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[Lyon]

And so it begins again...

First thing I noticed were the faint words "event" on the left and "TMC" on the right.

Looks like subtile clues where's working so the game-master went with the 2x4-to-the-back-of-the-head approach.

More braille?

 

[brianman]

Courtesy the Perspective plug-in of Paint.Net:

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Doesn't look right at all, but in case it gives someone an idea or two:
L?HTTP://D?PR/L/TK?CL?

 

[TampaLiam]

LJHTTP://DBPR/I/TKICL:

Kind of looks like the above, but if spacing changes were allowed for a couple of the unknowns. I'm not 100% on this one.

LJ... live journal. That was used before.

 

[ElSupreme]

I fixed the date. It said the 17th.

 

[PureAmps]

Using Braille ASCII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, I think one of the Bs is a period (.). Also, the final three dots is not an el (L), because the dots are on the right hand side, I just ignored them and got:

http://d.pr/i/tkic

which has the following image:

The only strange thing is the image timestamp of 6.10.2012 at 2.12.32 AM. I would think it would me more recent, so I could be wrong.

Not sure if the cyrillic is supposed to be phonetic or a translation. The last word is the purple section is "photon" both phonetically and translated to russian. Unfortunately, no more time to decipher right now.

 

[rlpm]

View attachment 17313

It's not phonetic. It's Russian. Я немного говорю по русский :wink:

Here's my quick translation:
Dome (spoiler) roof
Parking sensors (two rear
Modification of the photon 1039:

But perhaps the last line should be interpreted as "modified photo no. 1039:"?

And don't trust the time stamp. That's easily fudged.

Lastly, I have no idea what this means.

 

[jvonbokel]

I get "L+HTTP://D.PR/I/TK9C_:"

I wonder if the notches out of some of the lower left dots are just side effects of the stretch algorithm, or if they have meaning?

The "http://d.pr" part seems to be right, since it does point to an image sharing site. I must've gotten one of the others wrong though, because I keep getting 404's.

 

[jvonbokel]

I uploaded a couple images to Droplr, and the url format seems pretty standard: http://d.pr/i/XXXX

The last 4 can be any combination of upper & lowercase letters or numbers. I tried all variations of TK9C (i.e. tk9C, Tk9C, etc), and found this at http://d.pr/i/Tk9C:

 

[Bearman]

I uploaded a couple images to Droplr, and the url format seems pretty standard: http://d.pr/i/XXXX

The last 4 can be any combination of upper & lowercase letters or numbers. I tried all variations of TK9C (i.e. tk9C, Tk9C, etc), and found this at http://d.pr/i/Tk9C:

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To text:

