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Distributed TiVo Code Cracking
Twostep writes "With the newest version of the TiVo software (Version 3.2), TiVo has once again changed the secret password to enter "backdoor" mode, which lets advanced users enable hidden features. Unlike last time, people were not able to quickly find the new code, so a distributed computing project was started to find the backdoor codes. You can read about it Here, grab the Linux or Windows clients and pitch in some CPU time for a good cause."
Someone would give me the "backdoor" codes to my girlfriend...
Hello, Again. (Diaries)
By Signal 11
Fri Nov 1st, 2002 at 10:01:28 PM EST
Since my last story, I've been absent for Kuro5hin for the past seven months. I've been watching Kuro5hin off and on since then and have stayed in contact with several people here during that time, and as I've tried sorting out my life. A lot has changed since then, and I wanted to post this to ask: Is it time for Signal 11 to come back? I know a good many of you have less than enthusiastic opinion of me, but I wanted to say hello again... I want to have a chance to prove myself to you.
First, let me start with an admission: I was a troll. I'm not going to deny it, or say it had a higher purpose. I wanted to make a point on Slashdot and everything went wrong: I should have apologized a long time ago, but I was too proud to admit I made a mistake. Sometimes we forget that hiding behind a pseudonym online doesn't give us license to be mean to other people and treat the communities we come in contact with as our playgrounds. I forgot, and I'm sorry - I won't offer any excuses for it. To both the Kuro5hin and Slashdot community, and to Rob Malda: I'm sorry.
I won't ask any of you for special treatment, or forgiveness, but my apology is here. Whether you accept it or not is up to you. Events in my life in the past several months have taught me a lot about people and, in the words of an aquaintance of mine, I've "eaten some humble pie" since I left. I'm trying to grow and become a better person, and I want something to show for it beyond a handful of flames, trolls, and a negative opinion of my online self if I start posting regularily again - I'm going to try this time. I think I'm someone worth getting to know, and I hope that I can prove that to you all.
I also wanted to give those of you who I've lost touch with a bit of information about what's happened to me since I left. I want to tell all of you who I am, this time without any pretenses or images. I'm just another person online with a story to tell and a sensitive heart. I've made my mistakes but I think I've paid my dues and I hope you'll put the past away and let us move on.
I got my depression and anxiety back under control a few months after my last story and I let my friends and family help me get my life back in order. I'm in therapy now, and I am making a concerted effort to obtain and maintain employment. Me and my girlfriend are making plans to move out of our parents' places together and get our own apartment this spring - serious plans. And speaking of my girlfriend, she became my fiancee about three weeks ago and we're set to get married this coming September.
Computers are no longer the center of my life -I have a family and a group of friends that need me and they have brought a lot of joy and happiness into what used to be a dull and shallow life. I can't say I'm a computer geek anymore because I don't use my computer much anymore except to stay in touch with my friends and keep abreast of the news. I am still a geek, still a freak, still one of the few who bend the rules and thumb their noses at the system, and I'm still proud to be one. Since I left the field, I've persued my interests in writing, drawing, web design, and journalism. I'm trying to get back to college to find a new career and meet new people... although it is just a dream right now.
On May 5th, my dad suffered a massive heart attack (technically, a thorasic aneurism) and has brain damage (technically, hypoxia). He has since gotten out of rehabilitation although he cannot read or write well and has lost much of his fine motor coordination. He also is no longer on speaking terms with me or my brother. Speaking of which, my brother is now married. My father has written both of us off, has become anti-social and paranoid and lives alone in unsanitary conditions, without a job or any form of financial aid in an unfinished home in a wooded remote area.
I never told anyone why I was suicidal beyond some people I trust online and who I'd like to consider friends even though I've never met most of them. I want to tell you why now, although this is a scary thing to do because I know many of you know who I am in the real world - I can't hide behind an alias like most of you can, but I feel that in spite of what it might mean for me down the road, it's needed. There are other people like me out there, and they need to know they are not alone and that they shouldn't be ashamed or hide anymore...
First, let me come out of the closet and announce that I am a transsexual. You've probably heard a lot about this from talk shows, there are even a few of them around here on Kuro5hin (I've talked to them). The technical term for this is "gender dysphoria", and I'm in treatment now for it - For now, just therapy. Coming to terms with this has been by far the most difficult thing I've done in my life. I don't know what's going to happen, and after two years of almost daily research - I have perhaps logged two and a half to three thousand hours at this desk searching online and cataloging my findings, and perhaps a few hundred additional hours at the library and reading various books on the matter - I am still not at a point where I can give many answers. My family and friends have been, for the most part, supportive of me. My mom is in shock about my coming out of the closet, although we still live together and talk often. I think she realizes now it's not "just a phase" - you can't call the past fifteen years of my life "a phase".
