I'm an OLD woman and I guess some folks might call me a hacker. I can rollerblade.

I like the art and hope to go, but its overlapping a bit with another conference that I am speaking at. Hopefully I will get an early talk date and can slip out early to make Phreaknic.

This year's Phreaknic T-shirt art is pretty cool. Check it out.

PhreakNIC Pictures :: PN8 :: hack_or_die_final

] "What up cuz? It's tha Snoopy D-O-double Gizzle in da hizzle.
] Enter yo trickass URL below and I'll traaanslate it from tha
] shizzle to da shiznit, know what I'm sayin?"

This is sooo awesome.

Very cool.

.: Snoop Dogg - Tha Shizzolator :.

I was just the co-host of Binary Revolution Radio, a weekly hacking show done out of FL, hosted by StankDawg (www.binrev.com).

Its a cool show where we talked about lots of topics, including Stripe Snoop.

The show notes should be posted here (http://www.binrev.com/radio/archive.html) soon.

Acidus on Binrev radio [MP3]

Jeez, how unkewl. How stupid.

If you really wanted to let out a call for hactivism for such an event, why not do it quietly, covertly...with stealth? Why EVEN TRY to involve others for that matter, when there are thousands of backdoored open systems out there?

No, instead make a public spectacle of yourself at a convention filled with feds. Be loud and obnoxious about it. Talk about criminal activity publically, in an open amplified forum.

Yeah, that's the way to do things. lol Jeez.
Maybe it was just a test. Maybe someone wanted to collect stats on how many hardcore republicans were at defcon. A testing of the waters, if you will.

So silly.

] But CrimeThinc continued to ask attendees to deface the
] Republican National Committee Web sites, to launch denial
] of service attacks against their servers, to harass
] delegates in the street, to prevent buses carrying
] delegates from running, and so on. "By any means
] necessary," he said.

This is not hacking, this isn't protesting, this is anarchy, and these jackasses deserve the brutality they get.
...
These are those people you just wish would get the hell off your side.

[ Hear hear. I'm all for activism, but this childish crap only diminishes the validity of the progressive left in this country. I disagree with the Republicans about as much as it's possible to, and as such i'm not about to give them reasons to discredit my standpoint.

I like the quote from the Defcon guy who had to handle the situation :
"We got the call for trouble in the room. The gentleman, I was told, was preaching sedition. I knew that we had to take some steps quickly preventing that. Defcon is definitely for free speech, definitely for legal civil disobedience. But not anarchy, not psychopathic destruction of property." -k]

CrimeThinc @ Defcon: Cause chaos at the RNC

Should I put this under Humor?

Cheney blames Democrats for High Gas Prices

I LOVED Tereasa's speech. I loved her red power suit. OMG I so want a first lady that would help bring some spunk back into the white house.

HEr display of languages I did not take as a court of immigrants, but as a peacock display of how very intelligent she was. She speaks **********5*********** fluently. She'll be a very good diplomatic asset and I imagine that she never has to limit herself to US NEWS.

I'm not a Kerry fan - I am a Teresa Heinz fan. She's smart and confident - with a sexiness that comes from being at home in her own skin at any age.

Its a good reflection on Kerry that he loves and has picked a smart confident woman as his partner. That tells me that he is not on some cowboy ego keep the woman down trip.

I got her message- she wants to see people all over the world lifted up and she wants to see Americans leading in doing that.

That is a very good thing for the US to do in order to gain world respect and cooperation. I'd rather see the Peace Corps helping 3rd world countries expand their own job market and economies than our corporations over there training all their folks to pretend to be Americans, making them take new work day Amercian names, just to take US jobs. That is eventually going to cause a lot of US resentment.

How would you like it if the company you worked for told you that in order to work for them you had to pretend to be someone else, effectively lying every day of your life? I'd probably go postal in a year or two.

Night two of the DNC!

