These calls were recorded and videotaped by the hackers and are sold as instructional material at future hacker conferences.
Now that gives an interesting movie, seeing a hacker calling an AT&T employee... You'll have more fun listening to Brain Damage:
"Brain Damage" was a two hour call-in show hosted by Emmanuel (using the name Eric Corley) which aired from 1988 to 1995. The show covered all kinds of serious topics as well as non-serious ones. Favorite regular features included
Confuse The Operator, highlights from Radio Moscow, and a reading of the lunch menu by the university lunch lady. Callers contributed their over-the-phone songs, stories of their lives, and features such as the "Math Teacher Spy." There were fewer and fewer shows in the later years until it finally came to an end on January 29, 1995.
Public Radio rules!:-)
A nice HavenCo / Sealand background article...
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It automatically assumes that people will work in their best interests, but, somehow, they stop working for them when it comes to collaborating with others to keep things going.
This is a true story from when I attended a phsychology class. We were told this "tragedy of the commons" story and three people were brought up to the front of the class. The professor had a bowl with three chocolate eggs in it and said "at the beginning of each minute I pass the bowl and at the end of the minute I double the amount of eggs.". Remember, this was a minute after he stopped his lecture about the "tragedy of the commons".
First person, gets the bowl with three eggs, grabs one. Second person too, third person too. Result after ten seconds: one empty bowl.
The professor explains it once again: "I'll double the amount of eggs each minute.". First person gets the bowl, doesn't take any. Second person get the bowl, takes an egg. Third person, takes one egg, puts down the bowl, gets the third egg. That was two minutes after the lecture, after a 'practise round' and two times things explained. Third person gives one of the eggs to the first person, who finally can't hold himself anymore and starts swearing to the second and third person.
Humans are too stupid to understand when it comes to long term consequences. Enjoy our SUV while you can, the end is near.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think that globalisation et al are wrong, as long as you take *all* aspects of it, not only the short-term ones like make-money-fast and the-next-generation-will-solve-this. If you go for a certain approach, take everything including the messy parts, not only the easy gains.
Go to http://www.ntp.org to get all your time-synchronisation questions answered.
Also for in- or near-Germany living people: http://www.dcf77.de. Wish I knew it was a german-specific service before I came to.au and found out that my DCF77 receiver didn't work here...
Do we have to start misspelling color like "colour" before we do that?
No, I spell it that way because that's how I've been taught to do it in highschool. Before that, it was "kleur" for me. I think it will be easier for you to recognise my "colour" as your "color" than it is to recognise my "kleur" as your "color":-)
For people interested, Wired had also an article about it last year called The X Wars
"Boeing and Lockheed are battling head-to-head to build the strike fighter of the future, a sleek, smart aircraft that will carry tomorrow's Air Force, Navy, and Marines - if it can fight its way out of the Pentagon."
Thank you for pointing out that visualisation is an important part of math:
Also, make damn sure you leave the money I gave you on top of the register until I agree that it's the right amount of change. This prevents "I gave you a $20! No you didn't, you gave me a $10!" arguments.
How much of these arguments would have been stopped in advance if people in the US were able to see the difference on a 1, 5, 10, whatever note by checking the colour of it?
Take the next step into evolution, colour your notes, and prevent confusion and unnecessary arguments caused by the fact that all your notes are the same colour.
After that it's only a matter of time before you adopt the metric system and your math will be easy again:-)
Dutch money always (well, before 1975 which is "always" for somebody born in 1970) had these brail thingies.
One circle (or none*) for the 5 guilder note. Two circles (or one*) for the 10 guilder note. Three circles (or two*) for the 25 guilder note. Four circles (or three*) for the 100 guilder note. Five circles (or four*) for the 1000 guilder note.
After that the 50 and 250 guilder notes came and for the 50 they used a square IIRC, but for the 250 guilder one? I have no idea.
Oh well, I haven't even seen a eurobill yet.
