Hapless British doomsday mathematician Gordon Ritchie is back again, this time predicting that “a terrorist Dirty Bomb or Nuclear Bomb will hit the UN plaza in Midtown Manhattan somewhere in 2006Adar, i.e. on or before Tuesaday” [sic] “March 20th 2007.” As usual, there’s a biblical basis for his latest prophecy, and he’s got some flexiproofs that lead him to the conclusion — I’ll let you inspect them for yourself.
You have to admire both his tenacity and his candor, though, as he goes through each of his failed predictions thus far:
2006Iyyar21 (May 19/20) [7 days after 2006Iyyar14]
2006Iyyar28 (May 26/27) [7 days after first mistaken date]
2006Sivan11 (June 8/9) [First day of the 2,000 pigs of Mark 5 incorrectly calculated, corrected on or before Sivan1]
2006Sivan12 (June 9/10) [First day of the 2,000 pigs of Mark 5 correctly calculated but misinterpreted]
2006Tammuz2-6 (June30-July4) [7th sabbath after 1st mistake/7th sabbath omitting 2006Sivan5/7th Sabbath lookout day]
2006Tammuz28/29 (July 25 – 27) [Assumed contest began on 911]
2006Ab3/4 (July 30 – August 1) [Assumed second 'day' of contest began when wheat went limit up in Chicago]
2006Ab8 (August 4/5) [Assumed second 'day' of contest began on non BLC day of 2006Adar28 so that 1750th day is sabbath]
2006Ab15 (August 11/12) [7th sabbath lookout period assuming 2006Tammuz2/3 and 2006Tammuz4-6 were separate sabbath mistakes]
2006Ab22 (August 18/19) [7th sabbath lookout period assuming 2006Tammuz2-6 and 2006Tammuz28/29 were separate sabbath mistakes]
2006Ab29 (August 25/26) [7th sabbath lookout period after first mistake, the entire sabbath month of 2006Tammuz as one sabbath lookout period]
2006Elul13/20/27 (September 8/9, 15/16, 22/23) [A sabbath after the 1750th day of the contest starting on 2001Tishri30 and before the end of Elul]
2006Elul30 (September 26th) [last 5 hours thereof in NYC, so that bomb went off in Elul EST but in Tishri BST]
2006Tishri10 (October 5/6) [The mid point and start of the daylight part of the Day of Jehovah]
Before 2006Tishri14 (October 10) [The day before the festival of Booths starts]
2006Tishri22 (October 17/18) [The 7th festival sabbath of the year, the great sabbath of Booths]
2006Tishri29 (October 25) or before [Last possible day for a warning bomb before 2006Tishri30]
2006Tishri30 (October 25/26) [The end of a 5 year contest starting on 2001Tishri30]
2006Chislev21 (December 15/16) [1st day after 950 days of stadium filling and 900 day 'Day of Baal', and 7 months after 2006Iyyar21]
2006Chislev22 (December 16/17) [7 30-day months after the church said: there is nothing at all on 2006Iyyar22, as a result of our first mistaken date of 2006Iyyar21 - Go back 7 times! - Keep looking for 7 months]
2006Chislev28 (December 22/23) [last sabbath in 2006Chislev - not yet a mistake!!!].
Even if he’s not seein’ wheels, way up in the middle of the air, at least Gordon Ritchie has a pretty realistic sense of his own shortcomings, and a whole lot of optimism. Almost makes me want to refer to him as “plucky” rather than “hapless” …
March 18, 2007 at 1:02 am
I know “this” link is about end of the world predictions, but I just had to post a comment about something else.
I just got off of the Fox News website. There is a story about muslim employees REFUSING TO DO THEIR JOBS because of having to come in contact (touching/handling) pork or alcohol (dealing with non-muslims having it in their possesion).
If you do not want to look it up, specifically cashiers will not pass pork products over the scanners because they either don’t want to touch it or feel they are contributing to the sins of others. WTF!?!? It’s a sin for a non-muslim to eat pork!?!? That’s how I interpret this. Also, cabbies are refusing to transport passengers who have alcohol in their possesion. “Oh, sorry we’re late. We had to arrange for another cab because the driver objected to the bottle of gift wine we brought for the dinner tonight.”
Is there any one else out there besides me that’s getting a bit tired of hearing about muslims not wanting to perform their duties because of religious reasons?