In June, I met and befriended a coworker who was gay and who seemed to be a very nice person. I had hoped he might be able to answer some questions I had about who I was. Shortly after the 4th of July, after a bad day at work, we hooked up to have a few drinks and unwind back at his place. He slipped something into my drink and I don't have any clear memories until about six hours after. I was drugged and raped. He left the state shortly after, changed names, and sent one final e-mail to me about a month ago (more mind games). To date, the police have done nothing - to officer who took the initial report told me to "take some anti-depressants" and filed it under miscellanious. It took about five phone calls to the Ombudsman office to get it properly filed as a sexual assault. They never interviewed me or the assailant. I only have a $280 bill from the hospital and a few pamphlets now to show for it all which I keep tucked away in a drawer that I never open. I need to go back to the hospital this February to do an AIDS test. Hopefully it will come back negative and I can get a sense of closure, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
I'm not asking you for anything - not forgiveness, sympathy, acceptance or compassion. I wanted to tell all of you, once and for all, who I am. I'm not going to hide anymore and I'm not going to pretend to be something I'm not - I've had a lifetime of those experiences and I want to start building new ones. I want something real to hold on to now, something I can call my own.
This is who I am... Thanks for listening.
to acess "backdoor mode" on pcs press f2 when booting!
Michael, have you ever had sex with a woman?
"gaysex" is overated i prefer anal
tivo is theft"
tivo is theft" and sonicblue issues are closely linked
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tivo is watching
tivo is affordable
tivo is watching you
tivo is god
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tivo is theft"
tivo is theft" and sonicblue issues are closely linked
tivo is one jack short alan blount 9/14/00 blount@tvminder
tivo is the tightest by eeks
tivo is now a verb in our family by validlyte
tivo is "working for the network instead of with them
tivo is a subscription
tivo is an instrument of supply
tivo is watching you by keith dawson issue date
tivo is sick
tivo is this fabulous technology that takes television to another level
tivo is a revolution in television viewing
tivo is a personal video recorder
tivo is easy to understand
tivo is currently at software revision 2
tivo is a subscription service
tivo is watching you by keith dawson mar 27 2001 12
tivo is the creator of and leader of television services for digital video recorders
tivo is sold in more than 1000 retailers including multiple retailers dixons
tivo is for directv to sell a combination satellite and dvr set
tivo is working quickly to do
tivo is so advanced
tivo is busy recording a new program? absolutely
tivo is $9
tivo is a registered trademark of tivo inc
tivo is upgradeable you may wish to make sure that your tivo is in fact upgradeable
tivo is funny like that
tivo is the best "living room" piece of electronics i have ever bought
tivo is the creator of and leader in digital video recording services
tivo is making a splash
tivo is that it runs linux
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tivo is powered down
tivo is "oh my god
tivo is the pricing
tivo is linux
tivo is for real
tivo is more than just a vcr replacement
tivo is always full of programs you'll want to watch whenever you turn on your tv
tivo is hackable because of its free software foundation
tivo is television on your schedule
tivo is a fantastic tool for the here and now that actually delivers on the promise of giving you control over what and when you watch
tivo is very excited to add this new dimension of understanding to our evaluation of how the service evolves and grows
tivo is becoming synonymous with the digital video recorder
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tivo is committed to working closely with innovative advertisers as we employ our smart technology to develop a powerful new dialogue between advertisers and
tivo is a digital video recorder intended to replace your convetional tape vcr
tivo is exhausting
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tivo is a trademark of tivo inc
tivo is stored on a hard drive so it's available if and when viewers choose to watch it
tivo is very excited about leveraging hughes' product leadership and trusted brand name
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tivo is actually a technology that is used by several different distributors
tivo is doing now and the 'interactive' advertising on
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Lol, your kidding right.. Bush is the biggest ass pirate in the league..
all we can hope is that he gets assassinated , so us Americans don't have to put up with the nut job any longerfuck we might as well bring Hitler back to life and put him in power..
Here are some pics of the genius in action http://acetik85.free.fr/bushie.jpg
with enough of either (or preferably both) she'll let you put it anywhere
Yup, then it seems to be "a good cause".
This is repugnant. I must admit it is more
and more surprising all the time how many
people equate what they want with what is
"a good cause".