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  1. Something interesting - the code refers to itself! on Breaking the Fermilab Code · · Score: 1

    I took these from John Graham's notation:

    The first block:

    (012) CIBYS@KDUGZBSGI@PUOXH@FBXX@JDRK@YURKG
    (021) FRANK@SHOEMAKER@WOULD@CALL@THIS@NOISE
    (102) JDNXUMEISOZNUODMFSGYQMPNYYMCIVEMXSVEO
    (120) PVLBEMUQGK@LEKVMTGSAIMJLAAMWQDUMBGDUK
    (201) THYLOZGRKUMYOUHZCKENVZWYNNZFRQGZLKQGU
    (210) WQXAGZOVES@XGSQZJEKBRZTXBBZPVHOZAEHOS


    The second block:


    (012) GZWXUNGG@YOZAGI@ABKKG@KRLJGGY
    (021) EMPLOYEE@NUMBER@BASSE@SIXTEEN
    (102) OZTYSBOOMXGZLODMLNEEOMEVACOOX
    (120) K@FAGXKKMBS@NKVMNLUUKMUDYWKKB
    (201) UMJNKAUUZLEMXUHZXYGGUZGQBFUUL
    (210) S@CBELSSZAK@YSQZYXOOSZOHNPSSA


    Take a closer look at two consecutive lines and see that they tell you how to exchange letters. The letters exchange are stable.
    Notice that lines 3 and 4 is very similar in format (notice the stops) to 5 and 6.

    Armed with tr, I got variants as: (see the semi-garbled message repeated. you can "fix" this because it is still stable)


    (012) JINXUMEDSOZNUOIMFSGYQMPNYYMCDREMXSREO
    (021) PRLBEMUQGK@LEKRMWGSADMJLAAMTQIUMBGIUK
    (102) CDBYS@KIUGZBSGD@PUOXH@FBXX@JIVK@YUVKG
    (120) FVANK@SHOEMAKEV@TOULI@CALL@WHDS@NODSE
    (201) TQXAGZORES@XGSQZJEKBVZWXBBZPRHOZAEHOS
    (210) WHYLOZGVKUMYOUHZCKENRZTYNNZFVQGZLKQGU


    and:


    (012) OZWYSBOOMXGZLOIMLNEEOMERACOOX
    (021) K@FAGXKKMBS@NKRMNLUUKMUIYTKKB
    (102) GZTXUNGG@YOZAGD@ABKKG@KVLJGGY
    (120) EMPLOYEE@NUMBEV@BASSE@SDXWEEN
    (201) S@CBELSSZAK@YSQZYXOOSZOHNPSSA
    (210) UMJNKAUUZLEMXUHZXYGGUZGQBFUUL


    There's also the same for the last row.

    This could be a leading hint to some sort of mapping you need to get the real message (this is just noise).

  2. Re:Dejavu on Schneier On the War On the Unexpected · · Score: 1

    Are there laws against muslims?
    Are there any concentration camps?
    And I don't mean prisons. Remember that the abuses were condemned, and covered by the press.
    Then there's the tiny point of actually having a plan to exterminate muslims...

    This is nowhere near Nazi Germany. This is not the same direction - and totally not the same modus operandi. I can't say the US government and agencies are acting like they should - but it is more like Soviet Russia (oh, and modern day Russia too) than Nazi Germany.
    However, you might get a hold of an emerging situation where another country tries (and I hope it will fail) to be. That country got the right (or wrong, depends on your POV) leader for it.

  3. This would could come in handy... on Computer Software to Predict the Unpredictable · · Score: 1

    ...As a nice addition to the hitch hiker's guide.

    Expect the unexpected.

  4. Re:A decade? on 100x Faster Hard Drive In Lab · · Score: 1

    In this case it IS vertical, given that you accept that the disk plater is horizontal. (which is the case for the animation, anyway)
    Perpendicular means that the angle between the two objects (this case, the disk and the "bits") is 90 degrees.

    Check your facts before you rant.

