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Jackie Clark

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:22:36 +1300

Ha! Laugh you may, Barnes, but they were bloody brilliant. They even exhorted the crowd to rise up and give the heaveho to the SuperCity. I love them. I cannot stress enough – LOVE them.

Sacha

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:01:08 +1300

Lolnui

Steve Barnes

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:57:01 +1300

Can we not forget the Topp Twins. At the zoo, tomorrow. I, for one, am inordinately excited.

I saw the poster for that yesterday. My fist thought was "What? are Micheal Lawhs and Jenny Shipley doing stand up now?"
I was almost physically excited.

Jackie Clark

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:37:13 +1300

It's quite the weekend for music in Auckland.

Can we not forget the Topp Twins. At the zoo, tomorrow. I, for one, am inordinately excited.

Paul Campbell

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:11:35 +1300

I was around while that went down and it was rather more low key than you probably think – I think it was more a case of Linus getting fed up with the sniping from the free software purists, he seemed happy to continue to use BK – certainly Linus…

TracyMac

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:02:26 +1300

Ahhhhh, yes, BitKeeper. The lovely hissy fit they had with old Linus and co. So pathetic. Thanks Julian – it was bugging me I couldn't remember the parties involved!

Kumara Republic

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:16:22 +1300

In tenuously related news, Danes have smaller testicles than Finns – probably toxins. Happiness clearly not correlated with big balls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjkJfMrQ4bc

Julian Melville

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:25:42 +1300

some tech outfit were suing another for "hacking" their super-duper system and writing an alternative client for it – perhaps a source control system?

It wasn't suing, but the outfit in question was BitMover, the makers of BitKeeper, and they got the shits with the Linux kernel developers when a…

TracyMac

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:02:41 +1300

Regarding "hacking = accessing publicly-accessible URL", something like that happened in the techie world.

Can't remember the details, but some tech outfit were suing another for "hacking" their super-duper system and writing an alternative client for it – perhaps a source control system? It turns out the people who wrote…

Sacha

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:46:35 +1300

In tenuously related news, Danes have smaller testicles than Finns – probably toxins. Happiness clearly not correlated with big balls.

Ben Austin

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:56:30 +1300

I would have thought by now that some bright soul would have passed a law with some sort of widely defined "unlawful access of a computer system" test that would catch almost anything. Of course I would be glad to be wrong on that one.

Paul Litterick

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:18:40 +1300

I nominate "Fucking Ego."
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I'll get my coat and go off to Denmark.

Lucy Stewart

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:12:06 +1300

But declaring "hacking" to have taken place when there is no barrier to entry at all defies reason.

I suppose you could call it cyberspace tresspassing. But it's more the internet equivalent of the SIS briefcase incident; sure, it's not technically yours to look at, but if it's just left…

Tom Ackroyd

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:32:48 +1300

"Build a turtle fence" and "Problems south of Taupo" need entering into the word of the year. Well, not word, but y'know.

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:59:48 +1300

Seeing there is fun in the title of this thread, and it being Friday and all, some of you might enjoy the new tourist campaign created for the Danish Tourist Board by Lars Von Trier, http://www.theonion.com/content/video/denmark_introduces_harrowing_new

Sacha

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:48:21 +1300

Gosh, that makes it "contemporary" :)

Simon Grigg

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:44:39 +1300

OMG, so much awesome. Made my Friday.

Yup, worth remembering that our (as in NZ's) take on hip hop culture, which is quite filtered and unique, is close to 30 years old now.

Sam F

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:21:39 +1300

The other is the graffiti artist Askew One's memoir of Morningside (the real one, not the Bro' Town one). It's beautifully written and illustrated and should be harvested pronto by libraries and archives. It's history, bro.

OMG, so much awesome. Made my Friday.

Phil Lyth

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:08:33 +1300

ah, telecommunications is not exempt from Godwin, then?

Sacha

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:17:51 +1300

Actually, I should have noted that the captions in that clip are pretty f$%#king NSFW too. Especially if you work for Campbell Live.

Paul Campbell

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:47:23 +1300

It is Friday isn't it (possibly NSFW for some value of S)

stephen clover

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:00:21 +1300

Enjoy the Ruby Suns / Signer show. The new Signer album Next We Bring You The Fire is superb.

Sacha

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:51:28 +1300

Fun, you say? (ta, geekzone)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ogDsAore60

Alien Lizard (anag)

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:38:49 +1300

According to the Council website this one is Saturday and Sunday is the rain day (or have they stuffed this up the way they did with the dates in the Movies In Parks flyer)

Well spotted Mr H. – according to The Bats it is as per the Council ie…

Russell Brown

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:33:40 +1300

According to the Council website this one is Saturday and Sunday is the rain day (or have they stuffed this up the way they did with the dates in the Movies In Parks flyer)

Damn, you're right. Why did I and everyone I know think it was Sunday?

Michael Higgins

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:20:10 +1300

And Music in Parks is back with The Datsuns, The Bats and Clap Clap Riot at Nixon Park in Kingsland on Sunday afternoon.

According to the Council website this one is Saturday and Sunday is the rain day (or have they stuffed this up the way they did with the…

Phil Lyth

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:01:10 +1300

no barrier to entry

Lange used to tell the tale of defending a man accusing of breaking and entering a phone box (yes, it was that long ago). Of course he boomed, a phone box is meant to be entered and you could do so without breaking.

Same thing

Lyndon Hood

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:59:10 +1300

Either the person doing the telling or me may have been confused. For all I know it was about this dropped lawsuit.

Though looking at unprotected files can get you rejected from Harvard Business School.

Russell Brown

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:56:50 +1300

Are those two videos supposed to be the same?

They certainly were not. Copy-paste fail fixed now.

SteveH

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:52:29 +1300

Are those two videos supposed to be the same?

Russell Brown

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:36:32 +1300

Though I'm told a US court decided fiddling with the URL in search of something interesting constituted hacking.

Yikes. So I suppose querying successive IP addresses to see what's on the end of them is right out. That got me more than one story at Computerworld.

But seriously: I'm okay…

Lyndon Hood

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:30:52 +1300

I forget what all the events were that lead me to this conclusion, but it seems like 'hacked' now means 'made public in a way that involves computers'.

Though I'm told a US court decided fiddling with the URL in search of something interesting constituted hacking.

Public Address

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:30:52 +1300

Discussion from blog post.