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Published May 1st, 2007 in Technology, Web Sites with tags: decimal numbers, ed felten, hexadecimal
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Strange Numbers

You know what my favorite num­bers are? 9, 249, 17, 2, 157, 116, 227, 91, 216, 65, 86, 197, 99, 86, 136, and 192 of course! But don’t tell anyone, because that string of dec­i­mal num­bers is copy­right 2007, Jemal Cole. In hexa­dec­i­mal, they belong to some­body else.

Update: Thanks to Ed Felten, I now own the number: 53 E8 4F 09 67 7B 89 2B F0 68 24 96 30 54 AC AF! It’s ille­gal for you to know it, so please try not to read the pre­vi­ous sen­tence. Get yours here.

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You may be won­der­ing why there are no com­ments here. Per­haps, it has some­thing to do with this:

“Firefox can’t estab­lish a con­nec­tion to the server at rudd-​o.com.”


Really? I can’t imag­ine what that means.


Thanks for fixing the link.


This number reminds me of the multi mil­lion dollar copy pro­tec­tion scheme that could be defeated by making a 3/8 inch long line on the CD with a black marker.

Have you ever thought of becom­ing wealthy by sell­ing bull­shi* copy pro­tec­tion to large com­pa­nies with stupid people in charge? Looks like a growth market to me.


I dunno – I have enough eth­i­cal quan­daries in my life. And the link wasn’t broken, it was slash­dot­ted!


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