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kenbo
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Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 171
I was sure that this poor girl was a victim of some spammer or somethin'.
Untill I red this line:
Quote:
this is so strange... i feel like i ought to remember
something but i don't know why.
That sounds sooooo ARGish to me.
very weird
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 9:11 am
fog
Boot
Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 23
kenbo wrote:
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That sounds sooooo ARGish to me.
very weird
And her photo on orkut (http://www.orkut.com/AlbumZoom.aspx?uid=2267757785725596586&pid=1 , login required) has definitely something in it. Horizontal bars and darker dots added over the image. It is acceptable to post it here? (Anyway, I can send it by private mail to people interested and without an orkut account..)
(oh, another weirdness: in the last mail she sent to cyfre she faked my SMTP! the IP address is completely wrong, obviously..)
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:09 am
Cyfre
Boot
Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 63 Location: Tampa FL
It's fine to post the image here. The link requires a username and password, and it looks like you have to be invited by a pre-existing member in order to join. Long story short, i don't have access to the image. =)
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:19 am
Wishi-san
Unfettered
Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Posts: 602 Location: UK. Southwards.
Well I was bored, so here's what I got. Horizontal sizes are probably not exact but the rest should be right.
Barcode anyone?
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:39 am
sapagoo
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Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 1213 Location: Atlanta, GA
Wishi-san wrote:
Well I was bored, so here's what I got. Horizontal sizes are probably not exact but the rest should be right.
Barcode anyone?
looks like Code 128. (doesn't look like UPC or code 3of9 or interleaved 2 of 5)
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:12 am
sapagoo
Charter Member
Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 1213 Location: Atlanta, GA
fyi, I'm trying to use http://www.barcodesinc.com/generator/index.php to generate sample barcodes, and http://www.barcode1.org/pub/russadam/128table.html to decode them.
It definitely starts with the code 128 "start sequence". The first character may be a "0", and the third character might be a "9", but I can't seem to get all the characters to fit.
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:33 am
Wishi-san
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Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Posts: 602 Location: UK. Southwards.
If that's the case I may have done it wrong, I only did it quickly, so may have some mistakes. I didn't notice any obviously missed though.
Uploaded photo - as you can see you can't just cut and paste.
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:40 am
fog
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Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 23
Wishi-san wrote:
If that's the case I may have done it wrong, I only did it quickly, so may have some mistakes. I didn't notice any obviously missed though.
("Horizontal lines" argh. And I am supposed to know about barcodes, sigh. )
Anyway, I have noted that the two barcodes can be joined (last two and first two bars correspond) into what seems to be an EAN-13 barcode. I tried to print it and scan it but all I get is a checksum digit error (you know, the reader beeps and says "error".)
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 9:21 am
miss_seph
Unfettered
Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 395 Location: New Zealand
Isn't there a barcode font you can d/l from somewhere like wingdings but it produces lines instead?
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 12:30 am
mr_cottons_parrot
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Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 10 Location: UK
has anyone tried stegging the image from the site? I would but i dont have access
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 6:39 am
kenbo
Decorated
Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 171
Was there anything else in the profile (besides the picture) that look like it could be some kind of clue? no links or anything?
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Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 11:48 pm
guest
Guest
just curious, was her flight delayed due to rain rain rain? also, what of the aol email address in the to header? has anyone explored that person yet?
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 5:46 pm
arcanadei
Decorated
Joined: 25 Aug 2004 Posts: 161
can someone do a yahoo people search on this person and see if it yeilds any info? i tried but am having trouble navigating the italian site and the US version doesn't check italian registrations. also, does the email name have any significance? hi to everyone, btw. this one looked too interesting so i finally registered. i am thinking that the two personalities using the email address are the same person, explaining why the shared knowledge of the nathan name and possibly why she stated that she felt like she should remember something. split personality? Barcode fonts as mentioned above. can't check them myself as i am at work (and getting nothing done now)
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:51 am
GWing_02
Veteran
Joined: 18 Aug 2004 Posts: 144 Location: Seattle, WA
kenbo wrote:
Quote:
this is so strange... i feel like i ought to remember
something but i don't know why.
That sounds sooooo ARGish to me.
very weird
That's what I was going to say before I flipped to page two of this thread.
The extracted barcode looks like it matches the original to me...
Have you tried feeding it a different way, or perhaps joining them one backwards, the other forwards, and other combinations like that?
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:46 pm
Blacklight
Boot
Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 48 Location: Farmington, Connecticut
Hi ! I'm new here.. fell into this thread by chance... looks like we have a nice little mystery to unravel here.
I tried doing that. They don't fit together. I've tried everything I can think of with this barcode and I havn't come up with anything at all.. No number seems to fit anything. Arrrr.. brain...melting...
I also havn't been able to come up with any info on Yahoo.it about our friend there. Since the barcode thing is going so bad for me, I think I'll focus myself in this direction and let the "smart" people figure out the barcode. I can say that it's DEFINITELY not UPC. I tried scanning it with our scanners at work (They'll get numbers from ANY barcode) and they wouldn't scan it (wouldn't even see it). I'm wondering if the barcode isn't necissarily a barcode and means something else...
-Blacklight-
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 12:31 am
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