https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=162.158.75.172&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T09:07:19ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1030:_Keyed&diff=2121501030: Keyed2021-05-19T13:48:10Z<p>162.158.75.172: </p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1030<br />
| date = March 16, 2012<br />
| title = Keyed<br />
| image = keyed.png<br />
| titletext = I was sure he was just getting revenge, but then he did the same thing to Carrie Underwood. Then he mailed me a scone. I think I'm giving up dating.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
This comic is a take on one of the typical revenge tactics in dating and in life, which is one person "keying" the car of another. To "key" a car is to drag a key across the side of the car, sometimes multiple times, ruining the paint job. Instead, our friend [[Beret Guy]] painted a really detailed key on the side of [[Ponytail]]'s car in his version of "keying" a car. She broke up with him the day before, as she explains to [[Cueball]], but Beret Guy is so strange that she now can't tell if it was revenge or even if he remembers that she broke up with him.<br />
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The title text is a reference to the song ''{{w|Before He Cheats}}'' by {{w|Carrie Underwood}}; a revenge song in which Carrie Underwood imagines her boyfriend cheating and takes revenge on his prized truck. This explains why Beret Guy might also paint a key on Carrie Underwood's car specifically, but it just confuses the situation since it brings into doubt the theory of him "keying" her car out of revenge (there is no known reason or reference to a reason for Beret Guy to want revenge on Carrie Underwood in the xkcd continuity). The second part of the title text in which Beret Guy sent Ponytail a scone (Beret Guy really likes baked goods, so he would assume other people do to) further confuses the situation, causing Ponytail to completely give up on dating.<br />
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Beret Guy and scones are also referenced in [[452: Mission]] and in the title text of [[677: Asshole]]. His love for bakeries was first mentioned in [[434: xkcd Goes to the Airport]].<br />
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The song {{w|Before He Cheats#Background|details}} Carrie Underwood imagining her boyfriend hanging out and flirting with a "bleach-blonde" girl, shooting pool, buying her a drink, dancing, and hoping to "get lucky" with her while she is vandalizing his customized four-wheel drive vehicle by scratching its side with a key, carving her name into its leather seats, smashing the headlights with a {{w|Louisville Slugger}} baseball bat and slashing all four tires in retaliation. She hopes that this will make him "think before he cheats" again.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Ponytail and Cueball are walking along.]<br />
:Ponytail: I broke up with him yesterday.<br />
:Cueball: That weird guy with the beret?<br />
:Cueball: Did he take it okay?<br />
<br />
:Ponytail: He seemed upset. He went out to my car—<br />
:Cueball: Uh oh<br />
:Ponytail: —and spent the whole night painting a really detailed key on the side.<br />
:Cueball: ...Wait, what?<br />
:[Image of Beret Guy painting a giant key on the side of a car.]<br />
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:Ponytail: Then he woke me up to ask what I thought of it.<br />
:Ponytail: He looked really proud.<br />
:[Beret Guy holding a paintbrush.]<br />
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:Cueball: I ... is he playing revenge mind games?<br />
:Ponytail: I genuinely can't tell if he remembers that we broke up.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Beret Guy]]<br />
[[Category:Romance]]<br />
[[Category:Food]]</div>162.158.75.172https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=414:_Mistranslations&diff=162506414: Mistranslations2018-09-08T23:58:00Z<p>162.158.75.172: /* Explanation */ Typo (1 word)</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number =414<br />
| date =April 23, 2008<br />
| title =Mistranslations<br />
| image =mistranslations.png<br />
| titletext =Oh, I think this word might mean 'Crisco'!<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
The ''{{w|Kama Sutra}}'' is a well-known work on human sexual behavior originally written in the language Sanskrit, in India sometime between 400 BC and 200 AD. It's not exclusively a "sex manual", as it also contains a guide to virtuous and gracious living, but in the Western world, it's primarily thought of as a manual of exotic sex positions.<br />
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Given that the ''Kama Sutra'' was written almost 2,000 years ago, it's doubtful that it has ''any'' references whatsoever to a skateboard ramp, but Cueball and Megan enjoy their badly-translated version of the ''Kama Sutra'' so much that they refuse to change it.<br />
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The title text refers to {{w|Crisco}}, a brand of shortening that is used in baking as well as a sexual lubricant. It has been mentioned before in [[330: Indecision]] and later in [[557: Students]].<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[A bed sits on the ground in the middle of the frame. At the left of the frame, Cueball stands atop a skateboard jump ramp twice his height, one foot on the back of a skateboard poised over the coping. At the bottom of the ramp is a small kicker ramp which will launch him over the bed. Megan to the right of the frame stands on the roof of a house grasping a rope which is affixed directly over the bed. They are both poised to begin their motion.]<br />
:Our copy of the Kama Sutra has a couple mistranslations.<br />
:Which we refuse to fix.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br />
[[Category:Sex]]</div>162.158.75.172https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2016:_OEIS_Submissions&diff=1598122016: OEIS Submissions2018-07-09T15:24:25Z<p>162.158.75.172: </p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2016<br />
| date = July 6, 2018<br />
| title = OEIS Submissions<br />
| image = oeis_submissions.png<br />
| titletext = SUB[59]: The submission numbers for my accepted OEIS submissions in chronological order<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
<br />
The {{w|OEIS}} is the [https://oeis.org/ Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences], a listing of thousands of sequences of integers, generally of real mathematical interest, such as {{w|prime number}}s or [https://oeis.org/A005188 Armstrong numbers]. The OEIS normally expects submissions to be accompanied by references to scholarly articles about, or at least referencing, the sequence. They would not be interested in the personal or idiosyncratic sequences proposed by Randall, though they do have the [https://oeis.org/A000053 list of subway stops on the New York City Broadway line (IRT #1)], perhaps because a NY Times article mentioned that they don't. <br />
<br />
Randall is trying to put his integer sequences on the OEIS website, including making OEIS reveal its password.<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
!style="width:10%"|Sub<br />
!style="width:45%"|Requested Sequence<br />
!style="width:45%"|Explanation<br />
|-<br />
|43<br />
|All integers which do not appear in the example terms of another OEIS sequence<br />
|Every OEIS sequence lists several example terms to demonstrate the content of said sequence. This request wants to list all integers which are ''not'' used as examples elsewhere. Any numbers used as example terms for this sequence are not counted, so this list is not self-disqualifying. It is well-defined at any given time. Like many other OEIS sequences, it has infinitely many terms (more precisely, it includes all integers except a finite number). However, it may change at any time, whenever a new sequence or a new example is added to the OEIS. If included, it would therefore have to be constantly updated. <br />
