Contrary to apparently popular mentality, this is not a good thing. Laws exist for a reason. If they can find these servers and hack/deface them, then they should be able to search the drives and find out whom the owners are (or where they are coming from). From that point, they could be sued and further legal action could be brought. Defacing the sites only makes the bad guys remaster their machines/relocate them, or harden their systems more.
Citizen Kane is a great call. It's one of the few "classics" that I've seen, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a long movie that you have to wait until the very end to truly enjoy. It really puts a lot of things into perspective.
My first hack was actually finding a bug in the Time Bank. I'd go to deposit my remaining time, and wait until my time expired. The board software would wait for Time Bank to return and when it did, I had negative time on the BBS! So as time passed, my amount of system time would go UP. Then after a few hours, I'd deposit all of the time that I had spent on the board.
I loved that hack, because I felt like I owned the board. However, once in a while, if the SysOp was in his bedroom and noticed that I was on for like 4 hours, he'd dump my modem line because he knew something was up.
I used to spend all of my time playing the door Murder Motel.
"You enter the room. There is a blowtorch on the floor and user 'Samsonite'" "What do you choose to do?:"
Do you remember LeechZmodem? In stead of sending the final ACK of the last byte of the download, it would send an Abort and you wouldn't get charged for your Download. Or should I say, it wouldn't affect your UL/DL ratio.
Damn I miss those days when you could chat with someone online and actually have something in common with them - because you were both "chatting online". Being "online" was something worth having in common with a stranger. These days, some old lady might be online chatting about paperclip art with her fellow paperclip art enthusiasts.
I had the same epiphany in an earlier post when I recalled my old BBS #. For some reason, I can remember an incredible amount of details from that time (I was in High School).
Of course, that was also before I went to college and discovered alcohol.
Dude, I think that's a perl script or something. I think you run it on the command line to get the actual output. Something like: perl -e "[that post here]"
At least, I think that's how to turn it into English.
OMG, shoot me. It was the internet for us poor kids that didn't go to college (or weren't old enough) to get on the real internet.
BBS is an acronym for Bulletin Board System. It was a server with modems that people would dial into. It ran special software that served up files, forums, and even email gateways to real internet in some cases.
Since you had to call into them and pay toll charges (to access the really good BBS'es that were Long Distance [or LD if you're nasty]), Beige Boxes, Blue Boxes, and Red Boxes were popular.
Besides, when you jacked into your neighbors phone line, you didn't have to worry about your parents getting pissed 'In case someone has to call the house in an emergency'.
Fun times, yessiree! Ah, the memories (and 8-bit mammaries).
True. I guess I'd probably have a stupid look at the moment I came across a booth babe. "Oh God" is right! Luckily it only lasts for a few seconds and I'd be able to go back to looking normal.
No. The fact that when they cry/whine/become emotionally unstable/etc and we can't legally kick their ass when they do is why they're capable of controlling us.
Why doesn't he open a bank account (replete with credit/debit card) the next time he's in the city?
By doing this, he could buy things online with ease.
However, I'm assuming he wants to purchase ahem, 'intangible' products from the web that can only be enjoyed on the computer, like the rest of world. On the other hand, I'm not sure how he'd keep the wife and kids out of the hut long enough to enjoy his new purchase.
From the article: We know it's tough being an actress/model in LA, but there's got got to be better gigs than pretending to have a sleepover party in the middle of a trade show.
Quoth Lord Dimboress: "We couldn't even wear thongs! Like OMFG! Not having something in my butt was the most difficult thing ever! I sooo hope I get paid for this."
It's probably not the wisest thing to do - but it's a proof of concept.
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The only problem with this is that the next day you can't sit around the water cooler and gossip with the secretaries about "what happened on Desparate Housewives last night".;)
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I'd rather pay $360!
Contrary to apparently popular mentality, this is not a good thing. Laws exist for a reason. If they can find these servers and hack/deface them, then they should be able to search the drives and find out whom the owners are (or where they are coming from). From that point, they could be sued and further legal action could be brought. Defacing the sites only makes the bad guys remaster their machines/relocate them, or harden their systems more.
Citizen Kane is a great call. It's one of the few "classics" that I've seen, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a long movie that you have to wait until the very end to truly enjoy. It really puts a lot of things into perspective.
Oh yeah, and they listed Star Wars! Woot!
Why not offer a .torrent file that's an index of the torrents?
AV Carts are Audio Video Cartridges used in high volume A/V data media centers.
Maybe... I don't remember dialing international to Canada (204) though.
Was your site the LoD/H HQ?
If so, maybe I just pulled some warez that team cracked (I may just remember it from a FILE_ID.DIZ file).
Good times.
