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Re: Interest in Hardware Hacking Village
Ehm, LosT he is bombnav :PComment
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Re: Interest in Hardware Hacking Village
The Mystery Challenge involves embedded systems and electronics, which pretty much goes hand-in-hand with the stated goals of the Hardware Village.
I can't speak for the people running the Hardware Village, but they'll probably welcome help from anyone who knows a diode from a dildo.Thorn
"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." - Catherine AirdComment
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and cue all the bad one-liner jokes stating either "how diodes are like dildoes" or "why diodes are better than dildoes" etc etc etc
here's a few starters...
1. they both have the ability to turn women on, if the individual in question is cool enough
2. the best and most expensive ones take lots of electricity
3. overuse or overtaxing of either can result in excessive heat and eventual ruin
4. you are looked at like a real weirdo if you try to return a used diode or dildo
heh, now this whole thing makes me want to quote Dimitri Martin, a young hipster kid who has a delightfully subtle style of comedy...
wow... there's absolutely everything out there on the tubes. the video clip of that segment of Dimitri's act can be found here. while he doesn't always represent data on a graph properly, it's still pretty good. you deserve a break and your employers work you too hard for too little money. take seven minutes out of your day and go watch it.i never had to pluralize dildo before. i don't know if that's right, it sort of likes /dill- DUHS/
i hope i never have to again... like in a deposition or something...
"how many dildoes were there?"
"i don't know but i'm sore and i want to go home""I'll admit I had an OiNK account and frequented it quite often… What made OiNK a great place was that it was like the world's greatest record store… iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up. I feel like I'm being hustled when I visit there, and I don't think their product is that great. DRM, low bit rate, etc... OiNK it existed because it filled a void of what people want."
- Trent ReznorComment
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Re: Interest in Hardware Hacking Village
I will have my tools with me and see what happens.Comment
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I'd like to help out as well. It's been a while since I did much with electronics but like bombnav this will be my 3rd con and I'd like to be more involved. I brought my wife last year and pretty much sealed the deal that she'll never return (marriage tip: don't combine an anniversary trip with a hacker conference and the MC unless your wife is totally into it too). Hence I should have more time on my hands this go 'round. Who do we talk to about signing up?
SDComment
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Ok, well if you're interested in volunteering to help out, let me know, please. Email works best, but a PM in the forums works, too.
Anyway, LosT and I have been trying to pull together a really kick a$$ kit for the HHV this year. I'm pretty excited about it. And yes, Joe (kingpin) will be spending a good deal of time in the HHV this summer, since that's where he's going to help out with hacking the badges. It's going to be a good time. It looks like we've been assigned Skybox 209, upstairs next to the other "villages".
Even if you've never done anything like this in the past, but you've always been interested, this is really the best time to get involved. You'll learn a lot of basics at the HHV if you've never done this before. And for the experienced folks, you'll definitely have your opportunity to play as well.
I'm really glad this is working out. This was actually a conversation that got started between A, myself, and LosT while we were all at ApacheCon last Fall. woohooo.
OH YEAH! Bring your tools if you've got em. We'll put tables, chairs, and power in the room.
-RussComment
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LosT is actually a very nice guy (what what!).... we're just working him too hard. :-) The Mystery Box is his baby.
The mystery box isn't a computer hacking contest, per se. It's a combination of disciplines, balanced heavily on the shoulders of embedded systems and electronics. It's sort of like a modern day Da Vinci Code. You'd probably enjoy it a lot. It's one of the con's most popular contests, by far. (I think Thorn already answered this.... sorry Thorn!)
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