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H2K2 Conference
2600's Macki writes in to remind me and everyone else that H2K2 is coming up shortly, with pre-registration closing on Friday. The conference will be July 12-14 in New York City, in the exciting yet inexpensive Hotel Pennsylvania. I could only make the HOPE 2000 conference for one day, but it was quite interesting and it looks like audio from most of the panels is available, or just check out the list of panels for 2002 to see if it looks intriguing to you. And if you read Slashdot, the answer to that is probably "yes".
Don't you mean the hotel Shpennsylvania. I bet their will be plenty of Shmarijuana.
;)
Dave Barry. One of the only Pulitzer prize winners that deserved it
great hotel. Two interesting points:
You know the old song "Pennsylvania six-five-thousand?" It's about that hotel - I'm pretty sure their phone number's still 212-???-6500
Secondly, there's an (admittedly tiny and expensive) electronics store in the lobby. Perfect for this sort of convention.
Oh, and try the chocolate covered strawberries in the hotel restaurant. It's been awhile, but they were wonderful.
Enjoy!
Triv
Between the phone call to AT&T, and finding out that The US sells 160 proof (80%) vodka, and consuming that for breakfast on sunday... I had a good time.
Now if I can get my ass down to NYC, and scrap together the money for a room for a few nights. Half the experience was hanging out in the network room at 3-4am.... quite fun.
I think I'll wait until they have one at the Hotel California.
Alcohol?
Is EVERYONE going to this thing going to be under 21?
I have been pwned because my
You can meet all the chicks you want...
which you will neeverrr lay...
We hackin' shit up in the Hotel Pennsylvania...
Such a lovely place,
But no clothing taste...
There's many a room at the Hotel Pennsylvania...
Bring your alibi,
for porn and KY...
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
there will be complmentary police officers arresting all who enter on charges of being terrorists.
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I'm I the only one who noticed that the page says 379 days untill h2k2...early registration is VERY VERY early!
LinuxWorx
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eh. close enough. It's 212 736 5000.
Triv
This is a really swell fake article generator. Tricked me but good.
Since there isn't the normal quote marks and italics, I am assuming Micheal wrote this entire article, all by himself.
Would it have been possible to tell us what H2K2 is somewhere in the body of the article? Could you at least have written something like "H2K2 is 2600 magazine's fourth 'Hackers On Planet Earth' conference."
Adding even the most basic description wouldn't have been hard, and it would have saved the trouble of clicking the link and overloading 2600's poor server. 'Cuz, this ain't intriguing to me. And I'm not sure why I read slashdot.
Slashdot is jumping the shark. I'm just driving the boat.
heh heh heh...
I was hoping to visit H2K2 this year, just for fun, but the main thing holding me back is money. Yes, I know renting space/gear/bandwidth costs money, but couldn't they find some sort of sponsoring ? Considering that I'd have to drive about 7 hours to get there, then be stuck sleeping in a hotel for 2-3 nights at 100$/night, and the con organisers still want 50$ out of me just to enter the premises ? This isn't like Comdex or CES, where the whole point of going there is to network with others who share similar interests, and just might happen to have money to get you out of that 9-5 shit job at AOL. Those events are often worth the cost because you get to form functional relationships. H2K2 is just a bunch of people getting together for fun and distraction. You have little or no chance of selling anything at H2K2, even if you're trying to sell your own underpaid carcass. Sure, you'll hear from Dmitry Sklyarov, Kevin Mitnick and Jello Biafra, but when you walk out of that hall after the 3 days, what have you gained ? Motivation perhaps, hardly any new knowledge.. it's just not a business-type-thing, therefore it should be loads cheaper.
-Billco, Fnarg.com
or just check out the list of panels for 2002 to see if it looks intriguing to you. And if you read Slashdot, the answer to that is probably "yes".
Probably?
Try "All of the Above"
"Oh no, 3 horny women and only 2 condoms...Thank god I read slashdot"
...browser cach has been cleared less than a week ago it also says at the top about the prereg ending soon. not sure what the deal is...static number not updated?
LinuxWorx
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I have posted a mirror of what I get from here...take a look on the 3rd line down 379 days.. My mirror of what I get @ H2K2.net
LinuxWorx
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Keep reading eventually I get to a point.
Ya so just mark everything in my thread off topic...gotta stop posting stuff after a few beers and so late at nite, my system time is a year off. Unemployed IT worker has to roll back system clock untill he can scrape together enough cash to buy his software.
The problem with this java script is it checks my system clock to see what the date should be. So what about all the security freaks out there that totally shut off java? What do you see? Or what good is coding a web site to create content based on untrustable source data?
LinuxWorx
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I do not live in the Boston area, but here are some local nerds whom are trying to get 20 - 40 people together to rent a bus and go.. saves you the trouble of parking etc.
http://www.cow.net/hackerbus/
What was your username again? -BOFH
...is $50? I nearly fell off my chair. I guess I was used to conferences in the dot-com boom era and paying $2600 (haha...pun intended) for a 3-day conference.
Seriously contemplating going...if only to do some WiFI war-walking.
-psyconaut
Beyond HOPE was held in the beautiful Puck Building, was much larger than HOPE, and left 2600's finances in utter disarray. The intended hookup with HIP didn't get past the one guy who had a blinkenlight that people in Holland could control. Which was still pretty cool. We got to go for free to a show at the lost-but-not-forgotten Coney Island High on St. Mark's Place in the East Village, and to the Hell's Kitchen club the Octagon. I still have vivid memories of Cap'n Crunch working the dance floor. Much too vivid. Red Balaclava's discussion of the Metrocard made the front page of the New York Times. The social engineering panel was a great success, including a brilliant hack of the Astor Place K-Mart. The Beyond HOPE bumper sticker was a brilliant parody of the NYNEX logo, cut and colored to fit exactly over telephone booth signs...if one so desired.
