If you want your money to go really, really far, I have to recommend the videogame museum we started here in downtown Oakland. We raised $20,000 on Kickstarter and 100% of that money has gone to rent, Internet, and insurance. We've not spent a dime on anything except those expenses. Everything else in the museum is donated, save for the meager tables and shelves we have, which we purchased via funds donated by people visiting the museum (About $400).
Any funds donated to the MADE will be used to continue to keep the doors open. Why is that important? Because we are offering free programming classes for local inner city kids. We currently only have 2 teachers, but we're looking for more. Those teachers spend 1 hour teaching the kids MIT Scratch, then a second hour teaching Python.
Of course, we also have exhibits, events, talks, and adult classes, but all of those are just icing on the cake for our "everything playable" videogame museum. The real change the world part of our organization are our classes. We've only been open since November, but with some more monetary donations and volunteers, we'll be able to expand our classes in 2012, and maybe even offer after school programs instead of just weekend classes.
OK, I've been a fan since about 89, so I have a lot of questions to ask.
First: For each of you, which 1 song of yours is your favorite.
Second: The World's Address is a sad pun that reflects a sadder mess. Where did the idea for this song come from, and why the violin version?
Third: Who thinks she's Edith Head? Some specific person you knew?
Fourth: Any chance of releasing the visual song tie-in games from No on the Web?
Fifth: Do ya'll actually use metal detectors at the beach?
Sixth: What was it like trying to play the that bazookie thing in "older than you've ever been?" Was it a klezmer?
Seventh: I've seen you in concert a few times, and Angel is a tough one to get ya'll to play. It's a popular tune with the fans, is it out of favor with ya'll?
Eighth: What did ya'll think of the Tiny Toons episode your songs were in?
Two things: There was little stress testing because GPG has a byzantine Internet policy, and forbids its workers from using anything but the Web at work. No holes were poked for them to test online.
Second, Scott Kevill's GameRanger quickly pulled the slack in for Demigod, and supported the game online just two days after launch. As I write this, there are around 100 people playing Demigod on GameRanger right now.
This time around, the bubble that's bursting isn't tech at all. In fact, look at the stock market the past few days: everything down, tech up. Web 2.0 won't be bursting anytime soon, if at all.
The HOUSING market and mortgage industry, however... hooooooooo boy, that sector is bursting as we speak, and it just keeps getting worse. Tech will likely be the only thing that doesn't fall completely apart in the next 6 months, frankly.
Evil or not, these lobbyists are effective in making politicians do what they want. Traditionally, these pols have completely ignored nerds and computer enthusiasts, opting instead to pass stupid and impossible to enforce laws that limit everything from profanity on the Internet to streaming radio stations. So, I bet Google was sick of having no one on capital hill listen to its concerns about net neutrality. With DCI working for the good guys now, I bet congress starts listening.
This is akin to hiring thugs to stop the mob from busting up your shop. Sure, they're mindless thugs, but they know how the system works and can use it against the bad guys.
OK, this one comes from Georgia Tech. It's an oldie, but a goodie.
A tech gets a call from Professor Anders in the statistics department. Anders says that the members of his department are only able to send email 500 miles. The tech gets a strange look on his face, then starts asking questions about the situation. After a lengthy phone discussion, he decides that the fellow who has called him is truly not making this up. After all, this is the statistics department, and they're not prone to pulling figures out of the air.
So, the tech goes over to the statistics department and checks out their server. It's a simple old SPARC running Solaris. He sends out some email to a friend in California. Sure enough, it bounces. He sends an email to a friend in Florida, and it goes through fine. The tech scratches his head.
He asks Anders is anything has changed on this SPARC server recently. Turns out that, yes, the server was recently updated to a newer version of Solaris (Version numbers lost to the fog of history). So the tech takes a look at the server and finds that, despite the newer OS, the older version of SendMail is still on the machine. Anders nods and says that, after the update, they downgraded SendMail to an older, more stable version. Ahah! The tech opened the config file, and sure enough, he found the problem.
The new version of SendMail had created a new Config file. This file had some new format for the "Timeout" entry. When the old version was placed onto the system, it tried to read the new config file, but couldn't interpret it correctly. Thus, it set the "Timeout" to "0." How far can electronic information travel away from the server before the CPU can count to 0? 500 miles.
It is difficult enough for the media to keep itself from chewing on its cheeks at the moment. A constant inundation of information is possible these days, and as a result, many television news channels find themselves reporting for hours on meaningless stories, navel-gazing media-on-media coverage, and the latest celebrity items. The quality and necessary work is still being done by reputable mainstream and blogging outlets, but these almost universally require subterfuge, lying, and secrecy to be successful.