Don’t get me wrong. I have no problem with someone standing up for their religious beliefs, but when it affects their job performance…
I’m sorry. Pork products and alcohol have been sold in this contry a heck of a lot longer than muslims have lived here. I think I said something to this affect before about a different subject, but if you KNOW you will come in contact with products or material that you find objectionable, FIND OTHER EMPLOYMENT!!! In the case of the cashiers, work at a hardware store or a lumberyard. Cabbies, we need good freight drivers.
If I ever have the experience of being inconvenienced by ANYONE’S religious beliefs, I WILL NOT BE QUIET AND UNDERSTANDING! I WILL MAKE A SCENE! I am tired of being politically correct and WILL NOT STAND FOR IT ANY LONGER!!!
So, if you ever see a person make a scene at a register because the cashier refused to scan ham/bacon/lunchmeat… that will be me. And you can bet from now on I’ll bee-line to the cabbie with the dreadlocks and Rasta music blaring before I get in a cab with someone who appears middle-eastern!
Biggoted? Prejudiced? Insensitive? As my uncle from Australia would say, “Get stuffed!” I’m sick of having to adjust to someone else’s lifestyle. Immigrants are traditionally expected to conform to the ways of the country to which they have moved. That includes tolerance to that country’s ways. Well, guess what? We’re booze swizzlin’, pork bar-b-quein’, Christians with big hearts that will welcome anyone into their homes (read “country”). Please note: We tend to get a little bent out of shape when our “new neighbors” complain about “our” ways. If you don’t like “our” ways, flights leave daily OUT of out great nation. GET ON ONE…SOON!!!
God Bless America!
April 2, 2007 at 3:20 pm
That is a lot of fuzzy math. The home page on that site makes slightly more sense, but only slightly more. I’m wondering if these are spin offs of the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
April 3, 2007 at 9:53 pm
The math is about cleos. No one ever mentions them. Our ways are not to be construed with likes of battery operated machines or checke and balances. Christians need to cound the ironic falsehood of the jeopardy of Iran. Then you’ll have your clue about por and alcohol. DJ understands the concept of regeneration of women and their place of crumbling. He misses with his own wife the galactical meaning behind her fuzz.
April 3, 2007 at 10:04 pm
Is that the fuzz on my upper lip? If I wax it, will I mess up the entire galaxy? @B-)
April 4, 2007 at 1:28 pm
No, the fuzz is what you feel for others. Fuzz is all about cleos an apotra. No one ever mentions that is your dialog. Understandable since it is revealed only be a few. The place of crumbling has been visited by DJ and probably you, since you are aware of the pork and alcohol. You misjudege the fortitude of the machinery. Most people miss that point. Mt. Hebron is vital to the alvorial microbe. DJ touched on that in different terms. Why he’s keeping these secrets from you I don’t know. I only know it’s a shared experience with synaps.
April 18, 2007 at 12:00 pm
I say ,kylal, you speak and say nothing. Why?
Please explain yourself in terms we can understand.
the following is the only result of a search of your terminology.
Ele se casou com Cattarina Pentagrossa de Alvorial e deste enlace nasceu a princesa Madeleine, linda, morena, de suave tes e de um charme cativante. Todos viviam muito felizes.
Fuzz testing or fuzzing is a software testing technique that provides random data (”fuzz”) to the inputs of a program. If the program fails (for example, by crashing, or by failing built-in code assertions), the defects can be noted.
The great advantage of fuzz testing is that the test design is extremely simple, and free of preconceptions about system behavior. Fuzz testing was developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1989 by Professor Barton Miller and the students in his graduate Advanced Operating Systems class. Their work can be found at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/fuzz/.
Uses
Fuzz testing is often used in large software development projects that perform black box testing. These usually have a budget to develop test tools, and fuzz testing is one of the techniques which offers a high benefit to cost ratio.
Fuzz testing is also used as a gross measurement of a large software system’s quality. The advantage here is that the cost of generating the tests is relatively low. For example, third party testers have used fuzz testing to evaluate the relative merits of different operating systems and application programs.
Fuzz testing is thought to enhance software security and software safety because it often finds odd oversights and defects which human testers would fail to find, and even careful human test designers would fail to create tests for.
However, fuzz testing is not a substitute for exhaustive testing or formal methods: it can only provide a random sample of the system’s behavior, and in many cases passing a fuzz test may only demonstrate that a piece of software handles exceptions without crashing, rather than behaving correctly. Thus, fuzz testing can only be regarded as a bug-finding tool rather than an assurance of quality.
