"Geeks with Guns" at Atlanta Linux Showcase

Larry M. Augustin (lma@varesearch.com)
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 09:55:25 -0700 (PDT)


Count me in.

Larry

Eric S. Raymond writes:
> kernel@whitestar.soark.net <kernel@whitestar.soark.net>:
> > Perhaps we could set something up for those intrested at the ALS?
> > Though finding a shooting gallary, etc, may be a problem..
>
> You heard it here first -- the "Geeks with Guns: Release 1" BOF.
> A semi-followup to the retroactively-named "Geeks With Guns: Release 0"
> that Larry Augustin and I pulled together the night before Open Source
> Developer Day in August.
>
> An ALS organizer who shall remain nameless has asked me to emphasize
> that this is *not* an official ALS event, in spite of its immediate
> spatiotemporal proximity to the Atlanta Linux Showcase. Wussies...
>
> The Place: Sportsman's Adventure at the intersection of I75 and the 285
> ring road, about 30 mins from the convention center. Open till 20:00
> weeknights and 21:00 Saturdays. They rent pistols.
>
> The Time: Meet at 19:00 Saturday near the BOF board.
>
> The Plan: Perforate targets. Perforate many, many targets. Afterwards,
> drink beer.
>
> If you are interested in this BOF, please send me mail. Pass the word to
> attendees not on this list. Atlanta locals with cars especially welcome.
>
> Perhaps we can form a dinner expedition beforehand for when ALS
> closes at 18:00.
>
> I -- and my trusty Colt .45 Officer's Model -- will be there.
> --
> <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a>
>
> The following is a Python RSA implementation. According to the US Government
> posting these four lines makes me an international arms trafficker! Join me
> in civil disobedience; add these lines of code to your .sig block to help get
> this stupid and unconstitutional law changed.
> ============================================================================
> from sys import*;from string import*;a=argv;[s,p,q]=filter(lambda x:x[:1]!=
> '-',a);d='-d'in a;e,n=atol(p,16),atol(q,16);l=(len(q)+1)/2;o,inb=l-d,l-1+d
> while s:s=stdin.read(inb);s and map(stdout.write,map(lambda i,b=pow(reduce(
> lambda x,y:(x<<8L)+y,map(ord,s)),e,n):chr(b>>8*i&255),range(o-1,-1,-1)))
>
> Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government
> of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?
> -- Thomas Jefferson, in his 1801 inaugural address

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