{"id":1209,"date":"2012-12-16T02:32:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T02:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/duenos.net\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2012-12-16T02:32:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T02:32:49","slug":"strange-social-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/strange-social-norms\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange social norms"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post was a while back, but I juts now have gotten to it. A fellow PhD student, in an attempt to help us brainstorm more creative ways to recruit new information science students, sent us the following advertisement for reference:
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\nAs he explained, it’s a puzzle meant to draw you in:
\nIn this poster, everything is hidden in the binary code (please ignore the girl at the background).<\/span>
\nThe decipher process can be found at http:\/\/xrl.us\/bnx5jc<\/a> (in Chinese). Here are the steps to get the material in natural language (I skip some trial and reasoning steps):<\/span><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. OCR the binary code from the image.<\/li>\n
  2. Save it as a binary file and name it bin.gz (you can get the name of the file by interpreting the binary code).<\/li>\n
  3. Unzip the file and get a file called bin. This is a java class (again, tell from the binary code).<\/li>\n
  4. Save the file as a java class and run it. You can get the correct name of the class (i.class) from the java error message.<\/li>\n
  5. Run the class again and finally you will get an url: www.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/fun\/hikari-loveletter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What puzzles me about it is not actually the number cipher, which I imagine is pretty neato, but the the relevance of the woman in the background. Is she supposed to be just a pretty background, like a flower pattern? Are they assuming only heterosexual men apply and that this woman will get their attention? Is this like insurance companies that put naked ladies on billboards, but a subdued version? I’m not yet ready to label it sexist, simply because I don’t understand Japanese culture enough to comprehend the context. Right now I can’t help but see it as comically non-sequitur!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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