Lonelygirl15

[sack36]

The full name of the kind of bar code is: Royal TPG Post KIX 4-State Barcode a.k.a Kix Barcode. Apparently it is used in the US postal service as well as many of the other "parcel" services.

I've found a way to write the barcode from an address, but not to read the barcode into english. Does anyone have a barcode reader they can get their hands on? If we got a good shot of the barcode, we could run it through a portable barcode reader right from the screen.


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[Gidget]

I'm really confused. I the barcode thing wasn't meant for us. Taylor already solved it. Its lame, I know. Im not going to waste my time looking into it deeper because it was probably just a creative way for the creators to get from point A to point B.

How the hell did Taylor decode it and end up with that is what I want to know. Probably the same way she triangulated the cell phone towers.... *super duper brain power and magic!*

[giddeanx]

Just another Deus Ex Machina to add to the list.
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[marlasinger]

yeah i concur, like i say, i think we COULD have solved it if they'd given us the chance, but instead they had taylor do it
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[kellylen]

i know theres notihng to solve i just found all this interesting and wanted to share

i still want to know why that barcode is the way it is. being a bpo one.
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[Samara]

Yeah, it would have been better had they showed us that graph...oh....TWO WEEKS AGO and let us pick up on the bar code.

But, as I said, I don't entirely trust Taylor for some reason.

[impulse]

I know....but I decided to decode it anyway.

Taylor said it was "Royal Dutch TPG Post something-something State Barcode", which is actually the Royal Dutch TPG Post KIX-4 State Barcode



I found the decoding table (on the Ctan website)



it gives:

72INT0KTNHT

Verification using http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/generator/



So we get 72INT0KTNHT. Unfortunately it doesn't look like something that could be postal code according to

http://www.neodynamic.com/barcodes/Royal_TPG_Post_KIX_4_State_Barcode.aspx

So I don't know how Taylor got Wyman Foundation in San Diego from that but I guess she's definitely smarter than me. So we all agree this was a fucking stupid clue.
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[Lurker]

Keep in mind, though, impulse that there's nothing in our reality they could have attached the code to. Within the fictional world, it all probably matches up fine.

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[Samara]

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