<br />
Such integers are sometimes called "{{w|Interesting number paradox|uninteresting numbers}}" in mathematical terms, and attempts have been made to count them. The list changes, but [http://math.crg4.com/uninteresting.html#note4 in July 2009] it began 11630, 12067, 12407, 12887, 13258...<br />
|-<br />
|44<br />
|Integers in increasing order of width when printed in Helvetica<br />
| This sequence is not uniquely defined as it depends on the specific version of the {{w|Helvetica}} font used, its point size, the software used to render it (e.g. kerning algorithm), the handling of equal widths by the sorting algorithm and possibly other parameters. Also, all digits usually have the same width, with the exception of the sequence "11", which is a tiny bit narrower because a kerning pair exists in Helvetica. Without an additional tie-breaker for equal width numbers, the order is: 1 to 9 in no particular order, 11, 10 and 12 to 19 in no particular order and so on; for a particular choice of parameters the first 50 terms might be: 1, 9, 6, 2, 8, 5, 0, 7, 3, 4, 11, 61, 71, 91, 21, 51, 81, 41, 31, 19, 13, 18, 10, 12, 15, 16, 14, 17, 69, 63, 68, 79, 60, 62, 65, 73, 78, 99, 93, 98, 66, 70, 72, 75, 29, 90, 92, 95, 23, 28... <br />
<br />
Despite all of the above issues, and as a direct response to this comic, a well-defined version of this sequence was [https://oeis.org/A316599 added to the OEIS].<br />
|-<br />
|45<br />
|The digits of Chris Hemsworth's cell phone number<br />
| This request seems to be for actor {{w|Chris Hemsworth}}'s phone number — but the correct ordering of the digits isn't specified.<br />
|-<br />
|46<br />
|All integers, in descending order<br />
|To list all integers in descending order, you would have to begin at the largest integer, but there is no largest integer, so this is impossible. It is equally impossible to list all integers in ''ascending'' order, for that matter.<br />
<br />
On the other hand, [https://oeis.org/A001477 A001477] is the sequence of all nonnegative integers in ascending order, as there is the smallest nonnegative integer. Also, [https://oeis.org/A001057 A001057] is the sequence of all integers, but in canonical order (i.e. by increasing absolute value).<br />
|-<br />
|47<br />
|The digits of the OEIS serial number for this sequence<br />
|This sequence is only important tautologically. <br />
|-<br />
|48<br />
|200 terabytes of nines<br />
|This submission appears to be a joke on common video game limits for i.e. currency or ammunition, in which the maximum a player can carry is one less than a power of 10. This sequence would be entirely useless, as there is no mental effort required to conceive a list that consists only of a single repeated term, however arbitrarily large. Such a list is also incredibly wasteful; to give a comparison, [https://phys.org/news/2016-05-math-proof-largest-terabytes.html this very large math proof from 2016] is also 200 terabytes, and requires a supercomputer to hold in its entirety.<br/><br />
200 terabytes is equal to 2&nbsp;×&nbsp;10<sup>14</sup> bytes. In UTF-8 all ASCII characters, including control characters such as ␂ (start of text) and ␍ (carriage return), can be represented by a single byte. If the list is presumed to be formatted as "␂9␍9␍9 ... 9␍9␃", the first term would take up 3 bytes, and all other terms would take up 2 bytes. Assuming Randall wants the file size to be 200 terabytes ''minimum'', the resulting list would be a minimum of 1&nbsp;×&nbsp;10<sup>14</sup>, or 100 trillion, terms long.<br />
<br />
Curiously, OEIS does in fact contain an entry that lists "[https://oeis.org/A010734 all nines]".<br />
|-<br />
|49<br />
|The decimal representation of the bytes in the root password to the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences server<br />
|This would give any user the password to OEIS. {{w|Internet troll|What happens next}} anyone can easily forecast. Perhaps the idea is to hack OEIS on the premise that accepting this sequence will force OEIS staff to populate it.<br />
|-<br />
|59 (title text)<br />
|The submission numbers for my accepted OEIS submissions in chronological order<br />
|This would only be useful to Randall. If all of his submissions have been rejected, this would be an empty set. However, if this submission is accepted, the set would, by definition, include at least one number (except that this would not be known at the time of submission). Thus, as in the Russell Paradox, this set would out of date as soon as it was accepted, since the set of accepted submission numbers would change at that point. <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Transcript==<br />
:SUB[43]: All integers which do not appear in the example terms of another OEIS sequence<br />
:SUB[44]: Integers in increasing order of width when printed in Helvetica<br />
:SUB[45]: The digits of Chris Hemsworth's cell phone number<br />
:SUB[46]: All integers, in descending order<br />
:SUB[47]: The digits of the OEIS serial number for this sequence<br />
:SUB[48]: 200 terabytes of nines<br />
:SUB[49]: The decimal representation of the bytes in the root password to the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences server<br />
<br />
:[Caption below the panel:]<br />
:OEIS keeps rejecting my submissions<br />
<br />
{{comic discussion}}</div>162.158.75.172https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2016:_OEIS_Submissions&diff=1597662016: OEIS Submissions2018-07-07T12:03:41Z<p>162.158.75.172: </p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2016<br />
| date = July 6, 2018<br />
| title = OEIS Submissions<br />
| image = oeis_submissions.png<br />
| titletext = SUB[59]: The submission numbers for my accepted OEIS submissions in chronological order<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by an INTEGER SEQUENCE - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
The {{w|OEIS}} is the [https://oeis.org/ Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences], a listing of thousands of sequences of integers, generally of real mathematical interest, such as {{w|prime number}}s or [https://oeis.org/A005188 Armstrong numbers]. The OEIS normally expects submissions to be accompanied by references to scholarly articles about, or at least referencing, the sequence. They would not be interested in the personal or idiosyncratic sequences proposed by Randall, though they do have the [https://oeis.org/A000053 list of IRT stops], perhaps because a NY Times article mentioned that they don't. <br />
<br />
Randall is trying to put his integer sequences on the OEIS website, including making OEIS reveal its password.<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
!style="width:10%"|Sub<br />
!style="width:45%"|Requested Sequence<br />
!style="width:45%"|Explanation<br />
|-<br />
|43<br />
|All integers which do not appear in the example terms of another OEIS sequence<br />
|Every OEIS sequence lists several example terms to demonstrate the content of said sequence. This request wants to list all integers which are ''not'' used as examples elsewhere. Any numbers used as example terms for this sequence are not counted, so this list is not self-disqualifying. It is well-defined at any given time. Like many other OEIS sequences, it has infinitely many terms (more precisely, it includes all integers except a finite number). However, it may change at any time, whenever a new sequence or a new example is added to the OEIS. If included, it would therefore have to be constantly updated.<br />
|-<br />
|44<br />
|Integers in increasing order of width when printed in Helvetica<br />
