UVB-76 Explained 222
Useful Wheat writes "Recently slashdot covered the reappearance of UVB-76. The function of the mysterious transmitter has been revealed: UVB-76 is used to transfer orders to military personnel, along with the time at which they should be executed. 'Words for the radio messages and code tables are selected mainly from the scientific terms of chemistry (Brohman), Geology (ganomatit), philology (Izafat), geography (Bong), Zoology (kariama), history (Scythian), cooking (drying), sports (krolist) and others, as well as rare Russian words (glashatel).' The page continues to list all 23 transmissions that have been made from the station in the past, showing that UVB-76 may be more active than believed."
Nothings confirmed... (Score:5, Informative)
What makes you so sure? (Score:5, Informative)
Is the basis for this story really the Wikipedia page which cites as its primary source a Geocities web site?
Forgive me for being skeptical.
Fuck You Taco (Score:2, Informative)
This shit is worse than the cesspool refuse that kdawson posts. Fuck you.
Re:Nothings confirmed... (Score:2, Informative)
Agreed.
Actually, when /. had the article about UVB-76 going offline [slashdot.org], I searched for more info about UVB-76. I found this site [google.com]. If you compare that site to the Google translation of the Wikipedia "source" [google.com], you can easily see that they're not to dissimilar. There is no new information here, and no information has been confirmed.
Re:Crowdsourced intelligence (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Nothings confirmed... (Score:5, Informative)
Already done. The wikipedia page lists this /. post as a reference number 12. Circular references to nowhere are now called facts.
Re:Military? (Score:3, Informative)
...targeted at people who can not reasonably be expected to carry secure radio gear...
Don't forget, the signal is also streamed [mixstream.net] over the Internet. For those spies who cannot reasonably be expected to carry unsecure radio gear.
Re:Great Article (Score:1, Informative)
Looking through your recent posts (the down-modded ones), I come across gems like these: (and a few Anonymous Coward posts which were down-modded and were evidently also made by you, which is also counter to your claim that mods are going through your posting history and down-modding willy-nilly.)
you are a whining child. you want to provide a channel for terrorists to secretively communicate? go ahead. ... the whining child turns hypocritical awfully quickly.
so either way i'm supposed to fear "savages"... and i suppose you can protect me from these "savages" for a price? no? go sell your FUD to someone else.
well then, if you are already expecting privacy, then why do you need to encrypt?
you're dumber than i thought. ... it troubles you to provide the services you offer? because of the hypocrisy or your incompetence?
do you assume i don't expect to be paid to be off? why would i not?
so no matter what, "those" people will always exist. how could you be so sure unless you were one of "those" people yourself?
so by admittedly living a lie yourself, you surmise, perhaps i might not be... you're an idiot.
so i can learn how to read the words you make up and the words you misspell ... you are NOTHING
hope that you weren't.
Oh, and last but not least, the one I'm replying to. And no, not every post that you've made was down-modded. Although quite a few weren't that probably should have been.
P.S. If you're so keen on spelling, try using correct capitalisation for a change.
Re:Occam says... (Score:2, Informative)
In reference to the razor, both spellings are correct.
And BTW, learn how to read! Even wikipedia could have resolved your gross misunderstanding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor [wikipedia.org]
The requirement is not no leaps of faith, which would translate to, "nothing is ever correct unless it is already 100% proven." That would have been totally useless and never would get cited.
No, instead, what he said was, "Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily." Note the key word, "unnecessarily."
The mhttp://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/08/26/159205/UVB-76-Explained#odern understanding of Occam's Razor is as Newton understood it: "We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. Therefore, to the same natural effects we must, so far as possible, assign the same causes."
Or in the words of another great person, "What a maroon!"
Re:Nothings confirmed... (Score:3, Informative)
"Military ops normally require a lot more communications than this"
not for a go.