H2K, in Hotel Pennsylvania, bumped up the price from $20 to $40 (so the $50 raise is quite reasonable, though I agree it's depressing). It was a madhouse. There was an entire room of dumb terminals glowing orange in the dark, kiddies poking and prodding through everything, some launching genetic algorithms to fork-spawn-kill the network. The best panel, by far, was from the Dutch lockpickers, who will be returning to H2K2. The CDC's presentation was beyond silly. Highly entertaining but genuinely incomprehensible. RMS even made a stealth appearance.
I'm going to be helping set up H2K2 and will be shilling my new book Technomanifestos shamelessly, with a nice 57" LED display I picked up recently and will probably try to raffle off.
The other event that weekend which is a must is the art-happening/rave-to-end-all-raves out in Long Island City in Queens, in 90,000! sq.ft. of an abandoned power plant...two thousand two--note it's damn cheap for that kind of event.
All in all, it promises to be an excellent weekend. New York City is just about all it's cracked up to be...I mean hacked up.
--Adam Brate (ab@adambrate.com)
author,
The day after H2K2 ends, MacWorld begins...plan for stay! :-)
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Chris Lambert
Real hackers usually dont go to places like that, I mean what real hacker wants everyone to know they are the hacker.
I mean unless you are a retired hacker, then you might go there to try to get a job, but come on, any real hacker wont be there.
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I dont' know about you, but I'm holding out for the Defcon convention on August 6th I believe. It's in a better party town (Vegas). Oh yeah, and the Hard Rock hotel next door has plenty of cuties too. Hacking, partying, and cuties all in one place. Garrrr!!!!
Sure, it has more than its share of strip shows, but how many burlesque game shows with sword swallowing and fire-eating? Admittedly, Vegas may have plenty. But not next to a beach.
But NYC will always kick's Vegas sorry butt where music is concerned. On the H2K2 weekend, Drowning Pool, The Samples, Gillian Welch, Loud Az F*ck, Bobby Previte's Voodoo Orchestra, Patty Larkin, Hayseed Dixies, Susan McKeown, Etta James, Link Wray, Silkworm, Viento de Agua, Vince Giordano and his Nighthawks, Coco Merenson, and about a thousand other bands will be peforming in venues all across the city. And the Verdi Requiem too. And the next week is the near-perfect Siren Music Festival next to the 75-year-old (yesterday!) Cyclone.
And H2K2 is concurrent with the Big Apple Convention comic book show.
And NYC is funnier; it's home to The Onion and Upright Citizens Brigade, for just two bleeding-edge examples. They're both Midwest transplants, but that's the whole point of NYC. This is where you make it.
True, gambling and dancing are mostly illegal in NYC. But not entirely.
--Adam Brate
author,
from the h2k2 faq (http://www.h2k2.net/faq.html)
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Q: I want to hack / destroy / take down / DoS / DDoS the H2K2 network during the conference. Is this ok?
A: No. If you do, you will be caught and possibly kicked out. The H2K2 network will be actively monitored for any activities that might hurt others' enjoyment of it. Treat the network nicely, and it will treat you nicely.
Q: I want to hack other machines on the H2K2 network during the conference. Is this ok?
A: If you put your machines on the network, expect them to be poked at. Conversely, poking other machines is part of the fun of H2K2, but do not be destructive (use `echo giggle | wall`, not `rm -rf
there's lots more fun to see in the faq
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I really want to go to this conference, but it's out of the question because I am in the UK and can't afford it.
Another reason I wouldn't go is because I would be worried that I would feel overwhelmed by everyone knowing more than me and looking down on me. Maybe it's paranoia and people are cool and friendly if you have an interest but admit your lack of knowledge, or maybe there are elitists there.
What do people think about the attitudes of hackers there ? I only have experience of cracking x86 code, fun with tcp/ip and higher-level stuff like writing compilers. I have no real knowledge but a lot of interest in wireless technology, smart cards, phones etc.
graspee
Just what the cops want to know, a bunch of convicted fools hanging out together. That , is naturally, against their probation stipulations. Now we KNOW where to catch them! Fuckin Slashdot DOUCHEBAGS! News that matters? pull that nightstick out of your rectum and lick it!
Yeah, the rates are usually among the lowest in Manhattan, but the rooms are old and dirty, the halls are dark and dirty, and the hotel is full of scummy ethic types. If you stay there, be smart and leave your laptop at home, and keep your wallet in side your shirt.
Real cool. I'm sure that someone will take it from you. Dummy.
NYC is just full of dirty foriegn immigrants trying to scam the real americans that come to NYC on business or for pleasure. It's a bullshit town compared to San Francisco or Las Vegas.
HitchHiker's Kide to the Kalaxy?
Am I the only one that misread this as H2G2 and thought it was some sort of Douglas Adams conference?
Nonono, it must be "H2k+2", not H2K2,
because the k in geek-scientifical notation
denotes the decimal point/dot (sorry, I don't
know the exact English name for that), and
so H2k2 translates to H2.2k = H2200
H2002 would be H2k + 2, then, that's why.
Btw, OpenBSD c2k+2 made this wrong, too...
My Karma isn't excellent, damn it! (And
I love how you fuckers don't even explain what H2k2 means.... criptic morons.
H2K2? Is that like HK40K?
"It sure was strange to see something on Usenet about me that didn't involve Klingon gang rape." -- Wil Wheaton
Oh, h2k2. Sorry, wrong topic.
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