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Puzzle History: Codebreaking and the NSA, part 3
Posted on July 11, 2017 by gmdirect
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[Image courtesy of NSA's official Twitter account.]
At the end of part 2 in our series, we left off during the early days of the NSA, as American cryptographers continued to labor under the shadow of the Black Friday change in Russian codes.
You may have noticed that part 2 got a little farther from puzzly topics than part 1, and there's a reason for that. As the NSA evolved and grew, codebreaking was downplayed in favor of data acquisition. The reasons for this were twofold:
1. Context. You need to understand why given encrypted information is important in order to put it toward the best possible use. As Budiansky stated in part 1, "The top translators at Bletchley were intelligence officers first, who sifted myriad pieces to
assemble an insightful whole."
2. Russian surveillance and bugging continued to grow more clever and sophisticated, pushing attention away from codebreaking. After all, what good is breaking codes or developing new ones if they can just steal unencrypted intel firsthand by monitoring
agents in the field?
Moving forward, the NSA would continue to pursue all manner of data mining, eventually leaving behind much of the codebreaking and analysis that originally formed the backbone of the organization. But that was in years to come. Cryptography was still a major player in NSA operations from the '50s and onward.
[The progression of "secret" and "top secret" code words.
Image courtesy of NSA's official Twitter account.]
In May 1956, NSA cryptanalytic veterans pushed a proposal titled "Recommendations for a Full-Scale Attack on the Russian High-Level Systems," believing that specially designed computers from IBM could provide the key for cracking the impenetrable Russian cryptography wall. Some cryptographers believed that ever-increasing processor speeds would eventually outpace even sophisticated codes.
By 1960, the NSA had spent $100 million on computers and analytical tools.
The problem? The NSA was collecting so much information that their increasingly small team of cryptoanalysts couldn't dream of processing even a tiny portion of it.
But the quest for data access would only grow more ambitious.
In the wake of Sputnik's launch in October of 1957, US signals intelligence would go where no man had gone before. The satellite GRAB, launched alongside Transit II-A in June of 1960, was supposedly meant to study cosmic radiation. (GRAB stood for Galactic Radiation and Background.)
But it was actually intended to collect radar signals from two Soviet air-defense systems. This was the next step of ELINT, electronic intelligence work. (The younger brother of SIGINT.)
The NSA would later find a huge supporter in President Lyndon Johnson, as the president was heavily invested in SIGINT, ELINT, and any other INTs he could access. This did little to quell the intelligence-gathering rivalry growing between the CIA and NSA.
Of course, that's not to say that the NSA ceased to do any worthwhile work in codebreaking. Far from it, actually.
During the Vietnam War, NSA analysts pored over North Vietnamese signals, trying to uncover how enemy pilots managed to scramble and respond so quickly to many of the US's airstrikes conducted during Operation Rolling Thunder.
Careful analysis revealed an aberrant character (in Morse code) in messages that appeared in North Vietnamese transmissions before 90 percent of the Rolling Thunder airstrikes. By identifying when the enemy used that aberrant character, the analysts
were able to warn US pilots whether they were heading toward a prepared enemy or an unsuspecting one during a given sortie.
Other NSA teams worked to protect US communications by playing the role of an enemy analyst. They would try to break US message encryptions and see how much they could learn from intercepted US signals. Identifying flaws in their own procedures — as well as members of the military who were cutting corners when it came to secured communications — helped to make US communications more secure.
[Image courtesy of NSA.gov.]
In 1979, Jack Gurin, the NSA's Chief of Language Research, wrote an article in the NSA's in-house publication Cryptolog, entitled "Let's Not Forget Our Cryptologic Mission." He believed much of the work done at the agency, and many of the people
hired, had strayed from the organization's core mission.
The continued push for data acquisition over codebreaking analysis in the NSA led to other organizations picking up the slack. The FBI used (and continues to use) codebreakers and forensic accountants when dealing with encrypted logs from criminal organizations covering up money laundering, embezzlement, and other illegal activities.
And groups outside the government also made impressive gains in the field of encryption, among them IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, the Center for International Security and Arms Control, and even graduate student programs at universities like MIT and Stanford.
For instance, cryptographer Whitfield Diffie developed the concept of the asymmetric cipher. Joichi Ito explains it well in Whiplash:
Unlike any previously known code, asymmetric ciphers do not require the sender and receiver to have the same key. Instead, the sender (Alice) gives her public key to Bob, and Bob uses it to encrypt a message to Alice. She decrypts it using her private key. It no longer matters if Eve (who's eavesdropping on their conversation) also has Alice's public key, because the only thing she'll be able to do with it is encrypt a message that only Alice can read.
This would lead to a team at MIT developing RSA, a technique that implemented Diffie's asymmetric cipher concept. (It's worth noting that RSA encryption is still used to this day.)
[Image courtesy of Campus Safety Magazine.com.]
The last big sea change in encryption came when the government and military realized they no longer had a monopoly on codebreaking technology. Increased reliance and awareness of the importance of computer programming, greater access to computers with impressive processing power, and a groundswell of support for privacy from prying government eyes, led to dual arms races: encryption and acquisition.
And this brings us to the modern day. The revelations wrought by Edward Snowden's leak of NSA information revealed the incredible depth of government data mining and acquistion, leading some pundits to claim that the NSA is "the only part of government that actually listens."
Whatever your feelings on Snowden's actions or government surveillance, there is no doubt that the National Security Agency has grown and changed a great deal since the days of cracking the ENIGMA code or working with the crew at Bletchley Park.
Where will American codebreaking go next? Who knows? Perhaps quantum computing will bring codes so complicated they'll be impenetrable.
All I know is… it's part of puzzle history.
I hope you enjoyed this multi-part series on the history of 20th-century codebreaking in America. If you'd like to learn more, you can check out some of the valuable sources I consulted while working on these posts:
Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union by Stephen Budiansky
Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future by Joichi Ito
The Secret Lives of Codebreakers by Sinclair McKay
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At the end of part 1 of our look at the history of the NSA and American codebreaking, we left off with the pivotal Black Friday event.
On November 1, 1948, all intel coming from monitored Soviet signals went quiet. All traffic on military, naval, and police radio links was replaced with dummy messages. It was such an unprecedented and alarming event that London and Washington briefly considered that it might've been the first indication of preparations for war.
According to Code Warriors author Stephen Budiansky:
The full extent of the disaster only became apparent the following spring when real traffic started reappearing on the radio nets, now employing greatly improved — and completely unbreakable — technical and security procedures. The keying errors or other mistakes that had allowed most of the Soviets' machine-enciphered military traffic to be routinely read by US and British codebreakers for the last several years had been corrected, and the much more disciplined systems that now replaced them slammed the cryptanalytic door shut.
Even the one-time pads that had offered some hope to attentive American codebreakers were updated, eliminating the ability to sort messages by which organization they originated from.
Codemakers had suddenly outpaced codebreakers.
[The Kryptos sculpture outside CIA Headquarters. The NSA cracked
several of its codes before the CIA did. Image courtesy of Slate.com.]
The Office of Naval Intelligence wanted to take over from Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), demanding to see "everything" so they could do the job. They claimed SIGINT should limit their work to message translation, leaving interpretation to "the real experts." This sort of territorial gamesmanship would continue to hamper government organizations for decades to come.
And that demand to see everything? That probably sounds familiar, in light of the revelations about government data collection and the PRISM program that were revealed in Edward Snowden's leaks.
Black Friday was the start of all that, a shift from codecracking to the massive data collection and sifting operation that characterized the NSA for decades to come.
More amazingly, there was SO MUCH information collected during World War II that SIGINT was still poring over it all in 1949, decrypting what they could to reveal Soviet agents in the U.S. and England.
The fact that a high-ranking member of British Intelligence at the time, Kim Philby, was actually a Soviet double agent complicated things. After a decade under suspicion, Philby would flee to the Soviet Union in 1963, stunning many friends and colleagues who had believed in his innocence.
[The spy and defector, honored with a Soviet stamp.
Image courtesy of Britannica.com.]
Although the Russians had flummoxed SIGINT, other countries weren't so lucky. The East German police continued to use ENIGMA codes as late as 1956. Many of the early successes in the Korean War were tied to important decryption and analysis work by SIGINT. Those successes slowed in July of 1951, when North Korea began mimicking Russia's radio procedures, making it much harder to gain access to North Korean intel.
Finally, the chaotic scramble for control over signal-based data gathering and codebreaking between the government and the military resulted in the birth of the National Security Agency on November 4, 1952, by order of President Truman.
One of the first things the NSA did? Reclassify all sorts of material involving historical codebreaking, including books and papers dating back to the Civil War and even the American Revolution.
[The actual report that recommended the creation of the NSA.
