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If one of us posts material on the geocaching site and the owner objects, who is liable? This kind of thing has happened before. What usually happens is that the site is sued I think because it's much easier to target the site (rather than the possibly anonymous poster). I think the site and owner are jointly liable but I may be horribly wrong. Anyway in practice, the owner would send a nasty letter to Jeremy and he would remove the offending material to avoid a court case. "Happy Birthday" was written surprisingly recently and it is still in copyright. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

I like challenging caches where you can't just walk up to the spot and find it after a bit of thrashing about in the undergrowth. Your cache where I found the highland "rabbits" was spot on as far as I was concerned except that it was a bit unfair saying "take some notes in the carpark, you'll need them later" without saying what notes you'd need. I was worried that I'd end up at a clue a mile away needing to walk all the way to the carpark and back again to progress the cache. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by Two Bears:It's that thing I can't tell from my elbo. And jeremy's maths is spot on (smart ars!) The State (i.e. you tax payers) paid a lot of money for me to spend three years at York University drinking my liver to death.... err sorry I mean obtaining a degree in mathematics. With these sequences based on polynomials (a posh name for these formulae with only integer powers of n in them), the basic rule of thumb is that if you have x numbers in the sequence, you can always find a formula with An^(x-1) as the highest power of n which will fit the sequence. That's how I knew that Michael's sequence could be solved with a quartic (a posh name for a polynomial with n^4 as the highest power). Technically my solution is simpler than Michael's since it only has a fourth power, but Michael's has a certain elegance about it which makes it aesthetically better as a solution of his puzzle. BTW, I didn't work out my solution by hand. I modified some of my GPS point conversion software for the purpose. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by jeremyp: quote:Originally posted by Team Blitz (Michael): I think fix should be six which would be encoded as fvk. My solution to your sequence works for every number in that sequence (get a calculator and try it). How is that not reliable? If you're telling me that the solution has a sixth power of n in it, then I'm telling you that there are actually an infinite number of solutions of which yours is only one. Why not add 46,671, 117,666.5 and 262164 to your sig. That will make your sequence (that I assume you are thinking of) unique. [This message was edited by jeremyp on November 13, 2002 at 11:03 AM.]

quote:Originally posted by Team Blitz (Michael): quote:Originally posted by jeremyp: For my next bit below, I'm assuming that the "s" in "svk" should really by an "f" No, it should be an S !!! If you use n instead of y then you get a much more reliable formula, it's not that dadgum hard! Now you have got me confused. Your clue translated says this: quote:the first ars is n to the power of fix. It's easy from there. I think fix should be six which would be encoded as fvk. My solution to your sequence works for every number in that sequence (get a calculator and try it). How is that not reliable? ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

Ok, here it is: y = 140x^4 - 490x^3 + 791x^2 - 375.5x + 3.5 where x = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by Team Blitz (Michael):I see that many of you have cracked my code, but no-one has cracked my number sequence. Come on, it's hard but it's do-able. If you want some more hints, it's in standard geo-caching decrypt below. Actually, it's not doable if your hint is correct (I may be reading the hintslightly wrong, because it has a typo in it). quote:OR if you want an easier one : 8 22 36 50 64 This one can be worked out with the formula An2+Bn+c The differences are all 14 which means that you can solve it with a straight line equation. i.e. y = 14x + 8, where y is the number in the sequence and x = 0, 1, 2, 3.... quote:Ok, the hint for the ACTUAL sequence is : gur svefg nef vf a gb gur cbjre bs svk vg'f rnfl sebz gurer For my next bit below, I'm assuming that the "s" in "svk" should really by an "f" quote:3.5 69 736.5 4106 15637.5 This sequence only has 5 numbers in it. That means I can find an equation to fit it where the highest power is only 4 i.e. an equation of the form y = Ax^4 + Bx^3 + Cx^2 + Dx + E ("^" means "to the power of"). To force it to need the "fvk"'th power you need to supply the next two numbers. To prove that it only needs the fvk'th power and not the "frira'th power, you need to supply the next number after that too. I'm off now to find the quadratic that solves this... ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by Geo Weasel:I was referring to the one person who doesnt post on the forums or leave a message on his logs of cache finds....He either cant type or is as I said very boring. Or leads such an exciting, interesting and varied life that he/she doesn't have time to be messing about with forums and logs and saddos like us who's whole life revolves around the geocaching forums. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