*: I don't have them anymore and I can't recall the precise amount of them.
Is it just me, but does the article give no reason at all why it has to be `shutdown'?
But it will probably go something like this: Filmmaker: "We need all the people out of the city for two days." Mayor: "That's not possible. We can ban jetskies from the harbour if you like." Filmmaker: "No, we need the city, not the harbour. We are going to do some stunts there." Mayor: "Sounds impressive, but what if all the people start riding their jetskies in the harbour instead of going to the city? I don't like that, and I've made it illegal already." Filmmaker: "Please have a look at this script, it's specially printed for you on green paper with some transparent parts for the so called `special effects'". Mayor: "It's a deal, I'll just make being in the city on these days illegal, except for people with jetskies. After all, they might go ride them in the harbour if they're not allowed to put them in the city."
If this turns into the future way of flying, I finally don't have to worry about alien invasions anymore:
Human pilot: "I can't shake them loose, they're going too fast for us!" Alien pilot: "I shoot this laser straight through his ship!" <<<ZOT>>> Human pilot: "Turbospeed! Thank you, come again!" and flies off, delivering the nuke to the alien mothership.
I honestly don't think it's that simple. Why are release notes up for it?
Interresting[sp?] point. Why were there so many magazines, websites, books about WindowsME (I think that's the one, I can't keep track of it anymore. I mean the successor of WindowsNT) before the product was on the shelves in the shops? Why are there all these technical documents / HOWTOs already available on the websites before the product is available? It's called preparations! Nobody was able to buy WindowsME before that day, but everybody had read about it and everybody had seen books about.
Why did I get 10 submissions celebrating it's release?
If you go to this url: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/ you will see a list of release-notes, erratas and announcements. Add some creative surfing to it et voila, there is your 4.6 announcement.
I've tried to find it, but no, I couldn't find any direct links to the release notes. Only with creative surfing I could find it.
So, oops, sorry, really don't do it for me, no, not yet.
There is a damned good reason for it:
Murray Stokely writes "We have gone over this for the past 2 releases now. I thought I had made it clear that you were not to publish information about FreeBSD being released until you saw a signed PGP message from one of the release engineers.
Screwing it up once, "no problem just don't do it next time". Screwing it up twice, "I told you how this was going to be done, can you *PLEASE* do it right?". Screwing it up three times... Now that's a sign that there is something really wrong.
"Welcome to Internet Explorer. With this you can easily go everywhere on the Internet. Except for sites which have protocols that we have problems with implementing(*). Have a nice day.
(*) This is everything except FTP and HTTP. Even if there are problems with the implementation of FTP and/or HTTP, we will not remove them(**).
(**) This will happen after we've implemented the MS-PPTP(***) into our IIS servers and have replaced TCP/IP with the MS-PITY(****).
(***) Microsoft Private Propriatary[sp] Transfer Protocol is a trademark of...
(****) Microsft Protocol for Internet TechnologY is a trademark of...."
That's a nice example of how a piece of text can be interpreted in two ways:
Does it mean "You're so stupid, don't even try to find out what is going on" or is it "This is pretty weird stuff going on here, don't worry if you don't get it"?
Knowing where it is coming from, I go for the second approach (after all, my glass is always half-full:-), but there are people who will take the wrong interpretation and be insulted about it.
Now I'll have a good excuse why I didn't answer my mobile[*]: I was too busy fighting the dragon to get that +5/+5 blessed rustproof platinum longsword.
[*] I don't have a mobile in real life, but it was too tempting not to post this.
Stop complaining about the example and start complaining about the context.
(In case you didn't get it, she/he's complaining about the fact that his ISP doesn't allow her/him to connect to services running on her/his computer).
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Now that gives an interesting movie, seeing a hacker calling an AT&T employee... You'll have more fun listening to Brain Damage: Public Radio rules!
... was published in Wired two years ago.