| This sequence is not uniquely defined as it depends on the specific version of the {{w|Helvetica}} font used, its point size, the software used to render it (e.g. kerning algorithm), the handling of equal widths by the sorting algorithm and possibly other parameters. Also, all digits usually have the same width, with the exception of the sequence "11", which is a tiny bit narrower because a kerning pair exists in Helvetica. Without an additional tie-breaker for equal width numbers, the order is: 1 to 9 in no particular order, 11, 10 and 12 to 19 in no particular order and so on; for a particular choice of parameters the first 50 terms might be: 1, 9, 6, 2, 8, 5, 0, 7, 3, 4, 11, 61, 71, 91, 21, 51, 81, 41, 31, 19, 13, 18, 10, 12, 15, 16, 14, 17, 69, 63, 68, 79, 60, 62, 65, 73, 78, 99, 93, 98, 66, 70, 72, 75, 29, 90, 92, 95, 23, 28... <br />
|-<br />
|45<br />
|The digits of Chris Hemsworth's cell phone number<br />
| This request is for actor {{w|Chris Hemsworth}}'s phone number<br />
|-<br />
|46<br />
|All integers, in descending order<br />
|There are an infinite number of integers. To list all integers in descending order, you would have to begin at the largest integer, and terminate only upon reaching the negative integer with the greatest absolute value, both of which are values that cannot be conceived. It is equally impossible to list all integers in ''ascending'' order, for that matter.<br />
|-<br />
|47<br />
|The digits of the OEIS serial number for this sequence<br />
|This sequence is only important tautologically. <br />
|-<br />
|48<br />
|200 terabytes of nines<br />
|This sequence would be entirely useless, as there is no mental effort required to conceive a list that consists only of a single repeated term, however arbitrarily large. Such a list is also incredibly wasteful; to give a comparison, [https://phys.org/news/2016-05-math-proof-largest-terabytes.html this very large math proof from 2016] is also 200 terabytes, and requires a supercomputer to hold in its entirety.<br/><br />
200 terabytes is equal to 2&nbsp;×&nbsp;10<sup>14</sup> bytes. In UTF-8 all ASCII characters, including control characters such as ␂ (start of text) and ␍ (carriage return), can be represented by a single byte. If the list is presumed to be formatted as "␂9␍9␍9 ... 9␍9␃", the first term would take up 3 bytes, and all other terms would take up 2 bytes. Assuming Randall wants the file size to be 200 terabytes ''minimum'', the resulting list would be a minimum of 1&nbsp;×&nbsp;10<sup>14</sup>, or 100 trillion, terms long.<br />
<br />
Curiously, OEIS does in fact contain an entry that lists "[https://oeis.org/A010734 all nines]".<br />
|-<br />
|49<br />
|The decimal representation of the bytes in the root password to the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences server<br />
|This would give any user the password to OEIS. {{w|Internet troll|What happens next}} anyone can easily forecast.<br />
|-<br />
|59<br />
|The submission numbers for my accepted OEIS submissions in chronological order<br />
|This would only be useful to Randall. If all of his submissions have been rejected, this would be an empty set. However, if this submission is accepted, the set would, by definition, include at least one number (except that this would not be known at the time of submission). Thus, as in the Russell Paradox, this set would out of date as soon as it was accepted, since the set of accepted submission numbers would change at that point. <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Transcript==<br />
:SUB[43]: All integers which do not appear in the example terms of another OEIS sequence<br />
:SUB[44]: Integers in increasing order of width when printed in Helvetica<br />
:SUB[45]: The digits of Chris Hemsworth's cell phone number<br />
:SUB[46]: All integers, in descending order<br />
:SUB[47]: The digits of the OEIS serial number for this sequence<br />
:SUB[48]: 200 terabytes of nines<br />
:SUB[49]: The decimal representation of the bytes in the root password to the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences server<br />
<br />
:[Caption below the panel:]<br />
:OEIS keeps rejecting my submissions<br />
<br />
{{comic discussion}}</div>162.158.75.172https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2016:_OEIS_Submissions&diff=1597522016: OEIS Submissions2018-07-06T21:17:07Z<p>162.158.75.172: </p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2016<br />
| date = July 6, 2018<br />
| title = OEIS Submissions<br />
| image = oeis_submissions.png<br />
| titletext = SUB[59]: The submission numbers for my accepted OEIS submissions in chronological order<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by an INTEGER SEQUENCE - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
The {{w|OEIS}} is the [https://oeis.org/ Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences], a listing of thousands of sequences of integers, generally of real mathematical interest, such as {{w|prime number}}s or [https://oeis.org/A005188 Armstrong numbers]. The OEIS normally expects submissions to be accompanied by references to scholarly articles about, or at least referencing, the sequence. They would not be interested in the personal or idiosyncratic sequences proposed by Randall, though they do have the [https://oeis.org/A000053 list of IRT stops], perhaps because a NY Times article mentioned that they don't. <br />
<br />
Randall is trying to put his integer sequences on the OEIS website, including making OEIS reveal its password.<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
!style="width:10%"|Sub<br />
!style="width:45%"|Requested Sequence<br />
!style="width:45%"|Explanation<br />
|-<br />
|43<br />
|All integers which do not appear in the example terms of another OEIS sequence<br />
|Every OEIS sequence lists several example terms to demonstrate the content of said sequence. This request wants to list all integers which are ''not'' used as examples elsewhere. Any numbers used as example terms for this sequence are not counted, so this list is not self-disqualifying. It is well-defined at any given time. Like many other OEIS sequences, it has infinitely many terms (more precisely, it includes all integers except a finite number). However, it may change at any time, whenever a new sequence or a new example is added to the OEIS. If included, it would therefore have to be constantly updated.<br />
|-<br />
|44<br />
|Integers in increasing order of width when printed in Helvetica<br />
| This sequence is not uniquely defined as it depends on the specific version of the {{w|Helvetica}} font used, its point size, the software used to render it (e.g. kerning algorithm) and possibly other parameters. Also, several numbers sometimes have the same width. For a particular choice of parameters the first 50 terms are: 1, 9, 6, 2, 8, 5, 0, 7, 3, 4, 11, 61, 71, 91, 21, 51, 81, 41, 31, 19, 13, 18, 10, 12, 15, 16, 14, 17, 69, 63, 68, 79, 60, 62, 65, 73, 78, 99, 93, 98, 66, 70, 72, 75, 29, 90, 92, 95, 23, 28...<br />
|-<br />
|45<br />
|The digits of Chris Hemsworth's cell phone number<br />
| This request is for actor {{w|Chris Hemsworth}}'s phone number<br />
|-<br />
|46<br />
|All integers, in descending order<br />
|There are an infinite number of integers. To list all integers in descending order, you would have to begin at the largest integer, and terminate only upon reaching the negative integer with the greatest absolute value, both of which are values that cannot be conceived. It is equally impossible to list all integers in ''ascending'' order, for that matter.<br />
|-<br />
|47<br />
|The digits of the OEIS serial number for this sequence<br />
|This sequence is only important tautologically. <br />
|-<br />
|48<br />
|200 terabytes of nines<br />
|This sequence would be entirely useless, as there is no mental effort required to conceive a list that consists only of a single repeated term, however arbitrarily large. Such a list is also incredibly wasteful; a file that takes up 200 terabytes of hard disk space would require a supercomputer to hold in its entirety (for reference, [https://phys.org/news/2016-05-math-proof-largest-terabytes.html this very large math proof from 2016] takes up a similar amount of space).<br/><br />
