It's great to know this guy is still at it, despite getting raided by the FBI for the boarding pass hack. However, unless I'm mistaken banking stuff like this is under the auspices of the Secret Service, so this guy might want to set some extra places at the dinner table for a different group of goons.
The cooking-oil-powered vehicles kick out exhaust that, at worst, smells a bit like french fries. The smoke from burning wood is mostly harmless if vented properly, and may trigger nostalgic memories of Winter holidays by granddad's old fireplace. The fumes from burning plastics are quite a different, and much more toxic, issue.
One of the biggest reasons to game on a console has always been uniformity of hardware. If I wanted to worry about whether or not a new console game in the store would work well with my particular iteration of the console, I'd be browsing the PC games instead.
Shiny but useless CDs can be very useful for artists who need sparklies. Try sticking them up on your local Freecycle or Craigslist as a freebie, someone out there may be willing to take them off your hands.
It was the end of an AOL recycling era when their software outgrew floppies. I will always love AOL for being an unending source of free, reformattable discs in the 1990s. Every so often I'd call them up acting like a computer repair shop and request a few boxes of DOS, Mac, and Windows kits, and hey presto, another massive stack of free floppies for whatever. They used good quality discs, I guess in order to survive being smacked around by mail carriers.
The golden age of useful recyclable spam.. *sigh*..now git off my lawn!
the radio station will have a lot in common with GTA 3 or Saints Row; not so much bands and songs you know well, but with modern music conventions that give an air of authenticity.
I like this. While nobody can debate the necessity of the 80s-fest in "Vice City," I missed the subtle humor and commentary of the obscure and made-to-order music in the pre-"Vice City" GTA games.
And to anyone besides me who remembers "The Ballad of Chap-Lips Calhoun," congratulations on getting it stuck in your head again after reading this.
Because the ultimate goal of most new commercial product releases is to beat out the competition and make itself the ubiquitous choice in its category. iPod is the most popular digital music player gadget, so if you want to throw in on that market you have to aim to beat iPod.
I'd be so into this were he willing to go into space if his craft and mission computers were all running off-the-shelf Vista. Let's see how much faith he really has in his flagship product...
Heckenkamp was caught after a system administrator at the university hacked into his Linux box to gather evidence that Heckenkamp had been attacking the college mail server.
But what if that evidence had not been there? Would the so-called "counter-hack" have been a punishable offense had the target turned out to be innocent?
It'd be fun if you could hack anyone you wanted at that University as long as you're looking for evidence of wrongdoing.. especially since all the skills you'd need to hack into a box are generally the same skills you'd need to plant whatever evidence you want onto it.
You're not really productive until you have seven flatscreens suspended around your desk. Only then can you build a 3D virus that will help you break through the firewall of that 1024-bit encryption.
To be precise, Trinity uses Nmap to find a vulnerable SSH server, and then throws sshnuke at it, using a real SSH1 CRC32 exploit which existed at the time.
However, any hacker credibility the scene had was destroyed by a gimmicky cameo by my screenname.
Rob T Firefly wants me to tell you, as I type on his behalf from my firm's office in a dark corner of a cramped and humid barn on the outskirts of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick for pennies a week, that he is shocked and saddened by this news.
Yeah, for a few weeks my inbox was peppered with email from friends along the lines of "there's this weird NIN thing, I think it's computer hacker stuff, you're a nerd right?"
Much of it is actually fairly brilliant, the Wikipedia article is worth a once-over if you haven't been following things. I'm especially impressed with the fact that they hid a picture in the spectrogram of one of the songs.
Which brings me back to this article.. NIN wasn't just leaking music tracks, they were distributing clues which were part of this whole ARG thing. As such, they were obivously counting on the tracks being further distributed, unless they really believed that the one person who picked up the USB stick in the bathroom would just happen to be a steganography buff or whatever. People were supposed to throw these tracks around and analyse the crap out of them.
Good point. Still, in these cases, the novelty lies in the constant, subconscious stimuli rather than any "hacking of the senses." Maybe "hacking of the subconscious" would be a beter title.
Perhaps instead of a pocket compass, a better comparison would be a compass on your car's dashboard during a long drive. Although you're not looking at it the whole time, you can be subconsciously aware of the data it presents just as you can sort of know when you're low on gas without deliberately checking the gauge.
Agreed. The only novelty about the methods in TFA seems to be that they are translating data to tactile rather than visual information, but when it all comes down to it this doesn't seem much more "hacking the five senses" than a pocket compass translating physical orientation into visual data.
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I always knew the answers to all life's problems could be found in stackable breakfast foods.
