Ajit Gaddam: TechNews and Security

For all the geeks out there, do you know someone who tried to teach themselves how to read Barcode? Here is a list of Geek quotes, sayings and phrases. Some of them are from Boardofwisdom who put together a nice compilation themselves.

#1. Roses are #FF0000, Violets are #0000FF. All my base Are belong to you  — someone on SlashDot

#2. There is no place like 127.0.0.1

#3. Girls are like Internet Domain names, the ones I like are already taken

#4. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning

#5. Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination. — Albert Einstein

#6. There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don’t.

#7. If at first you don’t succeed, call it version 1.0

#8. 1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d 

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     Leet is a phrase often used on the Internet, some being online games, message boards, and chat rooms. It comes from the word “elite”, meaning “above everyone else”. It’s most commonly written as “1337″ or “l33t”. It can also be written differently, the numbers 1, 3 and 7 standing for L, E and T respectively.

A Leet Speak Alphabet
* A—4,/-\,/_\
* B—8,|3 and very uncommonly 13
* C—<,{,[,(
* D---|>,|),|},|]
* E—3
* F—|=,ph
* G—[,-
* H---|-|,[-].{-},|=|,[=],{=}
* I—1,|
* J—usually the J is untouched
* K—|< ,1 <
* L—|_,|,1_
* M—|\/|,^^
* O—0,(),[],{}
* P—|o,p,|O
* Q—O, or 9
* R—|2,12
* S—5,$
* T—7,+
* U—|_|
* V—\/
* W—\/\/,(/\), \^/
* X—><,
* Y—j
* Z—Z

Numbers for letters
One of the qualities of leet speak is using numbers to replace letters. Many words have numbers leet speak.
* 1 — L, I (I is more often shown as |, and sometimes as ][)
* 2 — Z (not in common usage)
* 3 — E
* 4 — A
* 5 — S
* 6 — G (not in common usage)
* 7 — T (can also be L)
* 8 — B
* 9 — G
* 0 — O (Occasionally represented by “()”)
Below is a simple javascript I wrote to translate English into leet.

Seeing all these guys, I am more than motivated to get a customized plate myself. I am thinkin 31337 or r00t or something on those lines. Meanwhile check out these uber geeks and their licence plates. Sources for the pics include Google Pictures, Flikr, geek24 and one of the best compilation of geeks and their plates including their names, cars and other good stuff at webreference.

My favorite plates ….

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