It automatically assumes that people will work in their best interests, but, somehow, they stop working for them when it comes to collaborating with others to keep things going.
This is a true story from when I attended a phsychology class. We were told this "tragedy of the commons" story and three people were brought up to the front of the class. The professor had a bowl with three chocolate eggs in it and said "at the beginning of each minute I pass the bowl and at the end of the minute I double the amount of eggs.". Remember, this was a minute after he stopped his lecture about the "tragedy of the commons".
First person, gets the bowl with three eggs, grabs one. Second person too, third person too. Result after ten seconds: one empty bowl.
The professor explains it once again: "I'll double the amount of eggs each minute.". First person gets the bowl, doesn't take any. Second person get the bowl, takes an egg. Third person, takes one egg, puts down the bowl, gets the third egg. That was two minutes after the lecture, after a 'practise round' and two times things explained. Third person gives one of the eggs to the first person, who finally can't hold himself anymore and starts swearing to the second and third person.
Humans are too stupid to understand when it comes to long term consequences. Enjoy our SUV while you can, the end is near.
Don't worry, it's just a protocol on top of IP. Just like UDP, TCP and ICMP are.
Take with as large a grain of salt as you think appropriate.
Aaaah, a beautiful example of the 'tragedy of the commons'.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think that globalisation et al are wrong, as long as you take *all* aspects of it, not only the short-term ones like make-money-fast and the-next-generation-will-solve-this. If you go for a certain approach, take everything including the messy parts, not only the easy gains.
MacOS 8.6.x already had this feature.
Go to http://www.ntp.org to get all your time-synchronisation questions answered.
.au and found out that my DCF77 receiver didn't work here...
Also for in- or near-Germany living people: http://www.dcf77.de. Wish I knew it was a german-specific service before I came to
Do we have to start misspelling color like "colour" before we do that?
:-)
No, I spell it that way because that's how I've been taught to do it in highschool. Before that, it was "kleur" for me. I think it will be easier for you to recognise my "colour" as your "color" than it is to recognise my "kleur" as your "color"
Thank you for pointing out that visualisation is an important part of math:
:-)
Also, make damn sure you leave the money I gave you on top of the register until I agree that it's the right amount of change. This prevents "I gave you a $20! No you didn't, you gave me a $10!" arguments.
How much of these arguments would have been stopped in advance if people in the US were able to see the difference on a 1, 5, 10, whatever note by checking the colour of it?
Take the next step into evolution, colour your notes, and prevent confusion and unnecessary arguments caused by the fact that all your notes are the same colour.
After that it's only a matter of time before you adopt the metric system and your math will be easy again
It also happens in The GIMP and I'm pretty sure it works in every program which does call that X or XFS call with these parameters.
As you can read on bugtraq, the general attitude is that it's more a problem within X and/or XFS than in Mozilla.
Brail
Dutch money always (well, before 1975 which is "always" for somebody born in 1970) had these brail thingies.
One circle (or none*) for the 5 guilder note.
Two circles (or one*) for the 10 guilder note.
Three circles (or two*) for the 25 guilder note.
Four circles (or three*) for the 100 guilder note.
Five circles (or four*) for the 1000 guilder note.
After that the 50 and 250 guilder notes came and for the 50 they used a square IIRC, but for the 250 guilder one? I have no idea.
Oh well, I haven't even seen a eurobill yet.
*: I don't have them anymore and I can't recall the precise amount of them.
Is it just me, but does the article give no reason at all why it has to be `shutdown'?
But it will probably go something like this:
Filmmaker: "We need all the people out of the city for two days."
Mayor: "That's not possible. We can ban jetskies from the harbour if you like."
Filmmaker: "No, we need the city, not the harbour. We are going to do some stunts there."
Mayor: "Sounds impressive, but what if all the people start riding their jetskies in the harbour instead of going to the city? I don't like that, and I've made it illegal already."