It's great to know this guy is still at it, despite getting raided by the FBI for the boarding pass hack. However, unless I'm mistaken banking stuff like this is under the auspices of the Secret Service, so this guy might want to set some extra places at the dinner table for a different group of goons.
But his body of work will go on and on. The world is a better place for having had him in it for a while.
As a side note, I saw this in the Firehose earlier, and felt really odd about clicking the "thumbs-up" icon next to it.
The cooking-oil-powered vehicles kick out exhaust that, at worst, smells a bit like french fries. The smoke from burning wood is mostly harmless if vented properly, and may trigger nostalgic memories of Winter holidays by granddad's old fireplace. The fumes from burning plastics are quite a different, and much more toxic, issue.
One of the biggest reasons to game on a console has always been uniformity of hardware. If I wanted to worry about whether or not a new console game in the store would work well with my particular iteration of the console, I'd be browsing the PC games instead.
Shiny but useless CDs can be very useful for artists who need sparklies. Try sticking them up on your local Freecycle or Craigslist as a freebie, someone out there may be willing to take them off your hands.
It was the end of an AOL recycling era when their software outgrew floppies. I will always love AOL for being an unending source of free, reformattable discs in the 1990s. Every so often I'd call them up acting like a computer repair shop and request a few boxes of DOS, Mac, and Windows kits, and hey presto, another massive stack of free floppies for whatever. They used good quality discs, I guess in order to survive being smacked around by mail carriers.
..now git off my lawn!
The golden age of useful recyclable spam.. *sigh*
And to anyone besides me who remembers "The Ballad of Chap-Lips Calhoun," congratulations on getting it stuck in your head again after reading this.
Because the ultimate goal of most new commercial product releases is to beat out the competition and make itself the ubiquitous choice in its category. iPod is the most popular digital music player gadget, so if you want to throw in on that market you have to aim to beat iPod.
I'd be so into this were he willing to go into space if his craft and mission computers were all running off-the-shelf Vista. Let's see how much faith he really has in his flagship product...
This is fantastic! I can't see a single downside to increasing the demand for machine oil in this modern world, nosirree..
It'd be fun if you could hack anyone you wanted at that University as long as you're looking for evidence of wrongdoing.. especially since all the skills you'd need to hack into a box are generally the same skills you'd need to plant whatever evidence you want onto it.
You're not really productive until you have seven flatscreens suspended around your desk. Only then can you build a 3D virus that will help you break through the firewall of that 1024-bit encryption.
To be precise, Trinity uses Nmap to find a vulnerable SSH server, and then throws sshnuke at it, using a real SSH1 CRC32 exploit which existed at the time.
However, any hacker credibility the scene had was destroyed by a gimmicky cameo by my screenname.
It infects elf files? This is obviously the work of dwarves.
Rob T Firefly wants me to tell you, as I type on his behalf from my firm's office in a dark corner of a cramped and humid barn on the outskirts of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick for pennies a week, that he is shocked and saddened by this news.
So it turns out he is a merry man after all!
Yeah, for a few weeks my inbox was peppered with email from friends along the lines of "there's this weird NIN thing, I think it's computer hacker stuff, you're a nerd right?"
Much of it is actually fairly brilliant, the Wikipedia article is worth a once-over if you haven't been following things. I'm especially impressed with the fact that they hid a picture in the spectrogram of one of the songs.
Which brings me back to this article.. NIN wasn't just leaking music tracks, they were distributing clues which were part of this whole ARG thing. As such, they were obivously counting on the tracks being further distributed, unless they really believed that the one person who picked up the USB stick in the bathroom would just happen to be a steganography buff or whatever. People were supposed to throw these tracks around and analyse the crap out of them.
This is not a new concern at all. Back in the days of floppy discs and sneakernet, the major delivery system for viruses was infected removable media.
Wow, KITT isn't street-legal. So much for the "Foundation for Law And Government!"
While I'll certainly miss RvB, I can't wait to see what's next from the crew behind it.
Thanks for everything, RoosterTeeth, and best wishes for the future!
Good point. Still, in these cases, the novelty lies in the constant, subconscious stimuli rather than any "hacking of the senses." Maybe "hacking of the subconscious" would be a beter title.
Perhaps instead of a pocket compass, a better comparison would be a compass on your car's dashboard during a long drive. Although you're not looking at it the whole time, you can be subconsciously aware of the data it presents just as you can sort of know when you're low on gas without deliberately checking the gauge.
Agreed. The only novelty about the methods in TFA seems to be that they are translating data to tactile rather than visual information, but when it all comes down to it this doesn't seem much more "hacking the five senses" than a pocket compass translating physical orientation into visual data.
The next series of planning meetings will take place in the chairman's office, over some nice hot coffee..