DefCon

[ME]

On 17 Jun 2002, error wrote:
> I will be giving a speech on NLP. (google for it if you care :)

One problem with TLAs is that they tend to make poor keys as they are
frequently not unique. ;-)

Natural Language Processing?

Neuro-Linguistic Programming?

New LP  - front end to postscript printers (lpr, lprng, etc)

A more limited scope may improve my searches. Hints to further limit the
search?

As usual, DT does not seem to have the pages updated for speakers....
http://www.defcon.org/dcx-speakers.html for this year. I think they wait
until the last minute for stuff sometimes...

Even looked over some of your pages for links to resources on what it
might be...

(more below)

> I like the pranks, I mean last year pete shipley got tossed into the
> pool.

Crap. I feel sorry for the fool who did that. Shipley is easy to get along
with too. He seems to respect you if you have knowledge, but is
disinterrested if you dont learn stuff.

> Alright so its not a prank, but he broke someones laptop, that was
> entertaining to watch.

I remember the stripper about 4 or 5 years ago who started stripping in
the main area until Priest came in and asked her to leave - he said minors
were present and it was not permitted.

I remember 2 guys stripping to just socks and running around the
b0rken equipment area sounding like The Thre Stooges (whooo! Whooo!
Whooo! Yip! Yip! Wooobwooowboooowbooo!)

Then there was the year at the Aladdin when power was cut to the hotel
(could that have been an accident? I think not!)

And then some *stuuuuuuuuuupid* people who video taped their B&E into some
other hotels boiler rooms and eletronic dirstro rooms. (I am sure they
wanted to show their friends, but it can also be evidence.)

The year some dumbass put quick-dry cement down the toilet in what would
be assumed to be their own room.

> The bondage aspect is also a great part, I love how in the morning and
> afternoon its all geek. Later that same night you can be enjoying a
> bondage party or hanging out with the creator of rotten.com and having a
> very intellectual conversation.

Yeah, they have people that gather together and talk about different
fettishes and show off home-made MPG videos with what they have done and
say they enjoy. Black and White ball can be fun to watch, but I have no
patience to get dressed up so nice - too much work. For me, there is only
one fettish - nerding out and getting good information.

> I think I will be in the yak.net room (strick) for most of the nights,
> but I will probably venture over to shatter at some point.
> 
> Perhaps I will even get to work the DOC booth again (last year i got
> this awesome anti-mpaa pro decss shirt for my time).
> 
> I really love defcon, I mean where else can you buy the entire nevada
> state dmv database and then talk to girls who are pretty and run netbsd.

Bad kitty is now a teacher eh? Does than mean no more hacker jepordy with
her in it? Last year was a bust when they woman filling in for her wore
clothes and they promised for each daily double answered correctly, she
would take off a piece of clothing... well, they usually set it up so no
matter what people do, even if all daily doubles are answered correctly,
enough clothing exists to prevent any nudity. (Not so difficult to figure
out btw) Looking at someone naked is *not* the fun part. The fun part I
kept hoping for was seeing what Priest would do when rules of a contest
make it work out such that she would have to expose something and he has
to deal with it. Well, it happened last year. And it was not as funny as I
hoped. He was just the heavy and there was no word play bwteen him and the
audience. Rather anti-climactic for all of the years of waiting to see
what would happen when their rules failed to work as they should.

> > Don't get me wrong, I still will be going and will still have fun and I
> > will still learn a lot, but the "newness" has worn off.
> 
> I suppose it will for me someday, but I like seeing people I never see
> anywhere else.

When over 60% of the presentations are "old" or information you have
covered (as often is the case in the newbie track) or too far from your
focus and direction then socializing is one of the options left. I hope
they will have more new stuff. :-)

> > Perhaps you say that this year is going to be good because *you* are
> > speaking? ;-)  If So, I'll come watch your speech so long as it is not up
> > against Bruce's. 
> 
> I hope not, I would hate to have to miss my time slot.

Heh. :-D

> >What is your topic? (BTW, you have a lot more courage to
> > give a speech there than me! I might be willing to someday speak at
> > USENIX but probably won't speak at DefCon until after I *really* know a
> > lot of stuff.
> > 
> 
> I will be speaking on NLP (As stated before) I think it is going to bore
> the hell out of everyone, but hey I like it. Apparently so did DT, so
> that's all that matters.
> 
> It really depends on the track you want to speak at also, I personally
> will be speaking on something that I feel I have known for years and
> years. So perhaps I will do well.
> 
> I might add that I do all sorts of things that are absolutely insane
> (right Mr. Street?) and they turn out just fine.
> -
> Jake

If you want to go off list with this, I am fine with that.

-ME

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