200 terabytes is equal to 2&nbsp;×&nbsp;10<sup>14</sup> bytes. In UTF-8 all ASCII characters, including control characters such as ␂ (start of text) and ␍ (carriage return), can be represented by a single byte. If the list is presumed to be formatted as "␂9␍9␍9 ... 9␍9␃", the first term would take up 3 bytes, and all other terms would take up 2 bytes. Assuming Randall wants the file size to be 200 terabytes ''minimum'', the resulting list would be a minimum of 1&nbsp;×&nbsp;10<sup>14</sup>, or 100 trillion, terms long.<br />
|-<br />
|49<br />
|The decimal representation of the bytes in the root password to the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences server<br />
|This would give any user the password to OEIS. {{w|Internet troll|What happens next}} anyone can easily forecast.<br />
|-<br />
|59<br />
|The submission numbers for my accepted OEIS submissions in chronological order<br />
|This would only be useful to Randall. If all of his submissions have been rejected, this would be an empty set.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Transcript==<br />
:SUB[43]: All integers which do not appear in the example terms of another OEIS sequence<br />
:SUB[44]: Integers in increasing order of width when printed in Helvetica<br />
:SUB[45]: The digits of Chris Hemsworth's cell phone number<br />
:SUB[46]: All integers, in descending order<br />
:SUB[47]: The digits of the OEIS serial number for this sequence<br />
:SUB[48]: 200 terabytes of nines<br />
:SUB[49]: The decimal representation of the bytes in the root password to the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences server<br />
<br />
:[Caption below the panel:]<br />
:OEIS keeps rejecting my submissions<br />
<br />
{{comic discussion}}</div>162.158.75.172https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2016:_OEIS_Submissions&diff=1597452016: OEIS Submissions2018-07-06T20:20:37Z<p>162.158.75.172: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2016<br />
| date = July 6, 2018<br />
| title = OEIS Submissions<br />
| image = oeis_submissions.png<br />
| titletext = SUB[59]: The submission numbers for my accepted OEIS submissions in chronological order<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by an INTEGER SEQUENCE - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
The {{w|OEIS}} is the [https://oeis.org/ Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences], a listing of thousands of sequences of integers, generally of real mathematical interest, such as {{w|prime number}}s or [https://oeis.org/A005188 Armstrong numbers]. The OEIS normally expects submissions to be accompanied by references to scholarly articles about, or at least referencing, the sequence. They would not be interested in the personal or idiosyncratic sequences proposed by Randall, though they do have the [https://oeis.org/A000053 list of IRT stops], perhaps because a NY Times article mentioned that they don't. <br />
<br />
Randall is trying to put his integer sequences on the OEIS website, including making OEIS reveal its password.<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
!style="width:10%"|Sub<br />
!style="width:45%"|Requested Sequence<br />
!style="width:45%"|Explanation<br />
|-<br />
|43<br />
|All integers which do not appear in the example terms of another OEIS sequence<br />
|Every OEIS sequence lists several example terms to demonstrate the content of said sequence. This request wants to list all integers which are ''not'' used as examples elsewhere. Any numbers used as example terms for this sequence are not counted, so this list is not self-disqualifying. However, the request specifies a list of ''all'' such integers, with no upper or lower bounds. Such an exhaustive list would be impossible to make; there are infinitely many integers, but finitely many example terms on the OEIS database, and a finite set excluded from an infinite set still results in an infinite set.<br />
|-<br />
|44<br />
|Integers in increasing order of width when printed in Helvetica<br />
| This would require painstaking measurement on an arbitrary [[590: Papyrus|(but beautifully kerned)]] font.<br />
|-<br />
|45<br />
|The digits of Chris Hemsworth's cell phone number<br />
| This request is for actor {{w|Chris Hemsworth}}'s phone number<br />
|-<br />
|46<br />
|All integers, in descending order<br />
|There are an infinite number of integers. In descending order means you would start with the "largest" integer, which does not exist, and, conversely, end with the negative integer with the greatest absolute value.<br />
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|47<br />
|The digits of the OEIS serial number for this sequence<br />
|This sequence is only important tautologically. <br />
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|48<br />
|200 terabytes of nines<br />
|In UTF-16, a 9 takes up 2 bytes, so this would be a sequence of 1*10^14 9s<br />
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|49<br />
|The decimal representation of the bytes in the root password to the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences server<br />
|This would give any user the password to OEIS. {{w|Internet troll|What happens next}} anyone can easily forecast.<br />
|-<br />
|59<br />
|The submission numbers for my accepted OEIS submissions in chronological order<br />
|This would only be useful to Randall. If all of his submissions have been rejected, this would be an empty set.<br />
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{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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:{| class="wikitable style=border:none;"|<br />
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|All integers which do not appear in the example terms of another OEIS sequence<br />
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|Integers in increasing order of width when printed in Helvetica<br />
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|The digits of Chris Hemsworth's cell phone number<br />
|- valign="top"<br />
|SUB[46]:<br />
|All integers, in descending order<br />
|- valign="top"<br />
|SUB[47]:<br />
|The digits of the OEIS serial number for this sequence<br />
|- valign="top"<br />
|SUB[48]:<br />
|200 terabytes of nines<br />
|- valign="top"<br />
|SUB[49]:<br />
|The decimal representation of the bytes in the root password to the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences server<br />
|}<br />
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:[Caption below the panel:]<br />
:OEIS keeps rejecting my submissions<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>162.158.75.172https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1975:_Right_Click&diff=155135Talk:1975: Right Click2018-04-02T00:54:16Z<p>162.158.75.172: </p>
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I created this page manually. DgbrtBOT fail? <br />
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Also, notably, while the comic at xkcd.com works as intended (even from Chrome on Android, to a certain degree), the mobile site, m.xkcd.com, does not. It shows the standard system/browser-specific context menu. --[[User:Videblu|Videblu]] ([[User talk:Videblu|talk]]) 00:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)<br />
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Oh my gosh this is incredible. The Games section, especially, is mind boggling. Entropy! [[User:Hameltion|Hameltion]] ([[User talk:Hameltion|talk]]) 00:30, 2 April 2018 (UTC)<br />
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Whoever owns this site update ReCaptcha! [[User:Sizzilingbird|Sizzilingbird]] ([[User talk:Sizzilingbird|talk]]) 00:40, 2 April 2018 (UTC)<br />
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WOO!!! [https://uni.xkcd.com/ Unicode XKCD]!!! [[User:Phoenix Up|Phoenix Up]] ([[User talk:Phoenix Up|talk]]) 00:44, 2 April 2018 (UTC)<br />