The media, when it's good, is underhanded. The media are the original hackers. Woodward and Bernstein hacked Nixon through a backdoor. This backdoor just happened to smoke and hang out in parking structures.
Stories come out much better when the subjects don't initially know they are being observed and written about. It's that hidden observation that lies at the heart of any good story, and it's where those dangerous questions that the media must ask come from. Nixon had no idea that his crimes had been discovered until the Washington Post printed the W&B piece.
A good writer digs through stinking shit-piles to pull out juicy bits of information just as a hacker dumpster-dives to find passwords and old hardware.
But being hidden will be quite hard if the government skirts privacy laws to spy on journalists. It's perfectly, 100% reasonable for the government to check its own records to look for leaks. If these ABC journalists' numbers show up as being called from internal NSA phone lines, then the NSA are perfectly able to track down the leakers internally.
But once they cross the line out into the real world by checking these journalists' personal phone records, a giant leap is made across the gray area that exists between legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, freedom and tyranny.
Speaking as a journalist, I must say that this is probably the single most outrageous thing I've head of this administration doing. Freedom of the press is one of our most dear and treasured rights, and attempts made to quash this freedom undermine not only the media as a whole, but the American people at large.
So, I say unto you, the media and bloggers and pundits and speakers and writers and photographers, stand up for the media's rights. The government is already afraid of the media. It's not afraid of the people as a whole. It's not afraid of a revolution: it has all the guns. But it is certainly afraid of bad publicity.
Fight this injustice, if true, and attack it's creators. They deserve the harshest of punishments for these deeds.
First of all, monitors are free now at the ACCRC, as long as you are a California resident.
This IS the place that fixes PC's and gives them to charities, non-profits, and underprivlidged individuals.
The ACCRC was the recycler that took all of the equipment for free at the Solano Street fair, the day in Albany to which this post refers. The Solano Street fair will probably host the ACCRC for free recycling again next this year. No one from Albany has called to set this up yet, however.
Oh, and the ACCRC will take anything you can lug to the Make Faire for free. No charge. The one caveat is that it has to be able to fit in the truck, and there may not be a lift gate. So, disassemble those Onyx's first, people!
I went to a terrific optometrist named Belinda in Washington State, Kennewick. She took images of my inner eye, and told me I was healthy, free of arterial problems, heart disease, and so forth just by looking at my images. She pinpointed where the genetic flaws were that caused my grandfather to go blind too. There's nothing quite as surreal as looking into pictures of your own eye...
Way to go Yuri! Your mob has successfully beaten out gray listing and Baraccuda Networks as the best possible solution to this problem! Is there a Paypal donate button that allows me to give money to the Russian mafia to encourage their continued campaign against spammers? Oh, wait... here's that button, within the body of this email from admin@paypal.com
I'm in the same situation as you. I have DSL and not cable subscription service. I can still get Fox and ABC and CBS and PBS (There's no NBC affiliate in the Bay Area), and I enjoy the Simpsons and so forth.
When TV goes dark, however, I guess I'll just have to do without. Oh horror! No TV? Whatever will I do? Why, watch Nullsoft Streaming Video, of course!
After Adobe won the interface court case a few years back, Macromedia had to change all of it menu and interface structures to be obtuse and retarded because anything usable would be considered to be an infringement on Adobe's patents.
Maybe now Dreamweaver and Freehand will be returned to their former, usable state.
Raph Koster was not the keynote speaker for the Game Developers Conference, as this story states. Raph Koster was the keynote speaker for the Serious Games Summit, a smaller event that takes place at the GDC. The real keynote speakers will be talking later this week, and are from Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony. Sony consoles, that is, not Sony online, like Raph.
I completely agree with the ideal that Diplomacy will be a revelation. It requires no luck, is based solely on the conniving, sneaking, and evil nature of those involved, and can waste away an entire day without blinking an eye.
Easily the best interpersonal interaction game ever designed.
Isn't this the spectrum that television broadcasts run over?
As we all know by now, the FCC will likely give most of this to the phone companies, some to the media moguls, and then slop off about.001 Mhz worth fo spectrum to the public domain.
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If you want your money to go really, really far, I have to recommend the videogame museum we started here in downtown Oakland. We raised $20,000 on Kickstarter and 100% of that money has gone to rent, Internet, and insurance. We've not spent a dime on anything except those expenses. Everything else in the museum is donated, save for the meager tables and shelves we have, which we purchased via funds donated by people visiting the museum (About $400).
Any funds donated to the MADE will be used to continue to keep the doors open. Why is that important? Because we are offering free programming classes for local inner city kids. We currently only have 2 teachers, but we're looking for more. Those teachers spend 1 hour teaching the kids MIT Scratch, then a second hour teaching Python.
