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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Local Technology and Arts Collective Holding Weekend Seminar on Self-Replicating Tools

Washington, DC - January 24-25, 2009.

HacDC, the Washington, DC-area technology and arts collective, is presenting a free, open to the public two-day event over the weekend of January 24th - 25th. Attendees will participate in the ( Read more... )

I just got home from the 2600 meeting. It was a very small turn-out. At one point the conversation turned to self programming robots and the like. I have some digital format papers on the subject, from 1994 there is "Living Machines", a 37 page paper by Mark Tilden. Tilden is a pioneer of this territory, both for robotics and artificial ( Read more... )

The last meeting went pretty well.

That being said, 11 months ahead of schedule, we're having another one. The bar was a little loud, so we're swapping beer for coffee (Beaners, not that rubbish Starbucks stuff).

More info

In the off chance someone on here is from Lansing, or the immediate area,
http://digitalhaunt.net/2600/

Hello,

I have just been indentured to the to the 2600 magazine and have picked up my fist copy. I would never call myself a 1337. I do belive in and support many if not all of the ideas that I have read in 2600. I am also looking for others in the Huntsville Texas area that read 2600 and would like to start a 2600 group.

i'm not even sure where to start with this story, from The Washington Post, found via slashdotBush Order Expands Network Monitoring

Intelligence Agencies to Track Intrusions


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Many people on this community already know why it's such a Bad Idea to discuss the use of general computer cleverness in committing even the most minor crime here. I am not a mod, but I am a concerned member, and I didn't see any mention of this on the userinfo page for this community, so I just wanted to post this general statement ( Read more... )

No, I didn't use a search engine first.

I have a Magellan SporTrak GPS receiver. It has a serial output which is ... out of spec. The space (0) is a sufficiently positive voltage (I haven't measured, but judging from the brightness of the LEDs on a breakout box, it's ~3V). The mark (1) is ground.

This is good enough for the UART on my desktop ( Read more... )