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I managed to save the image by playing ADVENT.exe, has anyone else found other ways? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.172|162.158.75.172]] 00:54, 2 April 2018 (UTC)</div>162.158.75.172https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1830:_ISS_Solar_Transit_2&diff=1394901830: ISS Solar Transit 22017-05-02T16:30:31Z<p>162.158.75.172: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1830<br />
| date = April 28, 2017<br />
| title = ISS Solar Transit 2<br />
| image = iss_solar_transit_2.png<br />
| titletext = Most people don't realize it, but they actually launch a new space station every few weeks because this keeps happening.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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This Friday comic is a continuation of the Monday comic from the same week, [[1828: ISS Solar Transit]], where [[Cueball]] was preparing his camera in order to capture the transit of the {{w|International Space Station}} (ISS) across the {{w|Sun}}. The comic is also made in the same special way using split panels. As a noted in the first comic in the [[:Category:ISS Solar Transit|ISS series]] the {{w|white balance}} is still not set properly, because the sun looks orange instead of white/yellow.<br />
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However, instead of transiting across the face of the sun, the ISS crashes into the Sun. In reality, of course, this can never happen, because the ISS orbits Earth at an altitude of between 330 and 435 km, while the Earth orbits the Sun at an altitude of about 149.60 million kilometers or 1 {{w|astronomical unit}}. This means the minimum distance between the ISS and the Sun is only slightly less than 1 AU. Also, due to {{w|parallax}}, only people in a very localized region on earth are able to see the ISS "hit" the sun. For all others the ISS would travel past the sun.<br />
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Additionally, even if the ISS would somehow impact the sun, it would not make a noticeable splash, due to being incredibly tiny compared to the sun. It would get vaporized before reaching it. (See the [[what if?]] ''{{what if|89|Tungsten Countertop}}''). And it would make no "Fwoosh" sound to be heard on Earth, primarily because there's a lot of empty space between Earth and the Sun, and sound cannot propagate in empty space.<br />
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The title text plays on the event in the comic, by saying that a new space station is being launched every few weeks as the event in the comic keeps happening, so a continuation of ISSs gets destroyed by crashing into the Sun on a regular basis. This is clearly implausible, as it has taken many years to build up the ISS, and there are at least three astronauts on board that would get killed a couple of times a month.<br />
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It's possible that the comic is a play on conspiracy theories about space exploration, such as the moon landing being faked. In these situations, while the government may be trying to cover up or show something different from what actually happened, amateur photographers/astronomers/radio enthusiasts (such as Cueball in this comic) claim to observe the event independently of government or commercial sources, and see what really happened. In this case, the conspiracy theory would be that the ISS actually does crash into the sun every few weeks, but we're made to believe that it orbits the earth without crashing, while Cueball is able to observe what really happens with his camera. It further bears certain resemblance to the beliefs of the Flat Earth Society, due to their belief that the Sun and Moon are only 3000 miles away from the earth, with the rest of the cosmos being only 100 miles further way. Were that the case, such a collision would be far less unlikely; as it is, such a collision is patently ridiculous.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Every panel is split into two half-height panels arranged vertically.]<br />
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:[The first top panel shows an image of an orange sun on a black background with a white dot labeled in light-blue letter at the top right corner. The dot is in a light-blue cross-hair and a light-blue dotted trail is behind it as indicating movement towards the sun.]<br />
:<font color="#00c9cb">ISS</font><br />
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:[In the bottom panel Cueball is kneeling in front of a small platform while operating a camera with a very long objective while holding a smartphone. The camera is angled sharply upward toward the sky as it is attached to a tripod standing on the platform.]<br />
:Cueball: Perfect! Transit in three... two...<br />
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:[The upper image is the same but the dot has halved the distance to the sun.]<br />
:<font color="#00c9cb">ISS</font><br />
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:[Cueball sits in the panel below.]<br />
:Cueball: ...one...<br />
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:[In the upper panel the dotted line enters the Sun and the white dot has plunged into the sun making a flare "splash" out from the surface of the Sun. This makes a sound written in orange letters.]<br />
:<font color="#fea04c">''Fwoosh''</font><br />
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:[Cueball sits silent in the panel below.]<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
*The ISS travels across the face of the sun in 0.47 seconds ([https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/weekly/5Page61.pdf calculation]). <br />
**If we assume that Cueball is counting seconds, then the depicted speed of the ISS between panels 1 and 2 is too slow. <br />
*This could be seen as a joke on {{w|Pink Floyd|Pink Floyd's}} ''{{w|Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun}}''.<br />
*Some comedy movies (e.g. {{w|Hot Shots! Part Deux}}) feature an aircraft passing behind the sun.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:ISS Solar Transit]]<br />
[[Category:Comics sharing name|ISS Solar Transit 02]]<br />
[[Category:Comics with color]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Astronomy]]<br />
[[Category:Space]]</div>162.158.75.172https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1830:_ISS_Solar_Transit_2&diff=1394891830: ISS Solar Transit 22017-05-02T16:28:44Z<p>162.158.75.172: /* Added Possible Flat Earth Society Conspiracy Connection */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1830<br />
| date = April 28, 2017<br />
| title = ISS Solar Transit 2<br />
| image = iss_solar_transit_2.png<br />
| titletext = Most people don't realize it, but they actually launch a new space station every few weeks because this keeps happening.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
<br />
This Friday comic is a continuation of the Monday comic from the same week, [[1828: ISS Solar Transit]], where [[Cueball]] was preparing his camera in order to capture the transit of the {{w|International Space Station}} (ISS) across the {{w|Sun}}. The comic is also made in the same special way using split panels. As a noted in the first comic in the [[:Category:ISS Solar Transit|ISS series]] the {{w|white balance}} is still not set properly, because the sun looks orange instead of white/yellow.<br />
<br />
However, instead of transiting across the face of the sun, the ISS crashes into the Sun. In reality, of course, this can never happen, because the ISS orbits Earth at an altitude of between 330 and 435 km, while the Earth orbits the Sun at an altitude of about 149.60 million kilometers or 1 {{w|astronomical unit}}. This means the minimum distance between the ISS and the Sun is only slightly less than 1 AU. Also, due to {{w|parallax}}, only people in a very localized region on earth are able to see the ISS "hit" the sun. For all others the ISS would travel past the sun.<br />
