It’s a good thing. Great article by Peggy Rogers. (via Raelity Bytes.)
But many hackers in the original sense — now called ”white hats” — operate on the up and up; they go under the hood of tech products, legitimately experimenting to add features and expand the capabilities of digital hardware, search engines, games, other software and websites. They find or create features that are not obvious, not included in official manuals and help files, or not known even to product creators.
Now where’s my Red Hat?
how many times you been on Boing Boing now?
Go Book Thing!
Not that we didn’t already know it but Bush lied… Now he’s admitted it. Somehow that doesn’t make things any better.
Then there’s Cheney: “Some people, both in this nation and abroad, have questions about that strategy … Make no mistake: President Bush is acting to protect the American people against further attacks, even when that means moving aggressively against would-be attackers.”
Again, somehow that doesn’t make things any better.
Almost forgot… A blogs. Sometimes.
Here she comes, kiddos… Hope you B’more sw33th34rt5 are doing OK.
Stop Verisign DNS Abuse Petition. IMPORTANT! All you domain spotters!
One professor Friday stood nervously away from Wallace’s reactor — which is notably free from any shielding — but he needn’t have worried: Wallace’s detector measures 36 neutrons per minute just in background radiation from space, and the device’s usual output adds only four neutrons per minute. People in airplanes absorb much more than that.
