On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:53:04AM +1000, DaZZa wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Rick Moen wrote:
>
> > > Only those who have cheap junk modems, or who don't know how to set them
> > > up properly.
> >
> > Well, look, folks, I hate to have to spell it out for you guys, but...
>
> Please, spell. I'm anxious to see how good your english is.
>
> > Have you ever looked, raw, at a binary file, e.g. cat'ed it to screen by
> > accident? That sort of stuff is, of course, what comes whizzing past
> > your modem every time you, for example, transfer a binary file over a
> > telephone line. You will note that you can find just about any pattern
> > you please of characters in there, if you scroll far enough -- rather
> > like looking for patterns in clouds, except with less healthy exposure
> > to the outdoors.
>
> There's a couple of things wrong with this assumption.
>
> 1) The chance of a combination of binary code coming out in the exact
> format of "+++ath0" is literally staggering. Winning lotto, by comparison,
> would be an every day event.
Yes, 1 in 72057594037927936.
Stephen
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