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Additionally, even if the ISS would somehow impact the sun, it would not make a noticeable splash, due to being incredibly tiny compared to the sun. It would get vaporized before reaching it. (See the [[what if?]] ''{{what if|89|Tungsten Countertop}}''). And it would make no "Fwoosh" sound to be heard on Earth, primarily because there's a lot of empty space between Earth and the Sun, and sound cannot propagate in empty space.<br />
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The title text plays on the event in the comic, by saying that a new space station is being launched every few weeks as the event in the comic keeps happening, so a continuation of ISSs gets destroyed by crashing into the Sun on a regular basis. This is clearly implausible, as it has taken many years to build up the ISS, and there are at least three astronauts on board that would get killed a couple of times a month.<br />
<br />
It's possible that the comic is a play on conspiracy theories about space exploration, such as the moon landing being faked. In these situations, while the government may be trying to cover up or show something different from what actually happened, amateur photographers/astronomers/radio enthusiasts (such as Cueball in this comic) claim to observe the event independently of government or commercial sources, and see what really happened. In this case, the conspiracy theory would be that the ISS actually does crash into the sun every few weeks, but we're made to believe that it orbits the earth without crashing, while Cueball is able to observe what really happens with his camera. It further bears certain resemblance to the beliefs of the Flat Earth Society, due to their belief that the Sun and Moon are only 3000 miles away from the earth, with the rest of the cosmos being only 100 miles further way. Were that the case, such a collision would be far less unlikely; as it is, such an idea is patently ridiculous.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Every panel is split into two half-height panels arranged vertically.]<br />
<br />
:[The first top panel shows an image of an orange sun on a black background with a white dot labeled in light-blue letter at the top right corner. The dot is in a light-blue cross-hair and a light-blue dotted trail is behind it as indicating movement towards the sun.]<br />
:<font color="#00c9cb">ISS</font><br />
<br />
:[In the bottom panel Cueball is kneeling in front of a small platform while operating a camera with a very long objective while holding a smartphone. The camera is angled sharply upward toward the sky as it is attached to a tripod standing on the platform.]<br />
:Cueball: Perfect! Transit in three... two...<br />
<br />
:[The upper image is the same but the dot has halved the distance to the sun.]<br />
:<font color="#00c9cb">ISS</font><br />
<br />
:[Cueball sits in the panel below.]<br />
:Cueball: ...one...<br />
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:[In the upper panel the dotted line enters the Sun and the white dot has plunged into the sun making a flare "splash" out from the surface of the Sun. This makes a sound written in orange letters.]<br />
:<font color="#fea04c">''Fwoosh''</font><br />
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:[Cueball sits silent in the panel below.]<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
*The ISS travels across the face of the sun in 0.47 seconds ([https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/weekly/5Page61.pdf calculation]). <br />
**If we assume that Cueball is counting seconds, then the depicted speed of the ISS between panels 1 and 2 is too slow. <br />
*This could be seen as a joke on {{w|Pink Floyd|Pink Floyd's}} ''{{w|Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun}}''.<br />
*Some comedy movies (e.g. {{w|Hot Shots! Part Deux}}) feature an aircraft passing behind the sun.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:ISS Solar Transit]]<br />
[[Category:Comics sharing name|ISS Solar Transit 02]]<br />
[[Category:Comics with color]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Astronomy]]<br />
[[Category:Space]]</div>162.158.75.172https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1785:_Wifi&diff=1336771785: Wifi2017-01-13T14:05:26Z<p>162.158.75.172: Stuff</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1785<br />
| date = January 13, 2017<br />
| title = Wifi<br />
| image = wifi.png<br />
| titletext = Further out to the right, it works correctly, but the reason it works still involves the word 'firmware.'<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Seems good, but could do with more. The ref to TV Problems title text seems far fetched.}}<br />
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The graph shows the supposed probability that a guest will be able to connect to the owner's {{w|Wi-Fi}}. The graph starts with people who cannot find the settings, followed by those who can connect. Finally, the large drop in the graph on the right-hand side is explained by "firmware." Firmware is programming which operates a device at the lowest level, typically stored in a {{w|ROM}} or an EEPROM/flash, but sometimes it is transferred from a CPU to a device at system boot time. In most systems this just works but in the case of more geeky operating systems, like GNU/Linux, or more esoteric hardware, it needs to be installed separately. Therefore there is a group of people who know what they are missing but are unable to overcome the issue to connect. The title text indicates that the curve recovers once users are more experienced, and ''can'' overcome said issue.<br />
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These computer issues have previously appeared in several xkcd comics, notably [[456: Cautionary]], where WiFi problems specifically are mentioned in the title text. <br />
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The apparent paradox of people knowing more about a subject also having more problems with it is also explored in [[1760: TV Problems]] ; in the title text, the ones who are more likely to die from a skydiving accident are the ones who know the more about skydiving safety, but that is of course not because they cannot make it work, but rather because they make many more dives than regular people, thus increasing the overall risk in-spite of their competence. (And thus it is really not related to this comic...?) (No, it scans. Tech savy people are more likely to have strange tech problems because they do more strange tech things. Just like fashionistas are more likely to accidentally put together a terrible outfit because they can't just grab random shit from the closet and have it all work, because all their outfits were designed only to work together with the appropriate parts)<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[A line graph with a curve that starts just left of the Y-axis above the middle of the axis. Then it increases slightly and stays almost stable on a long flat plateau before it falls off fast towards the right. Each axis ends in an arrow and has a label to the left of the Y-axis and below the x-axis. Over the curve there are three labels, pointing with one arrow to the two rising and falling parts, and three arrows to the center label above the plateau.]<br />
:Y-axis: Probability houseguest will be able to connect to WiFi<br />
:X-axis: Houseguest tech-savviness<br />
:Left label: Can't find wifi settings<br />
:Center label: Works fine<br />
:Right label: Something involving the word "firmware"<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Line graphs]]<br />