[edit] Fuzz testing methods
As a practical matter, developers need to reproduce errors in order to fix them. For this reason, almost all fuzz testing makes a record of the data it manufactures, usually before applying it to the software, so that if the computer fails dramatically, the test data is preserved. If the fuzz stream is pseudo-random number generated it may be easier to store the seed value to reproduce the fuzz attempt.
Modern software has several different types of inputs:
Event driven inputs are usually from a graphical user interface, or possibly from a mechanism in an embedded system.
Character driven inputs are from files, or data streams such as sockets.
Database inputs are from tabular data, such as relational databases.
Inherited program state such as environment variables
There are at least two different forms of fuzz testing:
Valid fuzz attempts to assure that the random input is reasonable, or conforms to actual production data.
Simple fuzz usually uses a pseudo random number generator to provide input.
A combined approach uses valid test data with some proportion of totally random input injected.
By using all of these techniques in combination, fuzz-generated randomness can test the un-designed behavior surrounding a wider range of designed system states.
Fuzz testing may use tools to simulate all of these domains.
[edit] Advantages and disadvantages
The main problem with fuzzing to find program faults is that it generally only finds very simple faults. The problem itself is exponential and every fuzzer takes shortcuts to find something interesting in a timeframe that a human cares about. A primitive fuzzer may have poor code coverage; for example, if the input includes a checksum which is not properly updated to match other random changes, only the checksum validation code will be verified. Code coverage tools are often used to estimate how “well” a fuzzer works, but these are only guidelines to fuzzer quality. Every fuzzer can be expected to find a different set of bugs.
On the other hand, bugs found using fuzz testing are frequently severe, exploitable bugs that could be used by a real attacker. This has become even more true as fuzz testing has become more widely known, as the same techniques and tools are now used by attackers to exploit deployed software. This is a major advantage over binary or source auditing, or even fuzzing’s close cousin, fault injection, which often relies on artificial fault conditions that are difficult or impossible to exploit.
[edit] Event-driven fuzz
Normally this is provided as a queue of datastructures. The queue is filled with data structures that have random values.
The most common problem with an event-driven program is that it will often simply use the data in the queue, without even crude validation. To succeed in a fuzz-tested environment, software must validate all fields of every queue entry, decode every possible binary value, and then ignore impossible requests.
One of the more interesting issues with real-time event handling is that if error reporting is too verbose, simply providing error status can cause resource problems or a crash. Robust error detection systems will report only the most significant, or most recent error over a period of time.
[edit] Character-driven fuzz
Normally this is provided as a stream of random data. The classic source in UNIX is the random data generator.
One common problem with a character driven program is a buffer overrun, when the character data exceeds the available buffer space. This problem tends to recur in every instance in which a string or number is parsed from the data stream and placed in a limited-size area.
Another is that decode tables or logic may be incomplete, not handling every possible binary value.
[edit] Database fuzz
The standard database scheme is usually filled with fuzz that is random data of random sizes. Some IT shops use software tools to migrate and manipulate such databases. Often the same schema descriptions can be used to automatically generate fuzz databases.
Database fuzz is controversial, because input and comparison constraints reduce the invalid data in a database. However, often the database is more tolerant of odd data than its client software, and a general-purpose interface is available to users. Since major customer and enterprise management software is starting to be open-source, database-based security attacks are becoming more credible.
A common problem with fuzz databases is buffer overflow. A common data dictionary, with some form of automated enforcement is quite helpful and entirely possible. To enforce this, normally all the database clients need to be recompiled and retested at the same time. Another common problem is that database clients may not understand the binary possibilities of the database field type, or, legacy software might have been ported to a new database system with different possible binary values. A normal, inexpensive solution is to have each program validate database inputs in the same fashion as user inputs. The normal way to achieve this is to periodically “clean” production databases with automated verifiers.
April 18, 2007 at 9:23 pm
I’m just gonna rub my upper lip and see if there is any fuzz or not. Seems to me we could just “cut to the chase” while seeking the greater galactic conciousness.
April 18, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Cheerio,Mrs.DJ,cheerio. You are a good sport dealing with a daft fool.
April 19, 2007 at 5:15 am
Bain Baby, I teach middle school. I do it every day! @B-)
April 19, 2007 at 10:04 am
You’re both frickin retarded.
April 19, 2007 at 10:47 am
kylal:
Listen mate,no need to get nasty,eh?
