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That's show notes, a topic that you are oh, oh, so familiar with.
Every time I come on, I'm astounded by the amount of your show notes.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I keep bringing it up.
Let's get into the housekeeping.
Well, that is a very good idea.
See how the show notes keep the flow going.
The housekeeping section, a lot more feedback, a lot more feedback, a lot more email, which
is great.
I love hearing from people.
It tells me whether we suck or we don't suck, what people want to hear, blah, blah, blah, feedback
on previous shows.
And our very first one is a bit of feedback on the last episode with our good friend, Rax, the
Miggity Mac Daddy, and real name is withheld.
We don't mention the real name, so we're going to call it anonymous.
And he says, quote, he or she says, excuse me, I was listening to tonight's show, January 27th, 04,
and heard something about organizing a hacker-type meeting in Phoenix.
Excuse me if this has already been answered, for this was the first Binary Revolution show
I've heard, but are you in Arizona?
If so, let me know.
I'm in Arizona doing Pirate FM broadcasts and would love to get the word out about your
show, perhaps use some content from it.
Brad, Pirate FM, flag, that's awesome.
How elite is that?
When he or she says hacker-type meeting, I'm assuming they're a con, not the 2600 meeting.
Well, actually, let's mention both.
Let's go ahead and, if this person's interested in possibly attending any and all of this stuff,
of course you do have regular monthly hacker meetings, 2600, DEFCON, whatever you guys,
you know, it doesn't matter what you call it.
Yeah, 2600 meetings, you can go to az2600.org.
They've been organized, they've been around for years.
Shout to Nine Bolts and Slip and Rax for putting it all together.
We meet at the northeast corner, this is verbatim off the site, I'm there now,
on northeast corner of 24th Street and Countback at the Borders.
You go upstairs, we meet in the cafe, they're very cool there, we have great, great meetings.
What's coming up this week?
Oh, yes, I'm glad you put that on there.
I did not put a reminder in here that meetings would be coming up this Friday.
That's right, that's right.
You know what, I also didn't even mention on the start of the show that this is Tuesday, February, February, February 3rd,
and the two tons plus four, so originally aired, of course, and if you're hearing it after that, you're listening to a rerun.
Right.
But, yeah, there is a thread in the forums, forums.binrev.com, some brainstorming ideas, get some information about said conference,
and I don't know that they really want to refer to it as a conference.
I think they were kind of saying that treating it more like a weekend hackers meeting or a weekend long 2600 meeting
or something along those lines, if I understood correctly.
Just a lot more organized, some presentations, stuff like that.
So, I guess, I mean, it is a conference, but...
Can I give you a little insider info?
Oh, by all means.
I hope they don't mind.
I actually met with Slip and Rax this weekend.
We had a little bit of confed, if you know what I mean.
And they were telling me, Slip specifically, that he would like to make this special.
You know, you could pay, you know, a thousand, if not thousands of dollars to go to, let's say, hacker schools,
hacker camps, hacker workshops, right?
Who knows what you're going to learn.
If you would like to get the real junk, what they are envisioning is a hacker convention in Phoenix, right,
in the PHX that is full of how-tos, that is full of demonstrations where you sit down with your laptop
and there will be workshops there.
I think that would make it, you know, ultimately one of the most special cons there are.
Because you pay, what, 50 bucks, tops?
And you get stuff that you can pay thousands for at one of these crappy, quote, hacker camps or whatever the hell they are.
So, I think that would make it very special.
So, I hope they don't mind me breaking that out.
Well, it's...
Insider info there for you.
Yeah, I guess you guys are still brainstorming it.
Like you said, it's this in-progress thing.
I think that's a great idea myself, but realistically, that's going to take a lot of volunteers
and a lot of people helping to make it really hands-on and very immersive.
And, you know, there's going to be a lot of people to do a case-by-case or, you know, a one-on-one basis.
So, there's going to be a lot of...
See, the lucky thing is you guys have a lot of great active people.
That's a bit much, I think.
We definitely have a strong community in Phoenix.
Absolutely.
There is an extremely...
I think it's good size, and it's an extremely strong community.
I think we have the people to do it.
Right, and that's basically what I was saying, is it might not be one-on-one,
but they're going to probably give you much better attention than you would get at some
of the other things you mentioned, some of those classes, et cetera.
And these are people that do it.
Yeah, and so it's going to take a lot of people working, a lot of volunteers, but that's
what I'm saying.
I think you guys can do it.
Of all the people, you guys are the ones that could do it.
Yeah, so, better info for you.
Very, very cool.
And again, there is a thread pinned in the general hacking forum, forums.binrev.com, that
you can check for updates.
Of course, the website that Duel just mentioned, lots of places, and we'll do everything we
can here on the show and on the site to get the information out there.
So, yeah, keep listening to the show and keep checking us out and keep checking out the
other sites for more information.
Now, on to another email from Error.
It says, well, let's see.
You know where this is coming from, I suppose.
Last week, I needed to return.
Oh, this is a little Project Walmart Freedom.
What perfect timing this is.
Hit me.
This is a little Project Walmart.
Well, it's a Walmart story.
I didn't read this part.
Okay, well, you're going to, this might make you mad, so here you go.
I'll get you nice and steamed up for the show.
Uh-huh.
Last week, I needed to return a game that looked decent but turned out to not work.
