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HOPE Conference Gets Wozniak, Mitnick, Biafra
Emmanuel Goldstein writes "We've gone through all of our submissions, and selected nearly 70 talks and panels for the next HOPE conference in New York City, to be held from July 9th-11th. We have Steve Wozniak, Kevin Mitnick, and Jello Biafra as keynotes, and many more interesting talks and seminars, plus a round the clock hacker movie room and a lockpicking workshop." The official website explains: " This is a conference by, for, and about hackers on as many levels as we can come up with, ranging from the highly technical to the down to earth, from computers to phones, from serious to hilarious. And our doors are open to anyone interested in what the hacker world has to say." We previously ran a story on this conference a couple of months back, before full speaker details were available.
Sorry, just the idea of Woz as the opening act for the Dead Kennedys puts a smile on my face.
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. - Cmdr. Susan Ivanova
damn, i'll have to change my holiday plans from cambodia to nyc
Great! We can teach people to hack UNIX mainframes using 'ls' and 'rm'!
for President!
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The Fifth HOPE
Welcome to the main page for The Fifth HOPE, sponsored by 2600. Yes, it's our fifth conference in New York City and this one threatens to be the best yet. It all takes place July 9-11, 2004, at the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan.
The first through fourth hopes all have to do with slashdot, strangely enough. Hope number one is that you will visit anti-slash.org and find out about editor abuses. Hope number 2 is that anti-slash can continue to make its presence felt. Hope number 3 is that slashdot's editors realize what shitbags they've become and reform slashdot. Hope number 4 is for anti-slash to make millions of dollars.
The Fifth HOPE will run around the clock starting Friday morning and ending Sunday night. We have a huge amount of space on three floors in the hotel, which is located right across the street from Penn Station in midtown. We encourage participation of all sorts, whether it be by organizing a panel or talk, volunteering to help with setup and coordination, adding to the network of computers we intend to hook together, setting up an informational booth to promote a project you're involved in, or coming up with ideas on things to do that we haven't already thought of! The potential is virtually without limit.
This is a conference by, for, and about hackers on as many levels as we can come up with, ranging from the highly technical to the down to earth, from computers to phones, from serious to hilarious. And our doors are open to anyone interested in what the hacker world has to say.
We're planning several tracks of speakers, films, and more. Updates on all of this plus schedules will be posted on this website.
For a collaboratively-editable place where you can view and contribute information, planning, and discussion, visit The Fifth HOPE Wiki.
The Hotel Penn is now sold out for at least part of the conference. Click here for information on alternate places to stay.
The Fifth HOPE starts in just 15 days.
The Fifth HOPE, NYC July 9-11th, 2004. | "The Book of Hope" | Fifth HOPE Wiki | 2600.com
The only problem now is coming up with a reason for my boss to send me to a hacking conference.
I doubt he'd even want me to "improve my 1337 hax0ring skillz".
To: CowBoy Neal
From: CmdrTaco
Subject: Man to Man
Dear CowBoy Neal,
Most of the time, a man can't keep his yap shut longer'n a pack-mule takes to do its business. Other times, he knows exactly what's on his mind but the words just don't seem to come. That's a little old-west wisdom my granpop used to say to me, and I figured it'd strike a chord since you, like him, have the dementia-inspired idea that you're a cowboy. Of course your dementia comes from advanced venereal disease rather than Alzheimer's, but I think you can see where I'm going with this.
As you know, my life is a mess. Academically, I was unable to meet even the modest requirements set by the Christian school for handicapped children to which my long-suffering parents shipped me off in a short bus, my youthful head nuzzled in the warmth of my hockey-helmet. Professionally, I'm reduced to filtering out penis-bird ASCII art for a firm that's moved from swindling venture capitalists to supporting offshore outsourcing. Even in the low-expectations circle-jerk that is the Open Source Software world, my list of contributions is lamer than Eric Raymond's, and I don't even have the self-adulatory published rants to show for it. My only solace is my sweet, sweet Kathleen; and I fear before long she too may be lost. So that's why I have to ask you the most important thing I've ever asked anybody in my whole life, man to man. CowBoy Neal, I need you to fuck me in the ass.
My life has become so self-serving and pathetic that only the painful, masculine jolt that a brutal ass-rooting can give could possibly help me. In order to save my job, my marriage, and my life, you must pound some sense into my pale, flagging body - anally, with minimal lubrication. Before you get all homophobic on me, I have three things to say. First, I *need* this, I need it badly, and you know it. Second, it's a beautiful thing for one straight man to fuck another up the ass. You think _Oz_ won an Emmy for nothing? Third - come on, who are you fucking kidding?
Please consider my proposition carefully. I (and my rectum) await your reply.
