Join computer enthusiasts to talk about programming, operating systems, computer security topics, hacking and geek culture.

Directions

1. Take Post Oak South past Westheimer.
2. Turn right on Hidalgo.
3. Turn right on McCue.
4. On your left is a parking garage. Turn left into the first entrance to the parking garage.
5. Inside the parking garage, you will take a right and go up to the second floor. At the top of the building, turn left, and then turn left again, to follow the perimeter of the building. Signs will indicate you are heading to Nordstroms.
6. Park near the elevators, and go inside. About 10m inside and to your right is Ninfa’s Express. You want the sit-down area, which is closer to the door than the takeout that faces into the mall.

Inside map:
http://www.simon.com/mall/show_floorplan.aspx?ID=805

Coordinates to parking garage: N 29 44.163 W 95 27.758.

After the meeting, HAQR will meet in the Borders in Galleria III.

About HAQR

The American Nihilist Underground Society spreads nihilism through design, art, pranks, and hacking. Its technology arm, the Houston Area Quorum for Recidivism (HAQR), encourage learning philosophical frameworks through design-oriented thinking.

http://www.anus.com/tribes/haqr/
http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/ANUS/

About 2600

2600 connects people with technology in unorthodox ways. An organization for hackers, it has branched into the hobby of thinking like a hacker to use technology beyond its stated categorical purpose to achieve exceptional results.

http://www.2600.com/
http://www.hou2600.org/

Join computer enthusiasts to talk about programming, operating systems, computer security topics, hacking and geek culture.

Directions

1. Take Post Oak South past Westheimer.
2. Turn right on Hidalgo.
3. Turn right on McCue.
4. On your left is a parking garage. Turn left into the first entrance to the parking garage.
5. Inside the parking garage, you will take a right and go up to the second floor. At the top of the building, turn left, and then turn left again, to follow the perimeter of the building. Signs will indicate you are heading to Nordstroms.
6. Park near the elevators, and go inside. About 10m inside and to your right is Ninfa’s Express. You want the sit-down area, which is closer to the door than the takeout that faces into the mall.

Inside map:
http://www.simon.com/mall/show_floorplan.aspx?ID=805

Coordinates to parking garage: N 29 44.163 W 95 27.758.

After the meeting, HAQR will meet in the Borders in Galleria III.

About HAQR

The American Nihilist Underground Society spreads nihilism through design, art, pranks, and hacking. Its technology arm, the Houston Area Quorum for Recidivism (HAQR), encourage learning philosophical frameworks through design-oriented thinking.

http://www.anus.com/tribes/haqr/
http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/ANUS/

About 2600

2600 connects people with technology in unorthodox ways. An organization for hackers, it has branched into the hobby of thinking like a hacker to use technology beyond its stated categorical purpose to achieve exceptional results.

http://www.2600.com/
http://www.hou2600.org/

Join computer enthusiasts to talk about programming, operating systems, computer security topics, hacking and geek culture.

Directions

1. Take Post Oak South past Westheimer.
2. Turn right on Hidalgo.
3. Turn right on McCue.
4. On your left is a parking garage. Turn left into the first entrance to the parking garage.
5. Inside the parking garage, you will take a right and go up to the second floor. At the top of the building, turn left, and then turn left again, to follow the perimeter of the building. Signs will indicate you are heading to Nordstroms.
6. Park near the elevators, and go inside. About 10m inside and to your right is Ninfa’s Express. You want the sit-down area, which is closer to the door than the takeout that faces into the mall.

Inside map:
http://www.simon.com/mall/show_floorplan.aspx?ID=805

Coordinates to parking garage: N 29 44.163 W 95 27.758.

After the meeting, HAQR will meet in the Borders in Galleria III.

About HAQR

The American Nihilist Underground Society spreads nihilism through design, art, pranks, and hacking. Its technology arm, the Houston Area Quorum for Recidivism (HAQR), encourage learning philosophical frameworks through design-oriented thinking.

http://www.anus.com/tribes/haqr/
http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/ANUS/

About 2600

2600 connects people with technology in unorthodox ways. An organization for hackers, it has branched into the hobby of thinking like a hacker to use technology beyond its stated categorical purpose to achieve exceptional results.

http://www.2600.com/
http://www.hou2600.org/

We’ve joined the 1990s errr 2000s err 2010s by now having a social networking presence:

• http://twitter.com/houston2600
• http://www.myspace.com/houston2600
• http://www.facebook.com/pages/Houston-2600/335911515174

I know you’re well and truly fascinated.

Join computer enthusiasts to talk about programming, operating systems, computer security topics, hacking and geek culture.