Common Cause, MoveOn.org, and a bunch of other organizations have launched a campaign to take on Fox for pretending partisan news is "fair and balanced." They've posted a really horrifying but funny video clip highlighting Bill O'Reilly's hypocrisy as well as a complaint to the FTC at:

http://www.moveon.org/fox/

Check it out and send them some email if you like. The plan is to deluge them.

The challenges to Fox's partisanship are mounting. It's crucial that we voice our disgust with Fox's deceptive advertising now.

I used the following in my message body - I follow web law very closely and thus trademark and copyright laws. I know this passage in the Lanham act that says that generic trademarks are not legal - This is what has kicked some granted trademarks in the bootie when challenged:

It is a fundamental principle marking an outer boundary of the trademark monopoly that, although trademark rights may be acquired in a word or image with descriptive qualities, the acquisition of such rights will not prevent others from using the word or image in good faith in its descriptive sense, and not as a trademark. See Abercrombie & Fitch Co. v. Hunting World, Inc., 537 F.2d 4, 12-13 (2d Cir. 1976); Sunmark, Inc. v. Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., 64 F.3d 1055, 1058 (7th Cir. 1995); United States Shoe Corp. v. Brown Group, Inc., 740 F. Supp. 196, 198-99 (S.D.N.Y. 1990); Holzwarth v. Hulse, 14 N.Y.S.2d 181, 181 (Sup. Ct. 1939); Johnson & Johnson v. Seabury & Johnson, 67 A. 36, 38 (N.J. 1907); Restatement (Third) of Unfair Competition § 28 (1995); 3A Louis Altman, Callmann on Unfair Competition, Trademarks and Monopolies § 21.24 (4th ed. 1983); Margreth Barrett, Intellectual Property 760-61 (1995). The principle is of great importance because it protects the right of society at large to use words or images in their primary descriptive sense, as against the claims of a trademark owner to exclusivity. See U.S. Shoe, 740 F. Supp. at 198-199. This common-law principle is codified in the Lanham Act, which provides that fair use is established where "the use of the name, term, or device charged to be an infringement is a use, otherwise than as a mark, . . . which is descriptive of and used fairly and in good faith only to describe the goods or services of . . . [a] party, or their geographic origin." 15 U.S.C. § 1115(b)(4).

Fair and balanced was used as a descriptive term long before FOX news decided to take it away from the world.

Moveon.org launches attack against Fox/ Fox trademarking 'fair and balanced'

I don't see why they would worry about it.
The price was 80.00 on eBay at first - I cuold not give my invites away to my friends at that time. Now the invites are going for about a buck each - and that is barely enough to cover listing fees.

dmv wrote:
] ] According to Google's new policy, altered Monday, the Web
] ] search company prohibits Gmail subscribers from selling,
] ] trading or transferring the free e-mail accounts "for any
] ] unauthorized commercial purpose." It also bars people
] ] from setting up multiple accounts in violation of the
] ] policy.
]
]
] I think we are still good in having done out invite giveaway
] for our non-commercial radio station. I guess we can ask in
] our upcoming interview with a gmail representative.
]
] Of course people are gmail-username squatting. Huh. Suprised
] that wasn't obvious, considering the landrush mania to get a
] username; artificial scarcity brings out the worse in people.
] In that light, forums like eBay are both powerful mechanisms
] and inherent in the medium.

RE: Google bans Gmail swaps and sales | CNET News.com

Not only did they bill people double - they took money out of their bank accounts and charged the double bills to their credit cards. They seem very slow at trying to fix things - and I've heard rumors that a class action suit has been filed against them.

eBay's Accounting Glitch Leaves Users paying Double

eBay implemented new accounting software in late Feb, early March of 2004.

Many users, as high as 8 out of 10 by reports on their community boards, have been overbilled.

Some users have been double billed with money being deducted from their checking accounts and billed to their credit cards that they did not really owe.

Today, at least 2 users reported that their current statements are showing that they owe eBay $9,223,372,036,854.78.