Jan Sloot "the lost Soucecode"
Geplaatst: wo 20 okt 2010, 19:09
From: Tomonic
On 4 march 1999, a computer programmer with the name Jan Sloot, made an appointment with Philips boss of the ict Bram Peper.
According to Jan Sloot he made the invention of the century.
The 54 year old Jan Sloot connected a 24" monitor and a black box that was not bigger then 5 boxes of sigarets.
Sloot bowed silenced over his equipment, he worked all night to get the movies on his "amazing" video recorder.
He was satisfied and said that everything worked like it supposed to be.
There were more people around the big table like alot of bigchiefs of Philips.
1 seat was free for Bram Peper.
Suddenly the door opens and a big man entered the room Bram Peper followed by Philips researchscientist Carel-Jan van Driel.
When the hands are shaken and visitcards are given, Jan Sloot stood up to show his demostration.
De electrotechnician turns on the monitor and sticks a white smartcard with a 64 kilobyte in the black box.
There is a code on the smartcard that could allow 16 movies to be stored on the smarcard.
All eyes were focused on Pieper and Van Driel.
Pieper looked at the black box and the monitor.
Pieper was amazed his mouth fell open.
He asked if it really were 16 full movies that are played...
Jan Sloot pressed stop and said: "tell me what movie you want to see".
One at the time Jan Sloot forwarded and rewinded the movies.
Bram Pieper stood up and said: "THATS IT"!
They checked if there wasnt a harddisk in the black box but there wasnt any harddisk in it.
Pieper and Van Driel felt down of amazing.
Jan Sloot said he could compress 16 movies on an allday chip.
He said he even could even compress 64 movies on it.
That is a shrinkfactor of 2.000.000 !
With the the invention of Jan Sloot you could copy all the movies that are made in the world on 1 CD!
Or on a cd all cd's that are ever published in the world!!! (imagine that).
You dont have to be Sherlock Holmes to imagine the consequence.
You can wave UPC and the whole hightech world goodbye.
The problem was that Jan Sloot was very paranoide, he was very scared someone stole his invention (no sh*t).
And a day before he signed a big contract that would change the world, he died on a heart attack, and he took the source code together with him in his grave...
We were only a day from the invention of the sentury.
This is a true story about a Dutch electotechnician from Nieuwegein (utrecht).
There are alot of television programs on Dutch tv with this as subject, and there is also a book published.
If you want to read the whole story click HERE, only its in Dutch.
Bron: http://forum.ferion.com/showthread.php?t=5131
On 4 march 1999, a computer programmer with the name Jan Sloot, made an appointment with Philips boss of the ict Bram Peper.
According to Jan Sloot he made the invention of the century.
The 54 year old Jan Sloot connected a 24" monitor and a black box that was not bigger then 5 boxes of sigarets.
Sloot bowed silenced over his equipment, he worked all night to get the movies on his "amazing" video recorder.
He was satisfied and said that everything worked like it supposed to be.
There were more people around the big table like alot of bigchiefs of Philips.
1 seat was free for Bram Peper.
Suddenly the door opens and a big man entered the room Bram Peper followed by Philips researchscientist Carel-Jan van Driel.
When the hands are shaken and visitcards are given, Jan Sloot stood up to show his demostration.
De electrotechnician turns on the monitor and sticks a white smartcard with a 64 kilobyte in the black box.
There is a code on the smartcard that could allow 16 movies to be stored on the smarcard.
All eyes were focused on Pieper and Van Driel.
Pieper looked at the black box and the monitor.
Pieper was amazed his mouth fell open.
He asked if it really were 16 full movies that are played...
Jan Sloot pressed stop and said: "tell me what movie you want to see".
One at the time Jan Sloot forwarded and rewinded the movies.
Bram Pieper stood up and said: "THATS IT"!
They checked if there wasnt a harddisk in the black box but there wasnt any harddisk in it.
Pieper and Van Driel felt down of amazing.
Jan Sloot said he could compress 16 movies on an allday chip.
He said he even could even compress 64 movies on it.
That is a shrinkfactor of 2.000.000 !
With the the invention of Jan Sloot you could copy all the movies that are made in the world on 1 CD!
Or on a cd all cd's that are ever published in the world!!! (imagine that).
You dont have to be Sherlock Holmes to imagine the consequence.
You can wave UPC and the whole hightech world goodbye.
The problem was that Jan Sloot was very paranoide, he was very scared someone stole his invention (no sh*t).
And a day before he signed a big contract that would change the world, he died on a heart attack, and he took the source code together with him in his grave...
We were only a day from the invention of the sentury.
This is a true story about a Dutch electotechnician from Nieuwegein (utrecht).
There are alot of television programs on Dutch tv with this as subject, and there is also a book published.
If you want to read the whole story click HERE, only its in Dutch.
Bron: http://forum.ferion.com/showthread.php?t=5131