April 20, 2007 at 10:40 am
No need to get nasty? I’m not your mate and I’ve had nothing but nasty given to me and you “brains” making fun of my beliefs since I participated. No one even asked me what the terms meant, you all think you’re so smart. One person even told me to quit posting. You have your own little click here. And that Mrs. DJ, she thinks she’s God’s gift. She posts on everything like everyone cares what she thinks, like she’s got so much to offer. No fat 4 time loser could enlighten me on anything. Her life is an example of what NOT to do. Go from man to man, blame them for the failures and pig out on sweets.
April 20, 2007 at 12:40 pm
kylal :
“No one even asked me what the terms meant, you all think you’re so smart.”
I say,what do you call my post #6? You obviously are an ignoramous as you can not read or do not choose to read.
Your boorish behaviour is further evidence of your lack of any and all social skills.
I say ,if I met you in person,I would feel the need to pummel you without mercy,
Only a cad would speak about a woman such as you do.
You ,sir,are a cad.
April 20, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Mrs. DJ, I would like to apologize for Kylal.
Kylal, I haven’t posted much because I’ve felt very badly about some recent postings. I ready several of these sites for months and I feel like I know lots of these people. If you want to pick on someone, or belittle someone, feel free to pick on me. I’m the fat one on here. Mrs. DJ was honest and open about herself to HELP ME, and now you berate her. Why do you feel the need to be cruel?
Have you ever heard the song by Nickelback, “If everyone cared”? Try listening to the words to that song. It’s too bad that people don’t respect others or their feelings anymore. You say the things you do because you feel hurt, so you lash out and hurt others. It’s not right.
Big Jake, lovesamerica, Mrs. DJ, I felt terrible about your friend Zach’s wife. So young, so pretty, two little babies. Then the students who were slaughtered. I ran to food for comfort and totally blew my diet. I’m sorry. I’m weak. When I feel sad I eat. So, Kylal, if you want to persecute me with rotten comments, you go right ahead. But please leave these other wonderful people alone.
April 20, 2007 at 8:33 pm
#13, baintree, pummel me? Don’t make me laugh. I’m a cad? Why? Because I say things as I see them? You’re nothing.
And Shelby, go have a cupcake. Or should I say a dozen cupcakes.
One amazon sticking up for another amazon.
I’ll be nice. I wouldn’t want you two to sit on me.
April 20, 2007 at 10:10 pm
kylal:
and you are a bloody imbicile
April 22, 2007 at 4:52 am
What’s imbicile? Do you mean umbilical, like the baby chord? Why would you call me a bloody baby chord?
You’re weird.
April 22, 2007 at 5:42 am
1. Imbecile
Intelligence Quotient Scale:
Moron = 50-69
Imbecile = 30-49
Idiot = 29 & below
Hey, you see that idiot over there? Why are you acting like him? You know you’re smarter than him, you imbecile!
2. imbecile
From Latin root meaning feeble-minded of weak and/or insufficient mental capabilities.
3. imbecile
Somone lacking intelligence,
Also one deficient in judgment and good sense.
A stupid or silly person; a dolt.
Imbecile:People who Bash the President’s intelligence, while neglecting the fact that he had higher grades in the same university(Yale) John Kerry went to.
Bush had a cumulative score of 77 for his first three years at Yale and a roughly similar average under a non-numerical rating system during his senior year.
While Kerry, who graduated two years before Bush, got a cumulative 76 for his four years, according to a transcript that Kerry sent to the Navy when he was applying for officer training school.
tags fool idiot moron ignoramus and stupid
Do you see why you are an imbicile now ,kylal?
You are convicted by your own comments.
April 22, 2007 at 11:31 am
baintree, brainlesstree, you’re out there.
I KNEW what it meant. You’re the stupid one. You believe everything you read.
You want to play with words? How about this? I’d like to do a PETARD right in your face.
So there, cocky pants. Or should I say, cockless pants.
April 22, 2007 at 12:06 pm
kylal:
I was being nice to you . I gave you too much credit. You have come down a notch.
You really are an idiot.
If you try hard ,you may reach the level of imbicile.
Being generous,with a tutor and intensive study,maybe some day ,a moron.
You will always be a classless buffoon(A ludicrous or bumbling person; a fool).
April 22, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Why are you so mean to me?
April 22, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Bloke,if you want to call a truce, I will too. Just don’t take cheap shots at the nice ladies here. Deal?
