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Episode: 1041
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Title: HPR1041: Home from H.O.P.E.
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1041/hpr1041.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-17 17:51:26
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Well, this is NY Bill, and we thought we'd just talk a bit about the Hope Conference
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or our thoughts about it, and maybe some of you don't know about the Hope Conference
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and can get to the next one.
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So we should say what the Hope Conference is, it's hackers on planet Earth, and it's put
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on by the guys that do 2600, and they do it every two years at the hotel pen in New York
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City, and we three met each other there, so if only we could have spent more time.
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Yeah, that is tough, there's talk after talk after talk, so yeah, we didn't have much
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time to chat.
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And for that matter, there are four tracks of talks, and there's almost always two interesting
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things going on at the same time, so not only is there no downtime to do other stuff,
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but you're missing something no matter what you do anyway.
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Yeah, and of course, there's the vendor area and the little projects that had hackerspace.
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Yeah, lock pick village, that's always interesting.
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They had a complete solder set up so you could sit and build projects.
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So were you guys there all three days?
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I was.
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I was there as well.
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Okay, I only made a Saturday this time, so I did miss a lot of talks.
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Well, they do put all of the talks up eventually online, I know all of the past talks they've
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been putting up, so I would expect these will end up there sooner than later anyway.
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The radio statler stuff is already going up, so I know none of you probably got a chance
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to keep up with any of that, but it's up now.
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Any talk stick out to you guys?
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Oh man, so many of them.
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The one about how hackerspaces are too much male white clubs and need to be attracting
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more people, get more blood in there, that one was really good.
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It was entertaining and informative and I got a big kick out of it.
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I know I saw it, I even mogulans talk on smartphones and how we have these computers
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honest at all times and that they should be obeying the first law of robotics, Isaac
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Asimov's idea of that, because these are computers that are there ostensibly to do our
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bidding and the first law of robotics is that they should do no harm to the user and
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the current phones that we are carrying around, don't do that.
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He's basically saying that these are robots, we are their hands and feet, we carry them
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around, but they don't necessarily do our bidding or even not work to, they might even
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work against our interests or try to harm us, so it was a very compelling talk and actually
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I bought the DVD from that, so if it doesn't go up soon maybe I'll put that up some
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more.
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Yeah, it seems like half of our phones function is sending everything back to the
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motorship to be sold to advertisers, so yes.
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I got lucky in my brother-in-law, Lidsair and Manhattan, and I was directly across the
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street from the Google building.
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I got, came home, which one, the one on Tannin Chelsea there?
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Chelsea, yes.
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I got home Thursday from walking around your city all day and plugged in the phone and
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it said, hey, you've got an update, and so I got jelly bean right then and there that
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evening and I attributed it to right across the street from the mothership.
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That's right, speaking of the city, I should mention that if anybody is thinking of attending
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hope the next time they do it and you can take a train and the hotel is directly across
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the street from Penn station, so you just walk out of the train, up two flights as there
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is across the street and you're at the convention, that is handy.
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The whole city is handy.
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I rode the subway once and I was in a taxi once.
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I took the bus from the Jersey airport, but besides that I was on foot the whole time
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I was there and had no problem getting around besides the taxi's trying to run me over.
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I almost got hit by a handsome cab once, which is those horse-drawn carriages.
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Wow, nice.
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Everybody kind of times the lights and the walk and do not walk and you can just run across
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the street whenever you want and somehow my brain was not paying attention to standing
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right there was a horse, so I just start walking, there's no cars coming, so I start walking
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out of the street and the guy must hit the horse with the lashes or something and the
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thing, we need like right in my face and lesson learned.
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Yeah, you always be careful crossing the streets in New York, always look both ways, even
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on one way streets.
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Yeah, never know.
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No, I also took the train in and from the Jersey and yes it is an easy experience you
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go into Penn station, you know, up a flight of stairs and right across the street is the
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hotel, it's really couldn't be easier.
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Unless you walk up Penn station and go out the back side like I did, I had to walk around
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three sides.
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Yeah, well, there is that I suppose.
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You know, we really ought to encourage people, I know some of us tend to be kind of live
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under a rock, either at work or your keyboard.
