Thursday, December 26, 2002, 1:32:05 PM, Gary Miller wrote: >>> !+ d03$n'7 vv0rk b3cuz $uch 4 $!st3m c4n'+ r34d m! 31337 +3x+.
GM> By the way I consider most 11 and 12 year olds fairly intelligent and GM> the few I asked were not able to make the translation of this sentence GM> into English. I also was unable to correctly translate 31337 even in GM> context so I guess unless the 31337 was what the cryptographers refer to GM> as a null value inserted to make decryption harder I would fail the GM> Turing test here as well! 31337 = ELEET aka 'leet aka "elite". The sentence is in "leetspeek", grew out of BBSs in the 80s. AFAIK part of the idea originally was to foil the ph3dz d00d!, partly to look "cool". I'm sure there's en-/decoding tools. Anyone using it automatically fails the Turing test, in my book. -- Cliff ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
