ToorCamp: Adventures In an American Hacker Camp 20
jcatcw writes "While a tech camping event might sound like an oxymoron, hackers, makers, breakers and shakers assembled at the northwestern tip of the USA for ToorCamp and dispelled the notion that all hackers avoid sunshine and the great outdoors. As you would expect from a hacker conference, there were workshops like the one for lock picking and a plethora of presentations from "hacking computers to brain hacking, from brewing soda to fighting robots, from civil rights to lightning guns." Then unique aspects of this cool hacker camp get more bizarre . . like the laser that was so bright it required FAA clearance to deploy it, the ShadyTel community 'payphone,' the Temple of Robotron, an RFID implantation station, bike jousting, dancing robots and of course campfires. Need an even stranger adventure that's also in the ToorCon family of hacking conferences? There's the upcoming WorldToor, the first ever hacker conference in Antarctica."
Home economics and crafts! (Score:2)
They have a whole cooking class devoted to making dishes with foot cheese! Mmmm mmm!
Foot cheese is really the only completely free cheese since you make it yourself.
Developing Pioneers (Score:2)
Pekka Himanen (The Hacker Ethic) articulates how hackers represent a new, opposing ethos for the information age. That there are values underneath their actions and creations that challenge us all. They share a spirit that they can discover and create great things in imaginative ways. They questions cultural "norms" in a society that is often overly focused on outcomes at the expense of privacy and equality.
The cost and potential profit motives of such adventures (and lack of universal access) seem to be
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Then again, one of the corporate whore uber hackers from my village was employed by M$ and as I really liked him, so I didn't want to risk insulting him.
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Hands up, who else still owns that shirt?
Excuse me, I have to dig in my wardrobe chest for that shirt now.
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ProTip: Electrical tape will cover better, although require additional reapplications. ;)
Maybe there is a solvent for the injected ink?
The wristband company did make the logo awfully big on the the black bands (but not the others). That being said, using MS money for things like camp infrastructure (or soup!) isn't a bad thing if it helps us all.
Stereotypes (Score:2)
Do members of a group really need to be told they don't necessarily conform to the stereotype? Imagine telling a crowd of women that they aren't all irrational and overly emotional because some subset of them joined the debate club. It's still insulting, because of the presumption.
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Imagine telling a crowd of women that they aren't all irrational and overly emotional because some subset of them joined the debate club. It's still insulting, because of the presumption.
Indeed, I agree with you that all women are irrational and overly emotional regardless that some of them have joined the debate club.
hackers, makers, breakers and shakers (Score:2)
No shaggers, then?
Toorcamp2012 was great! (Score:2)
See you all there (or on 29c3 [events.ccc.de] in Hamburg)!
From civil rights to lightning guns... (Score:2)
Pics! (or it didn't happen) (Score:2)
https://plus.google.com/events/cs8qqqn96f2ktfvm66s3sb2cpes/103112149634414554669 [google.com]
That salmon was caught fresh that day. Also pics of the laser near the bottom.
EMFCamp (Score:1)
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*CONTIGUOUS* United States.
There.
I fixed it.