UVB-76 Broadcasts New Voice Message 560
Doug52392 writes "Following days of increased activity, the Russian numbers station UVB-76 has sent out a new voice transmission. The transmission, sent out on August 23, 2010 at 9:35AM PST, recited the following in Russian: 'UVB-76, UVB-76 — 93 882 naimina 74 14 35 74 — 9 3 8 8 2 nikolai, anna, ivan, michail, ivan, nikolai, anna, 7, 4, 1, 4, 3, 5, 7, 4' The station, believed to be a part of the former Soviet Union's dead man's switch system, has been continually broadcasting for over twenty years, and its purpose has never been fully explained."
Obvious (Score:5, Funny)
In Soviet Russia, dead switch is manned
unexplained?? (Score:5, Funny)
Its viral marketing for Lost II : Lost in Siberia
Thanks slashdot! (Score:5, Funny)
Now the whole world knows my combination.
Location (Score:5, Funny)
Shouldn't it be possible to triangulate the position based on signal strength from multiple points, and just locate the tower, break in and see what the hardware attached to the transmitter does?
Re:Obvious (Score:5, Funny)
Unexplained? (Score:5, Funny)
has been continually broadcasting for over twenty years, and its purpose has never been fully explained.
Nobody can explain Fox News either.
Re:Location (Score:3, Funny)
And now that's has been submitted to slashdot the receiver doesn't even have to tune in :D
Re:Location (Score:5, Funny)
I've decoded it! (Score:2, Funny)
It says... "Drink more Ovaltine."
Message Recieved (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Location (Score:5, Funny)
Don't dismiss battlebears so...recklessly.
Re:Location (Score:5, Funny)
OMON troops on bears.
Thats some 21st century bear cavalry right there.
unruskie(%s) yields (Score:5, Funny)
unruskie("UVB-76, UVB-76 -- 93 882 naimina 74 14 35 74 -- 9 3 8 8 2 nikolai, anna, ivan, michail, ivan, nikolai, anna, 7, 4, 1, 4, 3, 5, 7, 4'") ends up with this cryptic message:
lp0 on fire. call nikolai, anna or ivan; but ivan's drunk, call michail instead
rather a specific message but that's what the unruskie() filter says.
Re:unexplained?? (Score:5, Funny)
I know you're joking, but that would be awesome. Assuming they got writers that can write an ending.
Re:Scary thought (Score:5, Funny)
Same thing that happened when MySpace stopped being cool.
Rupert Murdoch will buy it.
Russian Twitter Prototype (Score:3, Funny)
One byte per message.
Re:Previous Story (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Location (Score:4, Funny)
It's Russia's first underground Walmart.
The radio station on top is only a publicity stunt to increase tourism and screw with the heads at the CIA.
Re:hrm... (Score:1, Funny)
Right, because *nothing* in the nuclear arsenal related to launch control has been updated in 50 years- there's a stack of punch cards with an itchy trigger finger out there in the wilds of Siberia, just waiting to strike.
Re:Obvious (Score:1, Funny)
4 8 15 16 23 42 but unfortunately it seems to have been Lost In Translation
Re:Thanks slashdot! (Score:5, Funny)
UVB-76, UVB-76 — 93 882 naimina 74 14 35 74 — 9 3 8 8 2 nikolai, anna, ivan, michail, ivan, nikolai, anna, 7, 4, 1, 4, 3, 5, 7, 4 - that sounds like the kind of combination an idiot would use on his luggage.
Re:Unexplained? (Score:1, Funny)
Really? I thought it was there to counterbalance NPR.
Re:Obvious (Score:3, Funny)
Frequent rebooting.
(You do realize that Windows has been in existence as a shipping product for nearly 25 years, right?)
Idea (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It is well known where it is (Score:1, Funny)
Get Sarah Palin in there! She'll just hop from her porch, and rear her ugly head into the airspace!
That'd be a funny Mr. Magoo-style spy film, Sarah Palin in a Salt-like action flick...
What's the Godwin equivalent of Sarah Palin threadjack?
Re:Location (Score:4, Funny)
what we need is to stop tracking *transmitters* and start tracking *receivers*.
sort of like how in BASIC you can convert your code from using GOTO style to using COMEFROM style branching. sort of like that. employ logic like that and you can reverse bias the trackers to tune in on the receivers, instead.
Re:Obvious (Score:5, Funny)
In Soviet Russia, joke is made fun of by YOU!