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This was such a great experience.
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I came out from Idaho on the way in, had two hour layover in San Fran and a gentleman
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asked to join me at my table while it was having lunch, turned out he was a high pressure
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physicist, so he spent the whole two hours talking about his field, was having breakfast
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out in front of Times Square and saw her all the walk past me.
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And then on the way back, I had a very nice young woman, she was a TV host in India on
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the flight back to, let's see, I had to land in Phoenix.
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So you know, right there, I got to meet all kinds of cool people, I got to meet you guys,
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everybody out there, I feel like I had a whole years' worth of experiences in just those
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three days, four days in New York, you know.
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Yeah, it doesn't hurt that the conference is in the city because it is fun.
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Yeah, right in the middle of the town, it couldn't be a better location.
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You just walk, well you can walk across the street and get food or you can just go in any
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direction and you can find great restaurants and you can fill your time there.
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You could make hope into a week vacation and that's what we did when I went two years
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ago.
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Oh, speaking of meeting us, I had to do a little stalker stuff before I met you.
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I didn't know what you looked like and I went on HPR and then I saw a link to Flickr
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and I looked through your Flickr page and I go, all right, I think I know what this guy
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looks like because we were going to try, we said before we were going to try and meet up
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and I didn't have time to tell you this but at 9 a.m., I was down near the hacker space
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and I go up to this guy and I tap on his shoulder, I go, are you an HPR guy and he goes,
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huh?
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There is somebody there that has the same like a soul patch, like the GoT thing there.
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So whoever that was was very confused as to even what HPR was or what this guy was asking
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who he was.
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So my description in that first email was that helpful at all?
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No, actually, I think during the Yes Men talk, Murf, you got a chair and then I stayed
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by this column and Kubemo, you must have been standing by the curtains where they shut
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those windows.
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And some seat opened and all of a sudden you walked right in front of me and I go, oh,
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yeah, that's the guy.
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So before we met, I spotted you out and then after the talk, that's when I sat down
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behind you.
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Yeah, it would have been great if we'd had more time where we could have gone meal and
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done some talking.
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Yeah, if I had stayed over, maybe we could have, I was just there for what, eight or nine
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hours.
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Yeah.
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Well, it was good that you took the opportunity to come down nonetheless though.
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So even just spending, you know, the middle part of the day there, I'm sure you still got
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plenty out of it.
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Yeah, it is fun.
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Actually, before my train, I had about 40 minutes.
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So I went across the street to this bar and I actually met one of the staff there, the
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hope staff.
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And we got talk and we talked for 20 minutes.
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And he had never heard of, he had never heard of HPR and I explained it all to him and
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like the community and basically the 2600 people are the same community.
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So he says he's going to check out HPR and then I mentioned to him that sometimes HPR people
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are at conferences and we have like the tablecloth and the signage and the swag and the stickers
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and stuff and possibly at the next hope if we got some people together, could we have
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a table and he said, yeah, you can arrange it through email or if you, you know, if you
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get there, just come and do your one of the tables because they're back by the hacker
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space.
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Right.
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Yeah, I was thinking about that during the conferences.
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We should try to do that next time.
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Yeah, if we can get a few HPR people there and we'll run a table.
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Yeah, that's definitely feasible.
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I could definitely help with that because this one's close enough that I can devote more
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time to it.
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Did you guys make it over to the talk where the gal was, was enhancing her, she had a,
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she had a, some damage to one of her ears, she had surgery on it and the outer part of
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her ear, the cochlear and all is still good, but the, the, the outer part was removed.
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So she was trying to figure out a way to get sound back into her head.
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So she created a helmet that pipes vibration into her skull and allows her to hear again.
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I was wondering if, if you said in on that one, it was a real short talk, but it was
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pretty neat.
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No, it sounds interesting, but I didn't see it.
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Yeah.
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That sounds like exactly the type of cool hacker stuff you hear about it, hope.
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Exactly.
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Well, she had one of the lightning talks or a scheduled speaker.
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No, she had a, she had a scheduled spot in nut and it, it wasn't very long, but she
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would, she showed some slides.
