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El Estrago Bonito posted:And more specifically it let you dial BBS that were a long way away and get those sweet sweet filez without having to pay out the rear end in bills. That and all the conference bridge numbers that were raided so a bunch of teenagers from across the country could insult each other's hacking skills in the middle of the night. I think it's out of print, but the book Masters of Deception does a pretty good job of capturing Phreak and Hacker culture of the late 80s/early 90s. Specifically the MOD vs. LOD poo poo that went down. There's a bit of hysteria in there as it was written by journalists, but it definitely depicted them as ego-driven teenagers which is pretty accurate. Proteus Jones has a new favorite as of 02:04 on Jan 15, 2016 |
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HaB posted:Fixed. I'm a big enough nerd that I bought the Pac-Man Fever album on CD when it came out 
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When I was a kid I finished Berzerk on the Atari 2600, what happens is you play it for hours and then get a black screen  I guess they though no one would ever bother finishing it, but they didn't reckon on my spergin' childhood ways
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peter gabriel posted:When I was a kid I finished Berzerk on the Atari 2600, what happens is you play it for hours and then get a black screen Since Berzerk is one of the few video games with a body count, I imagine they thought it would finish you first.
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flosofl posted:That and all the conference bridge numbers that were raided so a bunch of teenagers from across the country could insult each other's hacking skills in the middle of the night. The Hacker Crackdown is a book written by Bruce Sterling in the early 90's about the Secret Service raiding Steve Jackson Games, because their Gurps system was alleged by Bell South to have used documents relating to the Emergency 911 system. The book features interviews with phreakers and hackers of the day and chronicles the birth of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. As a portrait of what the early days of the internet and BBS's its fantastic. You can buy it on amazon, but he also released it for free under a creative commons license I think. You can download a copy here (Not files!)
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Catzilla posted:The Hacker Crackdown is a book written by Bruce Sterling in the early 90's about the Secret Service raiding Steve Jackson Games, because their Gurps system was alleged by Bell South to have used documents relating to the Emergency 911 system. The book features interviews with phreakers and hackers of the day and chronicles the birth of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. As a portrait of what the early days of the internet and BBS's its fantastic. I was just playing Uplink a few days ago and had a chuckle when I saw/remembered that there's a Steve Jackson Games server you can hack in it. 
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peter gabriel posted:When I was a kid I finished Berzerk on the Atari 2600, what happens is you play it for hours and then get a black screen It isn't really beating the game in the sense that we know it today, it just gets to a point where a value exceeds a logical (to the machine) maximum and shuts down. In Defender, it was when I went to level 257 because that is one more than 2^8 which the Atari couldn't understand to be a real thing.
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Catzilla posted:The Hacker Crackdown is a book written by Bruce Sterling in the early 90's about the Secret Service raiding Steve Jackson Games, because their Gurps system was alleged by Bell South to have used documents relating to the Emergency 911 system. The book features interviews with phreakers and hackers of the day and chronicles the birth of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. As a portrait of what the early days of the internet and BBS's its fantastic. 
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flosofl posted:That and all the conference bridge numbers that were raided so a bunch of teenagers from across the country could insult each other's hacking skills in the middle of the night. That reminds me of a similar book; Underground, it's from a mostly Australian perspective and was researched by Julian Assange!
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HhhhhhMMMMMMMmmmm, that's some good cyberpunk!
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ryonguy posted:Do you use 3D models of record grooves for audio files? Nah, I still have a shitload that needs to be converted to FLAC. The rest is indeed digital hoarding, minus damp carpet and five year olds going to school by themselves while I am recovering from WoW binges on my Alienware rig dpbjinc posted:I bet he downloaded that one Touhou torrent that's something like 14 terabytes at this point. anime is garbage hth god bless Jerry Cotton posted:Oh hey did you finish Platform Masters yet? Can't wait to play it! I did not get this one so I found the site and looked at the video. Well, that was uh.. informative. I basically just want the pitching for music production, it's easier to learn chord progressions or figure out melodies when you can slow things down and not having to start up Live for it is convenient. Also, sampling.
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Collateral Damage posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hA-boZ6xAI Ha. I still have this record on my iPod. 
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Mister Kingdom posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D780JHlQxxs Ah, but did you know the secret of the bulletproof necktie?
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Jedit posted:Ah, but did you know the secret of the bulletproof necktie? Say what?
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Mister Kingdom posted:Say what? Wrong game. I didn't click your link and thought you were still talking about Berzerk.
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Zaphod42 posted:I was just playing Uplink a few days ago and had a chuckle when I saw/remembered that there's a Steve Jackson Games server you can hack in it. Uplink was a very cool game. I found little notepads of server IPs and user/pass combos a few months ago when moving house. I knew what the random scribbles meant straight away but would look like potential evidence of crimes to the police I'm sure.