101111001 100 00 01011100 100 101111000 1011111 111111 11110 00 1011111 11010 0111 00
101001 11011 01011111 0110 0110 100 0110 00 010001 111001 101000 00 10110 01001 00
111000 100 01001 00 0110 0111 10110 0111 00 111000 100 01001 00 111111 11010 1100 00
01001 111000 111001 10111101 0111 100 00 100 1100 00 101001 11011 101110 111111 0110 00
11101 00 111111 010110 100 11011 10101 010000 00 11111001 11101 111111 111111 00 1100
10110 100 1100 00 1111101 11101 11011 10101 100 0111 00 11010 010110 00 10101 100 01010
00 111000 100 01001 00 010110 11101 11011 00 11110 100 1100 10101 100 00 11110 100 1100
100 0111 100 010000 00 01011110 11010 1100 11110 111111 111000 100 00 1100 111001
101000 0111 00 10101 101110 00 11110 100 0111 00 1011111 010110 11101 11011 111111 100
1100 00 010110 100 0111 11110 111000 10110 1100 00 10101 100 00 100 0111 00 111111 11010
1100 00 10101 101110 00 101001 10110 0111 100 11110 11011 111001 101000 00 1100 10110
100 00 1111101 100 10101 0111 100 00 100 1100 1100 00 1100 111001 10111101 0110 0110 100
0111 00 101001 10110 0111 00 111001 101000 00 1011111 111000 100 11011 010001 100 00
01010 100 01001 00 1011111 100 0111 010000 00 11111001 111001 10111101 0111 00 111000
100 01001 00 101001 10110 0111 11011 11010 0110 100 0111 00 111000 100 01001 00 01010
111001 101000 00 0110 11010 00 100 1100 00 1111101 100 11110 11011 101110 0110 1100
11101 1100 01001 00 10110 01010 00 100 1100 00 11101 1100 0110 100 0111 100 11110 11110
11010 1100 0110 00 101001 101110 1100 1100 00 111000 100 01001 00 01001 111000 10110
0111 10101 100 00 11101 00 10101 100 1100 00 01010 100 111111 11010 1100 11101 11110
111111 100 00 11110 0110 100 11101 1100 11110 010001 0111 101110 0110 010000 00
11111001 10110 0111 00 0110 11101 10101 11011 11101 01001 00 111001 101000 00 11110 100
00 10110 01010 00 10101 100 0110 00 111111 10110 01010 01010 100 0111 00 0110 11101
11011 00 111001 101000 00 1111101 11011 11101 00 100 1100 00 1100 01011111 0110 0110
11101 01001 00 10110 010001 010001 10101 11010 01001 100 11011 11110 100 00 100 11011
11011 100 0111 00 100 1100 00 0110 10110 0110 11010 11011 00 101001 11101 11010 11110
111111 10110 1111100011 00 01010 100 1100 00 10101 100 0110 00 010110 11101 11011 00
010110 111001 1111100010 0111 100 00 01010 10110 0111 11110 10110 01010 0110 00 101110
11010 1100 11110 100 0110 0110 010000 00 111110000 11101 11011 00 0110 11010 00 0110
101110 0111 100 1100 00 0110 11101 11011 00 10101 11101 1100 00 1111101 100 11110 0110
100 101001 11010 0111 11110 00 01010 100 11110 0110 100 0111 00 01011110 11011 11101
1100 11010 01010 100 1100 00 01010 100 1100 11110 00 10101 101110 00 11010 0111 1111101
100 11101 10101 100 0111 00 010001 111001 101000 00 10101 11101 1100 00 010111011
01011100 010111010 00 0110 0111 100 101001 11010 11110 100 00 010001 11011 11010 1100
010000

 

[NigelM]

Here's my quick translation:
Dome (spoiler) roof
Parking sensors (two rear
Modification of the photon 1039:

But perhaps the last line should be interpreted as "modified photo no. 1039:"?

Я тоже говорю немного русский (and yours may well be better than mine!) but I don't completely agree with your translation or maybe there are (deliberate or accidental) typos in the Russian:

• I don't get the "dome" roof, but it looks more like a play on the word "soft".
• "Parking sensor" in everyday russian translates as "parktronic" but what is written is "parkmronic". Also note it's written as singular not plural.

Is it possible this is not actually Russian but is more a obscure cyrillic like Bulgarian?

I agree on the photo vs photon thought.

EDIT: someone seems to have found another photo with binary on so maybe this wasn't a clue after all? Coincidentally about cars though.....

 

[EchoDelta]

To text:

101111001 100 00 01011100 ... . . . . .

Thanks -
I thought it would be a quick decode but it mocks me... if I squint it just seems to be saying lololollololooolol (to my efforts)

Appropriate music comes to mind: Eduard Khil - Official Trolololo - YouTube

I'll give it another round after work.

 

[TEG]

Spaces and CR/LF removed in case it is useful this way:

1011110011000001011100100101111000101111111111111110001011111110100111001010011101101011111011001101000110000100011110011010000010110010010011100010001001000110011110110011100111000100010010011111111010110000010011110001110011011110101111000010011000010100111011101110111111011000111010011111101011010011011101010100000011111001111011111111111110011001011010011000011111011110111011101011000111001101001011000101011000101000111000100010010001011011101110110011110100110010101100001111010011001000111100010000000101111011010110011110111111111000100001100111001101000011100101011011100011110100011100101111101011011101110111111111001100000101101000111111101110001011011000010101100001000111001111111101011000010101101110001010011011001111001111011011111001101000001100101101000011111011001010101111000010011001100001100111001101111010110011010001110010100110110011100111001101000001011111111000100110110100011000001010100010010010111111000111010000001111100111100110111101011100111000100010010010100110110011111011110100110100011100111000100010010001010111001101000000110110100010011000011111011001111011011101110011011001110111000100100101100101000100110000111011100011010001111001111011110110101100011000101001101110110011000011100010001001000100111100010110011110101100001110100101011001100000101010011111111010110011101111101111111000011110011010011101110011110010001011110111001100100000011111001101100111000110111011010111011111010100100111001101000001111010000101100101000101011000110001111111011001010010101000111000110111011101100111001101000001111101110111110100100110000110001011111011001101110101001001011001000101000110101110100100110011011111101000010011011110111000111001001100000110101100110110101101100101001111011101011110111111101101111100011000101010011000010101100011000010110111011101100010110111001111110001001111000001010101100111111101011001010011000101110110101100111101000110011001000000111110000111011101100011011010000110101110011110011000001101110111011001010111101110000111110110011110011010010100111010011111110000101010011110011010001110001011110110111110111001101001010100110000010101001100111100010101101110001101001111111101100111011010110001110001000111100110100000101011110111000001011101101011100010111010000110011110010100111010111101000001000111011110101100010000