The creation of the NSA had finally, for a time at least, settled the issue of who was running the codebreaking and signals intelligence operation for the United States. And they were doing fine work refining the art of encryption, thanks to the work of minds like mathematician and cryptographer Claude Shannon.
One of Shannon's insights was the inherent redundancy that is built into written language. Think of the rules of spelling, of syntax, of logical sentence progression. Those rules define the ways that letters are combined to form words (and those words form sentences, and those sentences form paragraphs, and so on).
The result? Well, if you know the end goal of the encoded string of characters is a functioning sentence in a given language, that helps narrow down the amount of possible information contained in that string. For instance, a pair of characters can't be ANYTHING, because letter combinations like TD, ED, LY, OU, and ING are common, while combos like XR, QA, and BG are rare or impossible.
By programming codecracking computers to recognize some of these rules, analysts were developing the next generation of codebreakers.
Unfortunately, the Russian line was holding. The NSA's failure to read much, if any, Soviet encrypted traffic since Black Friday was obviously becoming more than just a temporary setback.
Something fundamental had changed in the nature of the Russian cryptographic systems, and in the eyes of some scientific experts called in to assess the situation, the NSA had failed to keep up with the times.
I hope you're enjoying this look at the early days of America's 20th-century codebreaking efforts. Part 3 will continue next week, with the sea change from active codebreaking to data mining, plus Vietnam, the space race, and more!
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Puzzle History: Codebreaking and the NSA
The National Security Agency has been in the news a lot over the last few years.
It arguably all started with Edward Snowden and the revelations about government surveillance, both domestic and foreign, that emerged in his wake. Between President Trump's intimations of Obama-era wiretapping (which also supposedly involved England's GCHQ) and recent news stories about NSA contractor Reality Winner leaking information, the NSA continues to draw mainstream attention in the 24-hour news cycle.
When you factor in the declassification of codebreaking intel during and after World War II, we know more about the NSA's inner workings than ever before.
You might be asking what the NSA has to do with puzzles. Well, everything. Because the NSA was born as a codecracking organization.
The NSA was founded in November of 1952, but its formative stages began during World War II, as codebreakers were recruited in the U.S. starting in 1943. Not only were they tasked with tackling the German ENIGMA code, but their secondary mission was to solve "the Russian problem." This group was known as Signals Intelligence, or SIGINT.
William Friedman, one of the early figures in American codebreaking, described cryptanalysis as "a unique profession, demanding a peculiar kind of puzzle-solving mentality combined with patience. So staffing this new organization was a curious endeavor."
Those who were recruited came from all walks of life:
Career officers and new draftees, young women math majors just out of Smith or Vassar, partners of white-shoe New York law firms, electrical engineers from MIT, the entire ship's band from the battleship California after it was torpedoed by the Japanese in the attack on Pearl Harbor, winners of puzzle competitions, radio hobbyists, farm boys from Wisconsin, world-traveling ex-missionaries, and one of the World's foremost experts on the cuneiform tablets of ancient Assyria.
A large campus was built that echoed the style and efforts of Britain's Bletchley Park, including Alan Turing's calculating machines, the bombes. Efforts on both sides of the Atlantic centered on cracking ENIGMA, the German codes used in all sorts of high-level communications. The teams worked alongside the bombes to try to determine which of the 456, 976 possible codes was being used in a given piece of communication.
It was a truly Herculean effort.
But while nearly half the staff focused on the Germans, others focused on cracking Russian codebooks, where words were translated into four-digit codes. Often, decrypting these codes involved "brute force" efforts, poring through numerous messages to pair up messages that used similar numerical groups, meaning they used the same cipher.
This would only work if the Soviets were lazy in their production of so-called "one-time pads," encryption devices that had a particular code, which would be used once and then thrown away. Brute force codebreaking revealed that some of the one-time pads had been used more than once, a lapse in Soviet security that could work to the advantage of U.S. intelligence.
That deduction led to another stunning discovery: cracking the system used in encrypted messages to tell agents which encryption was used in a given missive. You see, each encoded message contained within it a code that dictated the cipher necessary to decrypt the message.
The Russians would later complicate this work by employing multiplexers: devices that would transmit numerous messages at once, making it harder to separate one message from another in the same dispatch.
[Image courtesy of Virtantiq.com.]
The Germans would unwittingly aid the US in their Russian codebreaking efforts when a POW camp in Bad Aibling, Germany, was captured by the US army, and they uncovered a German device designed to "de-multiplex" Russian messages. The device was called the HMFS, because Hartmehrfachfernschreiber, while a great deal of fun to type, is hard to say quickly.
After World War II ended, U.S. intelligence consolidated their efforts on "the Russian problem," continuing their work unraveling the Russian codebooks. Slowly, the codemasters began determining which organizations in the Soviet government used which codes. Even if the codes weren't broken yet, it helped the intelligence community organize and prioritize their efforts.
The problem? They had a very tight timeframe to work in. Those duplicated codebooks were produced during a very small window of time in 1942, and only issued to Soviet agents in the three years that followed. By 1947, SIGINT analysts knew the Soviets would soon run out of the duplicated pads. Once they did, those recurring patterns of encrypted numbers would stop, and the best chance for cracking the Soviet codes would be lost.
Still, there was reason to be encouraged. Some important code words had been identified. TYRE was New York City, SIDON was London, and CARTHAGE was Washington; ENORMOZ appeared often enough that they determined it referred to atomic bomb research in Los Alamos.
It would also be revealed, through careful analysis of decrypted intel, that Soviet agents were embedded in both the U.S. Justice Department and in England's Bletchley Park campus. The Justice Department agent was identified and tried, but released after the court found insufficient evidence to place her under surveillance in the first place.
This was one consequence of the secrecy surrounding codebreaking: an unwillingness to reveal their codebreaking success by turning over evidence of it. (As for the Bletchley Park spies, one was identified in 1951 and confessed in 1964. The other was never identified.)
By this time, the Russians had gone over ENIGMA machines captured during the German retreat, and had unraveled not only how the devices worked, but how to improve upon them. This would lead to the next-generation Russian Fialka machine.
With ever-increasing complexity when it came to encryption, thanks to increased automation, codebreaking evolved into not just intelligence work, but intelligence analysis. After all, if you don't know something is important, you don't necessarily give it the attention it deserves. As researcher Stephen Budiansky put it, "The top translators at Bletchley were intelligence officers first, who sifted myriad pieces to assemble an insightful whole."
It also led to bigger, faster machines, like Goldberg and Demon, two computation machines designed to more efficiently pore over the vast amount of encrypted information being intercepted by the various U.S. intelligence services.
In 1948, though, the game changed. It changed so dramatically that November 1, 1948, is still remembered in NSA circles as Black Friday.
I hope you're enjoying this look at the early days of America's codebreaking efforts. Part 2 will continue next week, with a look at the rise of the NSA, Cold War cryptography, and more!
[Quotes and certain photos were sourced from Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union by Stephen Budiansky.]
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The GCHQ Strikes Again!
Posted on December 13, 2016 by gmdirect
Last year, one of the toughest puzzles I encountered all year was the GCHQ Christmas Card.
The GCHQ — Government Communications Headquarters — provides security and intelligence services for the British government. Back when they were known as GC&CS — Government Code and Cypher School — they were responsible for funding Bletchley Park and its successes cracking the German "Enigma" code during World War II.
And last Christmas, they released a puzzly Christmas card that challenged the staunchest puzzlers, with over 600,000 submissions, but only 3 successful solutions!
This year, they're doing things a little bit differently.
[Click here for a larger version.]
This puzzle is the first step in a larger event that the GCHQ expects will take MONTHS to solve. (Their official due date for submissions is February 28, 2017!)
The big change here is that instead of a series of webpages available free to the public, they're releasing this puzzly master challenge as a book containing over 140 codes and puzzles.
But it's for a good cause, as "all GCHQ's proceeds from sales of the book will be donated to the Heads Together campaign, supported by HRH The Duchess of Cambridge, who wrote the foreword for The GCHQ Puzzle Book."
The Duchess writes:
I have always been immensely proud of my grandmother, Valerie Glassborow, who worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. She and her twin sister, Mary, served with thousands of other young women as part of the great Allied effort to break enemy codes. They hardly ever talked about their wartime service, but we now know just how important the men and women of Bletchley Park were, as they tackled some of the hardest problems facing the country.
In a new century, their successors at GCHQ continue this intellectual tradition. Like their Bletchley predecessors, they have become well known for valuing and understanding the importance of mental wellbeing. This is so important when dealing with such discretion and the pressure which comes with this.
William, Harry and I are very grateful that this book is supporting our Heads Together Campaign. I hope it will not only amuse and challenge readers, but help to promote an open discussion of mental health problems, which can affect anyone, regardless of age or background. Together, we are aiming to change the national conversation around mental health from stigma and fear to openness and understanding. Those who buy this book and support the Heads Together campaign will be playing a part in helping people get the important mental health care they deserve.