Just to follow up on this, I just found an online version of Murder Motel:
http://www.murdermotel.com/login.php
It's based on the original BBS game.
But, does anyone have a telnet link to a BBS that has the original Murder Motel door game (by Sean D. Wagle)?
Oh shit, I forgot about the Time Bank!
My first hack was actually finding a bug in the Time Bank. I'd go to deposit my remaining time, and wait until my time expired. The board software would wait for Time Bank to return and when it did, I had negative time on the BBS! So as time passed, my amount of system time would go UP. Then after a few hours, I'd deposit all of the time that I had spent on the board.
I loved that hack, because I felt like I owned the board. However, once in a while, if the SysOp was in his bedroom and noticed that I was on for like 4 hours, he'd dump my modem line because he knew something was up.
I used to spend all of my time playing the door Murder Motel.
"You enter the room. There is a blowtorch on the floor and user 'Samsonite'"
"What do you choose to do?:"
Bump. From one of the old schoolers that visited your BBS.
These days, I think "Bump" is a keyword equivalent to nudge, nudge (I now have a 14 year old, so I'm hip-by-proxy).
You don't have top karma possible.
The highest Karma rating is:
"Within Epsilon of Perfection"
I'm not sure how to get it, but it does exist.
Do you remember LeechZmodem? In stead of sending the final ACK of the last byte of the download, it would send an Abort and you wouldn't get charged for your Download. Or should I say, it wouldn't affect your UL/DL ratio.
Damn I miss those days when you could chat with someone online and actually have something in common with them - because you were both "chatting online". Being "online" was something worth having in common with a stranger. These days, some old lady might be online chatting about paperclip art with her fellow paperclip art enthusiasts.
Barf.
I'm surprised at how easily I recall the details.
I had the same epiphany in an earlier post when I recalled my old BBS #. For some reason, I can remember an incredible amount of details from that time (I was in High School).
Of course, that was also before I went to college and discovered alcohol.
I hope your NovaTerm supports the new ANSI Color Graphics! We're l33t, and we have warez cracked by The Humble Guys (THG)!
I think I used to dial in to your BBS! My handle was Mirrorshades back then. Of course, so was everyone elses (or so it seemed).
I took it from Mozart in Mirrorshades (of course, so did everyone else probably).
It truly is a small world - or it's a large world with lots of similarly named BBS'es.
Dude, I think that's a perl script or something. I think you run it on the command line to get the actual output. Something like:
perl -e "[that post here]"
At least, I think that's how to turn it into English.
OMG, shoot me. It was the internet for us poor kids that didn't go to college (or weren't old enough) to get on the real internet.
BBS is an acronym for Bulletin Board System. It was a server with modems that people would dial into. It ran special software that served up files, forums, and even email gateways to real internet in some cases.
Since you had to call into them and pay toll charges (to access the really good BBS'es that were Long Distance [or LD if you're nasty]), Beige Boxes, Blue Boxes, and Red Boxes were popular.
Besides, when you jacked into your neighbors phone line, you didn't have to worry about your parents getting pissed 'In case someone has to call the house in an emergency'.
Fun times, yessiree! Ah, the memories (and 8-bit mammaries).
I ran a WWiV and Emulex/2 board from my parent's house back in the day. I think the # was 407-259-5286.
.GIF (or jif).
Anyway, those were the days. G-Files and waiting 30 minutes for a [hopefully] good X-rated
True. I guess I'd probably have a stupid look at the moment I came across a booth babe. "Oh God" is right! Luckily it only lasts for a few seconds and I'd be able to go back to looking normal.
Ok, that's enough for now.
How did this not get modded as insightful?
Great post.
No. The fact that when they cry/whine/become emotionally unstable/etc and we can't legally kick their ass when they do is why they're capable of controlling us.
Why doesn't he open a bank account (replete with credit/debit card) the next time he's in the city?
By doing this, he could buy things online with ease.
However, I'm assuming he wants to purchase ahem, 'intangible' products from the web that can only be enjoyed on the computer, like the rest of world. On the other hand, I'm not sure how he'd keep the wife and kids out of the hut long enough to enjoy his new purchase.
Great, so on the new Tablet PC's you can simply "write" your password in the PW box.
Heh.
From the article:
We know it's tough being an actress/model in LA, but there's got got to be better gigs than pretending to have a sleepover party in the middle of a trade show.
Quoth Lord Dimboress:
"We couldn't even wear thongs! Like OMFG! Not having something in my butt was the most difficult thing ever! I sooo hope I get paid for this."
You can see it here:
http://www.dashpc.com/map/
It's probably not the wisest thing to do - but it's a proof of concept.
The only problem with this is that the next day you can't sit around the water cooler and gossip with the secretaries about "what happened on Desparate Housewives last night". ;)