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bmcd: You're assumption about what E is represented as is accurate (hope you don't mind the hint). quade: I followed this thread for a few days not giving it much thought. When I saw the second clue, and decided to solve this little puzzle, it was about 2:30pm EST yesterday. That was the time when I figured out that the distributions of bits amongst the periods and commas was way to close to the distribution of letters in the quote that I advanced as being the translation for the first clue. Based on that bit of intuition I just kept going, and it kept working out and there started to be too many things that fit for me to be doing it the wrong way. I had the DVD code solved by 7pm EST. So with breaks for driving home, and eating dinner, I'd say that it took me 3.5 hours from the time that I started trying to figure out the DVD message to the time that I had it. And I have to admit, I couldn't think of a better message to code onto the DVD once I had solved it.

What i don't get is what Dark Side of the Moon has to do with Mars... "Your mother's full of stupidjuice!" My Art Project

25+ years smoke free! "Your mother's full of stupidjuice!" My Art Project

There is no typo in the first clue. I thought that for awhile, but as I continued, I found the correction that I had to make.

It is just a substitution code. and you're on the right track bmcd. If no one had gotten it since quade last posted, then that makes me the first. See the attached picture. "Your mother's full of stupidjuice!" My Art Project

I've figured it out!! I'll have it decoded this evening. "Your mother's full of stupidjuice!" My Art Project

I don't think you can say that every time you see "---" you can say it's a space. What I think is that everytime there should be a space in the message there will be a corresponding "---". "Your mother's full of stupidjuice!" My Art Project

That's what I was thinking, or at least it equals an O at the beginning of a word. If "-llll-llll-- = OUR " and "-lll-lll-lllll-ll-ll-llll--ll---lll----l-ll-- = OBSCURITY ", then doesn't "-lll" have to = "O" This would also be consistent for the I that comes after the UR in obscurity...

Haven't figured that out yet, but I think in that case... some of those dashes belong to one character and some to the next. "Your mother's full of stupidjuice!" My Art Project

A period generally has a space after it. "Your mother's full of stupidjuice!" My Art Project

Does it break down if we assume that --- is used to mark where a space should be....? hmmm. Thus: --- = ll---lll--l- = IN --- = -llll-llll-- = OUR --- = -lll-lll-lllll-ll-ll-llll--ll---lll----l-ll-- = OBSCURITY "Your mother's full of stupidjuice!" My Art Project

Code count: 297. 78, 96, 339. Letter count: 53. 14, 17, 63. ------------------------------------------- Ratio: 5.6. 5.6, 5.6, 5.3. None of these match exactly, but that is still pretty close. I'm guessing the differences are because there are groups of bits that represent something other than letters, that are also made up of fewer bits. "Your mother's full of stupidjuice!" My Art Project

-llll-llll-----l-ll-lll-l-l-l-ll--l---lll-------ll---llll----l----ll-l-l- llll--l---lll-l-ll-ll-----llll-ll-l--lll-ll-l-llll--l---ll---lll--l----ll--- -ll--ll--l---l-l-lll----l-l-ll---------lll--l-l-llll-----lll-l-l-lll-ll- lll---lll--l-l-l-ll---ll-ll--llllll-l---ll---lll-ll----ll-l---l-l--l-llll-- |.---ll---lll--l-----llll-llll------lll-lll-lllll-ll-ll-llll--ll---lll----l- ll--,---ll---lll--l-----l-ll-l-lll-l-l---ll----ll--llll---llll---l-llll---- l-lllll----ll--l---lllllll,---ll----ll--ll--ll----l---ll---llll---ll--l-- ll---ll--llll---lll--l-ll-------ll----ll--ll-l-ll-------ll--ll--lll-l-ll- ll-l---l-l--lll---lll-l-lll-l-l---ll-ll--lll-l-----l---l-l-l-l---lll-l----- ---lll-l-llll--ll-l--lll--ll--ll----l---ll-----ll---lll-l-l-llll-----l--- ll-llllll---l-l-l-l---lll-l-------llll-llll--lll--lll-l-ll-llll-----llll. Seems like ---ll---lll--l---- or possibly the same thing with less that 4 dashes at the end translates to "in". "Your mother's full of stupidjuice!" My Art Project

I have a feeling this is the quote that is encoded in the first clue. The ratio of letters to bits is very close for each "part" of the message. "Your mother's full of stupidjuice!" My Art Project

Has anyone tried the inverse log of the binary value yet? "Your mother's full of stupidjuice!" My Art Project

I got the same thing you did quade. 25 characters per line, and the same sequence that you listed in your original post.

That sucks but that's the risk you take by driving faster than the speed limit. "Your mother's full of stupidjuice!" My Art Project

Yea, I saw what it was. Just sort of seems like a waste of time and flash programming. Guess some people are just easily amused. "Your mother's full of stupidjuice!" My Art Project

I don't get it. Why is this so funny? "Your mother's full of stupidjuice!" My Art Project

Sounds about right.

Beautifully put tbrown. "Your mother's full of stupidjuice!" My Art Project

If the suit was as stupid and pointless as you seem to think it is, then it it likely that going to court to defend it wouldn't have cost GG a thing (countersuit for legal fees), not to mention it would have helped create a legal precedent, which would have been beneficial to other manufacturers facing the same kinds of suits in the future. Instead it looks like it's going to cost him his business. So lets say that he ran himself into bankruptcy defending the suit but did so successfully. Where would that leave things? Well he would be just as worse off as far as the financial stability of his business goes, but there would now be a judgement on the books in favor of manufactures in this type of situation, should this happen again in the future. This suit could have (from a Gestault perspective) been good for the skydiving community. Instead it's just added another black mark to the perception of our beloved sport. "Your mother's full of stupidjuice!" My Art Project

Yep. "Your mother's full of stupidjuice!" My Art Project

Wow, I wondered if anyone was going to pick up on this. Everyone is saying that he had no right to sue, he knew the risks etc. Simple fact of the matter is that everyone has a right to sue. If your suit is frivolous or just done to harass the defendant, there are steps set up in the legal system to countersue the plaintiff, and a countersuit for payment of all attorney's fees is fairly common. To just choose to not show up in court is just stupid. From what I've read in this thread (which I'm sure is not anywhere close to all the relevant information) it looks as though a proper defense and countersuit would have had a strong likelyhood of success. If as a business owner, you aren't intelligent enough to see that, then maybe you shouldn't be in business. Also I don't see how attorneys fees and stress for defending a case that you would have a fair chance of defending successfully could be much worse than those that you would have to deal with by being forced into bankruptcy because you pulled a no-show in court. It sucks that this lawsuit happened in the first place, but you can't just decide that you don't want to play by the rules because you don't like one of them. That's how you get kicked out of the game. It makes me angry that Precision was sued in the first place, but it also makes me angry that such a high profile representative of our sport (a manufacturer) could make such a poor decision about how to handle it. "Your mother's full of stupidjuice!" My Art Project

*YAWN* "Your mother's full of stupidjuice!" My Art Project