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Good Ugh! Raisins and Peanuts
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:Good Ugh! Raisins and Peanuts System.
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The author  Actually, how much obsolete and failed tech is in that picture? Though I think most of it is just early versions of stuff we have now. The Pixis is just an early version of a GPS like Tom Tom, thought I have no idea what a Private Eye is.
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twistedmentat posted:The author http://www.loper-os.org/vintage/paralleleye/eye.html
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I'm not sure how that helps you stay online 24/4, but I know why it failed. people don't want to wear poo poo on their head. That's why VR will never take off, no matter how many maid games the Japanese release for the occulus. Actually, It reminds me of the things the Dominion uses in DS9 on their ships instead of veiwscreens.
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I like that story on the linked page: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=752 Disturbingly realistic.
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twistedmentat posted:I'm not sure how that helps you stay online 24/4, but I know why it failed. people don't want to wear poo poo on their head. That's why VR will never take off, no matter how many maid games the Japanese release for the occulus.
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Collateral Damage posted:3D movies require you to wear lovely uncomfortable glasses and have unfortunately gained a foothold, ruining cinema. There's a huge difference between wearing a pair of what amounts of sunglasses and a giant loving box on your face. That article talks about militarily usages of head mounted displays, but hasn't testing of those in the field shown that soldiers lose situational awareness because too much information is being fed so them so they lose track of what's going on right there and then?
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twistedmentat posted:There's a huge difference between wearing a pair of what amounts of sunglasses and a giant loving box on your face. Okay cool. We won't put it on a solider then. 
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Collateral Damage posted:3D movies require you to wear lovely uncomfortable glasses and have unfortunately gained a foothold, ruining cinema. Yeah but that's because 3D is the last gimmick theaters have left since most people have huge rear end HDTVs at home these days. Meanwhile 3DTVs did mostly flop and the reason why was mostly the glasses. People do hate the glasses, but they'll sometimes put up with them in bursts for the novelty of 3D movies.
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Krispy Kareem posted:Okay cool. We won't put it on a solider then. Counterpoint: 
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The Visually-Coupled Airborne Systems Simulator, early design work seems to date from around 1977. Each eyepiece had a 18mm mini-CRT.  
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twistedmentat posted:The author This is his son, right? 
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C.M. Kruger posted:The Visually-Coupled Airborne Systems Simulator, early design work seems to date from around 1977. Each eyepiece had a 18mm mini-CRT. That is easily the goofiest headset I've ever seen. Holy poo poo dual-CRTs mounted right to your face? 
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Zaphod42 posted:That is easily the goofiest headset I've ever seen. Holy poo poo dual-CRTs mounted right to your face? Imagine trying to turn your head or, god forbid, look up. I kept expecting to see some rigging that supported the weight of that goddamn thing.
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T-man posted:Imagine trying to turn your head or, god forbid, look up. I kept expecting to see some rigging that supported the weight of that goddamn thing. There is a rope in the third picture. It's not like you can actually turn your head with how wide that thing is.
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twistedmentat posted:There's a huge difference between wearing a pair of what amounts of sunglasses and a giant loving box on your face. Yeah, at least with the giant loving box you don't have to get it over your normal glasses making it pretty much unwatchable without pain. Still pissed I have to wait for the home release to see Star Wars without massive distortion from overlaid glasses.
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Keiya posted:Yeah, at least with the giant loving box you don't have to get it over your normal glasses making it pretty much unwatchable without pain. Uh what? I saw star wars in 2D in theaters. You live in a small town or something?
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twistedmentat posted:The author What I love about that is that every single item is obsolete. (with the exception of the laptop)
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Sperglord Firecock posted:One thing that has always fascinated me was Phreaking. blugu64 posted:One last cool vestige is the ability to dial a phone via pulse by tapping the hook. Get your timing right and don't accidentally call 911  911 was chosen as the emergency number in the US because 9 is unlikely to be pulse dialed by accident or pulsed by a bad connection or broken wire making intermittent contact, and 11 is much faster to dial than 99
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Zaphod42 posted:Uh what? I saw star wars in 2D in theaters. You live in a small town or something? The 2D showings of blockbusters seem to get sold out faster than the 3D. I think everyone takes 3D as the second option nowadays after it wore off.
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The problem is cinemas want to sell more of the 3D shows because they can charge more for them, so the non-3D version is usually only shown in small theatres.
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There was a lot of mention of Van Eck Phreaking in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, which I just finished reading for the first time recently. A cursory check on Google shows that it's only a topic of discussion among conspiracy theorists. Searching on Youtube, the second video is a guy convinced his "fat pig" of a neighbor has been spying on him using this method and a majority of his channel are videos of random people he's convinced are gang stalking him. Fun stuff. Is it safe to assume that this method of spying is pretty much obsolete?
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