Comments on: Messages from the future http://www.hexten.net/2007/01/05/messages-from-the-future Better than Slashdot Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:06:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Andy http://www.hexten.net/2007/01/05/messages-from-the-future#comment-10985 Andy Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:25:25 +0000 http://www.hexten.net/2007/01/05/messages-from-the-future#comment-10985 OK, maybe I'd chuck in the future coin flips just to be on the safe side. But I'd be pretty satisfied by the pencil thing to be honest. The curry is just belt and braces :) OK, maybe I’d chuck in the future coin flips just to be on the safe side. But I’d be pretty satisfied by the pencil thing to be honest. The curry is just belt and braces :)

]]> By: Mark Dominus http://www.hexten.net/2007/01/05/messages-from-the-future#comment-10983 Mark Dominus Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:16:11 +0000 http://www.hexten.net/2007/01/05/messages-from-the-future#comment-10983 Are you sure you've never divulged that information to anyone else? Maybe when you were drunk? And what if your interlocutor is not from the future at all, but is actually from the CIA, which, unbeknownst to you, has spied on you extensively and knows all of your dirty secrets, including the one about the pencil? But no matter what the CIA knows now, they can't manufacture a message to hand you that will be decrypted by a *future* series of coin flips. Only someone who knows the future can do that. Are you sure you’ve never divulged that information to anyone else? Maybe when you were drunk?

And what if your interlocutor is not from the future at all, but is actually from the CIA, which, unbeknownst to you, has spied on you extensively and knows all of your dirty secrets, including the one about the pencil?

But no matter what the CIA knows now, they can’t manufacture a message to hand you that will be decrypted by a *future* series of coin flips. Only someone who knows the future can do that.

]]> By: tom http://www.hexten.net/2007/01/05/messages-from-the-future#comment-10546 tom Sat, 06 Jan 2007 08:55:15 +0000 http://www.hexten.net/2007/01/05/messages-from-the-future#comment-10546 Genius Genius

]]> By: Andy http://www.hexten.net/2007/01/05/messages-from-the-future#comment-10510 Andy Fri, 05 Jan 2007 19:56:49 +0000 http://www.hexten.net/2007/01/05/messages-from-the-future#comment-10510 Not even close :) Not even close :)

]]> By: tom http://www.hexten.net/2007/01/05/messages-from-the-future#comment-10509 tom Fri, 05 Jan 2007 19:55:15 +0000 http://www.hexten.net/2007/01/05/messages-from-the-future#comment-10509 red your best friend at school stabbed you with it washing machine red
your best friend at school stabbed you with it
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