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DefCon 16
2008-07-31, 3:15 AM #1
Whoo! One more week.

Who else is going this year?
Also, I can kill you with my brain.
2008-07-31, 4:39 AM #2
Be there and be square, people!
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2008-07-31, 6:01 AM #3
I'll be hanging out with the anime nerds at Otakon that weekend.
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2008-07-31, 12:22 PM #4
I might be going to Otakon. Where's DefCon at anyways, and what color hat is it, generally? I'm too lazy to check.
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2008-07-31, 4:55 PM #5
Originally posted by Vegiemaster:
I might be going to Otakon. Where's DefCon at anyways, and what color hat is it, generally? I'm too lazy to check.


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2008-07-31, 6:18 PM #6
I'll be (outside of) Otakan doing Parkour! We should hang out!
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2008-07-31, 10:19 PM #7
I have heard that at otacon theres bajillions of hot girls and its quite easy to "hook up" there.

Is this true or just the depraved rantings of sexless anime nerds?








(NOTE: before anyone goes ape, I'm not calling anyone who watches anime a "nerd". Hell I watch it, I'm just implying "those" kids. You know exactly who I mean.)
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2008-07-31, 10:25 PM #8
Originally posted by Onimusha.:
(NOTE: before anyone goes ape, I'm not calling anyone who watches anime a "nerd". Hell I watch it, I'm just implying "those" kids. You know exactly who I mean.)


I'll say it.
Warhead[97]
2008-07-31, 10:46 PM #9
Originally posted by Onimusha.:
I have heard that at otacon theres bajillions of hot girls and its quite easy to "hook up" there.

Is this true or just the depraved rantings of sexless anime nerds?


Well, last year my friend hooked up with this girl at a rave.

He later found out she was on X.

And twelve.
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2008-08-01, 12:22 AM #10
Originally posted by happydud:
Well, last year my friend hooked up with this girl at a rave.

He later found out she was on X.

And twelve.

WOOT! :hist101:

Anyways, I doubt I'll be there this year, but if I think I will be, I'll PM you my number.

@Onimusha: I proudly admit to being a nerd.
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2008-08-01, 7:19 AM #11
Well, pretty much any of us who are still actively posting on a forum for a 10+ year old game are nerds by default.

Not to hijack the thread but what is everyones favorite anime?
"They're everywhere, the little harlots."
-Martyn
2008-08-01, 7:29 AM #12
Originally posted by Onimusha.:
Not to hijack the thread but what is everyones favorite anime?

Wait, what?
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2008-08-01, 3:08 PM #13
Hijack. v.

A word used on internet forums often times to describe a users attempt at shifting the intended topic of the thread, to the topic of his or her own desire. These topics may have relevence to the original context, or they may deviate from it altogether.

Ex. - "Onimusha hijacked a thread about anime festivals, into a thread about your favorite anime, what an *******."
"They're everywhere, the little harlots."
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2008-08-01, 3:16 PM #14
:carl:
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2008-08-01, 3:27 PM #15
Originally posted by Onimusha.:
"Onimusha hijacked a thread about anime festivals, into a thread about your favorite anime, what an *******."


Except this thread did not start as an Otakon thread. If anyone hijacked this thread, it was me. To be fair, it was somewhat related to the topic, being a con happening on the same exact weekend.

Sorry, Dor.
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2008-08-02, 1:53 AM #16
Originally posted by Yecti:
Grey / Black
I don't know, a lot of whites tend to be in the background.
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2008-08-02, 12:37 PM #17
Originally posted by Onimusha.:
I have heard that at otacon theres bajillions of hot girls and its quite easy to "hook up" there.

Is this true or just the depraved rantings of sexless anime nerds?


I believe this depends on your opinion of whales and whether or not you have a harpoon. (FYI: I have no real idea of what I'm talking about but I'm a good guesser.)
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2008-08-02, 12:47 PM #18
Actually, Otakon has a very surprisingly high amount of extremely hot chicks. The ones you hook up with are probably going to be odd outcast girls, though.
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:omgkroko:
2008-08-02, 2:12 PM #19
You mean the ones who will have a discussion on how Setsuki's love triangle with Hina and Ayame is foreshadowing of his inner turmoil as a child, while your banging them?


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"They're everywhere, the little harlots."
-Martyn
2008-08-02, 5:13 PM #20
I'm going to reiterate and explain a bit more.

My friend. 20. A girl. Rave. Extasy. Twelve.

STAY AWAY. STAY FAR AWAY.
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2008-08-02, 7:56 PM #21
Where's Carpking?
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2008-08-08, 1:11 PM #22
Can't go this year, too poor. I'm disappointed, I was really looking forward to it.

