Comments on: You're Stealing it Wrong: 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles

You're Stealing it Wrong: 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles

chunking express — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 07:52:44 -0800

You're Stealing it Wrong: 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles. A presentation at DefCon by Jason Scott.

By: chunking express

chunking express — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 07:56:13 -0800

"No, no, no: they will re-order."

By: Senza Volto

Senza Volto — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 08:18:43 -0800

Cool, he's the guy who runs textfiles.com! It's an excellent site if you want to get a glimpse at the really old Internet, with all the BBSes.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 09:05:28 -0800

This is really good.

By: chunking express

chunking express — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 09:18:59 -0800

I loved it. Shame he is cut off early by DefCon. There are so many great one liners, and the whole talk is pretty fascinating.

By: Diablevert

Diablevert — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 09:26:30 -0800

That was quite interesting. Thank you.

By: The Lurkers Support Me in Email

The Lurkers Support Me in Email — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:07:59 -0800

By MetaFilter's own jscott. It's too bad he got got cut off when he did, I thought it was just getting really interesting. I wouldn't mind seeing the last 20 minutes or so expanded into a whole hour.

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:24:25 -0800

If anyone's interested in reading the current scene release rules, most of them are online here.

By: mosk

mosk — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 11:33:01 -0800

That was really good. Thanks, Jason (and thanks chunking express for posting this).

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:34:52 -0800

Good times

By: Glee

Glee — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:25:01 -0800

I wanted to get better at stealing; this presentation didn't improve my wares acquisition skills (funny how Scott's presentation reminded me we didn't used to end every piraty word with z). Other than that it was great! And cutting him off to play hacker jeopardy? I call bullshit. Seriously though, thanks for posting this. I'm a sucker for this kind of thing. The history and evolution of any subculture is fascinating to learn about.

By: No-sword

No-sword — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 16:35:24 -0800

I wouldn't mind seeing the last 20 minutes or so expanded into a whole hour. I disagree. I want it expanded into a book. Big, fat, book, with huge production values, that I can pass on to my children.

By: ChurchHatesTucker

ChurchHatesTucker — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:38:35 -0800

I disagree. I want it expanded into a book. Big, fat, book, with huge production values, that I can pass on to my children. Nah, it'd have to be an epic documentary with seventeen discs and a crate of feelies.

By: No-sword

No-sword — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:45:20 -0800

To hell with it, I want this material made into a theme park. Get on it, jscott!

By: Horace Rumpole

Horace Rumpole — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:25:19 -0800

Fans of this may also enjoy his Before the LOL talk at ROFLCON 1.

By: jcruelty

jcruelty — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 19:01:20 -0800

shit man i started it got into it got bored turned back to it flipped thru midway through got completely hooked then they kicked him off for hacker jeopardy?! what the hell. anyway quite fascinating, surprisingly so. why ain't bbs the doc available on netflix

By: jscott

jscott — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 20:35:59 -0800

Glad everyone's enjoyed it. Well, except that last guy. If you want more speeches I've given: a history of Jason never shutting up.

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 22:39:23 -0800

Having time limits for speeches/presentations is pretty standard practice. I don't think that's a surprising thing at all -- lots of conventions will cut you off if you go over because otherwise they'd never maintain a schedule. If you've ever taken a public speaking class you know that it's extremely easy to overrun your time limit unless you've rehearsed the speech quite a bit. TED for example has a big count-down clock at the foot of the stage that starts blinking at 2 minutes left (I think.)

By: jscott

jscott — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 23:21:40 -0800

In case you're implying something, the layout of the printed schedule made me think I had the room longer than an hour, and I planned for that. I was sure that Hacker Jeopardy was being held in a different room. In a previous presentation for defcon, they let me go for nearly two hours. Regardless, I find the clipped ending hilarious.

By: jaymzjulian

jaymzjulian — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:00:08 -0800

If you're into such things, as I am, you might also be interested in Recollection (http://recollection.c64.org), which is an effort to document the history of the c64 pirate scene. The first two issues are available on the web, however issue #3 is still only readable using a c64 or emulator. It's really quite fascinating...

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:51:31 -0800

Fascinating to learn that even the scene is riven with People's Front Of Judea rivalries. I'd have loved to have seen another hour of that stuff.

By: jefflowrey

jefflowrey — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 07:59:23 -0800

Don't get me wrong, there was a lot of really great really interesting material here. But it was really not a presentation as such, more just a core dump. If, however, jscott says (as he does), that he had a planned for a two hour talk rather than a one hour talk, that would explain why there appears to be no specific conclusion nor a strong sense of an organization of material towards a specific point. We didn't get to the point yet. So to anyone interested in this, don't be surprised that a) it seems to take forever to get to the organizing thought, b) never quite does because it's cut short due to time constraints.

By: X-Himy

X-Himy — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 08:22:03 -0800

This was a fabulous talk, shame he got cut off.