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− | Hey, I'm first! Guessing the Bot only JUST created this, it was mere minutes after midnight EST when I landed on this page. Unfortunately this is a comic I'm less capable of explaining. From the looks of it, his Photoshop Patch turned what looks like C code into gobbledegook by filling in several of the spaces (and I think even changing some of the characters, possible with characters which fill more of the space). - NiceGuy1 [[Special:Contributions/108.162.218.77|108.162.218.77]] 04:24, 25 May 2016 | + | Hey, I'm first! Guessing the Bot only JUST created this, it was mere minutes after midnight EST when I landed on this page. Unfortunately this is a comic I'm less capable of explaining. From the looks of it, his Photoshop Patch turned what looks like C code into gobbledegook by filling in several of the spaces (and I think even changing some of the characters, possible with characters which fill more of the space). - NiceGuy1 [[Special:Contributions/108.162.218.77|108.162.218.77]] 04:24, 25 May 2016 (UTC) |
This appears to be Python code. Note the "def" keyword, how "for i in [garbled]:" is used rather than C's for syntax, and how there are no semicolons or braces. --[[User:Sherlock9|Sherlock9]] ([[User talk:Sherlock9|talk]]) 05:03, 25 May 2016 (UTC) | This appears to be Python code. Note the "def" keyword, how "for i in [garbled]:" is used rather than C's for syntax, and how there are no semicolons or braces. --[[User:Sherlock9|Sherlock9]] ([[User talk:Sherlock9|talk]]) 05:03, 25 May 2016 (UTC) | ||
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[[User:Jstout|Jstout]] ([[User talk:Jstout|talk]]) 19:48, 26 May 2016 (UTC) | [[User:Jstout|Jstout]] ([[User talk:Jstout|talk]]) 19:48, 26 May 2016 (UTC) | ||
− | + | == Resemblance to Xerox number mangling issue == | |
− | + | To me, this reminds me of the problem that a large set of Xerox copiers had. Their faulty use of image compression when scanning could cause portions of images to be replaced with similar portions, but the threshold of similarity was loose enough that numeric data would be subtly corrupted. For example, building plans and spreadsheet data could have numbers copied incorrectly, either of which could certainly have disastrous consequences. Documents were corrupted for a period as much as eight years before the problem was corrected, making legal archive data unreliable for this period, and some of the faulty machines may still be in use. http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning | |
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− | To me, this reminds me of the problem that a large set of Xerox copiers had. Their faulty use of image compression when scanning could cause portions of images to be replaced with similar portions, but the threshold of similarity was loose enough that numeric data would be subtly corrupted. For example, building plans and spreadsheet data could have numbers copied incorrectly, either of which could certainly have disastrous consequences. Documents were corrupted for a period as much as eight years before the problem was corrected, making legal archive data unreliable for this period, and some of the faulty machines may still be in use. http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning | ||
:Now that you mention it... Although here it's a person intentionally doing harm to the image.[[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.69|173.245.52.69]] 22:20, 26 May 2016 (UTC) | :Now that you mention it... Although here it's a person intentionally doing harm to the image.[[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.69|173.245.52.69]] 22:20, 26 May 2016 (UTC) | ||
::So ''that's'' what it was! I wondered why all the copies I could find of ''Concrete Mathematics'' had random font changes all over (and half the formulas came out wrong). [[Special:Contributions/141.101.80.121|141.101.80.121]] 22:26, 26 May 2016 (UTC) | ::So ''that's'' what it was! I wondered why all the copies I could find of ''Concrete Mathematics'' had random font changes all over (and half the formulas came out wrong). [[Special:Contributions/141.101.80.121|141.101.80.121]] 22:26, 26 May 2016 (UTC) | ||
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