Sincerely,
CmdrTaco
First!
Great - a hippie, a hacker, and a heretic.
are you sure it's hope and not hiusca - hackers in the united states of corporate america?
:/
just another american bullshit story
gimme some international news, plz!
No pictures of Woz on IMDb, but there are photos from Pirates of Silicon Valley (with one showing Joey Slotnick playing Woz).
- Greg
Start a happiness pandemic
Has HOPE become the new Comdex?
:)
This show might be harder to get my boss to pay for. The name might be hard to sell as bing "good for the company"
Jello for President! He's better than the two losers who are currently duking it out...
That's not a name!!
From complications of diabetes. If he hasn't, as it seems, who on Earth was I thinking of?
BLING BLING. Meet the architecture that's changing everything.
All constitutional rights have been suspended.
Stay in your homes!
SHUT UP! BE HAPPY!
Anyone interfering with the collection of urine samples WILL BE SHOT!
READY.
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i dunno, i saw jello several times on the punk voter tour, and i found that he didnt have anything very intresting to say. KD rocks, but jello needs to give it up. sorry.
Lessee, Woz - greak hacker, check. Mitnick - great hacker/cracker, check. Jello Biafra - founding member of the funny name posse, where he is joined by other people who get an inordinate number of speaking gigs relative to their qualifications, like American McGee, Simpson Garfinkle, and Jennifer 8. Lee. Hmm, I thought geeks were supposed to be smart enough to judge people on their actual merits, not the marketing they do of their name cum public identity. Blah, ridiculous stuff like this makes me lose faith in humanity.
thanks for your cooperation.
thank you, come again.
do your f'in jobs, moderators.
how the hell is that funny?
i wonder if moderators only work 9-5.
Seriously people, the AS/400 architecture, and the overlying OS/400 operating system is one of the nicest pieces of engineering you'll find.
They've been doing 'the file system is a database' since before Bill and Co were in long pants.
If you get a chance to catch that lecture, and have your x86-oriented mind blown away.
That lecture will probably not be performed by Jello, even though he blows minds for a living
"The number one enemy of progress is QUESTIONS!
National security is MORE IMPORTANT than individual will.
Obey all orders without question!
The comfort you demanded is now mandatory!
BE HAPPY!
At last everything is done FOR you"
This sounds more like where we're all headed...
READY.
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Excuse me, I don't mean to impose, but I am the ocean
See everyone there! I'll be speaking on "Saving Digital History: A Quick and Dirty Guide". Mention Slashdot to me for absolutely no special gift whatsoever. Catch you at the bar.
Karma whoring/preaching to the choir
break in to their systems. i'm going to compromise their physical infrastructure and take command of their critical communications resources. I am going to chat with them briefly, and determine their passwords.
i bet they press charges.
So how long is Woz going to coast on his claim to fame of building a computer?
I've said it more than once that it's a good idea if the proceedings of such meetings can be made available in video, audio and transcript form. A lot of free 'geek documentation' gets lost when conferences like this only choose to cater for those who actually attend.
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...but the US Government scaring me, and the cost involved prevents me from doing it.
I hope to see people from HOPE/2600 out in Germany at Christmas though.
Join the Free Software Foundation
Emmanuel sucks
I wonder what sort of thought process went into the art at the top of the page.
When I look at the speaker schedule, the difference between a HOPE conference and other security-themed conferences is obvious. The scope of sessions and the range of speakers reinforces the notion that hacking is still open to everyone with a will to get involved, and not just about the technology. Am I biased? I guess so, since I'm one of the conference organizers.
PS, to the person looking for past session archives: it's all online for free download, or you can buy the CD. Just visit http://www.h2k2.net or http://www.2600.com and go to the store.
Where you'll do what you're told
A holiday in New York City
Where the slums got so much soul
Bloomberg! Bloomberg! Bloomberg! Bloomberg!
Seastead this.
I would expect that with a lock picking workshop.
Who is he?
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Steve Wozniack's son and I got in a fight at a Jack-In-The-Box in Los Gatos, California last year. He told me to "go back to Iraq" (I have brown skin color). I would have kicked the shit out of him but he had a bunch of his buddies from Los Gatos High there and I only had a couple friends with me. The cops showed up really soon so it was all over anyway.
Think nothing is impossible? Try slamming a revolving door.
We just announced the addition of renowned computer security expert Bruce Schneier to our speaker schedule!
And our doors are open to anyone interested in what the hacker world has to say
.. yeah, and if they are not, we have the people who will open them for us, one way or the other!
http://efil.blogspot.com/
i doubt many corporation's IS managers fancy sending their staff on any trips that go anywhere near the H word. whether that's right or wrong's another matter, but the OP's point was perfectly valid, not a "stupid comment".