Of course, we also have exhibits, events, talks, and adult classes, but all of those are just icing on the cake for our "everything playable" videogame museum. The real change the world part of our organization are our classes. We've only been open since November, but with some more monetary donations and volunteers, we'll be able to expand our classes in 2012, and maybe even offer after school programs instead of just weekend classes.
Oh, and we're 100% volunteer run.
http://www.themade.org/
OK, I've been a fan since about 89, so I have a lot of questions to ask.
First: For each of you, which 1 song of yours is your favorite.
Second: The World's Address is a sad pun that reflects a sadder mess. Where did the idea for this song come from, and why the violin version?
Third: Who thinks she's Edith Head? Some specific person you knew?
Fourth: Any chance of releasing the visual song tie-in games from No on the Web?
Fifth: Do ya'll actually use metal detectors at the beach?
Sixth: What was it like trying to play the that bazookie thing in "older than you've ever been?" Was it a klezmer?
Seventh: I've seen you in concert a few times, and Angel is a tough one to get ya'll to play. It's a popular tune with the fans, is it out of favor with ya'll?
Eighth: What did ya'll think of the Tiny Toons episode your songs were in?
No matter the OS, no matter the exploit, that name alone in the title of an email to bugtraq can send shivers down the spine.
Two things: There was little stress testing because GPG has a byzantine Internet policy, and forbids its workers from using anything but the Web at work. No holes were poked for them to test online.
Second, Scott Kevill's GameRanger quickly pulled the slack in for Demigod, and supported the game online just two days after launch. As I write this, there are around 100 people playing Demigod on GameRanger right now.
http://www.gameranger.com/
Uhm, anyone used Gmail in the last 6 months with Firefox in Debian?
That only works in HTML form sometimes. Mozilla and Debian do not get along.
This time around, the bubble that's bursting isn't tech at all. In fact, look at the stock market the past few days: everything down, tech up. Web 2.0 won't be bursting anytime soon, if at all.
The HOUSING market and mortgage industry, however... hooooooooo boy, that sector is bursting as we speak, and it just keeps getting worse. Tech will likely be the only thing that doesn't fall completely apart in the next 6 months, frankly.
As far as nothing good being on HBO anymore....
The Wire season 5 will be it's last, but it'll still be on HBO. Frankly, I think The Wire is the single best television show ever made.
Evil or not, these lobbyists are effective in making politicians do what they want. Traditionally, these pols have completely ignored nerds and computer enthusiasts, opting instead to pass stupid and impossible to enforce laws that limit everything from profanity on the Internet to streaming radio stations. So, I bet Google was sick of having no one on capital hill listen to its concerns about net neutrality. With DCI working for the good guys now, I bet congress starts listening.
This is akin to hiring thugs to stop the mob from busting up your shop. Sure, they're mindless thugs, but they know how the system works and can use it against the bad guys.
OK, this one comes from Georgia Tech. It's an oldie, but a goodie.
A tech gets a call from Professor Anders in the statistics department. Anders says that the members of his department are only able to send email 500 miles. The tech gets a strange look on his face, then starts asking questions about the situation. After a lengthy phone discussion, he decides that the fellow who has called him is truly not making this up. After all, this is the statistics department, and they're not prone to pulling figures out of the air.
So, the tech goes over to the statistics department and checks out their server. It's a simple old SPARC running Solaris. He sends out some email to a friend in California. Sure enough, it bounces. He sends an email to a friend in Florida, and it goes through fine. The tech scratches his head.
He asks Anders is anything has changed on this SPARC server recently. Turns out that, yes, the server was recently updated to a newer version of Solaris (Version numbers lost to the fog of history). So the tech takes a look at the server and finds that, despite the newer OS, the older version of SendMail is still on the machine. Anders nods and says that, after the update, they downgraded SendMail to an older, more stable version. Ahah! The tech opened the config file, and sure enough, he found the problem.
The new version of SendMail had created a new Config file. This file had some new format for the "Timeout" entry. When the old version was placed onto the system, it tried to read the new config file, but couldn't interpret it correctly. Thus, it set the "Timeout" to "0." How far can electronic information travel away from the server before the CPU can count to 0? 500 miles.
It is difficult enough for the media to keep itself from chewing on its cheeks at the moment. A constant inundation of information is possible these days, and as a result, many television news channels find themselves reporting for hours on meaningless stories, navel-gazing media-on-media coverage, and the latest celebrity items. The quality and necessary work is still being done by reputable mainstream and blogging outlets, but these almost universally require subterfuge, lying, and secrecy to be successful.