Puzzles and charitable works: a perfect holiday match, to be sure.
For US shoppers, the book is available as a Kindle ebook through Amazon.com, but if you want a paperback copy, you're better off ordering it from Amazon.co.uk. With shipping and conversion, it still cost me less than $20.
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Cracking the GCHQ Christmas Card!
Posted on February 18, 2016 by gmdirect
As you may recall, my fellow puzzlers and PuzzleNationers, a few months ago, a government organization in England called the GCHQ — Government Communications Headquarters — released a puzzly Christmas card designed to tax even the savviest puzzle solvers.
They've finally released the answers to this mind-blowing series of puzzles, and I'd like to go over some of them with you. Partly to marvel at the puzzle wizardry necessary to solve this challenging holiday gift, and partly to gloat about the parts I managed to solve.
So let's get to it!
Part 1 was a logic art puzzle where you have to deduce where to place black squares on an open grid in order to form a picture.
Each column and row has a series of numbers in it. These numbers represent runs of black squares in a row, so a 1 means there's one black square followed by a blank square on either side and a 7 means 7 black squares together with a blank square on either side.
This is mostly a deduction puzzle — figuring out how to place all the strings of black squares with white spaces between them within the space allotted — but no image immediately emerged, which was frustrating. Once the three corner squares started to form though, I realized the answer was a QR code, and the puzzle started to come together nicely.
Part 2 was a series of six multiple-choice brain teasers. I'll give you the first three questions, along with answers.
Q1. Which of these is not the odd one out?
A. STARLET
B. SONNET
C. SAFFRON
D. SHALLOT
E. TORRENT
F. SUGGEST
Now, if you stare at a list of words long enough, you can form your own patterns easily. Here's the rationale the GCHQ used to eliminate the odd ones out:
STARLET is an odd one out because it does not contain a double letter.
SONNET is an odd one out because it has 6 letters rather than 7.
SAFFRON is an odd one out because it ends in N rather than T.
TORRENT is an odd one out because it starts with T rather than S.
SUGGEST is an odd one out because it is a verb rather than a noun.
SHALLOT is our answer.
Q2. What comes after GREEN, RED, BROWN, RED, BLUE, -, YELLOW, PINK?
A. RED
B. YELLOW
C. GREEN
D. BROWN
E. BLUE
F. PINK
After playing around with some associative patterns for a while, I realized that somehow these colors must equate to numbers. First I tried word lengths, but 5-3-5-3-4-___-6-4 didn't make any sense to me. But then, it hit me: another time where colors and numbers mix.
Pool balls. Of course, the colors and numbers didn't match, because this is a British puzzle, and they don't play pool, they play snooker.
So the colored balls in snooker become the numbers 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, -, 2, 6. The numbers of Pi. And now the blank makes sense, because Pi reads 3.1415926, and there's no 9 ball in snooker.
So the next number in the chain is 5, and 5 is the color BLUE.
Q3. Which is the odd one out?
A. MATURE
B. LOVE
C. WILDE
D. BUCKET
E. BECKHAM
F. SHAKA
This one came pretty quickly to me, as the names Oscar Wilde and Charlie Bucket leapt out. And if you follow the phonetic alphabet, you also get Victor Mature, Romeo Beckham, and Shaka Zulu. (I didn't get Mike Love, however.)
Since Shaka Zulu was the only one where the phonetic alphabet word was the surname, not the first name, SHAKA is the odd one out.
(The other three questions included an encryption puzzle, a number pattern (or progressions puzzle), and a single-letter puzzle.)
Granted, since you could retake this part as many times as you wanted, you could luck your way through or brute force the game by trying every permutation. But managing to solve most of them made this part go much faster.
Part 3 consisted of word puzzles, and was easily my favorite section, because it played to some strengths of mine.
A. Complete the sequence:
Buck, Cod, Dahlia, Rook, Cuckoo, Rail, Haddock, ?
This sequence is a palindrome, so the missing word is CUB.
B. Sum:
pest + √(unfixed – riots) = ?
This one is a little more involved. To complete the formula, you need to figure out what numbers the words represent. And each word is an anagram of a French number. Which gives you:
sept + √(dix-neuf – trois) = ?
Dix-neuf is nineteen and trois is three, so that's sixteen beneath a square root sign, which equals four. And sept (seven) plus four is eleven.
The French word for eleven is onze, and ZONE is the only anagram word that fits.
C. Samuel says: if agony is the opposite of denial, and witty is the opposite of tepid, then what is the opposite of smart?
This is a terrific brain teaser, because at first blush, it reads like nonsense, until suddenly it clicks. Samuel is Samuel Morse, so you need to use Morse Code to solve this one. I translated "agony" and tried reversing the pattern of dots and dashes, but that didn't work.
As it turns out, you need to swap the dots and dashes, and that's what makes "denial" read out. This also worked with "witty" and "tepid," so when I tried it with "smart," the opposite was OFTEN.
D. The answers to the following cryptic crossword clues are all words of the same length. We have provided the first four clues only. What is the seventh and last answer?
1. Withdraw as sailors hold festive sing-song
2. It receives a worker and returns a queen
3. Try and sing medley of violin parts
4. Fit for capture
7. ?
Now, I'm not a strong cryptic crossword solver, so this part took FOREVER. Let's work through it one clue at a time.
The word WASSAIL both reads out in "withdraw as sailors hold" and means "festive sing-song."
The word ANTENNA both "receives" and is formed by "a worker" (ANT) and "returns a queen" (ANNE, reading backward).
The word STRINGY is both an anagram of "try" and "sing" and a violin part (STRING).
The word SEIZURE means both "fit" and "capture."
Those four answers read out like this:
STRINGY
And with three more answers to go, it seemed only natural that three more seven-letter answers were forthcoming. Plus, when you read the words spelling out downward, you notice that the first four letters of WASSAIL, ANTENNA, STRINGY, and SEIZURE were spelling out.
If you follow that thought, you end up with the start of a 7×7 word square:
ANNU___
INGR___
LAYE___
And the only seven-letter word starting with INGR that I could think of was INGRATE.
ANNU_A_
INGRATE
LAYE_E_
And if the last word is LAYERED…
ANNU_AR
Then the missing word must be ANNULAR. The original question asked for the last word though, so our answer is LAYERED.
This brings us to Part 4, Number Puzzles, where I must confess that I finally tapped out, because I could only figure out the first of the three progressions involved.
Fill in the missing numbers.
A. 2, 4, 8, 1, 3, 6, 18, 26, ?, 12, 24, 49, 89, 134, 378, 656, 117, 224, 548, 1456, 2912, 4934, 8868, 1771, 3543, …
B. -101250000, -1728000, -4900, 360, 675, 200, ?, …
C. 321, 444, 675, 680, 370, 268, 949, 206, 851, ?, …
In the first one, you're simply multiplying by 2 as you go.
2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, 32768, 65536, 131072, 262144, and so on.
But you begin to exclude every other number as you move into double-digits, triple-digits, quadruple-digits, and beyond.
So the answer, 512, becomes the real answer, 52.
But, as I said, I couldn't crack the other two, and I'm already exhausted just running through these four sections!
And, based on the answers they released recently, Part 5 only got more mindbending from there.
As a matter of fact, not a single entrant managed to get every answer in Part 5 correct. Prizes were awarded to the three people who came closest however, and it turns out a staggering 30,000+ people made it to Part 5. Color me impressed!
This was, without a doubt, the most challenging puzzle suite I have ever seen, and I offer heartfelt kudos to anyone in the PuzzleNation Blog readership who even attempted it!
You're welcome to try it out for yourself, though. I highly recommend using this link from The Telegraph, which allows you to skip to the next part if you get stumped.
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A puzzly British Christmas card!
One government agency in England celebrates Christmas a little bit differently than most.
The GCHQ — Government Communications Headquarters — provides security and intelligence services for the British government. Back when they were known as GC&CS — Government Code and Cypher School — they were responsible for funding the Bletchley Park successes cracking the German "Enigma" code during World War II.
And for Christmas this year, they've released a puzzly Christmas card that's sure to challenge even the staunchest puzzlers.
Step 1 of the puzzle is a logic art puzzle where you have to deduce where to place black squares on an open grid in order to form a picture.
Once you've solved this puzzle, you can use it to unlock the next puzzle in the chain.
From an article on GCHQ.gov.uk:
Once all stages have been unlocked and completed successfully, players are invited to submit their answer via a given GCHQ email address by 31 January 2016. The winner will then be drawn from all the successful entries and notified soon after.
Players are invited to make a donation to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, if they have enjoyed the puzzle.
This is one majorly challenging Christmas card. After you've conquered the logic art puzzle, you'll confront brain teasers, palindromes, pattern-matching, deduction, number progressions, codebreaking, cryptic crossword-style cluing, and more.
I would highly recommend teaming up with another puzzle-minded friend (or more) and trying your luck. Let us know how far you get! (And you can hit up this article from the Telegraph for aid as well.)
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Q: communicating Java application and C++ process using posix ipc message queues It's quite difficult for me to explain what I need to implement, so I really hope I am able to do it.
I have a C process which uses an ipc message queue to send and receive data. I also have a Java application which needs to send and received messages to/from that C process, so it needs access to that queue.
I've been searching for a way to do this and I think JNA (java natice access) could be a solution. The problem is that, apparently, I need a DLL so I can map and use the methods I need (msgget, msgsnd,msgrcv,msgctl), but I don't know which DLL I should load. I'm quite new at this so I'm feeling lost.
Is there another way to get these two applications to communicate using message queues? Or is JNA a good solution and I only need to find the correct DLL to load?
Thanks in advance.