2302 binary digits...
2302 is just 2 x 1151, so (assuming the digits are transcribed properly) I don't see any even groupings.

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As hex:

de 60 b9 2f 17 ff f1 7f 4e 53 b5 f6 68 c2 3c d0 59 27 11 23 3d 9c e2 24 ff 58 27 8e 6f 5e 13 0a 77 77 ec 74 fd 69 ba a0 7c f7 ff cc b4 c3 ef 77 58 e6 96 2b 14 71 12 2d dd 9e 99 58 7a 64 78 80 bd ac f7 fc 43 39 a1 ca dc 7a 39 7d 6e ef f9 82 d1 fd c5 b0 ac 23 9f eb 0a dc 53 67 9e df 34 19 68 7d 95 78 4c c3 39 bd 66 8e 53 67 39 a0 bf c4 da 30 54 49 7e 3a 07 cf 37 ae 71 12 53 67 de 9a 39 c4 48 ae 68 1b 44 c3 ec f6 ee 6c ee 24 b2 89 87 71 a3 cf 7b 58 c5 37 66 1c 44 89 e2 cf 58 74 ac c1 53 fd 67 7d fc 3c d3 b9 e4 5e e6 40 f9 b3 8d da ef a9 39 a0 f4 2c a2 b1 8f ec a5 47 1b bb 39 a0 fb be 93 0c 5f 66 ea 4b 22 8d 74 99 bf 42 6f 71 c9 83 59 b5 b2 9e eb df db e3 15 30 ac 61 6e ec 5b 9f 89 e0 ab 3f ac a6 2e d6 7a 33 20 7c 3b b1 b4 35 cf 30 6e ec af 70 fb 3c d2 9d 3f 85 4f 34 71 7b 7d cd 2a 60 a9 9e 2b 71 a7 fb 3b 58 e2 3c d0 57 b8 2e d7 17 43 3c a7 5e 82 3b d6 10

Not sure if it is a code, numeric data, or some kind of encoded characters.
Binary-to-text encoding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Seems like a non-random pattern. For instance, within the first 50 digits we get "11111111111111" which is highly unlikely to be random.


2 unique chars
0 : 1053
1 : 1249


I wonder if it could be a binary representation of a QR Code that points us to another URL?

 

[rlpm]

Привет, товарищ!

Я тоже говорю немного русский (and yours may well be better than mine!) but I don't completely agree with your translation or maybe there are (deliberate or accidental) typos in the Russian:

• I don't get the "dome" roof, but it looks more like a play on the word "soft".
• "Parking sensor" in everyday russian translates as "parktronic" but what is written is "parkmronic". Also note it's written as singular not plural.

Is it possible this is not actually Russian but is more a obscure cyrillic like Bulgarian?

I agree on the photo vs photon thought.

EDIT: someone seems to have found another photo with binary on so maybe this wasn't a clue after all? Coincidentally about cars though.....

What looks like lowercase м is actually a cursive-like script lowercase т, so it is parktronic. :wink:
Обтекатель (спойлер) крыши
Парктроник (два задних

I'm not sure where I got "dome", as обтекатель literally means "fairing". So I revise my above translation to "Fairing (spoiler) roof"

It would be crazy coincidence if this image was not related to TESLIVE, what with all the hullabaloo over parking sensors on the S. If it is related, kudos to whomever used a cursive-like script where т looks like м, to throw us off. But, the binary goop almost definitely is related, so perhaps this is not.