Nothing at all worked on it.
So, I tried to take it back to Walmart, and they just looked at me like I was crazy.
So, I got my grandma to take it back.
This game won't work on my grandson's computer.
Oh, no problem.
They didn't ask her a single question.
Interesting.
Single question.
So, and last week with Rax, we kind of made the comment of good luck taking something back to Walmart.
They don't take games back.
They don't take any open CDs or anything like that because they've gotten so stingy and so stringent and so nitpicky.
They're not what Walmart originally was intended.
They've turned into a bunch of greedy, well, you know what?
I'll just turn you loose on it.
Okay.
First of all, shrink wrap licensing pisses me off.
Yeah.
Look at the things that can happen.
And this is not just Walmart.
This is a lot of places.
There are actually some video game stores, right, specialty stores, but they'll give you like seven days.
You can go, you can try it out, you can bring it back.
Good.
That's good.
Good for them.
Give them your money.
There are other places that, let's say, you want to buy a new game and all they have left is the display copyright.
They have the empty case up and they get the CD and they sell it to you.
They sell it to you as new, and they sell it to you with the same shrink wrap licensing.
I think that's so ass backwards, right?
Oh, I know.
That really is.
That's a bunch of crap.
That's not cool.
I never buy those.
There's a game I want.
Nope, I won't take that because that's just hypocrisy.
So there's shrink wrap licensing, right?
I think that's a crock.
And finally, this, unfortunately, this doesn't surprise me.
Warburg is unfair in the least.
They'll absolutely discriminate against, you know, if this, I don't know, I don't know what he looks like, but I can just assume he's a young kid.
Maybe he's, you know, maybe, you know, he's not wearing a suit and a tie, right?
So they're not going to just, you know, he's not a grandma either, unfortunately.
So they're going to say, screw you little kid.
You got nothing.
You got no power.
You know, you're not going to go complain to anybody.
But a grandma comes in, somebody who deserves respect in the society.
Oh, sure.
Of course.
Sure.
We'll take it back.
Whatever you say.
So, absolutely, they discriminate.
They discriminate with their own frickin' workers.
Of course, they don't care about us, you know, measly sheep coming in and buying their products straight from China.
Yeah.
They don't respect us paying consumers.
They don't.
We don't have, oh, when we get to the personal hacking section, we'll talk more about it.
Oh, boy, I can't wait.
Yeah, I'm sure.
So, well, there's the answer.
If you've got to return something, give it to your parents, your grandparents.
Hell, give it to some old homeless guy in the street.
Apparently, he'll get more respect than you will as a young person.
I don't know if he's a, frankly, I don't know how old he is.
I'm sure he's not a kid, but even if you're a teenager or something like that, they're probably
going to give you a much harder time than they would someone else's.
I don't know.
If I could go back one step further, don't shop at Walmart.
Well, that is a solution also.
And any game.
Tell them your parents don't shop there.
Tell them about the evils of frickin' Walmart.
Tell them what they do.
Tell them to read Project Walmart Freedom, available at waltz.com.
If they want to get the telephone info on Walmart, sure.
But there are many other resources.
Maybe we can talk about those as well in the first one.
All right.
Well, then, let's jump on.
So that's all we have to say about that.
Now, we've got another email from someone that you're familiar with, Lashek.
Yeah.
Lashek, of course, hosted.
That's for the masses.
On Rant Radio.
Now, he sent in an email a couple episodes back, episode 28, about the definition of the word hacker.
And we kind of questioned.
He didn't put a smile or anything, but it was pretty apparent that he was being sarcastic.
But he had emailed me back confirming that, yes, he was being sarcastic.
We figured that on the show.
We assumed that.
So he cleared that up.
But he also went into a lot more detail about some other topics that we've discussed on past shows.
Too much of it to read on the air, but it was a great letter.
And I did read it start to finish on my own.
I have read the whole thing.
It's just a little much to read on the air.
But what I would like to do is print it completely in the next issue of Binary Revolution magazine.
So please send me an email.
If you're listening, confirm if you wouldn't mind us printing it.
I guess that would be issue 2.2 because 2.1 is gone to print or is gone to layout.
So it's probably too late for that one.
And as long as we're on that topic.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Can we talk about this check one more second?
Sure, absolutely.
Okay.
If you've never listened to a show, it was on Rant Radio some time ago.
So Magic for the Masses?
Yeah, Magic for the Masses.
Great show.
I am remiss in that I don't have the archives.
And I'm going to be searching for them now.
I'm glad it's brought back up.
But I used to listen to it.
It's a great show.
I mean, absolutely unique in absolutely what Internet radio is for.
So if you can track those down, do it.
You will not be sorry.
And just because it has magic, it doesn't mean it's a bunch of crap because it's not.
It's a very, very good radio.
Thank you.
This has been brought to you by Rant Radio.
Actually, no, seriously, the Rant Radio has a lot of good stuff.
Seriously.
Rant Radio plays a lot of different good shows, a good variety of shows.
They really are.
I've shouted them out on here many times before in the individual shows.
Oh, yeah, I've shouted them out too.
Yep.
Where was I?
Oh, yeah.
So this actually, mentioning printing this in the magazine, if, again, if he gives me permission, I'd like to.
So anybody that wants to send feedback, I'd like, we have an email address, radio at binrev.com for the radio show.
