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Author: | Rinox [ Tue Jul 19, 2005 11:09 am ] | |||||||||
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Saw the documentary on this yesterday (maybe J did too), you've gotta read/see this thing! The story of a small-time engineer who came up with a new way of coding that could revolutionize storage...and died suddenly before working it out with his business partners, his knowledge lost. And on top of that, all the data and the prototype he had mysteriously disappeared after his death as well...true story. Read this:
I don't know if the book written about it ('De broncode' or 'The Sourcecode') has been translated to English yet. But a guy has subtitled the entire documentary in (sometimes shabby, but it does the job) English. Go to http://www.liveartists.com/modules.php? ... w_topic=24 to download all parts. I seriously recommend you do this...us Dutch-speakers can go around the net and find Dutch sources for this, but for the Satises of the board this is the best info you'll find about the thing. It sounds almost unreal, and Sloot probably exaggerated his invention, but still...some of the guys involved are super-big shots in the technology industry (Roel Pieper, Tom Perkins) ready to invest millions. And the fact that his attick was mysteriously cleaned out after his death suggests that someone or a corporation still got its hands on it after all...it's probably only a matter of time an adapted version of the code comes out, with the dead man's family not seeing a cent of the incomes. Again, very much recommended. Peace out. |
Author: | Arathorn [ Tue Jul 19, 2005 1:22 pm ] |
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That man was just very good at telling lies I guess. Nobody ever saw any code or working piece of software. |
Author: | Satis [ Tue Jul 19, 2005 1:26 pm ] |
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yea, sorry, my BS meter was shooting off the scale. I don't see how it could be technically feasible. Not saying it's impossible, but I find it highly unlikely. |
Author: | ElevenBravo [ Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:28 pm ] |
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He stole that idea from Terminator 2. Does he know Miles Dyson? |
Author: | Rinox [ Tue Jul 19, 2005 3:09 pm ] | |||||||||
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Miles who?
Yeah, I agree, but the guys that were given the demonstrations and visited Sloot in Holland aren't exactly small-time amateurs...Pieper, the major force behind working out the project was one of the highest-placed members of Philips, one of the biggest electronics corps in the world. Who decided to work behind the back of his employer and 'maybe have them as clients someday.' I don't believe anyone that powerful (the kind that flies overseas a few times evert week) would risk his extremely well-paid job for a well-crafted lie. And Perkins, one of the biggest players of silicon valley visited Sloot in his small-town home in Holland, saying to sloot that he'd soon be the richest man in the world. The kitchensalesman, sure, he prolly knew crap-all what was going on, but these two fellas? No chance, imo. Not to mention that Pieper took the 'little box' on a tour to find investers in Silicon Valley...I think they'd be pretty well-placed to say if it's bs or not. And the fact that his room on the attick was suddenly emptied some time after his death (not by his wife or son) betrays something weird is going on. Who did it? No one knows. Some ppl who knew him say his 'little box' is in a vault somewhere. But no one knows where. It sounds like a BS story, but meh. Netwerk is a very serious program. Just watch the videos if you would, maybe that clarifies/adds to the BS meter. I mean, he was a lonely, clumsy, old dude with a heart problem. Doesn't sound like a flashy liar king to me. |
Author: | Satis [ Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:15 pm ] |
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I'm curious...how do you know these people actually secretly visited this guy and all? Besides, industry bigshots being bamboozled isn't all that big a thing. Looking at the phantom game console or SCO for good examples. Hell, look at Duke Nukem Forever. Anyway, I'm not convinced. Besides, according to that article, the dude had a black box that was his little player/recorder thing. Noone opened it up...who's to say there aren't a stack of harddrives in there? Maybe he programmed a simple-to-use video player that used a raid-array of harddrives to play back 30 movies or whatever it was. And Miles Dyson was the guy that reverse-engineered the Terminator chip. |
Author: | J [ Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:31 am ] |
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Unfortunately i missed it, but i know some things about it. As always there are believers and non-believers, both with arguments. Non-believers suspect for instance that his demonstration was a Hoax, since nobody bothered to actually look inside the box (or something). On the other hand, it sure is a fishy story. Oh and i thought that the Philips-guy quit his job after his contacts with Sloot came out Satis. So i'm not sure how, but it got public. Btw i think the box was rather small to stack a lot of things in it (not sure though), and they listened to hear if there weren't any harddrives in it. Ah, it was smaller than 5 packs of cigarettes appearently. |
Author: | derf [ Wed Jul 20, 2005 3:25 am ] |
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Nice story, but how do you represent 601,600,000 binary digits with only 64,000? |
Author: | Arathorn [ Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:18 am ] |
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Well there was some time ago an entire shooter in 5 kB I believe. Maybe the box was a huge processor and eveything was procedural. Or the box had some sort of wifi receiver and the "inventor" a bag with a bunch of hard discs in it somewhere near. |
Author: | ElevenBravo [ Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:50 am ] | |||||||||
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YES! What is wrong with you people? You should be ashamed that you dont know who Miles Dyson is......T2 is a great movie and everyone should watch it. Skynet will kill us all! |
Author: | Satis [ Wed Jul 20, 2005 10:52 am ] |
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I like how Skynet turned out to be a distributed computing system. No ungodly leaps in technology required...skynet may exist now. I think T3 was grossly underrated. I just hope we get a terminator set after the apocalypse. err...anyway....I guess I don't have much to add to the actual topic. Mr Sloot was, imo, full of shiznit. Besides, you can store movies on a series of optical chips, too, not just hard drives. So...no moving parts. |
Author: | ElevenBravo [ Wed Jul 20, 2005 10:56 am ] | |||||||||
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T3 was awesome. The best thing about that movie was the fact that no matter what they did in T1,T2 or T3 the furture was inevitable. Even after sending machines back in time to kill/protect John Connor. I thought the end was great. How they where trapped in that shelter and they get the first call on the radio. |
Author: | Rinox [ Wed Jul 20, 2005 12:15 pm ] | |||||||||
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Apparently, instead of compacting the code like it is done now, he worked the reverse: he pulled open the code and reworked it into one series of numbers that represented the information. Meh, I'm no programmer so again: watch the documentary if you like to know more. @ Satis: the meetings weren't really a secret, afaik. And regardless of the truth value of the code, don't you think it's a little bit strange that the guy drops dead 2 days before the deal was to be done? Surely, that wasn't part of his game if it was one. And the fact that his room was mysteriously emptied after his death is, at the very least, remarkable. His son (who wasn't into the stuff at all) said the room was always full of paperwork and machines, and when he revisited it sometime after his father's death everything was gone. His mom (who lived in the house still) didn't know anything about it either, but she'd been living zombie-like for a few months after her husband's death so it's perfectly understandable she didn't notice anything. I mean, I don't see why his son would continue the lie, he won't make any money out of it anymore. Btw, Pieper supposedly opened the box to see what was in it. He went to a meeting with possible investors and took the black box with him, Sloot stayed at home because of his health. He used some markings to make sure no one opened the box while he wasn't around, but when it came back to him he said Pieper had opened it on that business trip. And that was long before the actual deal was to be made. Anyhoo...I can't pretend I know enough about programming and pc's to make conclusive points about it, but it's an interesting story with some unexplained ends for sure. lol@ Duke Nukem Forever. |
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