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CodeCon: A Conference for P2P Hackers

Posted by timothy on from the ya-just-missed-it dept.

Rolig liten hattgubbe writes: "infoAnarchy has the scoop about Codecon, which is an interesting P2P-themed hacker conference in San Francisco (Feb 15-17) at JWZ's DNA Lounge. Some of the next-generation projects discussed are already functional, and a demo of Peek-A-Booty is going to be presented. I wonder if anyone will be arrested?"

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  1. Larry Ellison by mwalker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ellison to me is just a Bill Gates who never got the chance. He doesn't want Microsoft toppled as a monopoly because Microsoft is bad for consumers; he wants Microsoft toppled so he can treat consumers badly and profit from it. He's just a less successful version of Bill Gates in my mind.

    FUD like this "unbreakable" business just proves that he's cut from the same mold. What's truly sad is that our society selects people like Ellison and Gates as leaders because ruthlessness is a competitive advantage - and I mean "selects" in the evolutionary sense.

    Oracle: the unbreakable national ID card. The whole idea gives me chills.

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  2. metallica by jamesidm · · Score: 5, Funny

    as a mark of respect for those who made p2p the big thing that it is today, all files transferred at the conference should be metallica music and/or videos.

  3. What about walk-p2p? by redcliffe · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've discovered that the cheapest form of Peer to peer file sharing in Australia is loading the files your friends want on a CD-RW, take the CD to them, and then blank it and put the files you want from your friend's computer before taking it home. Depending on how far you live from your friend's place, and how you get there, it costs between $0.10 and $1.00 AUD per gigabyte. Much cheaper than Pacific internet ADSL at $139 a gig, or Telstra ADSL at $198 a gig.

  4. DNA Lounge is a COOL venue... by Tsar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What with all the Internet kiosks and all. Jamie's input alone will make this a hypercool event. Plus, everything that goes over the Lounge's sound system is streamed live to the Internet. Does that include CodeCon, I wonder?

    Still, it's too bad it couldn't have been held in JWZ's old Tent of Doom (essentially a cubicle wrapped in 500' of camo netting to ward off the ST:TNG theme of the Netscape office decor). I know it's ancient history now, but his TOD page was an inspiration to cubicle-dwellers everywhere, when it was up. Like the once-bright promise of Netscape, it will be missed.