NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/talk/rumors/1337

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From: [e-mail] (Mark Hall)
Subject: Re: MARK-OF-THE-BEA$T bar-code$/scanner$
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Summary: pinhead
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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:56:47 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
)                           THE "MARK OF THE BEA$T"
)
)               ALL Christians are PROHIBITED by Revelation 14:9-11 from
)          cooperating with the "MARK-OF-THE-BEA$T" bar-code, OCR-
)          number, and magnetic-strip scanning systems, (as found in
)          local libraries, supermarkets, retail establishments, etc.),
)          which also THREATEN to SUBVERT Individual Privacy and
)          Freedom.
)
)               The scanners can serve THE SAME CRIMINAL PURPOSE as the
)          TV cameras in the book "1984"!
)
)               The UPC bar-codes are probably the most blatant form of
)          the "MARK OF THE BEA$T" so far, with the "NUMBER OF THE
)          BEA$T", 666, ALREADY CODED INTO THEM.  Each of the so-called
)          "guard patterns", pairs of thin lines spaced close together
)          at the beginning, middle, and end of each full-length UPC
)          bar-code, is IDENTICAL to one of the two codes for a 6.
)


Not true anyway.  a 6 is a narrow white bar, a narrow black bar a narrow
white bar and a very wide black bar (the other pattern for 6 is the same with
black and white reversed)

The first guard pattern is a narrow black, narrow white, narrow black and
the code for 0.  While the code for 0 starts with a wide white band it isn't
the very wide band required for it, when combined with the first 3 bars, to
become a 6.  The middle guard pattern is narrow white, narrow black, narrow
white, narrow black narrow white.  No wide band required for 6.  The trailing
code is a digit (checksum?) followed by a narrow black, narrow white, narrow
black.  No 6 here, unless the checksum digit is a 6.

It seems the fundies see the 2 narrow bars close to each other is enough for a
6.  The wide bar is necessary for the code to become a 6.



)               WARN YOUR FRIENDS!
about overreacting? About posting drivel?


)               UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this
)          IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED.
   uh huh.