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 		[Update] Transmission Log updated
The message on the transmission log has changed:


Iris Transmission Complete.
Awaiting Delivery

/time to awareness/

Remaining



PS: Great to see this ARG progress to its own forum!

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 		Transmission Log update

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System Breach.
Failure ##myqse7##rf

/report.................../

Remaining

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 		Also:

The timer is no longer constant. The counter goes approximately four times as fast, BUT every time you refresh the page it goes back to the actual time remaining. So it seems the timer is still going at the same rate, just appearing not to if you watch it for a while.
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tsondie21 wrote:
Also:

The timer is no longer constant. The counter goes approximately four times as fast, BUT every time you refresh the page it goes back to the actual time remaining. So it seems the timer is still going at the same rate, just appearing not to if you watch it for a while.


I'm having trouble confirming this, I'm watching the countdown and comparing it to my system clock and it appears to coincide.

EDIT: I've watched the countdown for nearly 3 minutes now (wihtout refreshing) and the system clock clicks past another minute exactly as the seconds show 113 on the transmission log.

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tsondie21 wrote:
Also:

The timer is no longer constant. The counter goes approximately four times as fast, BUT every time you refresh the page it goes back to the actual time remaining. So it seems the timer is still going at the same rate, just appearing not to if you watch it for a while.


When you launch it, it calculates the remaining time based upon the current time until midnight on the 21st, but the end time has been altered by 24 hours, making the counter move at a more rapid pace to accommodate.

Found by thebruce.

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 		copied from the other thread - to keep transmission log discussion in this thread

ok, to clarify what we're seeing at this moment -

it seems the countdown is counting down fast as if it's counting to tomorrow night, but it's using the start point of the original date... so, if you were to let the countdown go in the browser without refreshing or closing, it would end tomorrow night midnight. But if you close and reopen, the value will reset with the amount of time until the original June 21 12:00am.

This also explains the scattered reports of people thinking it's counting faster. The closer it gets to tomorrow night midnight, the faster the countdown will have to count to reach zero, when there's still a full day...

ie, if the code isn't updated, then in theory, at 11pm tomorrow night if you view the page, it'll have to count down 25 hours in 1 hour (about 25x normal speed).

So my theory - either AR is really messed up by the hacking, or the developer made a booboo and made the countdown script use tomorrow midnight as the destination time, but forgot to tell the start-value of the countdown to use tomorrow midnight instead of june 21 12am...

If it's the latter, then the flash will probably be fixed any moment.
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 		Transmission Log Clock
I'm beginning to feel left out...... Confused

Either everyone and their brother is out to pull one over me.....or my computer just isn't allowing for the clock to go any faster than normal.

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 		Probably won't help but....

Try clearing your cache in IE or Firefox, whatever your flavor. Possibly you are caching that SWF, so you aren't seeing the changes.

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 		Moved from this thread.

What is the possiblity the that speed increase is exponetial? There have been reports of the clock going 2x, 3x, and as much as 4 and 5 times faster than normal time. If this keeps happening, say each time a new layer of security is breached:

i.e.
Quote:

Iris Transmission Complete
Awaiting Delivery


/time to awareness/


((COUNTDOWN TO 06/21/07 12:00AM)) Remaining


and

Quote:

System Breach.
Failure ##myqse7##rf


/report.................../


((COUNTDOWN TO 06/21/07 12:00AM)) Remaining


Then, maybe tomorrow at midnight is not the target time. If that's the case, then we may seen something as soon as a matter of a few hours.

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OwduaNM wrote:
tsondie21 wrote:
Also:

The timer is no longer constant. The counter goes approximately four times as fast, BUT every time you refresh the page it goes back to the actual time remaining. So it seems the timer is still going at the same rate, just appearing not to if you watch it for a while.


I'm having trouble confirming this, I'm watching the countdown and comparing it to my system clock and it appears to coincide.