A: If that is an option, you could change the C process to use a different way of communication. In my experiences Sockets are the least troublesome way of communicating between c and java programs/processes.

A: The use of JNA is perfectly legal, but somehow tricky.
This post "Java POSIX IPC" may have some clues as to how to do that in Java or using Java Libraries.

A: If you can find depend.exe (I know VS 2005 has it), it can show you the functions each dll exports. Run it on your c program to see where the functions are coming from, if they are real you can use JNA. The functions might actually be just wrappers and if so you need to use JNI

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Your vehicle's electrical system is a complex ecosystem of wires, chargers and cables. And a problem in one area can cascade into problems in others.
Traditionally, a dead battery could be attributed to something as simple as leaving an interior light on overnight. Yet, modern vehicles typically require a trained eye to identify sources of power drain.
All vehicles use an alternator to recharge the battery while the vehicle is running. A worn out alternator can prevent your vehicle's battery from recharging.
And what about the cables running between all the electrical components?
High heat common in the engine compartment causes cables to deteriorate, and damaged cables may not conduct electrical current properly.
The result: A dead battery.
Kimbrough recommended regular inspection of the electric system, cleaning battery terminals and testing of a battery's charge level. That is especially true before summer trips, when high temperatures accelerate corrosion and can evaporate water inside the battery.
Look for warning signs that your vehicle battery may be about to fail--difficulty starting your vehicle, low headlight intensity and power accessories that are sluggish (lift gates or windows that operate slower than normal).
Ask your service advisor to test the battery's power retention capability. A weak battery may be able to turn over your vehicle's engine at home and go dead the next time you try to start it up.
Inspect the battery for leaks, cracks or bulging. Any one of these symptoms means it's time for a new battery. A cracked, leaking or swollen battery poses serious safety hazards for you and your vehicle.
Check for corrosion around the cables. Rust and crust on the terminals can diminish the effectiveness of your vehicle's battery and must be removed.
Inspect your vehicle's charging system every three months or every oil change. Batteries that are more than 3 years old should be tested more frequently.
Check electrical cables for wear and tear. If you notice cracks, ask your advisor about replacing the cables before your next out-of-town journey.