  5. Traffic analysis on Numbers Stations Move From Shortwave To VoIP · · Score: 1

    I seriously doubt that an intl. agency is behind this - after all, it makes the receiver of the message wide open to traffic analysis. Shortwave is still the best way to avoid traffic analysis. However, I would suggest spam stegnography instead, where possible.

  6. Re:So why doesn't the "silent" majority stand up? on Yahoo! Bans "Allah" in Screen Names · · Score: 1

    So what you're basically saying is "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem".

    It's funny that Malcolm X was preaching to Islam, then.

  7. Re:Didn't want to be tied down to... on Why Do People Switch To Linux? · · Score: 1

    "2.) Get windows XP SP2, and stop downloading spyware. ... Also: try using linux as a desktop for 2 years and see if it doesn't start slowing down when you install a new program once every week or two, new hardware every 6 months, and new graphics drivers and security patches once a month. Most people that use linux on the desktop are careful about how they treat it, but on the windows side, most of us punish our OS. In the past week, I've installed DivX 6, Tivo Desktop, Quake 4, video lan client, and WinDVD. Do this enough and it bogs down."

    Interesting. I install/remove alot of software. Never had it impact the speed of my desktop linux.
    While startup time gets longer on windows as you install alot of stuff, it stays the same on linux - unless you want daemons startup at boottime (which generally, you don't - desktop apps doesn't require it).
    Yes, it may cause apps to startup quicker, but I prefer waiting an extra second and save myself from the drag-to-a-halt syndrom.

    Oh, and BTW, I never had to reinstall my linux since I bought the hardware it is install on.

  8. Re:IFF-ILBM on Lockheed Chosen For Electronic Records Archives · · Score: 1

    Tracker module? hard? Are you joking or what?

    The first that comes in my mind is CheeseTracker .

    Take a quick look up in wikipedia and you'll find others too.

  9. Re:Whatever it is... on Netcraft: Red Hat Still Top Linux Server Distro · · Score: 1

    Well, one distro that actively supports 64bit archs (and not just amd64, also ppc64 and ia64...) is Gentoo.
    And you don't really have to think about binary mess.

  10. Re:Holding the camera is MOST important on Digital Photography Composition 101 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Also, consider a mini-tripod (about 20cm long). It is very helpful when taking picture at low light, and also is very mobile.

  11. Re:I always have liked Gentoo on Gentoo Linux Musings · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Rriigghhtt. No doubt, any self-respecting business just has to love a system which takes 2 days of compiling to get running.

    Gentoo provides GRP - Precompiled binaries, and anyway for a headless server this is a much shorter time.

    You know, just in case that hard drive fails.

    Ever heard of BACKUPS? And this applies to all distros. Get your server tweaked exactly as you want it is most of the time spend.

    They'll love the whole goddamn site being down while you recompile with portage.

    I really don't know where you got this from. Why is the site down because of a recompilation done with portage?

    For that matter, no doubt they'll love every single patch and upgrade involving hours of compiling on their production machine. Yeah, noone needed those CPU cycles anyway.

    Compiling can take place on a different machine (with all the customization you want) and installed as a binary on the production server.

    Oh, and I'm sure they'll be delighted to run their server software compiled with your custom flag mix, which occasionally core-dumps, rather than something tested and stable.

    So don't be so aggressive about your compile-flags for a production server, of course. All up to you.

    Server uptime is for lusers, anyway. If you can squeeze 1ms out of the 500ms taken to serve a page (mostly database time), surely that's worth running an unstable and untested home-brewn compiler flag mix.

    Care to show where you go these numbers? I didn't think so.

  12. Re:OS SW on Cisco HW? on MPAA Infiltrating Campus Nets with Software · · Score: 1

    Juniper builds routers based on intel proccessors and a shell built on FreeBSD.

    That's not silly at all, though not exactly linux, but it shows things like this are done. Also, you can check this linksys router running linux.

  13. Re:Stoplights say a lot about the people on Stoplights to Mete Out Punishment? · · Score: 1

    Well, Italians are not exactly europeans...