For general feedback, you want to send me something, follow up on something on the radio show, something like that, send it to radio at binrev.com.
But we also have just plain old feedback at binrev.com.
So if you want to send any kind of feedback, I really would like to see more feedback about the magazine, frankly.
I want to know what people like about it, what they don't like about it, feedback about specific articles that were in previous issues of the magazine.
If you like the Hacking 101 series, write back and say, I'd like to see more of this.
Or if it sucks, if you don't want to see any more, write in and tell me that too.
Or, you know, what kind of articles would you like to see more of or less of?
Perhaps you've gotten more information, done some research on a topic that we talked about.
Maybe you went out and did some more research on Coinstar, something like that.
You want to give us a little extra information that we can add in there.
Obviously, if you have articles, you can submit to articles at binrev.com.
If you have something that would make a full article itself.
So, but yeah, by all means, I want to have some direct correspondence relating to the magazine on what people like, what they don't like.
I mean, it's possible, highly, extremely unlikely, of course.
But it is possible that we could have accidentally, possibly made a mistake.
Yeah, I know, it doesn't sound real likely.
Actually, it sounds very likely.
No way!
Yes, yes, I know it's hard to believe.
But see, the thing is, I blame Rax.
If there's a mistake, it's probably Rax's fault.
I like the pictures.
Everybody likes the pictures.
Logan 5 does such incredible work that I can never stop.
I could talk about that for hours and hours.
Use the shit, man.
Yeah, I mean, seriously.
Ugh.
Well, anyway.
He deserves a party at frickin' Chuck E. Cheese, man.
He's so good.
He's going to be on an upcoming show.
We're working it out right now.
He's been a very busy man lately.
So, we are.
I've been emailing and we're getting on the show as soon as humanly possible.
So, he will be back on soon.
So, anyway.
Letters at BinRev.com.
Feedback at BinRev.com.
RadioBinRev.com.
Blah, blah, blah.
Send us feedback appropriate to the particular thing.
I really would like to see more feedback on the magazine itself.
Right now, I pull from the forums.
I pull from personal emails I get.
I pull some of the radio miscellaneous from a lot of different places.
And I'd like to have some more feedback on the articles themselves.
Because I still think we've got really good articles.
I like reading the stuff that people submit.
We get a lot of great stuff.
Absolutely.
Okay.
And on to yet more feedback.
We had a lot of good feedback lately.
And this one is from, and forgive me.
I'm not sure if it's Regicide or Regicide.
Regicide, I guess I'm going with.
Anyway, he says, he or she says,
I would just like to tell you the show is great.
Thank you.
I found it and have been listening to the past episodes.
About three a day, so I'm almost done.
Wow.
I listen in the morning on my MP3 cell phone
in place of the Howard Stern show that I used to listen to in the morning at work.
Just thought you would like to know you stole a listener from someone
that gets paid a whole lot of money to keep me listening.
Also, I wanted to add that the new Winamp is great.
That's how I found you.
It has Rant Radio on the channels list.
Anyway, keep doing the good work, and I will keep listening.
Again, Regicide, thank you.
Three episodes a day?
I don't even know if I could listen to three episodes of me a day.
I wish I could.
I annoy myself.
I don't think I could handle it.
He's a machine, man.
He is an absolute monster.
A key.
This, you know what, this is my favorite email.
It really is, because Howard Stern?
Uh-oh.
The pimp's phone be ringing.
Can I answer it?
You answer it.
I'll go ahead and continue.
This is Rant Bay Radio right here.
Bland.
You are on Binary Revolution Radio.
Rad.
He says rad.
Yeah, unfortunately.
I don't know anything to listeners, but we're totally, dude, RFA'ing his show right now.
You got a message for everybody?
It's time to...
Feeding the dog, burying the bone.
Can I three-way in Bland?
I don't know.
Can you?
Yeah, I can.
I suppose you can.
All right, Rad.
Hold on.
Bland's used to going without show notes on RFA.
Oh, yeah.
That's wrong.
See?
This is what radio's about, baby.
Right here.
Hold on a second.
We totally RFA'd the show is right.
This is an impromptu three-way.
Hey.
Which doesn't sound nearly as cool as it should.
An impromptu three-way?
A little.
Bland?
Bland.
Yes.
You are going to feed the dogs with Binary Revolution Radio.
Rad.
I don't know what kind of code.
Is that like dog in the bucket or something?
Like dog in the bathtub?
I don't...
I don't even know if it's going to pick Bland up, because we didn't do sound checks,
so I'm not sure if it's going to pick them up, but...
That's okay.
Go ahead.
Go on.
He'll listen then.
So you had an email, one of your favorites.
Email.
Because...
Well, see, what he mentioned was he listens to Howard Stern.
Now, Howard Stern is a multimillionaire, probably the most famous radio voice in the
entire world, who I actually listen to on occasion.
You're lying.
Actually, I listen to my Nerdcore CD sometimes.
But, yeah, this is really cool because this is a multimillion dollar guy, and we didn't
steal anybody away.
I just think it's cool that this guy would rather listen to an independent radio show
than listen to this mass-produced...
I don't even know how to put it into words.
It's very...
I'm honored to know that somebody would rather listen to...
