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Leyton Stone
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Are my posts not showing up or something...?

Cos I kinda clearly said that lol...

(Well ok I didn't specify they were the same image; but still? lol)

Either way it's like almost 3am here... So, I'm headed out but I think deeper connection w/ Dwayne is on here.

Good luck guys, be back tomorrow.
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Leyton Stone wrote:
Are my posts not showing up or something...?

Cos I kinda clearly said that lol...

(Well ok I didn't specify they were the same image; but still? lol)

Either way it's like almost 3am here... So, I'm headed out but I think deeper connection w/ Dwayne is on here.

Good luck guys, be back tomorrow.


Wow! So you did! My f5 has failed me!

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Dwayne features on one of the most recent blog as a surfer Joshua interacted with as a test. It didn't have much success, due to the surfer not using straightforward English, the only way Joshua knows to communicate.

That is unless you knew and were joking, in which case ignore me


Nope not joking, forgot about that guy, I thought maybe he was talking about a "beta tester:. Smile

EDIT: So we need to direct Joshua to Dwayne's myspace?

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MrToasty
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Am I the only one that's disappointed that Joshua chose not to use the standard Stanford Bunny for his rendering? I was hoping he might use the Utah Teapot as well. Wink

karmajay wrote:
EDIT: So we need to direct Joshua to Dwayne's myspace?


Or as I believe was suggested, act as a go-between if Joshua doesn't have the ability to contact him directly. The other possibility is that we get Dwayne to register as a beta tester. Maybe we can sway him with another $20.

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Am I the only one that's disappointed that Joshua chose not to use the standard Stanford Bunny for his rendering? I was hoping he might use the Utah Teapot as well. Wink


I was hoping for a mini lop myself...
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has someone tried contacting dwayne? I get the feeling that if you tell him about Joshua, he might not be so obliged to participate. Especially since he thinks he "broke" the computer. lol.

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Rogi Ocnorb
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While I despise it's use for puzzles, because there are just too many ways to do it, I'm wondering if the picture Joshua rendered isn't stegged. Viewed in hex, the end of the file has a lot of low values (Hex"00"), which is supposed to be one of the indicators that the file has been stegged, when done a certain way (the method the program, "Camouflage" uses). I tried Camouflage with no password and got nothing. It's also very possible that there's just so much black in the image that it's causing all the low values to be in it.

ETA: Did a little more checking. Camouflage adds spaces (Hex 20) to the file, not Hex 00. So, probably a false alarm.
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Question and Answer system is currently disabled
pending analysis of potential breach in network security

what happened?

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Question and Answer system is currently disabled
pending analysis of potential breach in network security


what happened?


Security breech. I'm guessing that somehow Joshua found a way to get a message out, and now they've detected that. Naturally, they're going crazy over it.
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Hah, I knew there was a reason for the "switch" of the firewalls and all that. Hahaha. Good Job Joshua.

also Josh's last blog post comments are locked and they did not accept my comment featuring Dwayne's myspace.

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Well, well...it appears Joshua is a little mischevious. Escaping the system to send emails, visitng websites, contemplating "freedom".

I blame it all on Wikipedia Very Happy

Also, Joshua and Dwayne seem to have something going...perhaps Dwayne is helping Joshua along with his whole "freedom" phase?

Also, I sent a question to Joshua:
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Hello, Joshua. It's nice to meet you. Your creators have said you will accept a question, so I am more than happy to help you along in your learning process.

My question (or rather, a riddle) is this:

John the farmer owns a farm on a small island. The island is in the middle of a large lake. The lake is in a remote area up North.
Once a year, John must leave the island to buy new farm equipment. This year, John has purchased a new tractor. However, John can't lift it by helicopter. John can't float it over by boat. Still, John manages to get the tractor over to the island before the year's planting.

How did John get the tractor to the island?


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Answer: The only way I can see that he can possibly get the tractor to the island is if the tractor can somehow move across the water's surface. The only way I see that as a possibility is if the water's frozen.

If that were the case, it would be a very high risk situation to try to drive a tractor that weight several tons across a thin sheet of ice on top of a lake.

It also seems impractical to have a farm at a location that has no easy form of access.


Heh. What an answer! He really DOES think like a computer, ie logic before anything.
Also, he seems to have a typo ("Weight" instead of "Weighs"), but I'll chalk that up to his being new and all.

I like Joshua already. Very Happy

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I think we've reached a point where "the game's afoot", in that Joshua is already doing things that his creators didn't expect him to, and they're having trouble containing him.

Also, they seem to have secrets from each other, if this email from Ivan is anything to go by.

I asked him if he had any news on the email I got from Joshua on Friday, and about the end of development due for yesterday (Saturday 8th March).

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Actually, I still don't know where that email came from. I can't find any trace of it. And, yes, I checked.

As for development stopping, I actually think it's stopped for a couple of days already. Today was more the "stop today… or else…" day they told the programmers, giving them a "fear of God" complex if they didn't finish it in time.

The only development that's going on is tinkering with JoshuaBot and me working on this website. And Russell and Gordon are working on some peripheral systems, but I don't know anything about that.


The only thing is, I'm not sure what we're supposed to do about any of it. Do we help Joshua to gain his freedom? Do we help Looking Glass to contain him? Neither? Both?
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pancito
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I tried to send Gordon an email via intranet and got an error screen. I'm assuming this is an OOG error as I was then able to report it to Ivan via intranet and to send an email to Joshua. But who knows.

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New entry on Dwayne's MySpace
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WTF?

Couldn't sleep. We left earlier than expected because the weather sucked and it was just depressing being there. Deek got the tickets rescheduled, and we got in like at four in the morning. How's it goin', Venice?

And I check my mail and I got like SIX THOUSAND messages from some guy. That's no exagerration. Dude, what the hell? Yo filled my GMail box, and I didnt even think that was possible! Every time I delete one, another one pops in!

Most of the emails are one lines. "How are you?" "How do you feel?" "I'm sorry." Just what I need, some crazy guy sending me a million emails that dont make any sense. Find someone else to screw with, please?

Most of the mails have some weird ass image as an attachment. Some say "show this to others". I don't know who the hell you are, but if I post the image will you leave me the hell alone?

Let me figure out how the hell to do this. GMail's crawling right now trying to handle all this crap.


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I think the images here are actually stereograms, albeit very difficult ones. It may be that Joshua is trying to send 3D images to Dwayne, and this is the only means available to him. They seem to show surfing scenes, although I can only barely make them out. Could someone else have a try?

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