And by the way mate, I’m just back from Iraq having served with the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. You hit a nerve when you take cheap shots at the ladies. Any one of us men in my unit wouldn’t stand for it .
April 22, 2007 at 5:09 pm
kylal, I was playing with you. I felt bad about the person who told you to stop posting. If you want to think me a looser, that is just fine. BTW, I’m only a 3 time looser. If you are going to be so mean to me, I will hold you to the facts. In the greater cosmic consciencness, your opinion of me is just an asterisk.
Except for your meanness, I find you amusing as hell. I’m still looking for whatever unabridged dictionary you use. And BTW, whatever you are smoking, SHARE.
April 22, 2007 at 10:02 pm
baintree, I was wondering why you and Mrs. DJ ganged up on me. Making fun of the attribute of fuzz. Fuzz is important in the attribute of hylon. On another site Douglas, who I refer to as Dougl-ass, told me to stop posting nonsense. What’s nonsense to someone may not be nonsense to someone else. I take back what I said about Mrs. DJ but she was making fun of fuzz like it was lip fuzz. That’s holy to me. I don’t make fun of you people’s stuff. And then that Shelby chick got on and made it worse with her mouthing off. I think she’s frustrated because all she wants to do is eat in multiples. And every man has a different version of what a lady is. Just because their thing is different than ours doesn’t make them a lady if they don’t use their thing right. Just like now, Mrs DJ is refering to me as a druggie. Telling me to share what I’m smoking. But you don’t stick up for me and tell her to shut her trap around food like we know she does more than she should. No, instead you attack me with the stupid, ignoramus remarks. I’m not stupid because I know the truth about Mylotek and Zerod and the plan for glactical platitude. I’ve read about it and I know about it and was visited by the Myrod. They showed me. And I know. So I try to share and you think I’m a nut or on drugs. They names Kylal which is a great honor in Hebron. Ladies should be fuzzless and men should be the iron noble ganders. That’s my goal. I don’t want to hurt you or Mrs. DJ, but I see your vice is mainly a high opinion of self and you have a desire to take women away from other men. Mrs. DJ’s vice is also a high opinion of self and the misguided notion that men like fat women. She likes to over eat and then dresses to hide the fat. That’s mylokian and should be greatly avoided but she doesn’t stop. It’s wrong. I hope I’ve helped to open the eyes of you both to the fact that I speak truth and am gifted to know about vices in the sapiens. The three of you, baintree, Mrs. DJ, and Shelby smell greatly of pork and it won’t pass until you acknowledge your vices so Mylok can remove the smell in the nostrils of us who know you and see the vices.
April 22, 2007 at 11:15 pm
kylal:
OK “CURIOUS”,
THE JIG IS UP.
WE HAVE TRACKED YOU DOWN AND HAVE YOU ON FILM.
April 23, 2007 at 2:40 am
galtos5, I don’t get it. I don’t know what you’re talking about. I clicked on the link and that picture, you think that’s me? Is that what you mean? What am I supposed to be curious about?
April 23, 2007 at 3:46 am
That does it kylal. I’m gonna have a bacon sandwich. @B-)
April 23, 2007 at 10:42 am
kylal:
Interstellar Command has been monitoring your activities in reference to large quantity thefts of mylen from secret space stations in this galaxy by a rogue agent code named “Curious”.
We believe you to be him. Prepare for transport to detention pod.
April 23, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Warning to the People of Earth:
a message to all from CRISWELL.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7038656109656489183
April 23, 2007 at 3:56 pm
galtos5, I still don’t know what you’re talking about and I’m not this “curious” person. I think it’s rude that you are making up things about instellar command and detention pods. They have nothing to do with Mylon or my beliefs and you’re just another poster poking fun at me.
Have your fun. Have your laughs. I’m glad I amuse all of you so much.
April 23, 2007 at 9:42 pm
kytal:
http://www.archive.org/details/santa_claus_conquers_the_martians
April 24, 2007 at 1:37 am
kylal:
homesick?
http://www.gifs.cc/Alien06.gif
http://image.fg-a.com/Aliendnc.gif
http://fla.fg-a.com/st_ani_alien8_sm.gif
May 3, 2007 at 10:47 pm
galtos5
you are very entertaining!
May 4, 2007 at 1:22 am
I think you’re all assholes
May 22, 2007 at 12:23 am
dreadlocks
dreadlocks