We're actually giving something that has value to somebody, that they would rather listen
to us than listen to somebody as huge as Howard Stern.
And that, to me, is really cool, and it shows that, you know, it's not...
There are people out there that would...
They don't have to listen to the same crap every day.
They don't have to listen to shock radio.
They don't have to listen to all this other stuff.
They'll listen and be educated, hopefully, and listen to something that they find interesting.
And I think that's very cool and very admirable of you.
It is.
It's amazing that you can actually consume something of substance.
That's right.
It actually exists.
And we're just, hopefully, a small contributing part to that.
I hope.
We try.
Yeah.
Hell yeah, we try.
I have dogs fighting in the background.
Y'all try?
Uh-oh.
Well, that means you, Bland, but I guess collectively, the community, we try.
But RFA, no, please.
Well, that wraps up the mailbag portion of the show.
But also, while we're doing the housekeeping, of course, I go out and I check my logs every
once in a while.
I'll check my statistics page, et cetera, et cetera, just see what's going on.
And I thought I'd share some of the interesting stuff from this time.
I got a top ten list of where my hits come from, from binrev.com.
Some of them are obvious.
Number one is .net.
Number two is .com.
Number three is actually unknown.
And number four is .edu, educational facilities, which is very cool.
By the way, the unknown is Zapper.
Yeah.
That's right.
Probably.
The funny, this is not funny.
This is interesting.
The number five hit after those, I found strange.
And actually, this is the first country, quote, unquote, this is the first country code to
be on the list.
Number five, most hits, comes from Poland.
Hell yeah.
Dude, isn't Havoc from Poland?
Isn't it?
I mean, isn't that just cool that we have, well, we get a lot of country hits, but I mean,
man, that's a lot of hits.
There are some freaking lead polls, dude.
I think Havoc is from Poland, right, Bland?
Yeah, dude.
Like, everyone I've ever talked to from Poland, like, knew their stuff.
Hell yeah, dude.
They know their shit.
And, pardon me, they know their stuff.
I've had Wi-Fi articles mirrored on Polish sites.
Dude, straight up, they're the stuff, man.
I'm telling you.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that in Havoc, yeah, I've spoken to him, and I think he is from
Poland.
Yep.
Number six is kind of scary.
Number six is .gov.
You know how much we love the government hits.
Nice.
They're always up there, around 15 or so, but they jumped to number six this week, so
we must have had something that interested them.
Jumped to number six this week, the .gov.
We must have had something that interested them.
That's a good radio voice.
So, what's that, Bland?
W is a big fan of the show.
Yeah, George W.
This is the Binary Revolution Radio.
Well, we also get hits from .us, number seven on the list.
Next on the top ten list.
Number, well, number, let's see, that was number seven, climbing several spots to number
seven, .us.
Falling this week to number eight is .org.
And no, Bland, that is not orgy.
That is .org for a non-profit organization.
And, let's see, number nine is .nl, which, of course, dual is?
The Netherlands.
You got it.
And number ten, rounding out the top ten, our good friends from the north, up in Canada.
Oh, Canada.
Canada, eh?
That's all I know.
Canada likes hacking, eh?
Eh?
I also got a couple other interesting hits further down the list.
Number 16, our good friends .mil, the military checking up.
And I tell you what, I got a weird one.
I thought it was weird.
.nu.
.nu was down on the list.
Lots of countries, but, which is a place called, I don't even know how to pronounce this.
Do you know how to pronounce this, dual?
Uh, no.
N-I-U-E.
Nayu?
Nui?
I don't know.
I don't know, either.
He's been around before.
But, hey, welcome to everybody, big and small, whatever your country is, check it out.
Yeah.
Also, lots of Wgets.
Increasing number of Wgets.
So, um.
Blaine probably wrote a script.
Yeah, right, and forgot to turn it off.
Actually, I know one of those.
I gave permission to somebody to do some testing for me on the site, so I know one of those coming from.
I got a lot, and actually, this month, there was a. . .
I always get hit, of course, from, like, Googlebot and AltaVista and some of the web crawlers, some of the big search.
I got a lot of other search engines this time.
They all, I follow up on them, make sure they're all legit, make sure they're all not some, something else.
And they all seem valid.
There were some search engines from other countries, which, as we said earlier, is very cool.
Search engines that were just small ones, startups, stuff like that, that were, yeah, just crawling the site, and that's cool.
The more we get the word out, the more, the happier, you know, the more people we get, and the happier I am about it.
So, I think it's very cool.
But. . .
This kind of pisses me off, because Powweb used to resolve IP dreads, and they don't anymore.
Well. . .
Well, now, I just got a big, like, the Pike dread is just one big green blob unresolved, and it kind of pisses me off to enjoy stuff just like this, but, oh well.
Of course, you could also come to the dark side, but I'm not even going to bring that back up again.
We won't go there, because you're sold on Powweb.
I've got a gig of space now, baby.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And our final. . .
You know, this is something that Rax and I will talk about this more, because I know he gets into it, but we're going to talk about the Super Bowl a little bit.
Now, you know, we have to add a third space.
Now, we usually go into our, you know, what have we been working on, blah, blah, blah, hacking stories, and you're chomping at the bit for something.
So, if we can skip you, go to me?
Well, I'll make mine quick.
I've been working on setting up the streaming media server.
It's really close.
It's almost working.