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If social skills are not your strong suit, there may be no better medicine than watching yourself — on TV, that is.
A program called video self-modeling utilizes video cameras and simple editing equipment to help people identify their own abilities. The person is recorded while being prompted to appropriately do an activity like taking turns. Then, the video is edited to remove the prompt so that all you see is the person doing the right thing on their own.
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Без разлика дали ќе се одлучите за еднодневен престој или пак за подолг одмор, Кањон Матка нуди безброј авантури, можност за рекреација и уживање во прекрасната природа. Резервациите се прават однапред, особено во летниот период. Започнете со планирање на Вашиот одмор. Кога престојувате во Котел Кањон Матка вие не сте само близу – вие сте таму!
Матка – клисура во која опстојува богат комплекс од средновековни зграда, вклучувајќи цркви, манастири и остатоци од тврдина (од средновековниот град на Матка). Постои десетици пештери и голем број на ендемични растенија и животни. Кањонот зафаќа површина од околу 5.000х и се наоѓа на 15 километри југозападно од Скопје.
Hotel Canyon Matka offers you Class A accommodation, situated by the Lake Matka next to St.Andrea monastery. Rooms are pleasant and peaceful, inviting restful sleep, with the option of queen or twin beds, fully equipped for a stay of pleasant remembrance, free Wi-Fi throughout the property, and modern flat-screen TVs.
Главниот бар нуди широк спектар на алкохолни пијалоци, внимателно одбрани вина и совршено приготвени коктели.
Дворот во состав на барот е идеално место за коктел забави обоени од боите на зајдисонцето.
Amazing location and view from the window. Comfortable and warm room. Tasty and rich selection of breakfast meals. The boat station and the old church are very close. According to the rules of the hotel, you must leave your passport as collateral. The restaurant menu is rather expensive, but in general acceptable.
The location was extra and perfect. the room was clean and comfort. The breakfast was good. There was no wi-fi, if there was a problem with the wi fi router that day i don't know exactly why.
Amazing location, great and very nice staff, delicious breakfast served on the tarrace with canyon view. I'd recommend to anyone visiting Macedonia. Great value for money paid! If someone was late for breakfast, there was not much left, so better come at 9 am.
Had a great time at the canyon! The hotel itself was pretty standard, no complaints. The hotel offered us a complimentary bottle of wine with dinner. Dinner is a bit pricey for Macedonia but a typical price in Canada and they had a delicious dessert. The complimentary breakfast was good! The parking is a bit of a walk to the hotel.
The location is amazing. Canyon Matka is one of the best places to visit in Macedonia. The room was nice with everything needed for a pleasant stay. The food and the view from the restaurant - excellent. The room despite being the most expensive one didn't have coffee/tea making facilities. Everything else was ok.
Inside the room there is a fairly bright 'exit' sign above the door. Ideal to show the exit when its dark...but also ideal to keep you awake :-). Breakfast was only served starting from 9.00 while we had to leave already @ 8.30..so we missed the breakfast. Its a pity to see that much plastic garbage on the beautiful trails along the canyon... Exceptional location. Nice food in the restaurant.
Everything! Amazing nature, helpful staff, very tasty meal, clean room.
The location of Matka Hotel is unbelievable! The staff was so nice and made us feel very welcome. The included breakfast was amazing and we were even treated to a free bottle of wine. Wish we could have stayed longer!
I accidentaly left some stuff in my room but even when I had left for my home country the staff sent me my stuff back no extra pay, nothing. Very nice people, good food, will take care of you!
Very nice place,good personal,breakfest-super! Thank you very much!
This hotel is nestled away Inbetween canyons and lakes. It is an absolutely beautiful location - accessible only by a rocky footpath which makes you feel you are going the wrong way, but in fact when you reach the hotel you are blown away! Brilliant outdoor restaurant and bar. 12kms from town so be prepared and take everything you need so that you can enjoy ultimate relaxation!
Perfect location (unbeatable) - just in the middle of the Canyon. Good food. Nice atmosphere. Good for one night. On photos looked better. Bathroom doors didn't close. The restaurant is quite expensive (compering Macedonian prizes).
Air Conditioning in rooms would be beneficial particularly in summer time and also windows to have mosquito nets. Staff service, location, food.
Very nice location in the canyon. The food was very good. The office did not open before 8am.
Location was excellent, looking out over the lake and canyon. Breakfast was very good. Rooms were quite basic; at weekends the location gets very crowded with day trippers from Skopje and parking is a problem.
Beautiful view, bird chirps, silence and it's wonderful restaurant. Their gift: four bottle of vines. They are very gentle.
There was no bottle of wine as it was said when u reserve a room and at the early morning they started to make noises and working with tools and it was bothering us. I liked the view from the room and the breakfast.
Голем, прекрасен и неспорно убав, кањонот Матка е најпрепознатливиот белег на Македонија, вештачко чудо кое мора да го видите за да поверувате. Кањонот се простира на површина од околу 5000 хектари и е лоциран 15 км југозападно од Скопје, главниот град на Македонија. На гостите им препорачуваме да го посетат манастирот Св. Андреј кој се наоѓа во непосредна близина. Останати активности во кои можете да уживате се пешачењето, нуркање во пештерите, качување по карпи или возење кајак во водите на реката Треска.
Главниот аеродром се наоѓа на 40 км одалеченост од Матка.


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Fascinating Twin Facts!
Guest Author - Julixa Newman
Here are some facts that you might not know about twins!
Although identical twins have the same DNA they do not share the same fingerprints!
Boy/Girl twins can be identical. It is a rare genetic mutation in monozygotic male twins. Basically after the zygote splits one twin loses a Y chromosome and becomes a female. The female twin will develop Turner Syndrome. Only 10 cases have been reported world wide!
Elvis Presley was an identical twin. His brother's name was Jesse Garon Presley and he died at birth.
Twins have a 22% chance of being left handed. Singletons only have a 10% chance!
There are seven different types of twins: fraternal, identical, half identical, mirror image, superfecundation, superfetation and mixed chromosome twins!
The average weight of a twin at birth is five and a half pounds.
China has the lowest rate of twins in the world.
The Yoruba Tribe of Nigeria has the highest rate of twins! They claim it is because of their high intake of yams.
Fraternal twins are hereditary. Identical twins are not. Identical twins are considered a "fluke".
Idioglossia is the term used to refer to the secret language of twins!
A woman from Italy gave birth to 11 sets of fraternal twins in 11 years, the last being in 1947. Unfortunately not all of them survived.
The largest twins ever born to date were a whopping 27 lbs and 12 ounces (combined). They were born to Mrs. J.P. Haskin of Arkansas.
"Vanishing twin" is the term used when one twin is lost in utero. This is frequently encountered in pregnancies that were a result of Invitro Fertilization.
There are currently 11 million sets of identical twins in the world today.
A recent study by Umberto Castiello of the University of Padova, Italy published a report in the journal PloS in October that showed that unborn twins interact with each other as early as 14 weeks!
In a recent German study it was revealed that 75% of twins are born within 15 minutes of each other.
Approximately 40-60% of conjoined twins arrive stillborn. The overall survival rate of conjoined twins are between 5-25%.
Superfecundation is the term used when two different males father a set of fraternal twins.
Many universities in the United States offer discounts to twins who attend the same school. Make sure to ask when enrolling!
Kiefer Sutherland, Alanis Morrisette, Ed Sullivan, Ashton Kutcher, Scarlett Johansson, and Gisele Bundchen are all twins!
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Welsh Fabians
HOUSING ACTION
Mike Hedges MS
Housing is the third necessity of life after food and water but far too many people live in
substandard accommodation or are homeless or are concerned where they will move to
next. I also do not expect there to be large sums of money available, outside health, for
legislation so I am proposing some changes that will be cost neutral for the Welsh Government with possible savings which will also provide substantial benefits to people living in Wales.
No Fault Evictions
Mark Drakeford announced last year that the Welsh Government will be banning no-fault evictions in the private rented sector, otherwise known as a Section 21 notice. Section 21 gives landlords the power to evict tenants without having to give a reason. Once a tenant has received a Section 21 notice, they have two months from the date of the notice to move
out. If the tenant has not moved out in that time, the landlord would need to apply to the courts for a possession order.
Landlords can also gain possession through a Section 8, fault-based, notice. This applies where tenants have not paid their rent or tenants have acted in an anti-social way. If tenants are settled in a property, the ban on Section 21 will mean that they do not have to move unless they have breached the terms of their tenancy or they wish to leave.
If the proposed ban is implemented, it will mean landlords are no longer able to issue 'no fault' notices to tenants and would have to provide 'good reasons' for eviction. This would mean that landlords will have to follow the procedure of serving a Section 8 notice. Shelter Cymru have stated that they wish for private renters in Wales to have the same rights that tenants have in other parts of the world. According to them, the proposed ban won't stop landlords from getting the property back if they have a genuine reason, but it will
give tenants the reassurance that as long as they pay rent on time and look after the property, they will have a home for as long as they need it, making the private rented sector a fairer place to live for everyone.
Leasehold Reform
A survey carried out in conjunction with the Leasehold Advisory Service found 57% of leaseholders somewhat or strongly agreed that they regretted buying a leasehold property.
The Welsh Government estimated in 2012 that there were around 200,000 leasehold homes in Wales and that number has almost certainly increased. Whilst leasehold is generally associated with flats, houses can also be leasehold. The extent to which developers are selling new-build houses on a leasehold basis has caused a lot of concern for many leasehold home buyers.
It is easy to understand why flats are leasehold, the lease will make clear arrangements for maintenance of the communal areas, insurance and the building's structure.
Issues of concern raised have included expensive ground rent clauses which soon escalate from the affordable to the unaffordable and can make it difficult to sell the property. There can be charges for consent to alter the property, and even permission to sell the property. In some cases, the freehold interest has been sold to investment companies. A way around flats being leasehold is for there to be common ownership of the shared areas in flats between all the owner and this co operative model works well in other parts of the world.
Planning Permission for New Dwellings
Planning permission for all new developments need to include a condition that all street lights, drainage, pavements and roads are built to the standard for adoption by the local authority. Far too often developers build houses and put in roads that are not up to the standard for the council to adopt them. The first, those who have bought the houses know about it is when they contact the council for repairs only to be told that the road is not adopted. The building of roads and the other infrastructure to adoptable standard was
common practice in the past but some large construction companies have stopped doing it so we must legislate to make them.
Registered Social Landlords and Council Housing
Housing Associations and Councils, which have not had stock transfer, should have a common waiting list. Also having a transfer system between Housing Associations and Council housing would make it easier for people to move. Currently you have to know which registered social landlords have properties in the area you wish to live but with a common application system people will only have to register once. With transfers people could then move between housing association properties and also housing association and council
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Em computação, mmap é uma chamada de sistema do Unix, em conformidade com o POSIX, que mapeia arquivos ou dispositivos na memória. É um método de E/S de arquivo mapeado em memória. Ela implementa naturalmente a paginação por pedido, pois os conteúdos iniciais dos arquivos não são inteiramente lidos do disco e não usam a memória RAM física completamente. A real leitura do disco é feita de maneira "preguiçosa", após uma posição específica ter sido acessada.