Firstly IANAL so if I'm wrong it's your fault if you get into trouble. quote:Originally posted by Geo Weasel:The copyright thing isnt really your problem its the person who created the MIDI files problme. Not true. If you publish somebody else's midi file without permission, you are breaching their copyright on the midi file and possibly any copyright that might exist on the music itself. quote:I dont hink its a good idea to link the HTML to the source site though....you should download it yourself and upload it again to your web soace, that way you have total control over when it stays and when it goes. That's true on the technical level. On the legal level it might be better to link to the source site. You might be able to claim that you didn't copy the music but merely showed people where to get it from. Does publishing a link to a midi file constitute a performance bearing in mind that most people's browsers will play it straight away? ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by MCL: I don't think you should delete the log for the following reasons: - He may have absolutely hated your cache, but is too polite to say what he thought of it in public. In which case he is better off saying nothing, to save everyone's feelings, his and yours. That depends on why he hated the cache. If there was something wrong with it, it's better that everybody knows. e.g. if the cache was in the middle of a landfill site or other unpleasant location, even if it does hurt the feelings of the cache placer. In this case, I think it's more likely that he just couldn't be bothered and so a polite e-mail might do the trick here. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by Team D&P:Oh dear Pid, now your not logging any caches by firends you better remove all of P.Howards and any by anone else you have met and liked, i mean we can't have that can w, its blatent cheating Dan Wilson - http://www.Buckscaching.co.uk I was wondering how long it would take for somebody to come up with that argument in favour of being able to log friends caches. Perhaps he should delete a few of your logs on his caches after which you'll be enemies and be able to log each others caches legitimately. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

Well, I think it's perfectly fair to log a cache that your mate planted as long as you didn't know where it is before you found it. It's probably not fair to log a cache that you planted as part of a team, but as there are no prizes (apart from TandJ bears) it's not that big a deal. Having said that, there seems to be a tradition of people posting congratulatory messages on the forum when you get to 100 caches. I think I would have felt very uncomfortable if any of those had had been merely because I wanted my unfound cache list to be tidy. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by sc:Yes, I can get one for about $80+tax here. Looks like it is worth buying one locally and shipping it to my sister. Thanks, all, for your comments. Technically, you have to pay UK VAT on it when it comes into the country. Well, actually, you don't - the person you're shipping it to does. That's 17.5% It might be better to find a mail order supplier in the UK to get it delivered. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by Geo Weasel:Dont agree with Jeremy because I feel that if the island is owned by the state of the country then I think it has to be in that country....IE Gibralter is in the British Empire!....besides that its the only bit of spain we got left!!! hehe Ben Piddington http://www.buckscaching.co.uk Nope, the reasons are mainly legal, but it does not follow that because Gibraltar is part of the British "Empire" it is also part of Britain. The United Kingdom is a term that refers to a very specific set of territories of which Gibraltar is not one. They have their own government and taxes and laws. If you go there you'll find a very strange mixture of mediterranean and British culture e.g. the most common language you'll hear is Spanish, but the police look exactly like our police. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

Gibraltar and the Falklands are technically not in the UK which includes only Great Britain Northern Ireland and (I think) the Channel Islands. Gibraltar, incidentally, has it's own Internet domain (gi) so the logical thing would be to have a Gibraltar section in geocaching.com. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

He got one of the best seats though - by the window - the flight attendants could at least pass food and drinks out to him. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by Tim & June: We just relied on our ingenuity to keep the kids quiet. When we were young el10t and I used to play pub cricket. The object was that the batting "team" scored runs based on the number of legs in the pub name. If there were no legs then you lost a batsman (you had three). So the Dog and Duck would score 6 but the Crown would cause one of your batsmen to be out. Things got interesting when we passed the Shepherd and Flock. The bowling team would claim that it scored 10 (assuming that a flock had to contain at least two sheep). The batting team would claim the standard biblical flock size i.e. a score of 402. The game usually would end soon after that. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

