Re:To hack or not to hack, that is the question!
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Hacking - Art or Science?
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I've never thought of a "hack" as being necessarily short term or disruptive. I've always thought of it as exploiting a certain property of a system to acheive a result that using "traditional" methods would not be possible because of the constraints of that system.
Eventually many "hacks" migrate into the realm of being traditional. Especially in the early computer gaming industry or the "demo scene".
This reminds me of when I was at a family reunion and took some pictures with my digital camera. I burned them onto a CD and I labeled it "Family Reunion Images" and handed it to my grandpa. He looked at the CD and said "Images?! You take Images of Mars. You take PICTURES of your family."
That's not really true. Some of my fav. games when I was a kid were "The Incredible Machine", "Where in the ****** is Carmen Sandiago", "The oregon trail", "Treasure Mountain"
Oh please, hitting your kids teaches them 2 things:
1) Adults solve their problems by hitting people who's behavior they don't like.
2) The consequences of doing something wrong are that your parents will hit you.
Lesson #1 will land you in jail or dead.
Lesson #2 Nobody is around to hit you for doing something wrong when you are an adult, only when you do something illegal.
From what I see, parents that hit their children only do it to releive their own stress and not because they really care, because if they did they would notice that their little Billy is a bully at school and constantly fights and their daughter looks for all the wrong male attention.
That great movie with John Lithgow where a kid builds a nuke in his bedroom?
It eventually builds up to a point where the kid and the military are in a situation of mutually assured destruction and then the bomb suddenly triggers itself.
Of course, they defuse the bomb and everyone is so releived that they forget the whole thing happened and walk off into the sunset.
woke up quick at about noon knew I had to be on slashdot soon
I gotta drink jolt before the day begins before my mother starts bitchin' about the cans
'bout to post and damn near went blind Man I tried get goatse out of my mind
ran to a thread 'bout nat portman I get some hot grits, I start pourin'
Look, Another post from Wil Wheaton got an idea for a fan fiction:
picard takes wesley from the behind post it to alt.wesley.die.die.die
Then I throw my points awaaaaaay moddin up posts about RMS bein' gay It was lamer, lamer at the top of the list then I made my own post it went somethin' like this:
Surfin' round the net on AMD six-fo' flamin' the noobies, callin' 'em Mo's went to a chat to get the scoop knuckleheads out there bored, nothing to do Some guy joins on, who can it be? Warez Kiddie running wu-ftp he sent out his message and it was sure to say: It's all about getting that 0-day
coz the boys on the net are always tards they come talkin that trash and never leave their yards ain't nothin' in life cept to be a dick don't quote me boy I ain't said shit.
We didn't either during the Oklahoma City Bombing, or the first WTC Bombing.
I'm sure if england had a terrorist attack the scope of 9/11 they would.
Would you be more proud to be an american if we went back to ignorning terrorism?
You could have payed somebody who has legally aquired the means of production $X/hr to do so.
By pirating the software for one time use you ensure that the guy who would use it all the time can't find work and he too can not justify the cost.
I live in stately Wayne Manor. My name is Bruce Wayne. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, and a balanced diet and a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a thousand now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water activated gel cleanser. Then a honey almond body scrub. And on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Bruce Wayne, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me. Only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our life styles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.
I have a hunch that it is much easier to generate money with 2 $30k dollar programmers than it is with 1 $60k programmer.
Nobody cares what skills you have or how you can better improve the product. Those are worthless unless they directly translate into more money for the company.
I wouldn't blame somebody for playing dumb just to keep a steady income.
I knew if I wanted to conceal the departure of our ancient alien visitors I too would construct a 1,200 foot balloon and tell people it was trying to break an altitude record.
This just prooves our alien overlords point - we deserve to get our brains eaten.
There's a great Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin is sitting at the table with his parents for dinner and Calvin blurts out:
"WHAT IF GOD IS A GIANT CHICKEN? I'LL TELL YOU WHAT: ETERNAL DAMNATION, THAT'S WHAT!"
You seem to be in the Pascal's Wager mindset.
"What have I got to lose by believing?" Right?
Well, have you ever considered that believing in the wrong god is Blasphemy to the true god and could be punished worse than being an unbeleiver?
Or try to think of it this way:
You know you are alive now and can make a difference. You have a pretty good idea that you will die, yet there is no evidence to support the idea that you will ever live again.