Have fun, and tell us what you do with the badge (get yours early, last year they ran out and some people got paper ones). One guy, before a talk, went on stage with a 6 pack of various foreign and domestic beers, and offered it in exchange for someone's badge. Someone actually traded. I couldn't believe it, they were going for like $100 on ebay at the time.
2008-08-08, 8:18 PM #23
I actually had to bail at the last minute. :gbk:
Stupid work and not enough staffing and folks calling off sick.
Also, I can kill you with my brain.
2008-08-09, 7:18 AM #24
I had never heard of Otakon until I read this thread. So I decided to check out the Otakon website. Now I'm even more confused than before.

However, I've heard of DefCon & would love to go, but Las Vegas just isn't in the cards for now.
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2008-08-09, 10:19 AM #25
What's confusing about Otakon? It's an Anime convention.
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2008-08-10, 7:30 PM #26
Wait, Las Vegas? Wha? I live in Las Vegas...

Oh, but wait. I hate anime.
2008-08-10, 8:45 PM #27
DefCon isn't an anime convention. It's a hacker convention.

Otakon is an anime convention that came up in the thread. It is in Baltimore, MD.
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2008-08-11, 7:22 AM #28
I have been confused and admit total defeat.
2008-08-11, 8:35 AM #29
:hist101:
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2008-08-11, 8:44 AM #30
Originally posted by Vegiemaster:
DefCon isn't an anime convention. It's a hacker convention.

Otakon is an anime convention that came up in the thread. It is in Baltimore, MD.


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2008-08-11, 9:00 AM #31
F*** YEAH FISHSTICKZ
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2008-08-11, 9:39 AM #32
I was there. I did Parkour. I made fun of nerds. I played on a fountain. The nerds got kicked off of the fountain.

I laughed.
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2008-08-11, 9:57 AM #33
Isnt the idea of a hacker convention self defeating?.

Surely a hacker convention would be aload of hackers hacking into to something at the same time and IMing
2008-08-11, 10:44 AM #34
The public wi-fi at the convention was obviously a very dangerous place to linger. There were some French reporters that hacked into some other reporters laptops and were arrested for it. I'm sure there was plenty of other stuff that went under the radar.

When Patrick Lokken, from hackaday.com, covered the story he said this:
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We're tunneling through our cell connection like any sane person at a security conference.
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2008-08-11, 9:53 PM #35
Originally posted by happydud:
Well, last year my friend hooked up with this girl at a rave.

Not surprising.
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He later found out she was on X.
Not surprising.
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And twelve.
Not s... :omg:
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2008-08-12, 6:20 AM #36
Originally posted by Vegiemaster:
Where's Carpking?


I was thinking the same thing.
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2008-08-12, 10:17 AM #37
Originally posted by Vegiemaster:
The public wi-fi at the convention was obviously a very dangerous place to linger. There were some French reporters that hacked into some other reporters laptops and were arrested for it. I'm sure there was plenty of other stuff that went under the radar.

When Patrick Lokken, from hackaday.com, covered the story he said this:

Yeah, they have the "wall of sheep" which is a projection screen that displays sniffed usernames and the first couple digits of the associated password. When I went I swapped my regular hard drive out of my laptop for an old one and used a live cd.
2008-08-12, 11:45 AM #38
If I were from the area, I would definitely be there. How was it, Aglar?
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2008-08-12, 1:36 PM #39
It's awesome. I really felt "at home" there. Everyone was really nice and nobody was condescending, so people of all skill levels can go and have fun (and learn). It's really cool to be walking down a hallway or standing in an elevator and overhear snatches of conversation that include words like "buffer overflow" or "TOCTOU". It's kind of hard going back to your normal life after something like that ;)

There are tons of talks. Five going on simultaneously at any given time, most were around an hour long. From 10 AM to around 9 PM. That's a lot of information. You really have to decide what you want to make sure you hear beforehand, because there's just so much to take in. There are also lots of events (CTF, trivia games, build contests [last year it was airsoft turrets], etc) that you can enroll to participate in. The only downside to this, that I've heard, is you end up missing out on a lot of the convention, so it's probably the kind of thing that you're best to leave for your third or fourth def con experience.

It's a shame that it's on the other side of the continent, which is why I wasn't able to go this year, but the trip is the only real cost at least, not admission. Admission is $100 for all three days, and you get a wicked cool badge out of the deal (I seriously don't know how they manage to give these way and still cover their costs). Last year it was a circuit board with a 90-some-odd LED array that you used the built in touch-sensitive buttons to program whatever scrolling saying you want. They also released all the hardware schematics and code for the microcontroller with it, so people hacked up all kinds of cool projects with their badges. I saw one guy with Conway's "game of life" playing on his. There's a badge hacking contest, I think last year's winner incorporated an audio input into theirs and turned the badge into an equalizer.

I'm probably rambling at this point. Anyway, the gist is, it's awesome and anyone remotely interested in hacking should go. the only thing I'd probably do different is go with friends next time. I probably learned more going alone, but if you have geeky friends I'm sure it would be a blast.

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