I might actually be streaming this episode on it as a test.
So, that's it.
That's all I have to say.
That's rad.
Yeah, tell everybody what we did for the Super Bowl, Bland.
Bland and I spent time on the phone, and Bland, what did you do?
I installed Blackware.
How many times?
I'm on, like, number three, I think.
How's it working now?
It works like a charm now.
Nice.
Very nice.
Yeah, you had some weird problems we both did, actually.
Yeah.
No, I have no idea if you're being picked up or not.
I don't know if the listeners can hear you at all.
So, Dool, I think you might have to...
They might not be able to hear you, Bland.
Yeah, you might have to translate here.
Okay.
Basically, correct me if I'm wrong, Glenn, because I can still hear you.
He installed Blackware, put on the new Flux 9-8, correct?
Yeah.
Yeah, and it wouldn't let him customize menus.
It wouldn't let him do anything to the menus.
It just didn't recognize it at all.
So, you tried it again, and the third shot, it worked?
Yeah.
Good.
Everything works.
And at the same time, see, that's what we did for the Super Bowl.
We did not watch it because we're not into basketball.
So, we spent time on the phone.
Slackbox is doing some goofy things, too.
Actually, I think it's hardware.
My integrated Nick on this $150 Taiwanese box took crap, so I got a freaking...
Anyway, that's what happened to me.
He got his work in.
I'm thinking of putting in another Nick, and I'm thinking about FreeBSD, Bland.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah, I think 5-2-1 came out or something like that.
Anyway, so that's what we did for the Super Bowl.
And that...
Time for personal hacking?
Is that your story?
No.
Well, that's...
I'm going to say, I'm waiting for what...
What do you got?
Okay, well, first...
All right, first, I'll give a little tech, and I'll do it on this show.
I won't save it for RFA.
A little Bluetooth.
I had a couple of spare adapters.
I sent one to Hack and Slash.
He's going to be working on a graphical version of Ghetto Tooth.
Right?
Ghetto Tooth TK.
So, props to Hack.
And then I sent one to Bland because he's my dog.
And he'll get to start sniffing Bluetooth as well.
I also upgraded mine.
I actually picked up a Class 1, right, which is a 100-meter range, a Class 1 Bluetooth adapter,
USB Bluetooth adapter by Linksys, a.k.a. Cisco.
Not only is this a Class 1 device, again, 100-meter range, model number USB-BT100, it has an external antenna.
Yes, that's right.
It's got a little stubby antenna on it.
So, and it comes with a little extension cord.
It's pretty short, but I've got longer ones, and you can buy longer ones.
So, theoretically, I've yet to try this, and I'm planning to.
So, theoretically, this might actually mean that more driving for Bluetooth may be possible, may be feasible.
I don't know for a fact yet.
I live in a kind of a podunk town.
Maybe if I go downtown, maybe I can pick up some stuff.
But with the extension cord, with the Class 1 device, with the external antenna, sticking it out the window, you know,
prompting it outside the car, actually, war driving for Bluetooth may be feasible.
I will let everyone know.
I'm going to be testing this out soon as soon as I get a spare moment.
Make sure you take the video camera with you.
That's, you know, that's a good idea.
Maybe I will.
So, there's a little tech.
And then the biggest thing, and it shouts to me right now, props to me, I read Culture Jam.
I picked it up.
I talked about it on the last RFA.
I was just into it, and I read the whole thing.
I mean, I devoured this book.
Very few books I read so fast.
It's so well written.
It cleared up so much.
I don't think it's an overstatement to say that it changed my life.
It absolutely changed how I look at everything now, especially in this country and things
that come from this country.
Culture Jam is an absolute must-read.
It's cheap.
It's paperback.
It's $14.
You'll get it used if you can.
Do you have it in front of you there?
I'm holding it in my hand.
Describe it for the listeners.
What is the cover so they can find it?
Who it was written by?
It's by a probably butcher's name, Kale Lassen, founder of Adbusters and the Media Foundation.
The book is called Culture Jam.
His last name is L-A-S-N.
Adbusters is also a great magazine, by the way, adbusters.org.
Again, it's Culture Jam, how to reverse America's suicidal consumer binge and why we must.
It describes everything.
How corporations became, basically people, how corporations came to life and how they have
more rights than citizens do right now and how we must change that.
And even where the phrase Culture Jam came from, I've had Negative Land CD jammed on 84 for
quite some time.
And that's where Culture Jamming came from, from that CD and what Negative Land does.
That's a very good CD, by the way.
And it will absolutely change the way you look at everything.
And Meme, Meme has been on the show.
She's talked about Culture Jamming.
She's written a text file that gives you tons of Culture Jamming resources.
It's on Old School Freak.
Not to mention the artwork.
Yeah.
Oh, and all her artwork, which is jamming, which are the memes that she's creating and that
are spreading.
If I may, well, maybe I won't be so bold, but I hope that Project Walmart Freedom at least
starts the meme, right?
The anti-meme against Walmart and their low prices always and whatever crap they're spewing
and becomes the new cool, right?
What people will think about every time somebody says Walmart, and that is that it's a bunch
of crap.
But they are not benefiting our nation.
They are not benefiting the workers that barely get paid there, right?
That's the whole point of that, to change it in that way.