So, you can live your life prepairing for an afterlife that may never come OR you can take advantage of the life you know you have now.
Your actions do have eternal consequences, but they are natural consequences from which there is no saviour.
It's that computer's can't resist the ol' shave and a haircut routine:
Case in point:
dun nun na na na.... TWO BITS!
dun nun na na na.... TWO BITS!
dun nun na na na.... TWO BITS!
"You know, this TV thing is really catching on, people are hooked... I know, we could launch these things into space, and force our content into every americans home and get them to pay us money to watch it!"
"But, gee Bob, decrypting signals is not all that difficult, how will we stop competitors from selling the front-end service we provide at a lower cost?"
"That's the beauty of it Jim! If any company tries to sell devices that decrypt the signal we beam into peoples homes we can have them arrested and make them pay damages that in a million years they could never repay!"
"Don't draw the object, draw the space around the object" was a zen moment for me.
Most people draw "symbols" of what they see like "a head is a circle, a neck is a tube" and they just break down entire objects like that and it looks like crap.
But by having people draw the space around the object, it forces them out of "symbol mode" because the space doesn't have a symbol you can identify with and break down, just the actual lines.
It's like why you can usually draw a picture better if you draw it one grid space at a time or hold the picture upside down.
Why is it that it's not okay for nVidia to optimise their card for certain applications, but it is okay for certain applications to optimize for nVidia?
Woudl anybody cry foul if Doom III uses an nVidia feature to render a scene in one pass instead of the two it would take an ATI Card (or vice versa)?
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I've never thought of a "hack" as being necessarily short term or disruptive. I've always thought of it as exploiting a certain property of a system to acheive a result that using "traditional" methods would not be possible because of the constraints of that system.
Eventually many "hacks" migrate into the realm of being traditional. Especially in the early computer gaming industry or the "demo scene".
This reminds me of when I was at a family reunion and took some pictures with my digital camera. I burned them onto a CD and I labeled it "Family Reunion Images" and handed it to my grandpa. He looked at the CD and said "Images?! You take Images of Mars. You take PICTURES of your family."
That's not really true. Some of my fav. games when I was a kid were "The Incredible Machine", "Where in the ****** is Carmen Sandiago", "The oregon trail", "Treasure Mountain"
"I havn't seen your sandwich, would you care for some Soup ala Tyler?"
Oh please, hitting your kids teaches them 2 things:
1) Adults solve their problems by hitting people who's behavior they don't like.
2) The consequences of doing something wrong are that your parents will hit you.
Lesson #1 will land you in jail or dead.
Lesson #2 Nobody is around to hit you for doing something wrong when you are an adult, only when you do something illegal.
From what I see, parents that hit their children only do it to releive their own stress and not because they really care, because if they did they would notice that their little Billy is a bully at school and constantly fights and their daughter looks for all the wrong male attention.
That great movie with John Lithgow where a kid builds a nuke in his bedroom?
It eventually builds up to a point where the kid and the military are in a situation of mutually assured destruction and then the bomb suddenly triggers itself.
Of course, they defuse the bomb and everyone is so releived that they forget the whole thing happened and walk off into the sunset.
woke up quick at about noon
knew I had to be on slashdot soon
I gotta drink jolt before the day begins
before my mother starts bitchin' about the cans
'bout to post and damn near went blind
Man I tried get goatse out of my mind
ran to a thread 'bout nat portman
I get some hot grits, I start pourin'
Look, Another post from Wil Wheaton
got an idea for a fan fiction:
picard takes wesley from the behind
post it to alt.wesley.die.die.die
Then I throw my points awaaaaaay
moddin up posts about RMS bein' gay
It was lamer, lamer at the top of the list
then I made my own post it went somethin' like this:
Surfin' round the net on AMD six-fo'
flamin' the noobies, callin' 'em Mo's
went to a chat to get the scoop
knuckleheads out there bored, nothing to do
Some guy joins on, who can it be?
Warez Kiddie running wu-ftp
he sent out his message and it was sure to say:
It's all about getting that 0-day
coz the boys on the net are always tards
they come talkin that trash and never leave their yards
ain't nothin' in life cept to be a dick
don't quote me boy I ain't said shit.
That's not the past! Microsoft is seeing into the future! BASTARDS!!!