Filmmaker: "Please have a look at this script, it's specially printed for you on green paper with some transparent parts for the so called `special effects'".
Mayor: "It's a deal, I'll just make being in the city on these days illegal, except for people with jetskies. After all, they might go ride them in the harbour if they're not allowed to put them in the city."
People from Sydney should get the subtleties...
If this turns into the future way of flying, I finally don't have to worry about alien invasions anymore:
Human pilot: "I can't shake them loose, they're going too fast for us!"
Alien pilot: "I shoot this laser straight through his ship!"
<<<ZOT>>>
Human pilot: "Turbospeed! Thank you, come again!" and flies off, delivering the nuke to the alien mothership.
I honestly don't think it's that simple. Why are release notes up for it?
Interresting[sp?] point. Why were there so many magazines, websites, books about WindowsME (I think that's the one, I can't keep track of it anymore. I mean the successor of WindowsNT) before the product was on the shelves in the shops? Why are there all these technical documents / HOWTOs already available on the websites before the product is available? It's called preparations! Nobody was able to buy WindowsME before that day, but everybody had read about it and everybody had seen books about.
Why did I get 10 submissions celebrating it's release?
If you go to this url:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/ you will see a list of release-notes, erratas and announcements. Add some creative surfing to it et voila, there is your 4.6 announcement.
I've tried to find it, but no, I couldn't find any direct links to the release notes. Only with creative surfing I could find it.
So, oops, sorry, really don't do it for me, no, not yet.
There is a damned good reason for it:
Murray Stokely writes "We have gone over this for the past 2 releases now. I thought I had made it clear that you were not to publish information about FreeBSD being released until you saw a signed PGP message from one of the release engineers.
Screwing it up once, "no problem just don't do it next time". Screwing it up twice, "I told you how this was going to be done, can you *PLEASE* do it right?". Screwing it up three times... Now that's a sign that there is something really wrong.
Why should IE continue to support Gopher?
...
...."
"Welcome to Internet Explorer. With this you can easily go everywhere on the Internet. Except for sites which have protocols that we have problems with implementing(*). Have a nice day.
(*) This is everything except FTP and HTTP. Even if there are problems with the implementation of FTP and/or HTTP, we will not remove them(**).
(**) This will happen after we've implemented the MS-PPTP(***) into our IIS servers and have replaced TCP/IP with the MS-PITY(****).
(***) Microsoft Private Propriatary[sp] Transfer Protocol is a trademark of
(****) Microsft Protocol for Internet TechnologY is a trademark of
First the slashdot effect, then the `upgrade' to IIS. Life is going to be good for them :-)
That's a nice example of how a piece of text can be interpreted in two ways:
:-), but there are people who will take the wrong interpretation and be insulted about it.
Does it mean "You're so stupid, don't even try to find out what is going on" or is it "This is pretty weird stuff going on here, don't worry if you don't get it"?
Knowing where it is coming from, I go for the second approach (after all, my glass is always half-full
Now I'll have a good excuse why I didn't answer my mobile[*]: I was too busy fighting the dragon to get that +5/+5 blessed rustproof platinum longsword.
[*] I don't have a mobile in real life, but it was too tempting not to post this.
And I was afraid we would be wiped out by robots which were made a little bit too smart for us to cope with.
That will teach me for being too pessemistic.
(it's early in the morning, my spellchecker is still sleeping :-)
I have to admit, I got more information about Echolon from a talk on DDJ's Technetcast:
m l?st ream_id=423
'ECHELON and The Insecurity Industry' at
http://technetcast.ddj.com/tnc_play_stream.ht
Stop complaining about the example and start complaining about the context.
(In case you didn't get it, she/he's complaining about the fact that his ISP doesn't allow her/him to connect to services running on her/his computer).
I never thought I would ever say this :-)
But yeah, I've wasted enough time (and thus the company money) fighting these stupid outlook/IIS viri and we are not the only company in the world...