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She's got a blog called Wired where she, she covers it, but it was, it was pretty neat.
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I, send her some stuff, I, I've seen some, they call it bone induction speakers.
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I was thinking that maybe she could simplify her designs so she didn't have to walk around
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with a construction helmet on her head, but it was really neat, got me, got me excited,
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I'm going to play with some more audio stuff now because of that.
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Cool.
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Interesting.
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Something that I liked was the, there was a history of portable computers.
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Actually Murph, when you said, was I here and do you want to go get lunch?
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That's the talk I was in.
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That was like before clamshell laptops or the laptops that we know of all the interesting
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computers that came out before that.
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Anything that would compute and head batteries in it.
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There was also, I don't know if you guys saw the marching exhibit down in the, you know,
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down on the second floor where they have a lot of vintage computer stuff.
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They're a local group to me and they're, they always have a lot of interesting stuff out
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there as well.
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That's some of the single board computers, some of the stuff, the pre, pre PC stuff.
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I saw like a plexiglass see through Apple one or Apple two.
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It was really interesting.
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He was explaining to somebody that it was not any, an original Apple one, but was original.
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So, there, there was nothing on that board that, that wasn't exactly like they originally
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had laid it out and was trying to, to make the point to the guy that, that know it, you
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know, it wasn't original one, but it was as original as you could possibly get.
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Nice pieces of equipment.
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Oh, I just, I just remembered something funny.
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I went downstairs to buy postcards because we have like a little group of people we send
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postcards to and while I'm in there, I'm paying for them and the lady reads the badge, which
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is an interesting badge.
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The badge to get in this time was a passport, it actually looks like a real passport.
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Yeah.
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She goes, she reads the badge, she goes hackers on planet earth, she goes, you're, you're
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one of them and she, and she goes, when I saw you people were showing up, I called my husband
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and said, the bad people are upstairs.
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I tried to explain hackers and hackers to her and, you know, most of us are good guys.
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I mean, sure, there's a few black hats up there, but I mean, the hacker is a good term.
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I don't think I met one bad person my whole trip.
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I sat next to somebody trying to crack Wi-Fi, pull a sniff and packets and he was, he
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was up to a little bit, but, you know, I'm sure it was fun.
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Honestly, at a hacker conference, that's fair game as far as I'm concerned.
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I brought a machine that I was perfectly willing to have compromised horribly and it didn't
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happen, at least not that I know of, but it was a tablet that I brought, wiped clean before
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I walked in the door, expecting that people were going to be fooling around with stuff.
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And when I found out, apparently I was for a time on a spoofed version of the conference
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Wi-Fi and not the actual Wi-Fi, shrugged my shoulders and went, okay, because I wasn't
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doing anything exceptionally important.
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I didn't see your picture up on any wall of shame, so you were right.
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Yeah, they don't do a wall of shame like Def Condo's, although that would be fun.
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It would probably be redundant there because I'm sure people were also hitting all sorts
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of stuff in the area.
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So there'd be lots of people up there that would never see their own names because they
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weren't actually in the conference.
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Yeah, I make sure before I go to hope just, before I leave the house, make sure my server's
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running so I can SSH tunnel to it and pipe everything through safely.
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And either you make it to the Byzantine Linux talk?
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No.
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It was a pre-configured distro for loading into a machine and setting up an instant mission
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network.
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And they actually handed out 500 disks down in the hacker space.
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Wow, I know, I missed that.
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But I saw this morning that on Boyn Boyn, Cory had said that they had released the ISO.
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So there's a link on Boyn Boyn today on WordGrad that ISO.
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But it's pretty cool.
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I've often thought that it'd be nice to have a, I guess, a darknet or a non-affiliated
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internet that we were talking offline there that the problem is that we need more people
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who are willing to set one up because everybody's so far apart.
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Yeah, like I belong to Albany 2600, a local group and we often talk about machine networking
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but we live too far apart.
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However, I might grab this ISO now and just bring it to one of the meetings and we can
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fool around with it while we're at the meeting.
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You did it.
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Yeah, you can fool around with it there.