 

[jvonbokel]

Spaces and CR/LF removed in case it is useful

I started with that, but then it didn't come out to a number of chars evenly divisible by 8, which is what I was expecting, so I tried isolating the "words", as it were.

I found 36 unique words, far less than possible with up to 10-digit binary, but still slightly more than the 26 I was hoping for. Here they are with their frequencies, in case anybody can make sense of that.

00	93		11010	18		101110	8		01011110	2
100	68		10110	16		010001	7		01011111	2
1100	34		01001	14		010110	7		010000	1
0111	32		111111	13		010000	5		010111010	1
0110	28		01010	12		1011111	5		101111000	1
11011	21		111001	11		1111101	5		101111001	1
11101	21		111000	10		10111101	3		111110000	1
11110	20		101001	9		11111001	3		1111100010	1
10101	18		101000	8		01011100	2		1111100011	1

 

[ElSupreme]

Seems like a non-random pattern. For instance, within the first 50 digits we get "11111111111111" which is highly unlikely to be random.

It very well could be non-random. But NOT finding a long run of 1s or 0s wolud be more rare than finding a long string of them. Sorry it is ~16 minutes long.

http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2009/jun/29/are-we-coins/

There is a longer version about how humans comprehend 'random'.

http://www.radiolab.org/2009/jun/15/

I really love this radio program. The format is very engaging to me, but annoying to many.

 

[rlpm]

I started with that, but then it didn't come out to a number of chars evenly divisible by 8, which is what I was expecting, so I tried isolating the "words", as it were.

I found 36 unique words, far less than possible with up to 10-digit binary, but still slightly more than the 26 I was hoping for. Here they are with their frequencies, in case anybody can make sense of that.

I also got 36 'words', but a slightly different histogram than you did:

cat /tmp/foo | tr " " "
" | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
 100 00
  71 100
  38 1100
  32 0111
  31 0110
  23 11110
  23 11101
  22 11011
  19 11010
  18 10110
  18 10101
  14 01010
  14 01001
  13 111111
  12 111001
  11 111000
   9 101110
   9 101001
   8 101000
   7 010110
   7 010001
   6 1111101
   6 010000
   5 1011111
   3 11111001
   3 10111101
   2 01011111
   2 01011110
   2 01011100
   1 1111100011
   1 1111100010
   1 111110000
   1 101111001
   1 101111000
   1 010111011
   1 010111010

Perhaps a Huffman coding of 26 English letters plus 10 digits? Or all 26 lowercase letters and 10 uppercase letters? And maybe some punctuation thrown in if some letters are unused?

 

[jvonbokel]

I also got 36 'words', but a slightly different histogram than you did

I'm not sure what I did wrong, but I spot checked a couple and your counts seem to be more accurate.

 

[NigelM]

What looks like lowercase м is actually a cursive-like script lowercase т, so it is parktronic. :wink:
Обтекатель (спойлер) крыши
Парктроник (два задних

I'm not sure where I got "dome", as обтекатель literally means "fairing". So I revise my above translation to "Fairing (spoiler) roof"

It would be crazy coincidence if this image was not related to TESLIVE, what with all the hullabaloo over parking sensors on the S. If it is related, kudos to whomever used a cursive-like script where т looks like м, to throw us off. But, the binary goop almost definitely is related, so perhaps this is not.

Cпасибо. Вы говорите России лучше чем я!

Now I got out my old technical dictionary, but it wasn't very helpful. However, note that fairing and spoiler are essentially the same thing when it comes to cars and a google image search showed up a few things like this related to roof racks:

So we have roof rack and parking sensor references..... Hmmmmm?

P.S. Maybe toooo tenuous but here's a post #1039 that shows a roof rack....http://forums.thecarlounge.net/post1039

 

[rlpm]

Cпасибо. Вы говорите России лучше чем я!

Now I got out my old technical dictionary, but it wasn't very helpful. A google image search showed up a few things like this related to roof racks:

So we have roof rack and parking sensor references..... Hmmmmm?

Пожалуйста! And hmmmmm, indeed!

 

[NigelM]

OK, we're happy with the translations; now we need to understand the relevancy.....How about vendors at the (MacWorld-like) Teslive meet-up? You can see things like roof racks, parking sensors etc......

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Thinking about the binary stuff...why is it centered? Has anyone tried flipping it vertically and seeing if it translates to anything that way? Or read the whole thing backwards?