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Charlie Hoover was a show about a man who had just reached the midpoint of his life. He spent most of his life just getting by, until one day the little voice within his head materializes in the form of Hugh, 12 inches of mouth. Hugh then proceeds to set Charlie on the path to getting his life in order. This includes the usual things such as getting that long sought after promotion, telling his mother-in-law off and other stock sitcom situations. Other than Kinison's loud and mostly amusing performance this series didn't have much going for it.


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9 Regt AAC Alpine Skiing Exercise White Knight
9 Regt AAC Alpine Ski Team, led by Capt Mike Rivington, embarked on the 28th Annual RAC and AAC ski meet, Ex WHITE KNIGHT in Verbier, Switzerland.
The aim of the exercise was to facilitate a training camp for six soldiers over six weeks in order to prepare units to go on and compete in the Downhill Alpine skiing disciplines and the Divisional and Army Championships.
Not withstanding the ongoing operational commitments, 9 Regt AAC remains committed to contributing to Ex WHITE KNIGHT not only because of the recognised AT benefits, but also the need to retain a presence within Army winter sports. This year's commitment of two Officers and four other ranks was a truly novice team The plan was to split the Ex into the training camp in Verbier and then move to Les Contamines, France for the combined 1 and 2 Div Champs. Verbier is an excellent location to conduct Ex WHITE KNIGHT. The resort is one of Europe's finest and has the infrastructure to match; Les Contamines has specialist race pistes allowing for the change in emphasis from free skiing to racing, although the resort itself is smaller, it is an ideal location for this phase. The training received in Verbier by the Swiss Ski School was excellent; the local knowledge and experience they offered provided a service that organic assets could never deliver. On arrival, all competitors were grouped according to ability and extensive general ski training was conducted for the first two weeks. This took place from first lift 0830 until 1600, six days a week. Pole training was conducted on the specific training slopes in both Verbier and the Savolyres area to prepare the competitors for racing in Verbier and after in Les Contamines involving Slalom, Giant Slalom, Super G and Downhill events. The Swiss Ski School's ethos to teach all competitors to ski in all conditions, not just in racing, is vital. It taught general safety and awareness on the slopes, as well as an ability to adapt to changing conditions. This depth of instruction imbued a sense of awareness and safety in the novice skiers, which proved excellent advice.
Overall, 9 Regt AAC had a very successful season finishing 10th out of 17 in the 2 Div Championships, qualifying for the Army Championship. There was also individual success at the Army Championship, where ATpr Anstey finished 20th overall – not bad for his first time on skis. The Regt looks forward to continuing this year's successes in 2012 and, looking at the bigger picture, it opened up a huge opportunity for serving soldiers to break away from what is an increasingly busy Regimental duty and really benefit from the experiences gained from competing in a technically arduous winter sport.


Here's the issue in a nutshell: while in 2018, personal income grew by 4% tax withholding actually fell by 0.6%. Analyzing the relationship between income and tax withholdings, BofA found that if withholdings had grown in line with income, tax withholdings would have been approximately $90bn higher. That is, about $90BNn of the tax cuts have already been paid out to households through the new withholding tables, which reflect the lower tax rates and the doubling of the standard deduction from the TCJA. Said otherwise, overall refunds will be $90BN less than if withholdings stayed constant.
Needless to say, they won't be happy, having expected – and likely already spent – a far greater refund than in 2018, especially since a clear majority of Americans – four out of five, according to the Tax Policy Center in Washington – are supposed to see a reduction in taxes.
Some Americans won't be getting a refund at all.


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Noah and Daren are happy that "John Wick: Chapter 2" is an enjoyable movie that adds to the underlying sense of humor found in the first film, but were a bit concerned with the relentless nature of the over-the-top violence in the second one.
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Briefing on the Health and Care Bill: House of Lords second reading
This briefing focuses on Parts 1 and 6 of the Bill, which deal with the NHS and its relationships to other parts of the system, including the powers of the Secretary of State, plus changes to the cap on social care costs.
The value of investing in social care
This joint briefing from The King's Fund, Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation makes the economic, social and political case for further investment in social care and aims to move the argument on from the cost of social care to its value.
Health and Care Bill: Public Bill Committee submission from The King's Fund
The Health and Care Bill introduces new measures to promote and enable collaboration in health and care. Our evidence submission focuses on Parts 1, 2, and 3 of the Bill, which deal with the NHS and its relationships to other parts of the system.
Briefing on the Health and Care Bill: House of Commons Second Reading
This briefing has been produced to inform Second Reading of the Bill in the House of Commons and focuses on the main sections of the Bill, which deal with the NHS and its relationships to other bodies, including the Secretary of State.
House of Commons debate on the address: A plan for the NHS and social care
The Queen's Speech included commitments to strengthen the health and care system, support health and wellbeing, and increase NHS funding. This briefing outlines The King's Fund's response ahead of the debates on the Queen's Speech in parliament.
Consultation response: the future regulation of health and adult social care in England
This paper responds to the Department of Health consultation on the framework for the registration of health and adult social care providers.
Data briefing: why NHS budgets have always been a bugbear
John Appleby and Ruth Thorlby explain how setting NHS budgets has always been problematic.
By John Appleby et al - 14 February 2008
Briefing: Patient choice
Patient choice has been a major theme of the Labour government's public sector modernisation programme. This briefing looks at the development of reforms to give patients a choice of provider for their planned hospital care.
By Ruth Robertson et al - 29 January 2008


