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Snowden’s Rubik’s Cube

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Re: Snowden’s Rubik’s Cube

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Post by justratsinacoat »

curiousgal wrote: post #8
cmrx64 wrote: post #7

This movie looks like is has a good chance of doing a better job than even The Imitation Game at ruining and fundamentally misrepresenting a topic I care about and a person I respect.

The Imitation Game was bad?

Well, it wasn't good. Turing's actual story is actually more interesting than the whole-cloth fantasy that The Imitation Game wound up being.

Re: Snowden’s Rubik’s Cube

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Post by Johnny555 »

I'm sure you could grind out more space for the SD card with a Dremel tool to make it fit more seamlessly.

Or you could pop out a piece and you'd have room for dozens of MicroSD cards inside the pieces.

Re: Snowden’s Rubik’s Cube

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Post by tamana »

da5is wrote: post #4
BinaryIdiot wrote: post #3

Interesting, I hadn't realized this was a cube already in existence. Neat! I've broken a few rubix cubes in my day and so many of them have hallow squares so I'm not surprised you could hide stuff in one. Hell if you customize one you can probably get it to hold a huge amount of data.

These cubes actually come completely apart to replace the springs. You could probably put a good 4-5 micro-SD cards in the middle plastic ball, but it's not exactly a quick operation. But, yeah, quite a bit of empty space in them.

Springs in a Rubik's cube?

Re: Snowden’s Rubik’s Cube

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Post by kuschku »

dsfuoi wrote: post #5
orblivion wrote: post #2

I just watched the trailer. Clichéd brilliant patriotic dude saves the day. Bonus: Movie OS. This is gonna be such a great bad movie.

Actor's forced Snowden deep voice is hilarious. He's trying so hard, and yet it sounds like a 12 year old trying to sound older. Also expect at least two forced action/drama scenes that never happened. They are staging the Hong Kong hotel meeting, of which real footage exists, as if it were an action scene.

Wait for the french/german TV miniseries remake in a few years (not anything announced yet, but you just know one will be made), it will likely have a higher quality and accuracy.

Re: Snowden’s Rubik’s Cube

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Post by da5is »

tamana wrote: post #13
da5is wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These cubes actually come completely apart to replace the springs. You could probably put a good 4-5 micro-SD cards in the middle plastic ball, but it's not exactly a quick operation. But, yeah, quite a bit of empty space in them.

Springs in a Rubik's cube?

Yes, they provide the tension when you rotate the cube. The speed cubes come with different springs that can make it looser or tighter - in the center is this white ball that houses the springs where you screw in the center tiles. If it wasn't such a pain to open back up, I'd take some pics of that part of it. You can see the white ball on the official site here: https://rubiks.com/store/product/rubiks-speed-cube (disclaimer - the original article is mine)

Re: Snowden’s Rubik’s Cube

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Post by da5is »

Johnny555 wrote: post #17
tamana wrote: post #14

Why do Rubik's cubes have removable center tiles?

The Speed Cube has the removable center tiles to allow the tension to be adjusted: https://rubiks.com/blog/how-to-customise-the-rubiks-speed-cu...

Also to make it much easier to grease the cube - if you do it as you stack the rows, you can get much more even distribution (and the cube will fly afterwards).

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Post by Mahn »

cmrx64 wrote: post #7

This movie looks like is has a good chance of doing a better job than even The Imitation Game at ruining and fundamentally misrepresenting a topic I care about and a person I respect.

So basically like every modern movie loosely based on actual real life events. Then again, movies are almost always designed to entertain and munch popcorn, not so much to inform.
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