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Yeah, the problem when you have something, like I was talking about before we started,
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I had no LPC and the machine networking that was really interesting unless you're the
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only one that has one.
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Then you're like the guy that bought one walkie-talkie and say, hey, I don't have anybody to talk to
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on this thing.
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The static is my friends.
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Exactly.
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So we were talking about talks.
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I don't know.
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Did either of you sit in on Stephen Rambams' privacy post-mortem?
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That's right when I was heading back for the trains, I know I missed that one.
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Right.
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Yeah, that's always interesting.
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He does something similar each year but shows you just how much information you give
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up and how easily that's collected together and given to advertisers or other people that
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ask for it.
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Yeah, he is a private investigator so he mentions a lot how I saw his talk two years ago at
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the last hope.
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Yeah, he mentions just give him your name in five minutes.
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He's got everything.
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After the talk, he was in that little area in between Dennis and not how to bunch of
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people around him and was still going.
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He was still preaching the message.
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I'm convinced he could go for six, eight hours without even taking breath without taking
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a break.
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Very interesting guy though.
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He should mention that these are room names, Dennis and not in Sassman.
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These were where the different tracks are held.
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Did they name them different every year?
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Yes, they do.
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This year it was named after Dennis Ritchie.
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The open track was, oh, I forget his name, roughly something.
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Sassman?
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Well, yes.
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Sassman was one of them and there's another one named after one of the early guys and
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microcomputers.
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I know he showed up on the March list his obituary, another person that passed, who was
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very big in the early like the single board computer days, he was very big into that
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stuff.
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So.
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Both since Dean?
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Yes, that's it.
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Yeah, I couldn't recall the name, but that was one of the names.
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And the other two, Sassman and not, I wasn't familiar with either of those names.
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Did either of you catch, I think his name is Bill Binney, either.
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No, I got the right as he was finishing that up, so I only saw the tail end of it and
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I didn't really get what the whole thing was about.
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That's one of the ones I'll catch up on on video later.
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I'm trying to think of the three letter organization he was with, the NSA.
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I was just going to say, I believe that's the NSA.
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And he started getting fed up with how much they're collecting on every day people walking
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around on the street, and he was kind of a whistleblower for them.
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Well, and how corrupt the whole thing is, and when you call them on it, they're like,
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well, yeah, you know, it can't stare at the feet.
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Yeah.
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They've all pledged an oath to the Constitution, and it's whatever brings money into the
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department to keep the department going.
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Yeah, exactly.
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I watched a video of him giving a talk, it wasn't hope, but it was from something else,
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totally.
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I kind of know, maybe I know what the talk would have been, but it must have been a day I
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wasn't there.
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It was amazing.
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Nice.
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Yeah, I caught the very tail end of it, so I didn't entirely get what was going on with
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it, but I'm sure it was, you know, it sounded interesting from just the part I caught.
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And they had maker bots there.
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That was interesting to see too.
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Did you guys see them on the mezzanine?
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Oh, yes.
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I'm so jealous.
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Yeah.
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And they seemed to be making bigger and bigger stuff with those.
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Every time I see them, you know, the first few times I saw them, they were doing little,
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you know, like game pieces, little, you know, little tuxes that were about an inch high.
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Now they're making these rather large and elaborate structures that's getting, you know,
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one looked, one was like a human skull about, you know, basically the size of a human skull.
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It was a little more cartoonish, but yeah, they're making bigger stuff.
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And then right across from that one, the maker bot was a, a gal that was selling a kit
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for $650 that she had bought a replicator.
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And it was just a pain in the butt to build and it required you, you getting a sourcing
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your own parts.
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And she said, you know, this, this could be a lot easier.
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So after her and her family put this one together, they went ahead and sourced their own
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parts and build a bunch of stuff and they've got a whole unit that they sell you for $650.
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I didn't see any parts that they were making that, that I don't know if it was just what
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they chose to make or it has less resolution as the maker bot, but none of the stuff on
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her table really looked as nice as the stuff on the maker bot table, but it could have been
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just what she was making.
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Our 2600 group locally, we're trying to get a hack space going now, we're, we're visiting
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places and I guess Elise will have to be signed and things like that, but that's one of the
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projects that keeps getting kicked around, making, getting into maker bots or building our
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own, etc.
