These things must be a bitch to clean
Hey - there's only one side to clean.
Conditions of ACME's Unconditional Guarantee
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Seconded! It gives very good flavor of life working at Berkeley and living there, and also the Internet of the day: https://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espiona...
I read this book shortly after he wrote it. I was a junior engineer at a big company, and the final chapter (on humans being the weakest link in computer security) inspired me to run "crack" on the password (shadow) file of one of our networked Sun workstations. (I actually wrote some code to re-create the shadow file from the output of ypcat because we were running NIS.) Crack managed to obtain about 20% of the user…
Hey everybody, I found Randal Schwartz's HN account!
;-)
(For people who weren't Perl hackers in the mid-late '90s, Randal pretty much did exactly that while contracting at Intel, and got 3 felony convictions and 5 years probation, and it took him 12 years of fighting to get the felonies expunged. Be very very careful "trying out" security related things at your employer, without very clear written instruction showing it was authorised - you do not want to be the guy in front of a judge saying "it's part of my job description as a sysadmin!" when your employer is claiming otherwise....)
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If I say... buy a bottle from you would you autograph it for me? You’ve been elevated to the position of rockstar in my little corner of the world. It is only fitting for an autograph to follow. :)
I do sign those Kleinbots, although it kinda slows me down (it's hard to write with a sharpie on a compound curve). So order it a few days from now - when I have more free time - and tell me in the order comments. (at the moment, this Hacker News squib has resulted in a veritable tsunami of Klein bottle orders -- over a dozen -- and I'm getting kinda backlogged. Looks like I'll be working tonight & tomorrow. And it's…
Oof! That sounds tiring. I’ll hold off on ordering. :)
I have a ton of questions though, is there some way to reach you? (I’ll wait to ask these too!)
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I'm sure it's that way for quite a lot of us that are of a similar age. I have a really distinct memory of watching it as a child. I wasn't really interested in computers beyond the (rudimentary) games we had on ours, but this episode planted a lot of ideas in my head I'm sure.
Jason, I thought I was an oldster when I chased down that hacker and wrote about it. Thirty plus years later, I think of how young I was back then. There must be some lesson in this, but I can't find it.
I would have been roughly kindergarten age at the time. That kid back then watching a face on tv would have never predicted the world would change in such ways that we'd be here chatting. As ugly as some things have gotten on the internet of late, that still fills me with something like awe, joy, and hope for the future.
I may only be 2/3rds your age, but every time I look back on life I feel the same way. I hope I always feel that way, because I think that means I'm continuing to learn and grow.
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#85This
>(at the moment, this Hacker News squib has resulted in a veritable tsunami of Klein bottle orders -- over a dozen -- and I'm getting kinda backlogged. Looks like I'll be working tonight & tomorrow. And it's my turn to wash the dishes tonight...)
This
I bought one of these the last time this was on HN.
And the joy of reading through this site just suddenly made me yearn for an xkcd style graph showing klein bottle sales over time since last post on hn complete with snappy punchline in hidden text.
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#86I'm not a fan of math and barely understand what some of these jokes mean, but this is a truly wonderful site to read through.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do sign those Kleinbots, although it kinda slows me down (it's hard to write with a sharpie on a compound curve). So order it a few days from now - when I have more free time - and tell me in the order comments. (at the moment, this Hacker News squib has resulted in a veritable tsunami of Klein bottle orders -- over a dozen -- and I'm getting kinda backlogged. Looks like I'll be working tonight & tomorrow. And it's…
Oof! That sounds tiring. I’ll hold off on ordering. :) I have a ton of questions though, is there some way to reach you? (I’ll wait to ask these too!)
Sure - I'm Kleinbottle / a/ t' kleinbottle -dawt- com
But again, I"m kinda buried in work right now. And I know way less than you think I do. (at least my wife tells me something like that...)
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sure it's that way for quite a lot of us that are of a similar age. I have a really distinct memory of watching it as a child. I wasn't really interested in computers beyond the (rudimentary) games we had on ours, but this episode planted a lot of ideas in my head I'm sure.
Jason, I thought I was an oldster when I chased down that hacker and wrote about it. Thirty plus years later, I think of how young I was back then. There must be some lesson in this, but I can't find it.
My friend, I am doing my best and really hope to catch up. But I always seem to be almost 600 days behind you. Please, can we do something to fix this? (Without any danger to either of us, of course!)
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#90> I slightly guarantee your Klein Bottle for THREE MONTHS against any cracks or breakage, whether due to earthquakes, clumsy undergrads, or greasy fingers. Just mail us a fragment and $10, and we will send a replacement. What a perfect solution to the fake defective / return problem!
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