Two important features have been added a) You can delete logs. You can't edit them yet though. There is a field for the number on the side of the trigpoint. It's called "OS Number" until somebody tells me its official name. The idea is that you cannot see the number logged by other people until you have logged the same number. If you want to have a look, the following trigpoints have the OS number logged. UKTP4425 UKTP3341 UKTP2761 UKTP0336 UKTP2288 UKTP4570 UKTP2845 UKTP4921 UKTP1989 UKTP0663 UKTP0924 test0001 (by me. create a log entry with OS number S1234) to test the mechanism. BTW all the log entries with the OS number in the text have been censored slightly ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

The first time I saw Harry Potter was on a tiny screen in the aeroplane on the way back from Jordan. Since the flight was five hours long, even this was better than no screen at all. I was at the motor show last week, and virtually all the people carriers on display had some sort of screen for the rear passengers (for computer games or DVD). They all had darkened glass in the windows, which helped stop the light problem. The Toyota Previa also had a head up display for the driver to watch too. If I owned a people carrier (which is extremely unlikely ever to happen), I would insist that any DVD system had headphones for sound because I can't imagine anything more distracting than driving along and being able to hear the film soundtrack and not being able to watch. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

I think you should generalise the question: quote: If you found a cache in a place that was illegal (within the geocaching rules) or where accessing it might cause damage to private property, would you.... My position would be that as I don't know how the cache owner would react to me messing about with his/her cache, I would leave it alone and inform the owner of the problem. Also, you might not be aware of the full picture: me: "Hi I just did your cache today and I noticed it's hidden in a dry stone wall which might cause cachers to accidentally vandalise the wall.: owner: "That's OK, it's my dry stone wall on my land." me: "Oh, perhaps I shouldn't have trashed the cache and spread the contents all over the hillside in a fit of rage." ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by Team Blitz (Michael): Still can't work out the reasoning behind the code, and there are no entries for i, k, s,t,u,v,y! Does it have to have any reasoning behind it? ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

I've read lots of discussions about this but I am not an electronics engineer. Firstly, all electrical items emit some radio frequency noise when switched on. Obviously, mobile phones emit a lot of RF noise because they have to. So there is a small theoretical risk to aircraft systems from any electrical items. However, in practice under normal circumstances it is effectively zero, even from a mobile phone. I left mine in my handbaggage once and forgot to switch it off - the plane didn't crash. I also did an experiment by placing it right next to my PC and ringing it. The monitor had some intereference but the PC didn't crash. Secondly, there is a problem with a mobile in the air that it has line of sight to so many transmitters that there is potential to saturate the system. I guess that this is because the phone is continually switching between transmitters. I don't think a single phone could bring down a phone network, but if they weren't banned, each plane would be carrying between 100 and 500 mobile phones all trying to saturate the system. This may also apply to the interference argument. One phone may not bring down a plane, but perhaps 200 can. Passive electrical items are obviously not dangerous because planes fly all the time with 100s of laptops, Walkmans, in flight videos etc switched on. I don't see why they should be banned during take off and landing either except that they are usually heavyish objects in hard plastic cases which could do a lot of physical damage if rattling around loose in a violent manouevre. With respect to GPS receivers, some airlines ban them and some don't. You should ask the aircrew what their policy is. No matter what the airline says, the captain has ultimate authority on his/her plane. Personnally, I never bother as I almost always go for an aisle seat. With an eTrex I'm sure there's no chance of getting a signal away from a window and the altimeter on mine is worse than useless since the cabin is pressurised to an effective height of about 2000 metres. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote: I wonder if JeremyP could add a statment explaining the difference on his site? It will be done. I didn't know what unconfirmed meant at the time I set it up. In fact I was pretty much assuming that they were all unconfirmed and there is a statement on the index page which says that an entry in my database does not imply the existance of a real trigpoint. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by Team D&P:I just wish it was that easy to make money in everyday life Assuming it wasn't some sort of scam of course. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching

quote:Originally posted by Nia:Why are we using Hex anyway, what is wrong with G to Z that would be base 36, giving an extra 160,000 caches.. I think??? Tech-no notice It's easy to convert numbers to hex. There's probably a built in function that does it automatically. ------- jeremyp The second ten million caches were the worst too. http://www.jeremyp.net/geocaching