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Yeah, if I could get a hold of a laser cutter and a maker bot, I'd be happy is going to be nice.
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I actually work for a company who makes fiber optics and I keep trying to find the reasons,
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you know, I was like, well, you know, if we could, if we could mark that part with something
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like say a laser scribe, we could track that a lot better after bringing that up every
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so often.
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This sounds like this is the, this is how we got our log in the office building, the
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IT guy runs it and he went to his boss and said, hey, if we can have this log on the
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weekend, we'll test all the network changes that I make before Monday.
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So similar.
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Anything you guys wanted to touch on?
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Run through the, the talks here real quick.
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I was looking, I know I enjoyed the meme factory guys, but I can't recall for the life of
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me what the hell it was about.
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Is this at the start of the Yes Men?
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Yeah, no, no, it was before the Yes Men, yeah, kill the internet, get now I recall having
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seen the title.
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They put on a good presentation and a lot of, so I'd like to see their full presentation
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because they normally have three screens going and the three of them talking.
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So it sounds like they put a lot of effort into presentation, so I'd like to sort of
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see their full presentation.
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I'm sure there are videos up, I'm going to go search it down.
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Another talk I saw was all about encryption on the web and I think the guys project was
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called CryptoCat, but wow, some of that went right over my head, acronyms I've never heard
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of and encryption algorithms and I don't really encrypt things, but it was, it was definitely
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good.
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Yeah, there's always stuff you end up not understanding there, sometimes you get a little
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acronym down, but interesting.
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But you're also sitting there getting a talk from the guy that's running the project,
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which is, I mean, if you've got a question after or if you're into it or you want to
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help, be just, most of the people say, you know, I'll be over there in the hallway, come
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on up and see me, you're very receptive.
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Yeah, everybody was very approachable.
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I spent a good 10 minutes talking with Gus at one point and I got pictures with Emanuel
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and Bernie S.
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And that guy with the boot on his head, that's your new avatar, and I think it's
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very important.
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Vroom and Supreme.
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Vroom and Supreme.
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Vroom and Supreme.
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Vroom and Supreme.
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Vroom and Supreme.
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Vroom and Supreme.
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Vroom and Supreme.
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Vroom and Supreme.
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Vroom and Supreme.
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Vroom and Supreme.
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Vroom and Supreme.
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Vroom and Supreme.
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Vroom and Supreme.
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Vroom and Supreme.
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Vroom and Supreme.
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Vroom and Supreme.
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Vroom and Supreme.
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Vroom and Supreme.
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Vroom and Supreme.
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Vroom and Supreme.
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Vroom and Supreme.
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Vroom and Supreme.
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Vroom and Supreme.
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Yeah, it is like a, it's a whirlwind of activity, the whole three days.
|
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They down near the hacker space, did you see, like the 20 or 30, like, cots?
|
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So people just come and they just crash whenever and some people don't even get a hotel
|
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room.
|
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Oh, wow.
|
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Yep.
|
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Yep.
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At the last hope, I woke up at 3 a.m. I just couldn't sleep and I went down to work
|
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on that badge, slaughtering on the badge, and there was still 8 or 10 people there, and
|
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the one kid had been there Friday, this was Saturday night, and he hadn't slept yet.
|
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It's just like coffee, coffee, coffee.
|
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Or is it Club Mate?
|
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Yeah, I don't know if I'd, I don't know if I'd seriously go to sleep on one of those
|
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|
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cots because you might wake up and find, you know, no wallet, your phone's been rooted
|
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|
|
by somebody else, and you know, who knows what could be happening.
|
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|
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People do it though, I walked past, I walked past about 4 p.m. and there were people crashed
|
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on it.
|
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|
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Did you guys get a chance to ride a segway?