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Snowdrops in the evening light in a garden in my neighborhood, Feb.9. These are about the first signs of spring – although there hasn't been any real winter here yet.
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News	 January 22, 2012 April 8, 2014
The Bad and the Good, a.k.a. Milwaukee's Special Teams
A couple of weeks ago I lamented on the Admirals lack of success on the penalty kill. Unfortunately, a rather busy crop of news buried that story under a heap of more pressing concerns.
However, this week's scheduling quirk allows me a night to reflect a little deeper on the Admirals issues with special teams.
Heading into this week's four-game road trip, Milwaukee stood at nearly rock bottom shorthanded, allowing 36 goals in 156 times playing at least one man short, or a paltry penalty killing success rate of 76.9%. Meaning just about every three out of four times skating shorthanded this season, the Admirals allow a goal–and rarely do AHL games go without at least four penalties. That ranks 29th best out of 30 teams.
On the opposite side of the coin, Milwaukee's power play continues to impress. Prior to Tuesday's game against Hamilton, the Admirals were humming at 21.3% success rate, scoring 30 goals in 141 times playing with at least a one man advantage, good enough for the third best clip in the league.
Curiously, these numbers mirror parent club Nashville, which ranks second in the NHL in power play success (21.7% success) and 83.1% on the penalty kill (12th best in the league). In this day in age special teams play a huge role in the success of a hockey club. One of the reasons why the Predators are climbing up the standings is due to their success on the power play, which is not countered with a struggling penalty kill.
What that translates to for Milwaukee? Improve the penalty kill and see the win total rise.
Sunday and Tuesday's games against Rockford and Peoria respectively offer an excellent chance to work on cleaning up the shorthanded unit against Divisional foes. The Ice Hogs feature the AHL's 21st best power play, while the Rivermen roll with league's second best tandem.
My suggestion for coach Ian Herbers: Try something new against the struggling Rockford power play. If it works, carry it over and see if it is for real against Peoria.
So Roundtable . . . Any suggestions for fixing Milwaukee's ailing Penalty Kill?
Penalty Kill Sinks The Ship Again; Ads Lose 2-1
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CreedFeed says:
Be more aggressive on the PK. Quickly attack guys at the point instead of playing a "zone" style PK.


Discussion in 'DVD' started by Mike Kinsella, Nov 2, 2001.
Are there any plans to release Roman Polanski's "Tess" (1979) based on the Thomas Hardy novel? I have been waiting for a widescreen video version of this film for around 12 years since I bought my first laserdisc player. I still own a vintage pan-and-scan laserdisc version of the film, but it is not even close to what I remember in the theater.
Polanski's film beautifully captures the feel of Hardy's classic story set in England's West Country, and Geoffrey Unsworth's haunting cinematography is like a romantic dream of times long past. It is a fitting final entry in his amazing career (Sadly, he passed away during the filming of "Tess", which was finished by Ghislain Cloquet.).
In any case, it is a glaring omission in Columbia's DVD lineup, and a film that should be rediscovered.
Yes, Mike! We need more Roman Polanski films (note the title below my signature).
I would easily support a nice release of this great film. Like all Polanski films, there always seem to be beautiful women and this is no exception - Nastassja Kinski.
Good idea. Haven't thought of this one for a while.
Universal has grown slower than Paramount in releasing their catalog titles (with the exception of the monster movies). TESS is begging for special edition treatment. It is available overseas, but not here.
Will be bought by this guy the minute it is announced!
I would also love to see this on DVD, along with "Macbeth" which is also a Columbia title.
Brian - does your APEX 600A actually play the movie in 2.35:1, or is it squeezed down to about 1.85:1? I've had a problem with my unit on ELEPHANT MAN and on several 1.85:1 films, which wind up as about 1.50:1.
I presume that you are referring to DVDs requiring PAL to NTSC conversion -- for those get a multi-standard TV or a Malata DVD player.
I'm reviving this thread. Columbia-TriSTar, with Polanski's recent Oscar win, the time is ripe to release "Tess" on DVD. Please, please, please!


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Machinima is a good reminder of just how disposable the internet is
By Wes Fenlon
None of our digital goods or digital communities will last forever.
12 years ago, if I was looking for sweet 480p video footage of a new game, I'd probably go to GameTrailers. A few years after that, if I was hunting for new footage, it was probably on YouTube, and odds were good the video I'd end up on was uploaded by Machinima. Today, GameTrailers still exists in name only as a trailer dumping ground on YouTube. And last Friday, after a reorganization driven by parent company AT&T, Machinima suddenly set every video on its channel to private, effectively erasing more than a decade of game-related videos from the internet.
If anyone still needed reminding that the internet's history is more fragile than we often assume it to be, well, here it is.
For years, Machinima operated as a powerhouse multi-channel network on YouTube, and it had some scandals along the way, with problematic undisclosed endorsements and draconian contracts for creators. Whether or not you mourn the loss of Machinima as an organization, it's striking to see the gaming channel's decade of history and thousands of videos gone in a flash. Much of the game footage from the Xbox 360 came from Machinima, and the network ran many original series over the years, including Mortal Kombat: Legacy, Felicia Day's Dragon Age: Redemption, and years of actual machinima videos.
Ironically, YouTube's size has made it hard to completely stomp out pirated and re-uploaded material, so there's a good chance much of what was lost with Machinima is still out there somewhere. Others will be circulated in badly seeded torrents by the most diehard fans. And perhaps Machinima's parent organization Otter Media (which is owned by AT&T) will bring some stuff back. But even if that happens, it won't be forever. At some point, someone else will make the call that maintaining years worth of old videos isn't worth the money or the hassle, and the slate will again be wiped clean.
Maybe nothing on the internet should last forever. It can be fun to play early 90s/2000s internet archeologist and hunt down our first embarrassing Geocities pages and Xangas and old photographs we forgot we uploaded. My life was definitely enriched by hardware editor Bo Moore sharing his 1999 Pokemon website (it was open 24 hours a day!). But I feel like the internet's accumulated history can also weigh on us, much like our lives are defined by our stuff. Is it really a great loss if that cringe-worthy blog or video you made in 2005 disappears?
Probably not. But Machinima's erasure isn't a case of someone's personal internet footprints being dusted away. Those videos were a culturally significant part of the internet's history, and they're not gone because the creators wanted them to be. They're gone because the content of the internet is increasingly driven by massive companies like Disney and Comcast and AT&T, and they could not possibly care less about archiving anything. They care about money, and a few thousand videos from 2008 aren't even a blip on a spreadsheet. In most cases, they probably don't even know what they're deleting: Verizon-owned Tumblr didn't understand what it was doing to its community of artists when it recently banned and deleted adult content. These companies just see a brand name they paid money for, and an opportunity to wring more value out of it.
Get used to more stories like this one, because ownership of the internet is consolidating even as it grows bigger and bigger. It's all too easy for one decision to wipe out a chunk of internet history that was once important to you. Because YouTube is internet video, it can destroy the functionality of old videos by changing a feature like annotations. Because Chrome is the most popular web browser and Google is the most popular search engine, Google can influence how ads are served online or break the functionality of old web games.
Multibillion-dollar telecoms aren't the only ones guilty of this, of course. It happens on websites (even ours!) all the time, as old pages housing outdated information are redirected to newer ones. Changes from one website backend or design to another can break pages that were once laid out with care. Whole websites are shut down when publishers shutter their brands, because why keep paying the server costs? Games disappear from Steam because the rights expire. Steam may have a "disaster recovery plan so Steam doesn't go under if [its] main data center is hit by a meteorite," says Valve, but even that won't last forever. Someday those servers will be shut down, because someone has to pay for them.
There are sites like Archive.org that are committed to preserving the internet's history, and they have a lot of work ahead of them. Our digital goods are only going to get more disposable.
Wes Fenlon
Wes has been covering games and hardware for more than 10 years, first at tech sites like The Wirecutter (opens in new tab) and Tested (opens in new tab) before joining the PC Gamer team in 2014. Wes plays a little bit of everything, but he'll always jump at the chance to cover emulation and Japanese games.
When he's not obsessively optimizing and re-optimizing a tangle of conveyor belts in Satisfactory (it's really becoming a problem), he's probably playing a 20-year-old Final Fantasy or some opaque ASCII roguelike. With a focus on writing and editing features, he seeks out personal stories and in-depth histories from the corners of PC gaming and its niche communities. 50% pizza by volume (deep dish, to be specific).