I've got the plans of my own, and I will try to document them as best I can, but I absolutely
implore you, whoever is listening to this show, to get this book and read it.
Absolutely.
And I'm going to continue to read.
I'm going to continue to work at it, at jamming, whether it be Walmart, whether it be, you know,
the double A's, right, the MPA, the RIA, but I can't stress enough how good that is, and
I can't thank meme enough for opening my eyes, because she literally did.
That's what I've been doing.
That sounds very, very interesting.
Well, I appreciate it, because it is.
And what I will do, well, see, now see here, ironically, I don't know if I can do this
or should do this.
Would it be, we know you hate Walmart.
How do you feel about Amazon?
I don't know, never used it, dealt with it, no idea.
I was just going to, I was getting ready to offer that maybe in the show notes I'll put
a link straight to the book at Amazon so people can go check it out.
Why not?
If you can't, if you can't get it at a used bookstore, if you can't check it out at your
local library, I mean, or if you don't have to own it, then, yeah, what the hell, buy it
on Amazon, that's fine.
And what I'll do, and the other thing that Amazon is good for is that you might just go and
check it out and see if you like it, and then buy it locally.
You know, you can go on there and research it, look at a couple sample pages, read some
reviews on the book from others, and stuff like that.
So you can use Amazon to do a little research, and then, like Dool said, go to a used bookstore
perhaps and pick it up.
I'll tell you what, I believe, I've got a friend, right?
No, you don't.
Uh, she, uh, she, she, like, she loves, cares for her book so much that she won't even bend
the spine when she reads it.
To me, no.
That's not how, a book should be used, it should be carried, it should be dog-eared, it should
be loved.
All of that wear, all of that, that, that love you put in the book, you know, all of
those marks are signs of that love.
I will make this offer right now.
Right now.
On Binary Revolution Radio, I will offer this book.
I will send it around to all the hackers, all the freaks, anybody in the community would
like to read it.
Blant, do you want to read this book?
Sure.
I will mail it to Blant, Blant said, sure, by the way.
I will mail it to Blant and he will read it.
And guess what?
Somebody can post it on boards, whatever, I'd like to read it.
Send their address to Blant, and guess what?
Hopefully Blant will have the wherewithal the means, if not, I'll, I'll give, make sure
he does, to mail it to them and they can read it.
I will have this book go around the freaking North American continent, right?
I'll have this thing go around Canada and the U.S. at least so many times and so many
people would be educated.
This is one book that I hold in my hand right now.
I make that offer right now.
Everyone write your handle on the inside front cover.
Dude, rad.
Awesome.
Is North America a continent, by the way?
Last time I...
Right now.
I'm offering it right now.
Blant will be the first.
I'll mail it to Blant and he'll get to read it.
And then guess what?
The next person wants to read it, you write in, write the stank, write the radiopinrev.com,
say, hey, I want to read it next.
We'll make sure it gets to you.
And as long as you write your handle on the inside cover and send it off.
We're going to, this book's going to make the rounds, baby.
We're going to educate and we're going to give this book some love.
Culture jamming.
Hell yeah.
Well, that is a very, very generous offer.
That is very tough to follow.
But we are going to try.
I know you can.
We're going to go into some actual show topics.
Let's see.
How should I approach this?
I'll tell you what I'm good at.
I'm going to go through it as quickly as possible.
But there are some service packs from Microsoft that are upcoming and have been announced.
So I wanted to kind of touch on them a little bit.
First one is Windows XP Service Pack 2 Beta.
This was supposed to have been out in December of 2003.
So I don't know if they ever did release it or not.
And I'm pretty sure it's at least out to early developers or something.
But the XP Service Pack 2 Beta.
The final version, the final Service Pack 2 Windows XP is supposed to come out in the middle of 2004,
which would be this year.
And even looking forward, and I don't know if they're actually going to stick to these dates.
These are early announcements.
But SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4.
Why even bother?
Why not just do SQL Server 2004?
Why call it?
Well, anyway, who am I to question the big M?
That's supposed to come out the first half of 2004.
SQL Server Reporting Services, December 2003.
So that should have been recently released.
I don't know.
I've never...
Have either one of you guys ever used SQL Server?
No, I haven't planned.
That was a big no for the planter.
I've never had any call or need, so I don't even know much about it.
I'm on my Red Hat box right now.
Let me patch it real quick here.
Live on the air.
And finally, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, first half of 2004 as well.
Now...
Hold on.
I'm going to patch my Red Hat box.
A-P-T.
Enter.
It's patching.
Wrote a little script.
Actually, Bland wrote a little script for App for RPM.
So it goes out and gets all my stuff up.
We're updated.
We're good.
You're good?
I'm good.
Are you good?
That's it.
Okay.
Bland, how about that Slackware box?
I'm getting there.
He's doing it right now.
Are you using Slapget or Soiree?
I'm going to use Slapget.
Bland is going to use Slapget, which I've yet to use.
So you saved that review for the next RFA.
Yeah, I'm just now getting the package in.
You know, I'm just rebuilding this box right now.
Brad.
He's rebuilding the box.
For everybody, look forward to the next RFA.
You're going to get a review of Slapget.
Okay.
All right.
So...
Oh, crap.
The show notes.
What show notes?
Stank.
I'm so sorry.
That's all right.
We have a tendency to stray from the show notes.