Re:Obvious (Score:3, Funny)
you're close. its not the antivirus that needs updating. its really the antenna-virus. understandable typo given the fact that its in russian.
once your az-el motor system gets rooted, you might just have to reload the entire system from scratch again.
It says... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:unexplained?? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Location (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, I was thinking more along the lines of lighting up some indicator in each silo, and disabling the first safety or so.
"I'm afraid I don't understand something,
Alexiy. Is the Premier threatening to
explode this if our planes carry out their
attack?"
"No sir. It is not a thing a sane man would
do. The doomsday machine is designed to to
trigger itself automatically."
Re:Let me read that back to you... (Score:1, Funny)
Actually, it's white people trying to rap.
Re:unexplained?? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It is well known where it is (Score:1, Funny)
Russia owns it, Russia operates it, and Russia has a lot of men with guns who will kill you if you get too inquisitive about it.
Could be worse. They could have men with goats guarding the thing.
Re:Location (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Location (Score:5, Funny)
Sure it does! Just make time run backward and we can see all the little radio-photons running toward the transmitter! Or better yet, try and detect the subtle field distortions caused by antennas absorbing radio frequency energy.
Okay Brain! But umm...where are we going to find Superman at this time of night?
Re:It is well known where it is (Score:4, Funny)
Russia owns it, Russia operates it, and Russia has a lot of men with guns who will kill you if you get too inquisitive about it.
May be they are expecting inquisition.
Re:Location (Score:2, Funny)
If it's anywhere near Chernobyl, bears & wolves won't be much problem. The trees, though...
Unlikely (Score:3, Funny)
This is the digital age, surely there is no reason to communicate in this manner anymore. My guess is that it's a Soviet Plot to distract the capitalist imperialist to spend billions of rubles to figure out what its significance is (I've never used that phrase "Soviet Plot" before in my life). You can imagine that the change in message is spurring Dick Cheney (or more likely Rush Limbaugh) to make a run at the White House just to figure it out.
Think about it, the amount of data being transmitted is trivial. We live in the internet age. This is at best a distraction made for those who visualize the modern era as a series of tubes.
everyone needs to calm down (Score:3, Funny)
Seriously, it's just the Russian Powerball Lotto.
Re:It is well known where it is (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Just a guess, It's a salt. (Score:4, Funny)
Woah there. Salt. One time pad. It's like you grabbed some random crypto sounding words and slung them together.
Re:unexplained?? (Score:3, Funny)
It was John Lithgow's voice saying he was stuck in a B-movie in Lawrence, Kansas
Don't lie (Score:1, Funny)
We all know the combination to your luggage is 1-2-3-4-5.
Re:Location (Score:3, Funny)
Cant decide whether Hollywood reading /. would be a good thing or a bad thing..
Re:It is well known where it is (Score:5, Funny)
Consider this: if you want to hide something, hide it in plain view.
But I can imagine this is also a great inside joke, imagine this:
Young eager cadet: "Sergei, what is this?"
"Our top of the line distraction and nuclear defence device!"
"How does it work?"
"We keep on broadcasting this pendula going over this magnetic field"
"Why?"
"Oh, you see... The CIA is listening since 1982 and can imagine it's a nuclear reaction device or anything they can come up with. We use it joke around since the signal can be picked up everywhere in Russia."
"How?"
"Do you see this microphone?"
"Yes..."
"Say, I met this girl Naimina and I want to share story and her number and zipcode with my comrades..."
reaches for microphone: "UVB-76, UVB-76 -- 93 882 naimina 74 14 35 74 -- 9 3 8 8 2 nikolai, anna, ivan, michail, ivan, nikolai, anna, 7, 4, 1, 4, 3, 5, 7, 4"
Re:Location (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Location (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, COMEFROM is easy.
Computed COMEFROM (and conditional COMEFROM in general), now theye are powerful programming constructs.
(Question? Is COMEFROM 20 executed before or after the instruction labeled 20? Did I need the CONTINUE? Would any qualified NARTROF programmers care to comment?)
Re:Google map it (Score:3, Funny)
Wow. That is really dumb of them. I don't feel so bad now (I sometimes have to think hard to remember how to spell the letter Q).
Re:12 minute epilogue (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It is well known where it is (Score:1, Funny)
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSe38dzJYkY
Re:Unexplained? (Score:3, Funny)
I thought it was there for entertainment.
Maybe. Sort of like Fear Factor. Swallow this bowl of disgusting bugs and you win. Just replace bugs with ideology.