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I did.
|
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|
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That was great.
|
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|
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Are you both there, huh?
|
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|
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Yeah, they're neat little devices.
|
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|
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Yeah, yeah.
|
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|
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I've seen them there for years, and usually when I go buy, there's a big line, but I happen
|
||
|
|
to go buy there, and there was only a couple of people there, so I got right on one.
|
||
|
|
They're neat little devices, they're easy to ride, and I like the way they have, you
|
||
|
|
know, they have a little course for you to go down, and at the end of one hallway, there's
|
||
|
|
an open window at the end of not open, but not covered up with anything, so there is
|
||
|
|
just glass.
|
||
|
|
So, basically, you're going down a hallway towards, you know, overlooking 7.0.
|
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|
|
You start since sparks and smoke, and you're heading towards that window?
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, but those are neat things.
|
||
|
|
I saw some people, you know, going really slow on them.
|
||
|
|
I found a very intuitive to ride, so, yeah, I got the tires squealing around a couple
|
||
|
|
of the corners.
|
||
|
|
That was kind of fun.
|
||
|
|
The first day, there was a point where there was nobody over there, so I went over and
|
||
|
|
hopped on one and went around the course and came back, and I tried to film myself for
|
||
|
|
the kids, and that didn't really work out very well, just, you see me grinning like an
|
||
|
|
idiot, and the tires, and then, so that the next day, I happen to be walking towards
|
||
|
|
escalator, and I know there was nobody standing over there again, so I asked the gout, she
|
||
|
|
let me just run it down the line and turn around, come back while she filmed with my phone,
|
||
|
|
so the kids could see me riding one, but it was a hoot.
|
||
|
|
I guess I didn't take a left there.
|
||
|
|
I saw people, like DJs, making music and stuff, right along the escalators, but I didn't
|
||
|
|
go over there.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, they had a synthesizer drum machine hooked up to a connect, so people were just waving
|
||
|
|
their hands in front of it, making music with it, but if you just walked past them,
|
||
|
|
yeah, if you just walked past them, they had the segues back there.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I was going down the escalator and somebody was just waving their hands around,
|
||
|
|
only, so he was controlling the music.
|
||
|
|
Yes, exactly.
|
||
|
|
I always have the fear that I'm missing something, there's something I haven't seen.
|
||
|
|
I felt like that through the whole conference, did any of you make it to that sixth floor
|
||
|
|
and see what was going on there?
|
||
|
|
No.
|
||
|
|
No, that was new this year, and no, I never made it there, and that feeling you have
|
||
|
|
that you're missing something when you're in hope, that is almost certainly correct,
|
||
|
|
because there's always so much going on, you can't possibly see it all.
|
||
|
|
You just have to go and soak in what you can and enjoy it.
|
||
|
|
People start congregating around 8.39 o'clock, and then the talk started at 10 and they go
|
||
|
|
right to midnight.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, so try and catch your sleep and take a shower, that's what they keep telling everyone.
|
||
|
|
I would love to set down at the lock picker area and got some instruction and played
|
||
|
|
with some stuff, but every time I'd see an empty chair, I'd think, well, you got to
|
||
|
|
be down, you got to be up at a talk in a few minutes or I'm going to miss something
|
||
|
|
over here.
|
||
|
|
Yep.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, a lot of fun, a lot of interesting stuff.
|
||
|
|
I highly recommend it to everybody, and I've trouble talking people into it, although
|
||
|
|
I was surprised this year, I saw two people from my lug there, so I was kind of happy
|
||
|
|
that some of them showed up.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, good guys, I'm glad they showed up, but I'm surprised that not everybody from
|
||
|
|
my lug should show up there.
|
||
|
|
Some people we talk to that live in the city or in New York, they hadn't heard about it
|
||
|
|
or they had forgotten about it.
|
||
|
|
Right.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, which is kind of mind blowing of all the things, it's once every other year and
|
||
|
|
it's a great conference for anybody, anybody even vaguely interested in technology or activism
|
||
|
|
or civil rights, there's so much stuff going on there, and it's so interesting, just
|
||
|
|
someone off the street, it hardly seems like someone wouldn't be able to find something
|
||
|
|
interesting to look at.
|
||
|
|
Exactly.
