Binary message... someone help! :)

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My friend has a binary message on his myspace profile (I'm sure you've all figured out what myspace is by now) and he needs to figure out what it is... we have no idea if it's... inappropriate or not, but at least in it's binary form it's harmless, so anyone up to the challenge? I'd appreciate it! If it's naughty just PM me.

01010101011011100110010000100000011010010110110100
10000001000101011011100110010001100101001011000010
00000110100101110011011101000010000001100101011100
11001000000110111001101001011000110110100001110100
00100000011001000110100101100101001000000100101001
10000101101000011100100110010100100000011010010110
11100010000001001001011010000111001001100101011011
01001000000100110001100101011000100110010101101110
00101100001000000110010001101001011001010010000001
11101011100100011010000110110001100101011011100010
11100010000001000101011100110010000001101001011100
11011101000010000001100100011000010111001100100000
01001100011001010110001001100101011011100010000001
10100101101110001000000100100101101000011100100110
01010110111000100000010010100110000101101000011100
10011001010110111000101110


Thank you!

This is the direct translation from binary to ASCII:

Und im Ende, ist es nicht die Jahre in Ihrem Leben, die zählen. Es ist das Leben in Ihren Jahren.

Translating it further from German to English using Babelfish, we get:

And in the end, it is not the years in your life, which counts. It is the life in your years.

M.

wow cool

i'm a little disappointed, matt. i would've thought that your time in the matrix forum would have prepared you for this challenge.

Hahah I had no clue either. Matter of fact I'm kind of glad I don't know. That means I have not spent nearly as much time near the computer as some of you have. And that makes me proud http://9.forumer.com/html/emoticons/tongue.gif

You guys really think I am foolish enough to decode that binary by hand? I am not that geeky. I just used a binary translator.

M.

But, IF you had to. Could you do it with pencil and paper?

AHAH! See I wouldn't even know where to begin.

I could do it, but would I do it? I don't think so, unless a great chunk of my grade or if my life depended on it.

I guess geekiness comes with being a CS.

M.

to quote the old saying: "there are 10 kinds of people in the world. those who understand binary and those who don't."

which could be amended to include those who understand binary enough to know not to do anything with binary by hand in the 21st century.

that saying doesnt work so well when its said, it has to be writen down, first time i "heard" it i had to think about it ...