They're only a guideline.
That's very true.
So, what is in Service Pack, do you think?
Oh, what a great segue back to the show notes, right?
Yes.
First of all, there's a lot.
I cut and pasted this.
That's why he's teasing me about the show notes being so long.
I cut and pasted this stuff from the webpage.
I will put the link up in the show notes so people can go there directly and read them all
if they want more detail about them.
But the quick version is they're adding basically four things.
One is network protection, supposedly better protection against network-based attacks like
Blaster, etc., etc., etc.
They're going to update the ICF, the Internet Connection Firewall, turning on higher levels
of security as default, which is something they really should have done from day one.
I don't know why they didn't, but that's a whole other thing.
RPC service, they're addressing some of the problems with that.
DCOM, lots of network changes and modifications reactively instead of proactively.
But, hey, take what you can get, I guess.
The second thing is they're doing a lot of memory protections, meaning that they're going
to protect, well, they're going to have protected areas of memory, I guess, most commonly referred
to buffer overruns.
They're going to have, like, non-executable stacks?
Yeah, they're going to have, it's, there's so many different ways and so many different
approaches to this that, again, this is something that you can go read up the details of exactly
how and what, and actually, they're only going to release so many details, you know that.
But, yeah, basically, they're going to have a little bit more memory protection, a lot
more, but there's so many types that I don't, they're never going to get them all.
So, again, they're reacting, fixing what's known and what's been released, but I'm sure
people will find more.
So, that's going to at least help, again, on a reactive standpoint.
Number three is, say, for email, they're going to, well, they claim, anyway, see, fundamentally,
the nature of Outlook and the way it works is weak, but they claim they're going to add
some new security technologies to stop viruses, the email spreading viruses, the macro viruses,
et cetera, et cetera.
That, again, one part of that is changing the default settings so that they default at
a higher security level, which, again, should have been there from day one.
Man, I'm switching.
Yeah, oh, it makes it worthwhile, right?
Well.
Who needs Firebird and Thunderbird?
And the fourth thing, which is pretty much impossible, is safer browsing, they're claiming.
They're going to put new security features in IE, Internet Explorer, I mean Explorer, that
will add a lot more improved, quote, improved protection against malicious content on the
web.
No, I think any would be good.
You didn't hear that, Blant said, I think any would be good.
Ten billion lines of code, you can secure one or two.
Yeah.
Secure a couple of those lines of code, please.
You know, I think Blant told me this before.
You want to know how to browse securely?
Don't use IE.
Well, then there are, unfortunately, some people who don't have a choice.
So, there are some people that a kid, a young person, has to use their parents' computer.
They don't have a choice.
They're going to have to use whatever their parents give them access to.
You go to a university where you're not allowed to install anything or classroom environment
or something like that, you don't have a choice.
Well, then security's not up to you either.
I'm sorry?
Then security's not up to you either.
Well, hopefully the sysadmins will be able to keep up with their standard desktops to update
the security for their users.
Right.
So, it's better than...
That's exactly what I'm saying.
But they might not have the option to install Firebird.
You know what would be cool?
I was thinking about this.
What would be cool, Blant, speaking up while you say it?
Well, since you don't have to install Firebird on the Windows machine...
That's true.
You can put it on a CD, right, and make the default...
Like the cache directory, you can either use no cache, or make it something that exists
everywhere, like help or something like that.
Tamp.
So you're running from a CD.
Can everybody write to temp in Windows?
It all depends on how the security settings are set up, and what group settings they've
been assigned to.
Interesting.
Well, whatever.
It's all...
Yeah.
You can turn caching off.
There you go.
Well, the user might not be able to, once again.
It all depends.
No, no, no.
I mean, like if you download Firebird and put it on a CD, and then like turn caching off
before you burn it into the CD, and then you take the CD with you.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
Not a freaking business card CD.
That rocks.
Yep.
And turn off caching.
Turn off a business card, baby.
Turn off cookies, all that kind of stuff.
Yep.
Hmm.
That'd be an interesting thing to test.
That would be an interesting article.
That would be a very interesting article to write right there.
Hint, hint.
Yeah, I'm using your t-shirt.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Oh, don't you have enough, stat writer?
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Oh, man.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Bland is my dog, and the snake dog is my dog as well.
You are my dog, and Bland is my dog.
Oh, thank you.
Everybody's my dog.
Thank you.
Oh, man.
All right, well, we are running short on time, so I am going to start wrapping it up.
Um, we will have Rax back on next week, and we're going to go through, probably the majority
of the show will be going through that 101 ways to save the internet that we've been
going on for the last few weeks.
I'd like to try to wrap that up.
We're only getting a few in each episode, so I'd like to spend an episode and try to get
most of them, if not all of them, done.
So, that will probably be next week's show.
Again, with Rax, we can work that out.
And then, shortly thereafter, probably Logan 5.
So, um...
Can I say something real quick?
Sure, by all means.
There's a great read on FlashDot, and it's about the iLug, the IRAC Linux users group.
They had an interview with a gentleman that's there now, I believe.
Um, a great read.
Go read it if you can.
And, uh, you can send me that link, and I will put it in the show notes for people.
Will do.
And, uh, directly to that article.
And, uh, we're time for the shout-outs, so why don't you lead us off?
Me?
You!
What kind of...