|
||
|
|
I should mention too that 2600 has two podcasts, so if you're listening to them, believe
|
||
|
|
me, you'll know Hope is coming up, but they have off the hook and off the wall, so off
|
||
|
|
the hook is more like hackery stuff, and off the wall can be general topics, but you'll
|
||
|
|
hear about Hope through them, believe me.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, off the wall I have lack a little patience for, because I've sort of dubbed it Immanuel
|
||
|
|
Wines about everything, because that's a lot of time when it's on being, but yeah, anyway
|
||
|
|
there's a little travel on here.
|
||
|
|
I can't possibly have missed it.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, sometimes they're interesting, sometimes they drag on a bit, in my opinion.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, the ones where he's grabbing a lot of ambient sound from different places, I really
|
||
|
|
enjoy those.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, one that I liked, they were, I think they were in the Czech Republic or somewhere
|
||
|
|
over, but they walked out to like a ghost rail line that was no longer open, but we're
|
||
|
|
getting off topic.
|
||
|
|
It's certainly a great conference, and I wonder if they're ever going to put an upper
|
||
|
|
limit on attendance for that, because I know they hit somewhere in the neighborhood of
|
||
|
|
2000 this time, which is a pretty healthy number, and they opened up that sixth floor, I
|
||
|
|
think, as a response to that, because there were a lot more standing room only talks than
|
||
|
|
I recall in past year.
|
||
|
|
I actually thought to bring this up with you guys, and while you just did, but yeah, they
|
||
|
|
seemed to be out growing that venue a bit.
|
||
|
|
Well, I think it would be tough to outgrow the venue.
|
||
|
|
I think they're just going to take over more of the hotel as time goes by.
|
||
|
|
Stuff like, you know, there was a whole first floor there that seemed to be abandoned.
|
||
|
|
They've grown onto the sixth floor.
|
||
|
|
I'm sorry, I didn't get to the sixth floor to see what was going on there.
|
||
|
|
This is the first I'm hearing about it.
|
||
|
|
What was that?
|
||
|
|
Were there talks there?
|
||
|
|
There were barely workshops going on.
|
||
|
|
I know, like Stephen Rambam said, he was going down to the sixth floor, and they were
|
||
|
|
going to do an hour, and I can hardly see how he can restrain himself to just an hour,
|
||
|
|
of going through, do you want to, how do you investigate stuff, do you want to look at
|
||
|
|
my databases, which kind of blew my mind, and that type of thing, and I would presume
|
||
|
|
he was probably talking through the whole thing, because he has such a wealth of information
|
||
|
|
and perfectly willing to share it.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I did hear about workshops, but I guess I didn't connect on that they were on
|
||
|
|
another floor.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, on the sixth floor, and I didn't make it down there at all.
|
||
|
|
I think that's where all the dancing and art stuff happened, and the, there was the
|
||
|
|
FCC, the hammery, registration testing going on down there as well.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, that's another thing I wanted to study up and take the test, but I didn't get
|
||
|
|
around to doing the actual studying into that.
|
||
|
|
I would have liked to have gotten my ham license.
|
||
|
|
So I guess what we're saying is, get to hope next time.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, you got two years to plan.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, plenty of time.
|
||
|
|
And if you let me know, you're coming, I will stalk you online and be able to pick you
|
||
|
|
out of the crowd.
|
||
|
|
So you guys, if you guys want to give some contact information.
|
||
|
|
If you want to talk to Koovmo, that's QVMOH at gmail.com.
|
||
|
|
Oh, I'm NY Bill at gunmonkeynet.net, or NY Bill on Identica.
|
||
|
|
I am Merf on Identica, M-U-R-P-H, and as far as email, you can get me at Merf at member.fsf.org.
|
||
|
|
Nice.
|
||
|
|
So I hope to catch you guys at some conferences in between with some of us to usually meet
|
||
|
|
up.
|
||
|
|
So, but otherwise, hope to see you in two years.
|
||
|
|
Sounds good.
|
||
|
|
Sounds good.
|
||
|
|
Hope to see you before then.
|
||
|
|
I will see you two and hopefully more HPR listeners at the next hope.
|
||
|
|
Nice.
|
||
|
|
Get the hope, people.
|
||
|
|
Thanks, guys.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, thank you Bill for sending this up.
|
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|
|
Oh, no problem.
|
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|
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See ya.
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