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[markwj]

One thought I just had is that YC could be shorthand for ICE (Internal Combustion Engine).

Liam's ICE toadies

Ok

...his ICE COM card...

Maybe.

A(n) ICE demands proof?

A bit strained.

Kind of works, but not 'aha!', more 'I suppose so'.

 

[TEG]

Oh well, might as well:
Proof: 9 reds
Can I convince anyone to try again with red?

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Victorian era robots:
http://www.bigredhair.com/robots/
http://www.bigredhair.com/electricman/index.html

http://library.poly.edu/news/2008/01/11/friday-fun-famous-victorian-era-robots

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boilerplate_%28robot%29

 

[TEG]

Character "Toadie" from the Mad-Max / Road-Warrior movie series:

Grasping at straws again, but Mad Max 2 (AKA "The Road Warrior") does have a guy with a mechanical hand, "superchargers" and "bikers"...

And Mad Max is about a future where gasoline has run out...

I guess they are working on a part 4:
The Road Warrior Returns in Mad Max: Fury Road

Ford Australia Revives Mad Max Interceptor

 

[FlasherZ]

TEG, always in awe of how you're able to sniff this stuff out...

 

[TEG]

Some more random themed images to pass the time:

London Girl: What to wear at Glastonbury

Steam-biker-yob-toadie...

 

[JRP3]

And Mad Max is about a future where gasoline has run out...

Yet they seem to have plenty to blast across the wasteland at will....

 

[dpeilow]

Running out...

http://www.news.com.au/top-stories/scientists-warnings-unheeded/story-e6frfkp9-1111112631991

 

[Johan]

Yet they seem to have plenty to blast across the wasteland at will....

IIRC they run on methane, generated by farting pigs .

 

[woof]

So some guy named "Nick" is looking for a place to transmit from near the coast?

Nikola ("Nick"?) Tesla built Wardenclyffe Tower on Long Island NY to do just that.

Wardenclyffe Tower - Google Maps

 

[brianman]

View attachment 13733

This version looks a little better, I think:

 

[DrComputer]

Oh well, might as well:
Proof: 9 reds
Can I convince anyone to try again with red?

Why try again? According to this clue we were too late (on getting the brown cars posted). I think the game isn't just automated but we seem to have to complete things in real-time or suffer some sort of consequences.

 

[brianman]

It appears it's a "multiple decoding" cypher (I don't know what that's really called) like the letters on telephone digits. If you look at the "wrong" characters relative to your URL, it appears that some of the input characters fold to the same encoded character -- hence the "corruption".

More specifically, the set {e,l,p,x,y} have output collisions in the way it's encoded.

Correction: I'm not confident this is the case anymore. The encoded content was incorrectly observed in prior posts. I guess I should have checked it first. For example, it's not DRRA but (probably) DRRN.

I know we've progressed regardless, just making note that our input wasn't as lossy/complicated as I previously interpreted.

 

[TEG]

Correction: I'm not confident this is the case anymore. The encoded content was incorrectly observed in prior posts. I guess I should have checked it first. For example, it's not DRRA but (probably) DRRN.
I know we've progressed regardless, just making note that our input wasn't as lossy/complicated as I previously interpreted.

Yeah:

I think you also had some problems with some I and J which looks similar in Old English type...

Looking more closely I get:

<TDPAB="DRRN://RFKYNFS.SMJ?PAB=257G3E8" RTPCAR="_EITKH"><FJCQPS="DRRN://F46.RFKYNFS.SMJ/257G3E8.GNC" EMPLAP="0" TIR="FJTCATKLVFLAMDMQRFKCEYRFKYNFS"></T>

Using this key:

EFGHBIJKLMNDOPNRSTCAPVVIYZ

I get:

<ahref="http://tinypic.com?ref=257j3b8" target="_blank"><imgsrc="http://i46.tinypic.com/257j3b8.jpg" border="0" alt="imageandvideohostingbytinypic"></a>

 

[TEG]

...PULLED A REGENERATOR TO SLICE OUT HIS YC COM BOARD AS FAST AS I COULD BUT I'M SURE HIS MESSAGE GOT THOUGH...

Rethinking my detour of "regenerator" into the land of steam.
Regenerative circuit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

...The regenerative circuit (or self-regenerative circuit) or "autodyne" allows an electronic signal to be amplified many times by the same vacuum tube or other active component such as a field effect transistor. It consists of an amplifying vacuum tube or transistor with its output connected to its input through a feedback loop, providing positive feedback. This circuit was widely used in radio receivers, called regenerative receivers, between 1920 and World War II. The regenerative receiver was invented and patented in 1914 by American electrical engineer Edwin Armstrong when he was an undergraduate at Columbia University. Regenerative receiver circuits are still used in low-cost electronic equipment such as garage door openers...

...

CW reception (autodyne mode)

For the reception of CW radiotelegraphy (Morse code) signals, the feedback is increased to the level of oscillation (a loop gain of one), so that the amplifier functions as an oscillator (BFO) as well as an amplifier, generating a steady sine wave signal at the resonant frequency, as well as amplifying the incoming signal. The tuned circuit is adjusted so the oscillator frequency is a little to one side of the signal frequency. The two frequencies mix in the amplifier, generating a beat frequency signal at the difference between the two frequencies. This frequency is in the audio range, so it is heard as a steady tone in the receiver's speaker whenever the station's carrier is present. Morse code is transmitted by keying the transmitter on and off, producing different length pulses of carrier ("dots" and "dashes"). The audio tone makes the carrier pulses audible, and they are heard as "beeps" in the speaker...

 

[NigelM]

YC...

 

[dsmith2189]

Rethinking my detour of "regenerator" into the land of steam.
Regenerative circuit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Regenerative receiver circuits are still used in low-cost electronic equipment such as garage door openers...

For the reception of CW radiotelegraphy (Morse code) signals

So receiving morse code with Homelink?

 

[brianman]

@TEG
I think you're doing it backwards.

1 - Ciphertext

<TDPAB="DRRN://RFKYNFS.SMJ?PAB=257G3E8" RTPCAR="_EITKH"><FJCQPS="DRRN://F46.RFKYNFS.SMJ/257G3E8.GNC" EMPLAP="0" TIR="FJTCATKLVFLAMDMQRFKCEYRFKYNFS"></T>

2 - key

TESLAbcdfghijkmnopqruvwxyz

3 - Decrypt button
RESULT:

<ahref="http://tinypic.com?ref=257j3b8" target="_blank"><imgsrc="http://i46.tinypic.com/257j3b8.jpg" border="0" alt="imageandvideohostingbytinypic"></a>

It's a symmetrical translation so your approach "works" but I think it's backwards conceptually and my prettier key seems to concur.

 

[TEG]

Pondering "YC" and "Jeeter" a bit too much lately.

Anyways, another random Jeeter reference:
Jeeter Davenport - The Dukes of Hazzard Wiki

Jeeter Davenport fought for the Confederate Army in the Civil War and took part in the Second Battle of Bull Run.

 

[TEG]

There was a "General Infantry" named Jeeter in the 1960 Elvis film "G.I. Blues".
Jeeter was the head of a biker gang in the 1967 film "The Wild Rebels".

 

[TEG]

WW2 B-24:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infernal_Devices_%28K._W._Jeter_novel%29

http://angryrobotbooks.com/our-authors/kw-jeter/

http://angryrobotbooks.com/our-authors/kw-jeter/infernal-devices-kw-jeter/