[[Category:Computers]]</div>162.158.75.172https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=345:_1337:_Part_5&diff=133362345: 1337: Part 52017-01-05T22:08:04Z<p>162.158.75.172: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 345<br />
| date = November 16, 2007<br />
| title = 1337: Part 5<br />
| image = 1337_part_5.png<br />
| titletext = This digital music thing will probably reach its endgame sometime in the next decade or so. These are very exciting times.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Missing great explanation of Stallman proposal to join GNU and what about his encourage sharing in the public mind? Defacing websites? Title text explanation?}} <br />
This is the fifth and last part of five in the "[[:Category:1337|1337]]" series. The title 1337 is "L-eet", or "elite", using the {{w|Leet}} alphabet.<br />
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All comics in the series:<br />
*[[341: 1337: Part 1]]<br />
*[[342: 1337: Part 2]]<br />
*[[343: 1337: Part 3]]<br />
*[[344: 1337: Part 4]]<br />
*[[345: 1337: Part 5]]<br />
This series was released on 5 consecutive days (Monday-Friday) and not over the usual Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule.<br />
The comic is narrated by [[Cueball]] as seen in part 2 comic, but that Cueball is not shown here, but still he is part of this comic series, and thus also this comic, as he narrates the epilogue.<br />
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{{w|Richard Stallman}} is the ardent defender of freedom and believer in {{w|copyleft}}, he also founded the {{w|GNU Project}}. (He is not really a sword fighter but is always depicted with swords when [[:Category:Comics featuring Richard Stallman|featured in xkcd]], which is in this series and in [[225: Open Source]]).<br />
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In the previous part he came to the rescue of [[Mrs. Roberts]] and her Daughter [[Elaine Roberts]]. Stallman and Elaine quickly overpower the two enemies with black bowler hats that represent the {{w|Motion Picture Association of America}}, (MPAA) and the {{w|Recording Industry Association of America}} (RIAA) use the {{w|Digital Millenium Copyright Act}} who had found out about the Roberts hacking.<br />
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Just when the two men have been defeated Elaine asks how Stallman knew they where in trouble and he tells it was his friend that told him about it. The friend enters by climbing down a rope from the sky with red cape and goggles. It turns out it is {{w|Cory Doctorow}}, a blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the weblog {{w|Boing Boing}}. He is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the {{w|Creative Commons}} organization. He does not really travel around in a balloon or (usually) wear a red cape, but [[Randall]] introduced this idea in [[239: Blagofaire]] and has continued it in later [[:Category:Comics featuring Cory Doctorow|comics featuring Cory Doctorow]]. So he in climbing down from his balloon. <br />
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He uses the balloon to construct the {{w|Blogosphere}}, which is a name used to refer to all blogs on the Internet, many of which frequently link to and refer to other blogs. Here, the Stallman character talks about it as though Cory Doctorow actually constructs it and Cory Doctorow talks about it as if it were a portion of the atmosphere 20 km up over the tag clouds... <br />
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Blogs often label posts with keywords, known as tags. A {{w|tag cloud}} is a way of displaying the tags on a site where the more common tags appear in larger type than less-common ones. It has no relationship to actual water vapor clouds in the sky, but in the comic, the Doctorow character suggests that tag clouds are actually in the air, below the new blogosphere.<br />
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At this point we see that Mrs. Roberts still sits programming while this fight and discussion takes place. Her son [[Little Bobby Tables]] comes and tells her he is hungry, but mommy does not have time when she is coding, and tells him that he ate yesterday, so what's the problem. It seems that he is still a kid, even though it must have been some years since the young Elaine left and grew up. But she may still be a very young adult, in which case her little brother could still be lower than his mom.<br />
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Stallman gives Elaine a proposal to join {{w|GNU}} as a coder. GNU is supposed to be the pinnacle of open source; an operating system with no restriction, allowing the user to modify and customize anything they want about the computer. Stallman likely wants Elaine for her coding abilities, similar devotion to open source and freeware, and use her reputation as a hacker and open source pioneer to spread the word and further his project. But she is not ready yet as she wished to take down the industry of MPPA and RIAA as ''Music doesn't need these assholes.'' In the meantime Cory Doctorow throws the bowler hat guys out and asks them never to "darken our comment threads again".<br />
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Stallman is against her idea of going for straight war with the industry, and suggest she helps encourage sharing in the public mind. And then Doctorow chimes in with a suggestion that she has the ability to build a better {{w|P2P}} systems. To which she asks if they mean straight up piracy? And this leads up to the punch line of the pun, when Doctorow says she would make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts!<br />
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Peer-to-peer (often abbreviated P2P) system is a network system where tasks are partitioned between participants with equal privileges, in contrast with the client-server model, where the client makes requests and the server provides service. A common example of a peer-to-peer system is the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol, which is often (mis)used for distribution of pirated software and media.<br />
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The {{w|Dread Pirate Roberts}} is a fictional character from the book and movie {{w|The Princess Bride}}. Roberts is the most feared pirate on the seas. But, "Dread Pirate Roberts" is merely a title that has been passed down as previous "Roberts" have gained enough money (from piracy) to retire comfortably. Westley, one of the main characters from The Princess Bride, becomes the Dread Pirate after being taken prisoner by the preceding Pirate Roberts. It is anyone's guess whether the entire 5-comic story, starting from the choice of Mrs. Roberts' name, began as just a lead-up to this one joke. At the end of the movie, Inigo Montoya has won the vengeance he has sought all his life, and expresses to Westley that he doesn't know what to do next. Westley suggests Montoya succeed him as Roberts, saying, "Have you ever considered piracy? You'd make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts." Cory Doctorow's line in the comic therefore mimics that line from the movie.<br />
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{{w|Silk Road (marketplace)|Silk Road}} was an online black market designed to allow criminals to trade in drugs, guns and other illegal items, run by a person also using the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts. However, this black market did not exist until four years after this comic was published.<br />
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In the epilogue several items of interest is revealed about the Roberts later life. <br />