Yeah, it did. I remember it had a small trailer for the movie "Ghost in the Shell". It was well placed though and fit well with the theme of the game.
We didn't either during the Oklahoma City Bombing, or the first WTC Bombing. I'm sure if england had a terrorist attack the scope of 9/11 they would. Would you be more proud to be an american if we went back to ignorning terrorism?
You could have payed somebody who has legally aquired the means of production $X/hr to do so. By pirating the software for one time use you ensure that the guy who would use it all the time can't find work and he too can not justify the cost.
I live in stately Wayne Manor. My name is Bruce Wayne. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, and a balanced diet and a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a thousand now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water activated gel cleanser. Then a honey almond body scrub. And on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Bruce Wayne, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me. Only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our life styles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.
I have a hunch that it is much easier to generate money with 2 $30k dollar programmers than it is with 1 $60k programmer.
Nobody cares what skills you have or how you can better improve the product. Those are worthless unless they directly translate into more money for the company.
I wouldn't blame somebody for playing dumb just to keep a steady income.
I knew if I wanted to conceal the departure of our ancient alien visitors I too would construct a 1,200 foot balloon and tell people it was trying to break an altitude record.
This just prooves our alien overlords point - we deserve to get our brains eaten.
There's a great Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin is sitting at the table with his parents for dinner and Calvin blurts out: "WHAT IF GOD IS A GIANT CHICKEN? I'LL TELL YOU WHAT: ETERNAL DAMNATION, THAT'S WHAT!" You seem to be in the Pascal's Wager mindset. "What have I got to lose by believing?" Right? Well, have you ever considered that believing in the wrong god is Blasphemy to the true god and could be punished worse than being an unbeleiver? Or try to think of it this way: You know you are alive now and can make a difference. You have a pretty good idea that you will die, yet there is no evidence to support the idea that you will ever live again. So, you can live your life prepairing for an afterlife that may never come OR you can take advantage of the life you know you have now. Your actions do have eternal consequences, but they are natural consequences from which there is no saviour.
Uhm, Mandrake 9.0 autodetected my wlan card just fine. I was connected to the internet on my first boot...
Not only that, on WinXP my wireless card was real flakey, in linux it has never gotten disconnected.
It's that computer's can't resist the ol' shave and a haircut routine: Case in point: dun nun na na na.... TWO BITS! dun nun na na na.... TWO BITS! dun nun na na na.... TWO BITS!
"You know, this TV thing is really catching on, people are hooked... I know, we could launch these things into space, and force our content into every americans home and get them to pay us money to watch it!"
"But, gee Bob, decrypting signals is not all that difficult, how will we stop competitors from selling the front-end service we provide at a lower cost?"
"That's the beauty of it Jim! If any company tries to sell devices that decrypt the signal we beam into peoples homes we can have them arrested and make them pay damages that in a million years they could never repay!"
"Those poor saps will eat it up!"
"Hooray! I love making an honest living!"
"Hooray!"
Are you reading this message?
It's worth millions of dollars!
THEIF! Common THEIF! PAY ME MY MONEY!
Yup Yup.
"Don't draw the object, draw the space around the object" was a zen moment for me.
Most people draw "symbols" of what they see like "a head is a circle, a neck is a tube" and they just break down entire objects like that and it looks like crap.
But by having people draw the space around the object, it forces them out of "symbol mode" because the space doesn't have a symbol you can identify with and break down, just the actual lines.
It's like why you can usually draw a picture better if you draw it one grid space at a time or hold the picture upside down.
It's more like:
It's only cheating if your girlfriend keeps spooge as a keepsake and\or blabs to her ugly friend Linda Tripp who is a known white house gossip whore.
reflects my behavior in real life, for your sake, let's just hope I don't become a god with a giant animal friend.
*SMACK* Did I tell you to feed the hungry? Now go fetch the ball I threw at the creche.
Why, yes. Yes it does. *laugh like Dr. Hibbert.
Funny, I'm 18 and I couldn't get my 16 year old sister into the movie because they said minors have to be accompanied by someone 21 or older.
Why is it that it's not okay for nVidia to optimise their card for certain applications, but it is okay for certain applications to optimize for nVidia?
Woudl anybody cry foul if Doom III uses an nVidia feature to render a scene in one pass instead of the two it would take an ATI Card (or vice versa)?