fee.
Say "Human Genome Project" ...then eat your words.
It's interesting to note that since their discovery of DNA's double-helical structure, neither Watson nor Crick have discovered or published anything significant since then.
This cracks me up, as here in northern Thailand, CDs are still new technology that many have yet to adopt (despite the wholesale piracy, which is mostly for the tourists). Go into a (legal) music store here and it's cassettes all the way - the CDs are at the stalls in the night market surrounded by Germans.
Goscinny and Uderzo's lawyers will slap this down so fast for copyright infringement (along with those other indomitable characters, the Mighty Unix, Merry Linux, and the nasty legionnaire Weetabix): As described in this article .