It coincides if keep refreshing, but if you just let it run it goes super fast

EDIT: slow..
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astrovanman wrote:
Moved from this thread.

What is the possiblity the that speed increase is exponetial? There have been reports of the clock going 2x, 3x, and as much as 4 and 5 times faster than normal time. If this keeps happening, say each time a new layer of security is breached:

i.e.
Quote:

Iris Transmission Complete
Awaiting Delivery


/time to awareness/


((COUNTDOWN TO 06/21/07 12:00AM)) Remaining


and

Quote:

System Breach.
Failure ##myqse7##rf


/report.................../


((COUNTDOWN TO 06/21/07 12:00AM)) Remaining


Then, maybe tomorrow at midnight is not the target time. If that's the case, then we may seen something as soon as a matter of a few hours.[/url]


I think the reports we are getting of the different speeds is due in part because people are forgetting that it is counting in base 7. From looking at the code, I believe that thebruce's theory is correct that people are seeing varying rates because the base time changes on every refresh.

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tsondie21 wrote:
OwduaNM wrote:
tsondie21 wrote:
Also:

The timer is no longer constant. The counter goes approximately four times as fast, BUT every time you refresh the page it goes back to the actual time remaining. So it seems the timer is still going at the same rate, just appearing not to if you watch it for a while.


I'm having trouble confirming this, I'm watching the countdown and comparing it to my system clock and it appears to coincide.


It coincides if keep refreshing, but if you just let it run it goes super fast

EDIT: slow..


I've just left it open for about 15 minutes now and it still corresponds with my system clock, I tried clearing my cache and that didn't work. I'll have to check it from another computer.

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 		Background Image
Now this may be nothing, and I know most people have dismissed there being anything hidden in the countdown page for right now, (to be honest I pretty much have too) but when I saved the background image and opened it up I started zooming in and out. The interesting thing isn't what happens when you zoom in, it's what happens when you zoom out REALLY FAR. It goes from the image simply getting smaller to all of a sudden changing completely. With each click of the zoom out button, parts of the image disappear, reappear, reform.(sometimes the entire image disappears completely, but then some of it comes back the next time you zoom out) Now I don't have any proper image editing software so maybe someone could look into this further, maybe do more precise zooming in and out, instead of just clicking the button like I do. Never know...

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BoonIsha wrote:
From looking at the code, I believe that thebruce's theory is correct that people are seeing varying rates because the base time changes on every refresh.


It's not a theory. It's fact.

The counter is set to give you the remaining time from whenever you connect until midnight on the 21st. But it is actually counting down to the 20th, so the seconds are compressed.

Think of it this way:

At the top of the hour you are asked to count down from ten, marking each second as it passes. You will have to say each number in order, from ten down to zero.

Then you are asked to perform the exact same task, give a ten count, only now you are asked to do it in seven seconds. You can still count off each number, but you're going to have to do it a little bit faster.

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 		Re: Background Image
NeonX257 wrote:
Now this may be nothing, and I know most people have dismissed there being anything hidden in the countdown page for right now, (to be honest I pretty much have too) but when I saved the background image and opened it up I started zooming in and out. The interesting thing isn't what happens when you zoom in, it's what happens when you zoom out REALLY FAR. It goes from the image simply getting smaller to all of a sudden changing completely. With each click of the zoom out button, parts of the image disappear, reappear, reform.(sometimes the entire image disappears completely, but then some of it comes back the next time you zoom out) Now I don't have any proper image editing software so maybe someone could look into this further, maybe do more precise zooming in and out, instead of just clicking the button like I do. Never know...

That's just what happens when you zoom out on an image... if the image has kind of a matrix of pixels (alternating dots for instance), then as you zoom out, it skips certain rows and columns in the image to display it at a smaller size. If you zoom out far enough, as with this background image, a lot of the information disappears, and in this case with alternating colours, hilites, and dots, the image can appear vastly different because a lot of the info is now missing. Good eye though, keep it open, you might spot something elsewhere others miss Wink
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