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A New HOPE on the Horizon
double-oh three writes "It's an even numbered year, and that means that 2600 is holding the party again this summer. The 5th HOPE conference has been announced and scheduled for July 9th to 11th(a Friday-Sunday weekend), again at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York. This year's 'theme' for the conference is Propaganda, and if this is anything like H2k2, it'll be by the phone companies. And for
those of you who are clueless, here's a roundup of the last HOPE con."
These sorts of things are illegal under the current anti-terrorism laws.
How long do you think it will take the Dept. of Home Land Insecurity to declare HOPE a gathering of terrorists?
1) 2-4 Hours
2) 24-48 Hours
3) 1 Week
4) Sometime before the USA lands on Mars
5) As soon as Dubya has his mourning coffee
6) Time is a man made concept you insensitive clod!
I was 99% sure this was going to be a Star Wars thread...
John Maynard Keynes: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?"
There is an abstract class called Terrorism(Object o). 2600 points out that with propaganda all marginals are passed into the Abstract. It is the job of the Hope conference to instill Honor in all the OOP spin doctors in the world: Beware of Reckless OOP. There goal of a good hacker is to overload Terrorism(Object o) with something a bit more easy rider, while still properly passing deadly free radicals, with something a little more easy rider like Freedom(Object o). Are you with me on this????
The Custom Mary
HOPE is little more than a get together for criminals. For those who don't know, HOPE stands for Hackers on Planet Earth. Thats right, folks, hackers.
I'm getting really tired of this "wink and a nod" attitude towards hackers. They are dangerous scofflaws.
Any how, I hope the feds will be in attendance and taking notes on who shows up at this "conference".
My favourite things about the 2600 were those rad game cartridges and cool joysticks.
I am one of many. My idea is not unique, nor do I expect my voice alone to sway you. I speak in a chorus of opinion.
Before this happens, SCO will set up a booth to collect the $699 payment required for entry (thanks to some sap displaying Linux code as part of his presentation)
> By far, the biggest draw of the HOPE conventions over the years is the Social Engineering panel.
Bah! That was easily outstripped by the Antisocial Engineering panel.
"Does anyone have any questions?"
"Yes. I'd like to kno..."
"Fuck you, tubby! NEXT!"
I was under the impression 2600 were still talking about how awesome it WAS back in the day.
Hacker culture really does suck. A bunch of pasty-faced smelling fat t-shirt wearing beer stained straight edge libertarian or obnoxious green pedophiles come together to explore how many ways they can produce the same buffer overflow and call it brilliance.
Yeah, DefCon is just like that. A bunch of guys in a conference room.. gang-raping children, tossing beer all about, but not actually drinking it, for moral reasons.. and then having a big circle jerk when they discover new buffer overflows. They might all be dressed up like Adolf Hitler.. just for good measure.
Seriously.. what the hell are you talking about?
2600, the pedophile quarterly
Sorry, you and 2600 are wrong about BART tickets. I once tried this and guess what? If you go in and out the same station you must pay an "excursion fare" at the time 4 dollars. The ticket lady said it was for people who might want to sightsee (because west Oakland is sooo beautifull).