2600 Magazine_ The Hacker Quarterly - Digital Edition - Summer 2011 - 2600 Magazine [41]
In the Chrome browser, at least, your page displays just fine. Every so often, with a new page, you will have to repeat the task.
I am not sure why the New York Times would put data into the URL after the question mark. Whatever the reason, your reading experience is greatly improved.
AnyPerson
Dear 2600:
I'm not sure why you are having paranoid feelings about Verizon's lack of quality and customer service. Do you think it's any different for the rest of us? Seriously, they suck.
Dan
You’re referring to the mysterious connectivity issues that we tend to get at critical moments that wind up lasting for days. We wouldn’t call it paranoia so much as simply an observation of how incredibly unmotivated large companies can be when it comes to fixing problems of other non-large companies. What is particularly ironic in our case is that we have an SDSL connection through another company and want more than anything not to be a Verizon customer, yet Verizon keeps coming up as the reason for all of the malfunctions, cut wires, lack of maintenance, etc. Until there is true competition, this kind of thing can be expected to continue.
Dear 2600:
Apologies if you guys have seen this, but on the web page for the proposed International Linear Collider (the particle accelerator that may replace the Large Hadron Collider at CERN) at www.linearcollider.org), the first picture you see is rather interesting.
Petar
Wow! At the very top of their page, in the first of a series of photos, is a picture worthy of our back cover that is simply a street sign for “Discovery Street” with a big “2600” on it. We don’t think this is the address of either the International Linear Collider or the Large Hadron Collider. We also don’t believe it has anything to do with that incident back in 2008 where some Greek hackers got into the LHC website and left a message that read “GST: Greek Security Team - We are Group 2600. Don’t mess with us.” It’s all just a series of strange events that together comprise the nature of physics.
Dear 2600:
Has anyone noticed that there are a lot of binary ironies in the years 2010 and 2011? You can tell you are a true hacker, or at least good with math, when you look at somebody's license plate expiration reading something like "10-11," and the first thing that comes to your mind is that it actually spells "02-03" in binary.
Jeff
Well, at least you’re outside.
Dear 2600:
This is too short for an article but from time to time I notice that people tend to bring the simple concept hack to the Letters to the Editor page. And so, this is.
I recently bought coffee at a McDonald's. Evidently the person at my register was a manager because an employee handed them a 50 dollar bill to authenticate. I noticed that the employee then went to the safe, which was right around the corner from the counter with an entry door which separated the front side of the registers from the back side where the employees are and the cooking takes place.
It was a chest-high safe, and it looked very heavy when the employee swung the door open. I had expected the employee to lean down and punch numbers, or enter a dial combination, but they didn't. The door just swung right open. That attracted my attention right away because it was out of the norm for a usual operation-of-safe pattern. They put the money in, and then swung it closed again, but I didn't hear it close.
This was on a Saturday, in one of the economically harder-pressed parts of town. Maybe the person who has the combination didn't show up to work and just phoned it in to someone, maybe they just do it so the manager can work the registers. Maybe the manager is permitting theft. Maybe they're waiting for their friend to come by and "rob" the store.
The point is that it's like McDonald's has gone and pre-hacked the