And don't look at Robert Byrd, Tom Metzger, David Duke*, and other Democrats that are members of the KKK. Both sides have racists. Neither one has "More racists" or is "more tolerant". Both Democrat and Republican parties are (for at the most part) non-racists. There are a few nut-jobs in both sides.
*Duke changed from Democrat to republican in 1998, and supposedly shed his racist views... He didn't, and he didn't last to long in office as a Republican (2 years).
AND don't look at how your rights are being whittled away with the current administration.
Worse storage, Worse flexibility, Worse software selection, Worse productivity, there isn't anything on the ipad you can't do on a netbook, but there are a lot of things you can do on a netbook that you can't do on an ipad.
The ipad isn't a tablet. Tablets have been out for years. Tablets are computers with a touch interface, mostly without keyboards. The ipad is a presentation device. It isn't made for computing. Writing a paper on an ipad would just be painful. It's made to view web pages, watch a movie, listen to music, or play some light-weight games/apps. It's not a good design for a creative platform.
So hacking the Gibson, isn't hacking at all, since you aren't taking something and making it do something different
Digital trespass is not hacking.
Writing a virus that sniffs out bank account numbers returns it to you isn't hacking either (You are making something and its' doing exactly what you want it to do)...
There are legal forms of hacking and illegal forms of hacking, that's not the issue. Hacking is a broad term used for many activities. People just tend to narrow it down to the one specific stereotype and try to recatogorize non-stereotype activies as something else... Like "shoplifting isn't theft... it's a misdemeanor while theft is a felony." (Not true, Theft can be be either depending on what was stolen)
People don't understand what hacking is... They think it's some person in a dark basement typing lines and lines of code.
Hacking is getting access to a system that you wouldn't normally have access to. Hacks have many levels of complexity. From Script kiddy (gaining access from diddling with minor changes to scripts/code) to extremely complex. This person was at a minor level of hacking, but he did gain access to a system he wouldn't normally have access to.
Think of it this way: Stealing can mean somebody taking a piece of petty candy (worth a penny), but people who think of thieves tend to think of guys in black masks breaking into houses...
The issue here is how sue-happy the US is. Sure you had a $1,000 bill to 15 mins of X-rays, and talking to a couple of doctors, but due to how the courts decide things they have to bring in a circus to deal with your arm. Lets break it down.
You go in and say your arm hurts. The doc thinks it's fine, but if there is the slightest chance of any fracture, he could get sued. So he has to get an X-Ray done. He can't do the X-Ray, even tho it's really Stand here, point and click... Because he's not an X-Ray specialist. Anything missed, it's his fault. So they have to get a X-Ray specialist to take a few X-Rays. The Specialist can't develop the film because they aren't an expert at film development. They are an expert at "Stand there" and click. The Lab tech in charge of developing X-Rays hands the Medical Assistant to deliver them to the doc that can see there isn't anything wrong, but he's not an expert in arm-joint structure damage, so they have to refer you to another doctor that is an expert and have them tell you that you sprained your shoulder and need to do a couple of stretches for a week. Plus add in the X-Ray machine repair tech that has to verify the machine is working correctly on a regular basis, the stock personal that has to make sure the film is fresh and free of contamination. And the bigillion other things I'm missing... All of those things have a cost tied to them and THAT is why health care is so expensive.
We live in a sue-happy country. You are put in a wheelchair in hospitals and wheeled around because you may trip over your own feet and sue the hospital. Hospitals have to cover EVERY possible entry point for a lawsuit, no matter how ridiculous.
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Yet, I have a HTC Tilt (Tytn2) through AT&T and live in the US...
AT&T allows me to tether. It costs $30/mo and limited to 6gb per month.
And don't look at Robert Byrd, Tom Metzger, David Duke*, and other Democrats that are members of the KKK. Both sides have racists. Neither one has "More racists" or is "more tolerant". Both Democrat and Republican parties are (for at the most part) non-racists. There are a few nut-jobs in both sides.
*Duke changed from Democrat to republican in 1998, and supposedly shed his racist views... He didn't, and he didn't last to long in office as a Republican (2 years).
AND don't look at how your rights are being whittled away with the current administration.
Worse storage, Worse flexibility, Worse software selection, Worse productivity, there isn't anything on the ipad you can't do on a netbook, but there are a lot of things you can do on a netbook that you can't do on an ipad. The ipad isn't a tablet. Tablets have been out for years. Tablets are computers with a touch interface, mostly without keyboards. The ipad is a presentation device. It isn't made for computing. Writing a paper on an ipad would just be painful. It's made to view web pages, watch a movie, listen to music, or play some light-weight games/apps. It's not a good design for a creative platform.
So hacking the Gibson, isn't hacking at all, since you aren't taking something and making it do something different
Digital trespass is not hacking.
Writing a virus that sniffs out bank account numbers returns it to you isn't hacking either (You are making something and its' doing exactly what you want it to do)...
There are legal forms of hacking and illegal forms of hacking, that's not the issue. Hacking is a broad term used for many activities. People just tend to narrow it down to the one specific stereotype and try to recatogorize non-stereotype activies as something else... Like "shoplifting isn't theft... it's a misdemeanor while theft is a felony." (Not true, Theft can be be either depending on what was stolen)
People don't understand what hacking is... They think it's some person in a dark basement typing lines and lines of code.
Hacking is getting access to a system that you wouldn't normally have access to. Hacks have many levels of complexity. From Script kiddy (gaining access from diddling with minor changes to scripts/code) to extremely complex. This person was at a minor level of hacking, but he did gain access to a system he wouldn't normally have access to.
Think of it this way: Stealing can mean somebody taking a piece of petty candy (worth a penny), but people who think of thieves tend to think of guys in black masks breaking into houses...
The issue here is how sue-happy the US is. Sure you had a $1,000 bill to 15 mins of X-rays, and talking to a couple of doctors, but due to how the courts decide things they have to bring in a circus to deal with your arm. Lets break it down.
You go in and say your arm hurts. The doc thinks it's fine, but if there is the slightest chance of any fracture, he could get sued. So he has to get an X-Ray done. He can't do the X-Ray, even tho it's really Stand here, point and click... Because he's not an X-Ray specialist. Anything missed, it's his fault. So they have to get a X-Ray specialist to take a few X-Rays. The Specialist can't develop the film because they aren't an expert at film development. They are an expert at "Stand there" and click. The Lab tech in charge of developing X-Rays hands the Medical Assistant to deliver them to the doc that can see there isn't anything wrong, but he's not an expert in arm-joint structure damage, so they have to refer you to another doctor that is an expert and have them tell you that you sprained your shoulder and need to do a couple of stretches for a week. Plus add in the X-Ray machine repair tech that has to verify the machine is working correctly on a regular basis, the stock personal that has to make sure the film is fresh and free of contamination. And the bigillion other things I'm missing... All of those things have a cost tied to them and THAT is why health care is so expensive.
We live in a sue-happy country. You are put in a wheelchair in hospitals and wheeled around because you may trip over your own feet and sue the hospital. Hospitals have to cover EVERY possible entry point for a lawsuit, no matter how ridiculous.