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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".
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.
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
eh. close enough. It's 212 736 5000.
Triv
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.
Nah. My reccomendation? Go to the Blarney Rock Pub on West 33rd street - walking distance to the hotel, most of the hackers worth hanging with hang there, and it's CHEAP. :)
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience
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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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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Uhh, if you tourists would go somewhere other than Times 'Disney' Square, you'd know that this is the world's leading party town.
On second thought, stay in the little corrals we've built to suck your money out of you, you're mostly too slow and goggle-eyed to walk down a sidewalk without crashing into everyone anyway.
As the world center of financial, artistic, and intellectual activity, we really aren't that dependent on the ameoba-like globs of mullet-bearing, j-crew wearing, Walmart shopping, inbred trogdolytes that come from places like Nevada, anyway.
"Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up, you get a lot of scum on top. " - Edward Abbey
Facts:
1. Hackers are mammals.
2. Hackers hack ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the hacker is to flip out and phreak the system.
Oh, h2k2. Sorry, wrong topic.
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