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Dren Eht Sral unregistered |
posted December 05, 2000 09:03
The binary in today (12-5-2000) should say something! I got out the ol' ASCII chart and took a whack at it, and it's neither 7 nor 8 bit ascii. Unless it's encoded some way that i don't understand (EDBIC?) it just looks like garbage. He should at least be telling his boss off if you go through the effort of decoding the binary ASCII balues... IP: Logged |
cowens unregistered |
posted December 05, 2000 09:33
It does say something: SoonIwillbeyourboss! Personaly I am dissapionted that there are no spaces and no linefeed at the end.
Hint: bytes are delimited by commas. #include char pow[8] = {0x80, 0x40, 0x20, 0x10, 0x08, 0x04, 0x02, 0x01}; int main(void) { while (fread(&c, 1, 1, stdin)) { IP: Logged |
Greg Wooledge Alpha Geek Posts: 254 |
posted December 05, 2000 09:39
Yay, the binary is back! And my Nitrozac Secret Decoder Ring(TM) still works on it (after s/YES/1/g s/NO/0/g of course).
Thumbs down to cowens for spoiling the message so soon. IP: Logged |
Snaggy Moderator Posts: 1399 |
posted December 05, 2000 09:44
Magnificent Valour cowens! Sorry to disappoint you though on the lack of spaces. It is just a quirk of the way Richard speaks his binary, ...his own dialect, so to speak. He speaks commas between the binary yes/noes, which is his way of helping out the listener a bit ;-) IP: Logged |
Tau Zero BlabberMouth, the Next Generation. Posts: 1685 |
posted December 05, 2000 10:11
Cryptographers routinely delete the spaces in text before encrypting, so why should Richard be any different in his obscurity? Good one, Nitro and Snaggy. IP: Logged |
Lost unregistered |
posted December 05, 2000 10:52
I wonder what was so hard about decoding the binary? All I needed was a pen and paper to write down the binary and switch it to hex for easy decoding. IP: Logged |
Erbo Super Geek Posts: 110 |
posted December 05, 2000 12:45
Hmm, all I needed to decode that was an edit buffer and "man 7 ascii"... However, I got just "SoonIwllbeyourboss!" (missing "i" in there). Must have been a transcription error, but I got the idea. Eric ------------------ IP: Logged |
X the mage unregistered |
posted December 05, 2000 22:05
Strange... I got the 'i' "SoonIwillbeyourboss!". Good idea. JoT should have more codes (on a regular basis perhaps?). IP: Logged |
kimagure Highlie Posts: 588 |
posted December 05, 2000 23:25
HUH? IP: Logged |
supaboy SuperBlabberMouth! Posts: 1242 |
posted December 06, 2000 09:16
Thanks Greg!
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[email protected] unregistered |
posted December 12, 2000 13:39
I read the strip before I knew about this forum, came up with a python prog to decode it. This could probably be done shorter (though probably not a one-liner) but it worked the first time I ran it. The first three lines of the function aren't really necessary if the data's in the right format. I was rather embarassed about wasting an hour of my time doing this but then I thought, to hell with that - say it loud, I'm a geek and I'm proud. --Paul Winkler
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Tau Zero BlabberMouth, the Next Generation. Posts: 1685 |
posted December 12, 2000 13:57
I think you could have saved yourself some number crunching (an un-required exponentiation) by doing it left to right:
What can I say, I'm a geek... IP: Logged |
Carrie unregistered |
posted August 02, 2001 10:40
I can do binary numbers, but what does ASCII start A with? Thanks. IP: Logged |
Tau Zero BlabberMouth, the Next Generation. Posts: 1685 |
posted August 02, 2001 11:15
Capital-A is 41 hex, lower-case a is 61 hex. IP: Logged |
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