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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 5:23:50 PM

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Ahhhhh......Lacrimosa.......

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 5:24:44 PM

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The pleasures of a fresh new page.........

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 5:25:03 PM

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unsullied......

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 5:25:24 PM

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innocent even......

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 5:25:28 PM

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One of niceguy's tie-dyed dogs has been spotted:

Oh, the humanity.................

To quote RUPD: "Damned Hippies!"

Not one of ours. Nobody in that group would be caught dead with a poodle.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 5:26:23 PM

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Now sullied......by a technicolour poodle.......I weep...........

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 5:26:46 PM

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Innocence lost................

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 5:30:32 PM

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Innocence lost................

Im not so sure. I'm pretty sure that poodles are devil spawn.

I think that picture is a dog belonging to some yuppies trying to achieve the same level of coolness as a hippy.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 5:31:30 PM

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I hope that's not trademark infringement.....

oh, probably, but what's a Threadster to do...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 5:32:22 PM

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Innocence lost................

Im not so sure. I'm pretty sure that poodles are devil spawn.

I think that picture is a dog belonging to some yuppies trying to achieve the same level of coolness as a hippy.

A fair number of yuppies i've known were ex-hippies...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 5:34:41 PM

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Innocence lost................

Im not so sure. I'm pretty sure that poodles are devil spawn.

I think that picture is a dog belonging to some yuppies trying to achieve the same level of coolness as a hippy.

A fair number of yuppies i've known were ex-hippies...

Yippies?

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 5:36:19 PM

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Innocence lost................

Im not so sure. I'm pretty sure that poodles are devil spawn.

i thought that was cats!

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 5:37:28 PM

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Innocence lost................

Im not so sure. I'm pretty sure that poodles are devil spawn.

I think that picture is a dog belonging to some yuppies trying to achieve the same level of coolness as a hippy.

A fair number of yuppies i've known were ex-hippies...

Yippies?

Actually, there WERE yippies here in the USA, but they were PhonePhreaks...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 5:41:15 PM

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Innocence lost................

Im not so sure. I'm pretty sure that poodles are devil spawn.

I think that picture is a dog belonging to some yuppies trying to achieve the same level of coolness as a hippy.

A fair number of yuppies i've known were ex-hippies...

Yippies?

Actually, there WERE yippies here in the USA, but they were PhonePhreaks...

Shouldn't they be Yappies......

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 5:45:02 PM

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ORIGINAL: fabertong

Innocence lost................

Im not so sure. I'm pretty sure that poodles are devil spawn.

I think that picture is a dog belonging to some yuppies trying to achieve the same level of coolness as a hippy.

A fair number of yuppies i've known were ex-hippies...

Yippies?

Actually, there WERE yippies here in the USA, but they were PhonePhreaks...

Shouldn't they be Yappies......

- Probably, but they actually had organized into the Y.I.P., which stood for the Youth Industrial Party or somesuch... they still live on in some hacker zines (like (iirc) 2600)

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 6:04:03 PM

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OK - quiz time: the hacker zine i mentioned is called 2600 - does anyone know what 2600 stood for??

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 6:04:08 PM

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A fair number of yuppies i've known were ex-hippies...

I've heard that, but technically speaking an ex-hippy can't really be a yuppy as a yuppy is a YOUNG upward mobile person. Ex-hippies aren't young...in fact many look like Keith Richards twin brother.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 6:05:12 PM

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OK - quiz time: the hacker zine i mentioned is called 2600 - does anyone know what 2600 stood for??

The total number of posts a person can make to a forum in a year without spamming?

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 6:09:04 PM

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A fair number of yuppies i've known were ex-hippies...

I've heard that, but technically speaking an ex-hippy can't really be a yuppy as a yuppy is a YOUNG upward mobile person. Ex-hippies aren't young...in fact many look like Keith Richards twin brother.

Notice i said KNOWN - they WERE Yuppies, now they're just grumpy (and "old" - in their 50s+) ...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 6:10:55 PM

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OK - quiz time: the hacker zine i mentioned is called 2600 - does anyone know what 2600 stood for??

The total number of posts a person can make to a forum in a year without spamming?

No, we're talking Phone Phreaks here - this is pre-internet (hard for some of you to comprehend, i know). This was even pre-personal computers!! Ancient History (sorta)

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 6:13:45 PM

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2600 hertz.....(all hail Wikipedia!)

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 6:14:46 PM

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Innocence lost................

That'll happen when you mess with the Lacrimosa's of the world.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 6:15:10 PM

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2600 hertz.....(all hail Wikipedia!)

Kinda surprised you could find that...

OK - now that you have that information, this should be easy: what is the significance of 2600 hertz???

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 6:15:57 PM

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OK - quiz time: the hacker zine i mentioned is called 2600 - does anyone know what 2600 stood for??

The total number of posts a person can make to a forum in a year without spamming?

No, we're talking Phone Phreaks here - this is pre-internet (hard for some of you to comprehend, i know). This was even pre-personal computers!! Ancient History (sorta)

Ah, did they code in cuneiform?

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 6:17:06 PM

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OK - quiz time: the hacker zine i mentioned is called 2600 - does anyone know what 2600 stood for??

The total number of posts a person can make to a forum in a year without spamming?

No, we're talking Phone Phreaks here - this is pre-internet (hard for some of you to comprehend, i know). This was even pre-personal computers!! Ancient History (sorta)

Ah, did they code in cuneiform?

zeroes and ones only!!

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 6:18:13 PM

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zeroes and ones only!!

Uggh binary. That's more primative than cuneiform.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 6:19:40 PM

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OK - now that you have that information, this should be easy: what is the significance of 2600 hertz???

Transmitting a tone of that frequency on a long distance line would put the connection into "operator mode", allowing access to more functionality. Whistles that came free in Capn Crunch boxes were discovered to emit a perfect 2600hz tone.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 6:20:57 PM

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zeroes and ones only!!

Uggh binary. That's more primative than cuneiform.

Actually it's worse than that. It was *analog*, which isn't even binary.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 6:25:09 PM

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OK - now that you have that information, this should be easy: what is the significance of 2600 hertz???

Transmitting a tone of that frequency on a long distance line would put the connection into "operator mode", allowing access to more functionality. Whistles that came free in Capn Crunch boxes were discovered to emit a perfect 2600hz tone.

Right! Don't think this works anymore. The 2600 tone could be heard at the end of long distance phone call for the "disconnect" signal.

Some blind fella could whistle this 2600 and supposedly the two-toned dialing codes (i have my doubts on this second one, but the first is easy). By doing this, he could "dial" long-distance for free. His nickname was "Captain Crunch" - and he ended up in jail for doing this (illegally obtaining long-distance service).

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RE: The Thread!!! - 7/18/2006 6:27:37 PM

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zeroes and ones only!!

Uggh binary. That's more primative than cuneiform.

Actually it's worse than that. It was *analog*, which isn't even binary.

Right you are, although it was at the time when folks were messing with binary codes, so hackers ended up doing both.

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