Directions

1. Take Post Oak South past Westheimer.
2. Turn right on Hidalgo.
3. Turn right on McCue.
4. On your left is a parking garage. Turn left into the first entrance to the parking garage.
5. Inside the parking garage, you will take a right and go up to the second floor. At the top of the building, turn left, and then turn left again, to follow the perimeter of the building. Signs will indicate you are heading to Nordstroms.
6. Park near the elevators, and go inside. About 10m inside and to your right is Ninfa’s Express. You want the sit-down area, which is closer to the door than the takeout that faces into the mall.

Inside map:
http://www.simon.com/mall/show_floorplan.aspx?ID=805

Coordinates to parking garage: N 29 44.163 W 95 27.758.

After the meeting, HAQR will meet in the Borders in Galleria III.

About HAQR

The American Nihilist Underground Society spreads nihilism through design, art, pranks, and hacking. Its technology arm, the Houston Area Quorum for Recidivism (HAQR), encourage learning philosophical frameworks through design-oriented thinking.

http://www.anus.com/tribes/haqr/
http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/ANUS/

About 2600

2600 connects people with technology in unorthodox ways. An organization for hackers, it has branched into the hobby of thinking like a hacker to use technology beyond its stated categorical purpose to achieve exceptional results.

http://www.2600.com/
http://www.hou2600.org/

In the past, our meetings have consisted of a presentation, with plenty of audience participation. Before and after the presentation, we discuss various topics that are at least vaguely related to Perl. We have also had presentations on projects that various members were working on.

People are encouraged to bring problems they are working on to the meetings. If you need a fresh set of eyes on a Perl problem, there are probably a few people at each meeting who can help.

Tuesday, Nov 10
From 6pm – 9pm
Fuddruckers

Directions:
Weslayan at 59
3929 Southwest Fwy (map)

Metal writer, DJ and nihilist philosopher Vijay Prozak speaks with The Right Hand Path, a metal news source and collection of esoteric but vital metal bands.

Vijay Prozak interview

Join computer enthusiasts to talk about programming, operating systems, computer security topics, hacking and geek culture.

Directions

1. Take Post Oak South past Westheimer.
2. Turn right on Hidalgo.
3. Turn right on McCue.
4. On your left is a parking garage. Turn left into the first entrance to the parking garage.
5. Inside the parking garage, you will take a right and go up to the second floor. At the top of the building, turn left, and then turn left again, to follow the perimeter of the building. Signs will indicate you are heading to Nordstroms.
6. Park near the elevators, and go inside. About 10m inside and to your right is Ninfa’s Express. You want the sit-down area, which is closer to the door than the takeout that faces into the mall.

Inside map:
http://www.simon.com/mall/show_floorplan.aspx?ID=805

Coordinates to parking garage: N 29 44.163 W 95 27.758.

After the meeting, HAQR will meet in the Borders in Galleria III.

About HAQR

The American Nihilist Underground Society spreads nihilism through design, art, pranks, and hacking. Its technology arm, the Houston Area Quorum for Recidivism (HAQR), encourage learning philosophical frameworks through design-oriented thinking.

http://www.anus.com/tribes/haqr/
http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/ANUS/

About 2600

2600 connects people with technology in unorthodox ways. An organization for hackers, it has branched into the hobby of thinking like a hacker to use technology beyond its stated categorical purpose to achieve exceptional results.

http://www.2600.com/
http://www.hou2600.org/

Every system has two sets of rules: The rules as they are intended or commonly perceived, and the actual rules (“reality”).

Sometimes we catch a glimpse of the truth, and discover the actual rules of a system. Once the actual rules are known, it may be possible to perform “miracles” — things which violate the perceived rules.

Hacking isn’t limited to computers though. Wherever there are systems, there is the potential for hacking, and there are systems everywhere. Our entire reality is systems of systems, all the way down.

Paul Buchheit

The rest of the article is the kind of happy hype half-marketing drool that characterizes nu-blog style, but this part was a little gem: simple, straightforward and inspiring.

State police Tuesday arrested three men — including a former Swissvale police officer — in connection with a heist that Washington County District Attorney Steven Toprani called “one of the single largest casino machine thefts in American history.”

The investigation showed Nestor repeatedly used “a complex series of button presses and screen changes to cause the slot machine to have an error in its programming. This resulted in the machine displaying a false jackpot,” according to the presentment.

Pittsburgh Live

This old type of hack is going to keep occurring, because people like building flaky menu systems and if that fails, putting in quasi-backdoors for ease of debugging or other reasons.