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Google to show YouTube videos on other Web sites
It's looking to make money from ads attached to the videos
Linda Rosencrance (Computerworld) on 10 October, 2007 09:21
Google's AdSense is offering Web publishers who participate in the program the ability to start displaying ad-supported video clips from Google's YouTube on their sites.
Google sees the new program as a win for all involved.
The program allows advertisers to distribute their video-based ads across the AdSense network, not just on YouTube, Google said in a statement. YouTube content partners can earn extra revenue from their clips. And Google will also earn money from ads attached to the video clips, which will be delivered "within a customized embedded player that's ad supported," Google said.
The ads appear as banner ads at the top of the video clip or as links on the bottom once the user clicks on the video, according to Google. Advertisers will be charged on a cost-per-click or cost-per-impression basis.
Google is working with a select group of YouTube providers that have signed consent forms, including TV Guide Broadband, Expert Village, Mondo Media, lonelygirl15, Extreme Elements and Ford Models to supply the video content.
The ads are available now in the US for English-language Web sites.
Linda Rosencrance


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Something great has happened to one of the all-time favorite apps on Android named Minecraft. This time, it has tinkered on the Story Mode, which is an episodic point-and-click narrative-driven videogame.
The player's perspective is to collect items, solve puzzles, and communicate with non-player characters via conversation trees. This is to learn more about the story and determine your next move.
Several episodes will bring you places with the new Minecraft: Story Mode. It provides Eight (8) Episodes to complete the journey. The authors of the game namely Telltale Games and Mojang AB crafted Minecraft: Story Mode in which players will have the opportunity to explore their own knowledge of the Minecraft universe.
The story follows the logic of Minecraft, but it remains to feel original. One of the proponents of the game even reacted to it, saying how funny it is and how adorable the pig is. That said, there is more than you have ever imagined a Minecraft game would bring to the table.
Basically, the story will be driven by the decisions that you will make in the course of the game. So, the things that you say and how you say it to people, including the things you choose to do in the thrilling action moments will have a big impact to your story.
All you need is a Windows 10 PC at least with x86 architecture to play the game. Moreover, you need to have a bigger space to handle the size of the game, which is at approximately 5.52GB. Upon signing into your Microsoft account, you will be able to install the app on a maximum of ten (10) Windows 10 devices.
Currently, Minecraft: Story Mode has earned positive reviews from its users. This has become the basis on how the developers were able to acquire the passion to develop and perfect each project they come across with.


This charming fall embossed floor mat is the perfect way to welcome autumn guests to your home. The mat is made of outdoor-safe polypropylene with a recycled rubber backing to make sure it stays safely in place on your porch or patio.
The ridges and grooves of the mat easily trap dirt before it gets tracked into your house, and its thick material absorbs excess moisture. Extremely durable and weather resistant, this mat is recommended for year-round outdoor use.
It is well made and very colorful. I have two--one at each door to my porch. Love it!


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Natalie Pace. bestselling author of The Gratitude Game, The ABCs of Money & Put Your Money Where Your Heart is. Co-creator of the Earth Gratitude Project.
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Matrix Energy: the hottest thing in housing
Learn how the latest green trend equals savings of up to 90 percent on your heating bill.
When Susan Guthridge-Gould and her husband Chris Gould had the opportunity to build a house in Stuyvesant, New York, it wasn't your run-of-the-mill home-shopping process. Her property had been in the family for over three centuries, so there was pressure to build something that stayed true to the land. And the opportunity to build a family home had come decades after a hard-fought battle — fighting a utility company to keep her homeland from becoming a nuclear power plant. Susan describes what happened, saying, "I was 12, on my way back from church camp, when we found out that guys had come to the front door and told my parents that our property was up for eminent domain."
Most (94 out of 104) of the nuclear reactors in the United States were put into operation 20-40 years ago. The majority of the 104 nuclear power plants are on the East Coast.
After that life-shattering day in 1976, court battles followed for the next three years, with helicopters flying overhead frequently. There were nonstop hearings and sworn testimonies. College funds were drained to pay for attorneys. Family projects included spelling out "No Nukes" with hay bales to be seen from the air. Worry and stress were constant, particularly for Susan's mother, whose family had owned the land for at least seven generations. Bickering raged between the utilities on who gets how much, at what price and questions from the judge concerning, "Is that much power really needed?"
And then the Three Mile Island accident occurred — on March 28, 1979 — bringing everything to a screeching halt.
It's easy to understand why 36 years later, Susan was still asking that question when she went to design her dream home. "Is that much power really needed?"
According to Susan, "How great would it be if energy is more abundant because we build (or remodel) in smart ways? That's a step towards a cleaner and safer world free from the risks of radioactivity, air and water pollution or dependence on foreign oil."
And the quest for that answer led her straight to the doorstep of the Hudson Passive Project, a home designed by renowned architect Dennis Wedlick, built by the Bill Stratton Building Company and realized with the support of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). HPP is the first certified passive house in New York. The home is designed and constructed to reduce energy consumption — even in the frigid climate of Hudson Valley, New York — by up to 90 percent.
I was a little skeptical that the heat of humans (with a little help from the sun) could power an insulated house (Matrix-style), until I took a tour of the Hudson Passive Project home on a crisp fall day. The outside temperature was in the 50s, and the temperature inside was fresh and comfortable, in the 70s — without any heating, outside of the sun streaming through the south-facing windows. There were two dogs inside. The "lungs" of the house — a smart ventilation system — swapped fresh outside air in for the stale scent of smelly dog, and in the process even heated the in-flowing air. According to Jordan Dentz, the vice president at The Levy Partnership, an engineering firm that monitors the energy usage at the Hudson Passive Project for NYSERDA, "Our Hudson Passive Project last winter used just a small fraction (on the order of 1 percent) of the heating energy that would otherwise have been required of a home built without passive features."
See pics of this gorgeous, smart energy home and read the rest of this blog on my HuffingtonPost page.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/natalie-pace/passive-house_b_2229036.html
Natalie Pace is the co-creator of the Earth Gratitude Project and the author of The ABCs of Money, The ABCs of Money for College, The Gratitude Game and Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is. She blogs on Huffington Post and Medium, and is a frequent guest contributor to national news shows and magazines. She has been ranked the No. 1 stock picker, above over 830 A-list pundits, by an independent tracking agency, and has been saving homes and nest eggs since 1999.
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