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Elaine shared her ideas with {{w|Bram Cohen}} who went on from that to found {{w|BitTorrent}}, a distributed method of downloading files. People can and do use BitTorrent both for lawful file downloads and also for sharing media files unlawfully. Its distributed nature, where someone does not download a file from just one other computer but rather in many pieces from many other computers with the same file, makes it more difficult for record and movie industry groups to police, and therefore a person with Elaine's motivations might be interested in helping design such a system.<br />
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Mrs. Roberts developed for {{w|Ubuntu}} which is probably the most well known distribution of GNU/{{w|Linux}}. A GNU/Linux distribution (often referred to simply as "Linux") is any operating system that is based on GNU software and the Linux {{w|kernel}}.<br />
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She also went after any website (defacing them) that made {{w|Your Mom|''Your'' mom}} jokes about her daughter. To deface a website is like putting up graffiti or tearing down signs; she likely replaces the url's content from the original site to another image, text box, or other message as revenge. This is a [[:Category:Your Mom|recurring theme]] on xkcd.<br />
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Finally a bit more info is given on how Elaine continues her fight, joins communities, help with codes etc. And then sometimes she streams her music live on a IP address, and if you happen to find one of these with a streaming audio player you can hear her rock out (a reference to her music career mentioned at the end of the third part).<br />
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The final phrase "Happy Hacking" often accompanies an autograph from Richard Stallman.<br />
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The title text is likely referring to the argument over {{w|Digital Rights Management}}, or DRM-locked content. These so-called 'DRM wars' are concerned about how DRM restricts the freedoms of people who buy them legitmately, and how it restricts creativity and innovation on the internet. A large part of the debate is digital music, or music you would buy and download on the internet through sites like Amazon or iTunes.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[The two men in black bowler hats (RIAA and MPAA agents as known from the previous comic) with their katana swords are attacked by Elaine Robert with her folding knife and Richard Stallman with his own two katana swords. Elaine kicks the RIAA man to the left in the back of his leg, while Stallman jumps over the MPAA man to the right, flying high over him from right to left in a flying maneuver hitting his sword while hanging parallel to the ground above the man.]<br />
:Elaine: Thanks, Stallman!<br />
:Richard Stallman: 'Tis my pleasure.<br />
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:[Elaine stands to the left with her knife in one hand having folded it down again. Richard Stallman stands between the two men with bowler hats who are now lying on the floor on either side of him each with one of Stallman's sword pointing at their throat. Stallman has both arms fulle stretched towards them as he looks straight out of the panel. The left (RIAA) man lies flat on his back his hat and katana sword lying behind him. The right (MPAA) man is sitting on his knee leaning as far back as he can, since the sword is almost touching his skin on his throat. He wears his hat, but the sword lies behind him, out of reach, even though he is leaning back on one hand close to it. To the far right a rope comes down from the top of the panel falling down on the ground so a section of it stretches even farther right in the picture. Down this rope comes a man with googles and a red cape, which is black on the inside. This is Cory Doctorow. He holds on to the rope with two hands one over one just under his head.]<br />
:Elaine: So, wait - how did you know we were in trouble?<br />
:Richard Stallman: My friend here was tracking these thugs from his balloon. <br />
:Richard Stallman: He called me and I thought I'd stop by<br />
:Cory Doctorow: -Hi! <br />
:Cory Doctorow: -Cory Doctorow - It's a pleasure to meet you.<br />
<br />
:[Elaine has shifted the knife to the other hand. Richard Stallman has moved to the left of the RIAA man, so both bowler hat men are between him and Cory Doctorow. Stallman still points his sword in their direction, but they are lowered. The RIAA man closest to him, has picked up his hat in one hand and reaches for his sword with the other hand. The MPAA man now lies on his back, one arm up leaning on the other. His sword is gone. It does not seem like Doctorow could have taken it. Behind him Doctorow has reached the ground, the rope hangs behind him. He points left.]<br />
:Elaine: Balloon?<br />
:Richard Stallman: Aye. They're up there constructing something called a "Blogosphere."<br />
:Cory Doctorow: Yup! It's twenty kilometers up, just above the tag clouds.<br />
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:[The scene is contracted, so to the left Mrs. Roberts at her desk with her chair and laptop becomes visible (from the previous comic). This witout the other people have moved closer. She still types as her son Lille Bobby Tables enters and lifts a hand in his mothers direction. He is drawn as a child version of Cueball. Elaine has put the knife away, and looks at Richard Stallman who now stand straight looking at her, with the swords crossed in front of his legs. Behind him just right of the rope hanging down, Cory Doctorow lift one of the bowler hat guys up by the throat while looking right and talking to him. The other bowler hat guy has left the panel. The one he holds has his hat but no sword.]<br />
:Little Bobby Tables: Mom, I'm hungry.<br />
:Mrs. Roberts: Hush! I'm coding. You ate yesterday.<br />
:Richard Stallman: You know, Roberts, GNU could use a good coder like you. Ever thought of joining us?<br />
:Elaine: Maybe someday. Right now I've got an industry to take down. <br />
:Elaine: Music doesn't need these assholes.<br />
:Cory Doctorow: Begone! And never darken our comment threads again!<br />
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:[Zoom in on Elaine, Richard Stallman and Cory Doctorow. She stand straight looking at Stallman who faces towards her swords now on his back crossed. Doctorow is also facing her and holds out both arms towards her. The rope is now outside the panel as are both bowler hat men.]<br />
:Richard Stallman: Well, you won't fix the industry with random exploits. You need to encourage sharing in the public mind.<br />
:Doctorow: Hey; With your music and coding backgrounds, you should get into building better P2P systems.<br />
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:[The final panel is only a third of the length of the previous panel. The three are still in the panel but they have moved and are also drawn somewhat smaller. Elaine still faces them right, but now Cory Doctorow is in front of Richard Stallman swords as before. All have their arms down.]<br />
:Elaine: What? Straight-up piracy?<br />
:Cory Doctorow: Sure- have you ever considered it? You'd make a wonderful dread pirate, Roberts<br />
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:[To the right of the final panel is a two column epilogue narrated by Cueball as seen in part 2. It is split in three paragraphs and a "signature". The caption above is centered over the two columns]<br />
:<big><u>Epilogue</u></big><br />
:Cueball (narrating): Elaine shared her ideas with Bram Cohen, who went on to develop BitTorrent.<br />
:Cueball (narrating): Mrs. Roberts spends her time developing for Ubuntu, and defacing the websites of people who make "your mom" jokes to her daughter. <br />
:Cueball (narrating): Elaine still stalks the net. She joins communities, contributes code or comments, and moves on. And if, late at night, you point a streaming audio player at the right IP at the right time - you can hear her rock out.<br />
:Cueball (narrating): ~Happy Hacking.~<br />
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