I'm definitely me for opening my eyes.
Okay.
Land, of course, you, Spang, Rax, a whole AZ-2600 crew.
Um, and you know what, just...
I had an epiphany one day.
One of many, I know.
I was on IRC.
Uh, while I was working on PWF.
That's right, Project Walmart Freedom.
Uh, people had sent in numbers, payphone numbers, Watts lines.
I'd added, like, five people to the contributors, uh, at the top of the article.
At the top of that big, large, at that huge text box.
And I just, I was overwhelmed.
I was literally overwhelmed by the sense of community, by the amazing people that contribute
to things like that.
And not just, not just PWF.
I mean, that's just, that's just a small part of the community.
They just do amazing things every day.
The posts on the boards, the codes, the articles, the pictures, everything.
You know?
And, and, and again, I was overwhelmed.
So I let everybody at IRC know.
I said, wow, I feel, this is what I said.
This is why I'm bringing this up.
I typed this in IRC.
I am proud to say that I am a part of this community.
I, I had to.
I had to let everyone know.
And, of course, they all said, where the hell did that come from, you know?
Weirdo.
You know?
I said, but, I, I told them, you know, I explained it to them.
They said, yeah.
And everybody said the same thing, you know?
It's, it's amazing.
It's amazing what we're doing.
So, that's.
Well, I, I second that.
I'm very proud.
Land, your shouts.
Shouts to the authors of My Doom A and B.
Now, you have to, you have to translate this.
It's absolutely not picking up.
Land said, shouts to the authors of My Doom A and B.
It's much funnier when he says it, by the way.
I'm sorry, sorry my line's bad, Plan.
Everything is.
Shouts to, uh, shouts to Walmart for giving me a reason to get up every morning.
Shouts to Walmart for giving him a reason to get up every morning.
Uh, shouts to everybody, um.
This is, Blaine, Duel, you should be a relay operator.
It's gonna say that.
Okay, you're saying, Blaine?
Uh, shouts to everybody, uh, that really makes us the greatest community in the world.
Yeah, and shouts to everybody that makes us the greatest community in the world.
I love you guys.
No doubt.
Oh, and, um, I second all of that, especially again to the Arizona crew, um, undertaking something
that hopefully will turn out to be very, very cool.
I know it's definitely in good hands, so definitely second that.
Um, on a, on a more silly note, uh, Terry Tate, office linebacker, is back in business.
And, yeah, I know you don't know who that is, but the listeners might check that out.
TerryTate.com.
And, yeah, yeah, never mind.
You'll find out later.
And to, uh, my other shout-out is for tonight's, let's actually segue into tonight's closing music.
Uh, it's a beatbox by FX.
E-F-F-E-X.
I'm gonna put the link up again in the show notes as well.
Go check this guy out.
He's incredible.
In-credible.
Your other bass beatbox.
Yeah, this guy does some incredible, he's got 20 different sounds going on at the same
time.
It's amazing.
I'll come out of this pie hole.
Exactly.
Thank you for that description.
He's done.
Um, but listen, the guy's got skills.
I don't know if you don't, you don't recognize it or whatever, but the dude's got talent.
Dude, I think your beatbox's shit was good, man.
Oh, please.
Guitar, I love it.
Yeah.
Has it been released?
No, and it never will.
Oh, no, you've got to release that.
Dude, don't even, now see, now you put me on the radio and people know, no.
That's never going to.
It was good.
It was really good.
It's never, never going to see the light of day.
Says the bland.
I dropped a couple beats for bland, and I hope those don't ever see the light of day.
But if they do, yeah, right.
Anyway, uh, so, yeah, shouts to the guy doing our closing music.
I'll put that, and there's a video on the site.
I'm going to play the audio.
I don't know if it'll do it justice.
But you kind of have to see him to realize that this is real, and it is coming out of
his mouth, and these are the noise he's making, so, um, go check out the video and download
it and watch it, um, and email us back.
We said it earlier, I'll say it again, radio at binrev.com.
And, Dool, thank you for being on the show.
Bland, no one can hear you, but they can hear me thanking you for being on the show
as well.
Excellent.
And we will close it out.
I'll let you guys close out the show.
Can you handle, can you handle the closing phrase?
Can you handle the power of closing out the show?
Absolutely.
I'm sure you can.
Now, wait a minute, they're not going to be able to hear Bland, though.
I'll, I'll, uh, I'll translate.
Okay.
Number one, engage.
Uh, see you same hack times.
Same hack channel, Bland says.
Same hack channel.
Peace out.
Mate.
Let me hear you say, I'm alright.
I'm alright.
Let me hear you say, I'm alright.
I'm alright.
Let me hear you say,
Rack theater, rack theater, rack theater, rack theater.
One, two, one, one, one.
Dumb?
Dumb.
Alright.
All right.
End of crack, end of crack, end of crack!
That's me, that's me, that's me, that's me.
End of crack!
H-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h!
Watered, dwind, dwind, dwind!
I watersh-hd!
There you go, let me get, he-eh, behind me!
Get, woh, chus, chus, chus!
OH, doğru!
Nobody get behind me
If your mother only knew
She'd probably throw you out her home
You'd probably be up on a park bench all alone
If your mother only knew
And here's the tricky part
The beat and the chorus
At the same time
If your mother only knew
Now that's...
Now...