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Article #2075Re: ROBERT MOREIN - NUTCASE, CRACKPOT, "I don't really have a replacement career, it's a very gnawing thing."
From: jhyslop
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:28
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:28
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On Aug 9, 3:32 pm, "Richard Crowley" <rcrow...@xp7rt.net> wrote: > "Industrial One" wrote (from GoogleGroups) ... > > And one more thing: you mentioned decoding. Did you mean > > decrypting? > > Since Usenet traffic is not encrypted (unless you encrypt it > before sending), then he likely meant "decoding". Yep, that'd be exactly what he meant. As the wise swordsman said, "Let me 'splain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up." When you post a message onto Usenet, it can pass through dozens of machines on its way to other readers. Each machine will take the incoming text, and convert it into its own native text format. Today, an 8-bit byte is so common that most people forget (or are not aware) that a byte is not /necessarily/ 8 bits - it depends on the model of computer. In the early days of Usenet, byte sizes as small as 6 bits were fairly common. So if your machine uses 8 bits to a byte, and the storing machine uses 6 bits, the storing machine will convert from your 8-bit character into its own 6-bit character. If all you are sending is text - which is what Usenet was designed for - no problems. But, binary data does not like to be converted like that. So, various encoding schemes were devised, such as base64, uuencode and so on, which would convert binary data into text-only characters. The intermediate machines can do what they like with the text - when it reaches the other end, the text remains intact. The receiving machine can take the text, decode it and produce an exact duplicate of the binary file. HTH! -- Jim
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X-Google-Thread: 10cf58,b3d66793dae8408b X-Google-Thread: 10b620,b3d66793dae8408b X-Google-Thread: fb1f8,b3d66793dae8408b X-Google-Thread: 104a1f,b3d66793dae8408b X-Google-Attributes: gid10cf58,gid10b620,gidfb1f8,gid104a1f,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: jhyslop <jhyslop@dreampossible.ca> Newsgroups: rec.audio.pro,aus.politics.guns,rec.audio.tech,rec.arts.movies.production.sound Subject: Re: ROBERT MOREIN - NUTCASE, CRACKPOT, "I don't really have a replacement career, it's a very gnawing thing." Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 17:28:45 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 37 Message-ID: <00ce3d78-9663-41a5-9abc-c843e27c41f2@m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> References: <C4B1706C.ABD64%nowhere@nowhere.com> <0ecf9e00-1e28-4ad0-8859-5185e8663f44@k36g2000pri.googlegroups.com> <MPG.22f736d5cebbb99f989689@news.btinternet.com> <943154e4-5790-4538-8ba9-6b5a835f4801@i24g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <MPG.22f7ebb06439651498968b@news.btinternet.com> <eaik94p9h3qpbnufuggpsqp47e5sqf95dv@4ax.com> <9c6cf1d9-9a17-4b33-a966-c71c6c90381a@v26g2000prm.googlegroups.com> <qder945eqjg7hvaq48t1sj8ajaacu1ub5n@4ax.com> <a92fb9b7-55e0-4078-8004-f8f36177c01e@w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com> <7IednY_YHLtNbQDVnZ2dnUVZ_srinZ2d@posted.pcez> NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.69.61.160 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1218328125 15590 127.0.0.1 (10 Aug 2008 00:28:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:28:45 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.69.61.160; posting-account=dhHVSQoAAADHhW5wArgQQUSDRXi9Bcir User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)