Having Jello Biafra at these kinds of conventions is a really good idea, and one that seems to go down extremely well. I hope they mp3 the speeches again, as i remember them doing with Biafra's last talk in 2002 i believe. Also this speech was brought out on his 'Become the media' spoken word album, which i recommend to anyone.
Will wank off Linus Torvalds for fame.
Judging by the sheer volume and amount of people in the Bay Area of Asian, Indian, etc. etc. descent who have brown skin, it would seem highly unlikely that Wozniak's son would pick a fight with a random dude and tell him to go back to Iraq.
Looks like people are "misusing" the word hacker again! Someone better let ESR know so he can stop all this nonsense!
Note: that was sarcasm.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
No offense to Jello--I'm a great Jello fan (see sig)--but what exactly is the point of having him speak at a hacking convention? He'd be great on a number of issues, but I fail to see what he adds here.
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The sun beams down on a brand new day, No more welfare tax to pay, Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light...
will refreshments be served at this years HOPE?
fact: microsoft > linux
Now all we need a a rifle with a scope...
Hmm... looks more like cracking to me...
http://blog.nexusuk.org
current core were has ground to a And personal At this point to Deliver what, Was in the tea I WASTE OF BITS AND to them...then same year, BSD you to join the
Has Indymedia in the past been at Hacker Events?
It's so fucking true. 2600 lost all relavance like 20 years ago.
So you've been to school for a year or two and you know you've seen it all?
Seriously, 2600 has been around much longer than you have, and you don't seem to have much of a clue about it. "Quest for knowledge?" "Questioning things that aren't fair?" Okay, Sparky - run along to your meeting. Your mother will pick you up at the mall at 8:30.
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
I thought "With Woz and Mitnick, why do they need Biafra as keynote speaker?"
Then I realized "There's always room for jello."
Yay! A panel of fuck-ups who couldn't make it in the mainstream. Kevin Mitnick is a two-bit criminal who should still be in jail, Woz could still be at Apple if he had any people skills whatsoever, and Jello boy is just plain stupid.
seriosuly. he is nothing more than a two bit punk (no punintended)
he may have some credits to his name, but credit card fraud and hitting an agent upside the head with a garbage can is not exactly mad skills.
he has no class, and his abilities arent anything to get excited about.
they need to focus on the "other kevin"
look him up. hes a character.
A conference for hackers? Cool. A lameass, poorly done intro to a website? Uncool.
That same lameass intro on an intro to a hackers site; bizarre and saddening.
Presently here, but not there.
Defcon.
"I'm not ashamed I can't function in society like I'm supposed to." - Paul Westerberg
I'm a general computing geek who reads 2600 for fun, but certainly not to make myself a hacker or anything. How receptive is the HOPE conference to this type of attendee? I figure I'm giving 2600 some money, so who should care, right?
I saw the headline and just remembered that my Dad always told me that Biafra was the world's sob spot for a brief time in the 60's (kind of like Somalia in '92...you know, been starvation there for decades, still is, just for a brief while people actually notice) and I guess it's somewhere that's not called Biafra anymore. Don't really know much about it. Just thought it was funny to read the headline and think that was what it was about.
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
pfeh, that's not punk.
all my DK is on 2nd or 3rd generation live bootleg cassette tape.
LOL! Who said I was punk? At the time, I really dug punk chicks, though. Nothing better than some freak chick with low self-esteem... If you don't mind crabs, that is...
He died in the second half of 2003. I'm glad that I atleast got to meet him about 2 years before that.
> what exactly is the point of having him [Jello Biafra] speak at a hacking convention?
Considering his political rants... probably comic relief!
for use of the word shitbag
NT
take you higher and higher, to heaven and even further. We will be love astronauts, colonizing other planets with our passion. We will bump to Jupiter. Grind to Pluto. Damn.
Goldstein, Mitnick and Woz? All that's missing is Cap'n Crunch. Good grief. Isn't there anyone doing something NOW instead of these fossils talking about what they did back in the 70s and 80s? Wait, I know go get that guy who wrote the first Internet worm! That'll put asses in the seats.
Acidus and Virgil of Blackboard hacking fame (mentioned before on Slashdot) are giving a talk with the EFF about Corporate lawsuits, reverse-engineering, tips and tactics. Looking good!
I've seen whites tell Native Americans to "go back where you came from."
Hey, they crossed the land bridge to get here. They can swim across the Bering Sea to get back.
Word up.
Here's what appears to be an anti-2600 magazine. Definitely different, and with good technical info.
mention
the grandparent is not offtopic.
in fact...i've actually heard jello biafra say those words live, come to think of it.
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