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    karoshi Senior Member solypsist's Avatar
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    1) Open up a nice new notepad document

    2) type this into your new document: bush hid the facts

    3) Save the document, the title of what you name it doesn't matter

    4) Close and then Re-Open the document, you should end up with a bunch of boxes...what you previously typed in will have been deleted and changed!


    Apparently this is caused by some NSA stuff hidden in the registry. I typed it backwards and it still turned into little boxes.


    Saw this and tried it. It did was the above said it would. Hmmm....Any ideas?

    Oh, and it only works on American P.C.s, so if you're Canadian or European, you should be able to type whatever you want with no problems.
    Last edited by solypsist; 06-17-2006 at 21:40.

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    Wow, that's interesting. Any ideas of why that happens exactly?

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    wtf?

    I got this...

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    Quote Originally Posted by solypsist
    1) Open up a nice new notepad document

    2) type this into your new document: bush hid the facts

    3) Save the document, the title of what you name it doesn't matter

    4) Close and then Re-Open the document, you should end up with a bunch of boxes...what you previously typed in will have been deleted and changed!


    Apparently this is caused by some NSA stuff hidden in the registry. I typed it backwards and it still turned into little boxes.


    Saw this and tried it. It did was the above said it would. Hmmm....Any ideas?

    Oh, and it only works on American P.C.s, so if you're Canadian or European, you should be able to type whatever you want with no problems.
    My computer is European as well

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    It happened to me when I simply wrote the phrase, but not when i placed it in a sentance.. (Which was 'Have you heard that bush hid the facts..?)
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    Thats cool.

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    This is crazy. What the hell?!

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    Same to "Bush hid the dog" and "Bush hid the cat" but not to "Bush hid the bomb".

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    Sometimes if the text file contains a four letter word, 2 three-letter words, and a five letter word it will do this. Sometimes not.


    Try: this app can break
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    hmm... "Bush Hid The *enter random object here*"

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    Your Americano agencies have taken to changing Bush [insert random text] to some complex meaningless Chinese garble?

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    Doesn't work for Apple's TextEdit.

    Maybe only Microsoft users are being spied on by the government? (Wouldn't be the first time)
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    I got the boxes too.
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    So did I.

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    Which Bush? One of the George's or Jeb? Oh well, I guess we'll just have to rely on the lack of evidence to prove the conspiracy.


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    They are spying on me too? Here in Switzerland?

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    I entered "Martyn(my name) hid the facts" and the same thing happened.

    It also worked with "Martyn hid the forum".

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    i m canadian and i had the boxs what i typed it.

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    Boxes!
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    My dad did it on his laptop, and it was all kinds of Japanese symbols. This is cool, it's probably just some kind of glitch...?

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    Doesn't happen with wordpad (I can't find notepad).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit
    Doesn't happen with wordpad (I can't find notepad).

    Crazed Rabbit
    Try text document.
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    I´m using the german Vista beta 2 and it "works" in Notepad(chinese signs).

    Just wondering what this is good for, if that´s really something from the NSA it´s just laughable because erm, what use does it have?
    Last edited by Husar; 06-18-2006 at 02:11.


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    It's just interesting Husar, don't be such a party pooper.

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    I did save it as a text document.

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    The difference between boxes and Chinese letters I think have to do with whether your Windows have "Eastern Languages" option (during install) installed or not.

    This is really kewl.

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    Take off your tin foil hats people, its ridiculous! after some people tried with other phrases a few of you still insist it is the modern day gestapo


    Where did you get this gem soly? the democratic underground (biggest bunch of wackos I ever seen...just as bad as free republic)
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    it's disappointing whenever someone tries to post something fun and then someone has to start politicizing the thread in a negative way.


    Quote Originally Posted by ceasar010
    Take off your tin foil hats people, its ridiculous! after some people tried with other phrases a few of you still insist it is the modern day gestapo


    Where did you get this gem soly? the democratic underground (biggest bunch of wackos I ever seen...just as bad as free republic)

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    Quote Originally Posted by solypsist
    it's disappointing whenever someone tries to post something fun and then someone has to start politicizing the thread in a negative way.
    I agree. Just have some fun people!!! Act silly sometimes!!! And just enjoy life !!!

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