The media, when it's good, is underhanded. The media are the original hackers. Woodward and Bernstein hacked Nixon through a backdoor. This backdoor just happened to smoke and hang out in parking structures.
Stories come out much better when the subjects don't initially know they are being observed and written about. It's that hidden observation that lies at the heart of any good story, and it's where those dangerous questions that the media must ask come from. Nixon had no idea that his crimes had been discovered until the Washington Post printed the W&B piece.
A good writer digs through stinking shit-piles to pull out juicy bits of information just as a hacker dumpster-dives to find passwords and old hardware.
But being hidden will be quite hard if the government skirts privacy laws to spy on journalists. It's perfectly, 100% reasonable for the government to check its own records to look for leaks. If these ABC journalists' numbers show up as being called from internal NSA phone lines, then the NSA are perfectly able to track down the leakers internally.
But once they cross the line out into the real world by checking these journalists' personal phone records, a giant leap is made across the gray area that exists between legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, freedom and tyranny.
Speaking as a journalist, I must say that this is probably the single most outrageous thing I've head of this administration doing. Freedom of the press is one of our most dear and treasured rights, and attempts made to quash this freedom undermine not only the media as a whole, but the American people at large.
So, I say unto you, the media and bloggers and pundits and speakers and writers and photographers, stand up for the media's rights. The government is already afraid of the media. It's not afraid of the people as a whole. It's not afraid of a revolution: it has all the guns. But it is certainly afraid of bad publicity.
Fight this injustice, if true, and attack it's creators. They deserve the harshest of punishments for these deeds.
I know this will get troll'd, but seriously, Dvorak is a fucking idiot. He just makes this shit up.
First of all, monitors are free now at the ACCRC, as long as you are a California resident.
This IS the place that fixes PC's and gives them to charities, non-profits, and underprivlidged individuals.
The ACCRC was the recycler that took all of the equipment for free at the Solano Street fair, the day in Albany to which this post refers. The Solano Street fair will probably host the ACCRC for free recycling again next this year. No one from Albany has called to set this up yet, however.
Oh, and the ACCRC will take anything you can lug to the Make Faire for free. No charge. The one caveat is that it has to be able to fit in the truck, and there may not be a lift gate. So, disassemble those Onyx's first, people!
I went to a terrific optometrist named Belinda in Washington State, Kennewick. She took images of my inner eye, and told me I was healthy, free of arterial problems, heart disease, and so forth just by looking at my images. She pinpointed where the genetic flaws were that caused my grandfather to go blind too.
There's nothing quite as surreal as looking into pictures of your own eye...
and thanks for all the guns.
Planet: a Giant lump of stuff and things as rolled up by a small green prince or one of his cousins.
Way to go Yuri! Your mob has successfully beaten out gray listing and Baraccuda Networks as the best possible solution to this problem! Is there a Paypal donate button that allows me to give money to the Russian mafia to encourage their continued campaign against spammers? Oh, wait... here's that button, within the body of this email from admin@paypal.com
How convenient!
Rad, glad you enjoyed them!
I'm in the same situation as you. I have DSL and not cable subscription service. I can still get Fox and ABC and CBS and PBS (There's no NBC affiliate in the Bay Area), and I enjoy the Simpsons and so forth.
When TV goes dark, however, I guess I'll just have to do without. Oh horror! No TV? Whatever will I do? Why, watch Nullsoft Streaming Video, of course!
http://stevemoustache.com/
http://www.demoscene.tv/
After Adobe won the interface court case a few years back, Macromedia had to change all of it menu and interface structures to be obtuse and retarded because anything usable would be considered to be an infringement on Adobe's patents.
Maybe now Dreamweaver and Freehand will be returned to their former, usable state.
Raph Koster was not the keynote speaker for the Game Developers Conference, as this story states. Raph Koster was the keynote speaker for the Serious Games Summit, a smaller event that takes place at the GDC. The real keynote speakers will be talking later this week, and are from Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony. Sony consoles, that is, not Sony online, like Raph.
I completely agree with the ideal that Diplomacy will be a revelation. It requires no luck, is based solely on the conniving, sneaking, and evil nature of those involved, and can waste away an entire day without blinking an eye.
Easily the best interpersonal interaction game ever designed.
Fell Much Safer. (TM)
Workplace productivity grows by leaps and bounds for a three day stretch.
Will it run on my toaster?
Isn't this the spectrum that television broadcasts run over?
.001 Mhz worth fo spectrum to the public domain.
As we all know by now, the FCC will likely give most of this to the phone companies, some to the media moguls, and then slop off about
Thanks Mr. Powell...