Da Vinci Code Message Revealed 96
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."
Re:First Post :) (Score:1)
Re:it's good to see (Score:5, Insightful)
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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.
Re:it's good to see (Score:1)
Spam, on the other hand, eats a little bandwidth. I'd say spam causes much less harm than
Re:it's good to see (Score:2)
Just because you describe yourself as rightwing, not everyone not agreeing with you is a left wing nut. Some might just be wrong.
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again, again! (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:again, again! (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:again, again! (Score:5, Interesting)
Exhibit 1 [wsj.com].
Other examples include rulings written entirely in rhyming couplets, and more. Apparently Law Schools test their n00b students' ability to research cases by asking they dig up such arcane trivia.
IANAL but I know a number of law students.
Re:again, again! (Score:3, Interesting)
What is it with the Da Vinci Code? (Score:2)
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 Jesu
Re:What is it with the Da Vinci Code? (Score:2)
Re:What is it with the Da Vinci Code? (Score:2)
Well, the Movie is about to hit the screens... (Score:2)
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 th
Re:Well, the Movie is about to hit the screens... (Score:2)
The Da Vinci Code was a nice read. But after reading Angels & Demons, and Digital Fortress, I determined he uses this basic formula:
A good-looking, but slightly dorky middle-aged professor meets a good-looking, slightly aloof, smart woman (crypto-analyst, scientist) struggling in a man's world, because of a murder committed by a secret society (Vatican, NSA, Knight's Templar) in order to hide a secret that could unravel the fabric of society as we know it. The professor and the woman sav
And then... (Score:5, Funny)
"I'm the only one allowed to endlessly recycle the plot of 'The DaVinci Code' into other works", said Brown.
Re:And then... (Score:2)
Have to agree with you on that one. I read "Angles and Demons" prior to reading "The Da Vinci Code". Good reads but the overall plot between the two of aging professor and beautiful young woman solve thousand year old plot/mystery/conspiracy/code while never sleeping and performing at levels of Olympic athletes to be way to similar. Then I read "Digital Fortress" which I thought would be different only to find that the o
Re:And then... (Score:2)
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It is actually about a woman, and.... he rest is the same, really.
Re:And then... Liberache numbers? (Score:2)
Now... imagine Liberache with a time machine...
"An event"? (Score:5, Informative)
An event indeed. (Score:5, Informative)
"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.
Re:An event indeed. (Score:3, Insightful)
planning had to have begun before Dreadnought's launch ).
And what is with the downmods? Dreadnought was brought up in the topic,
but we cant talk about it?
Re:An event indeed. (Score:3, Informative)
of weaponry. For America, there was little point in moving to
turbines just yet as the fleet speed would still have been low,
and only two ships of this class would be built.
Warships1.com rates South Carolina and on as Dreadnought battleships,
and as does Hazegray.org, specifically not lumping them in with
the pre-dreadnoughts. Hazegray had this to say: ( about the South Carolina class )
"The first US dreadnoughts, and by design the first all-big-g
Uh? (Score:2, Informative)
Another fine Slashdot entry?
Re:Uh? (Score:1)
No, the summary is right. This judge is said to have connections to the Priory of Sion. The code message which he passed on was handed down through the generations from Leonardo da Vinci.
Leonardo foresaw many military advancements, including the tank [wikipedia.org] and the helicopter, [rotaryaction.com] so it is not really surprising that he foresaw the Dreadnought as well. But the Knights Templar urged
if you still haven't gotten it.... (Score:1, Funny)
The message read (Score:1, Informative)
Re:The message read (Score:1, Informative)
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 [wikipedia.org]
The code was a little underwhelming though imo:(
For those C# programmer out there (Score:1, Informative)
Golden Ratio (Score:1)
Sorry not into that (Score:2)
Yeah yeah, very clever... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yeah yeah, very clever... (Score:2)
Re:Yeah yeah, very clever... (Score:1)
Unintentionally comic typo about the Royal Navy? (Score:2)
I am not making this up.
Re:Unintentionally comic typo about the Royal Navy (Score:2)
No, wrong key... (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:Time well spent (Score:2)
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Re:Slow news day (Score:2)
Do what I do: Visit Engadget.com. Actually, I'm surprised we don't see more stuff from engadget around here. Right now there's a story going on about Apple's recent patent silliness. Apple and patents are typically hot topics around here...
Re:Slow news day (Score:1)
Wrong Call (Score:1)
ummm... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:ummm... (Score:2, Interesting)
I don't think so. Perhaps it just proves that he read at least one of the books involved- which is a good thing. The whole case was about the first book's ideas (a book which was not about fiction but new interpretations of the relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalen, ie NON-FICTION) being used as the basis for a FICTIONAL story. The whole basis for the case was a bit fishy.
In any case, sales of the first book have skyrocketed and the author of the firs
Re:ummm... (Score:2)
Re:ummm... (Score:2)
See http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/artandlife/1404AP_B
Plus the case is in Britain, so I doubt they'd entertain such PC nonsense as basis for a retrial.
Re:ummm... (Score:4, Informative)
Article Devoid of Facts (Score:5, Informative)
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Reverse engineer the code... (Score:1)
Re:Reverse engineer the code... (Score:1)
How Ben Hoyle cracked the code (Score:4, Interesting)
As for Jackie Fisher, I like Al Stewart's song Old Admirals [martylloyd.com] 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.
News Story of the YEAR! (Score:1)
Not Slashdotty enough for you?!
Have you any idea how closely fire control [dreadnoughtproject.org] (even in 1914) resembled our current world of networked computers?
Y2000 (Score:1)
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.
Re:Y2000 (Score:2)
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (Score:2)
If that's the case, then I'm copyrighting the American Revolution, in my new book, "McGraw Hill: Reflections on American History."
Re:The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (Score:2)
*YAWN* You're making the mistake "The Holy Blood and Holy Grail" did. If you're going to sell any books and make millions on movie rights you gotta jazz it up a little.
Call it "The Minuteman Memorandum." A secret document from George Washington to Benjamin Franklin detailing the plans for the Freemasons to establish a country which they could completely control. This documen
Re:The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (Score:2)
Re:The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (Score:2)
I'd rather he didn't (Score:1)
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.
I wish (Score:2)
someone would take a crack at this [jdueck.net].
it's been more than two years and no one has solved it yet.
Re:I wish (Score:1)
I expect experimenting with all the extra semantics (super/subscripting, and whatever sequences are used to signal alphabet changes) would be tedious. However, I also suspect that a serious cryptographer would have solved it by now: it looks like spaces are un-
Re:I wish (Score:2)
Darn right they would have. Dude, it's a code, and you're upset that it doesn't look pretty??
Kryptos-4 is not much "fun" imo, as in, something you could crack in a week of spare time. And RSA?!? There's no 'solving' going on there, just a sifting through millions of possible keys... What's fun about that.