import java.lang.*;
public class Exams {
static int Wikinerd = 1;
static int dead = 0;
static int life = 1;
public static void main(String args[]){
if (Wikinerd != dead){
Wikinerd = Wikinerd - life
}
}
}
by product of starting C++:
#includeint main() { using namespace std; cout << "Hello world!" << endl; return 0; }
Interesting piece to come across, called “The Conscience of a Hacker”, later known as the “Hacker Manifesto”, by +++The Mentor+++.
http://www.phrack.com/issues.html?issue=7&id=3
Another one got caught today, it’s all over the papers. “Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal”, “Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering”…
Damn kids. They’re all alike.
But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950’s technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him? I am a hacker, enter my world…
Mine is a world that begins with school… I’m smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me…
Damn underachiever. They’re all alike.
I’m in junior high or high school. I’ve listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. “No, Ms. Smith, I didn’t show my work. I did it in my head…”
Damn kid. Probably copied it. They’re all alike.
I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it’s because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn’t like me…
Or feels threatened by me…
Or thinks I’m a smart ass…
Or doesn’t like teaching and shouldn’t be here…Damn kid. All he does is play games. They’re all alike.
And then it happened… a door opened to a world… rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict’s veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought… a board is found.
“This is it… this is where I belong…” I know everyone here… even if I’ve never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again… I know you all…Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They’re all alike…
You bet your ass we’re all alike… we’ve been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak… the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We’ve been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.
This is our world now… the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn’t run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore… and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge… and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias… and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it’s for our own good, yet we’re the criminals.
Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.
I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can’t stop us all… after all, we’re all alike.
And while you’re reading that, you might be interested in reading “Hacker ethics” and this.
One of the biggest cases in file-sharing history ended last week with The Pirate Bay Four sentenced to huge fines and jail time. Today it is revealed that far from being impartial, the judge in the case is a member of pro-copyright groups – along with Henrik Pontén, Monique Wadsted and Peter Danowsky. There are loud calls for a retrial.
via Torrentfreak
Now Wooden
Now Wooden icon set by Wikinerd
51 icons for 36 Apps inspired by wood-themed icons and sets by Thvg and kano89.
Wood-themed icons and sets:
Made of Wood ~by Thvg [link]
Wooden Slick Drives ~by Thvg [link]
Wooden Wall (wallpaper) ~by kano89 [link]
Wooden Finder ~by kano89 [link]
Wooden Dashboard ~by kano89 [link]
Wooden Safari ~by kano89 [link]
People who have downloaded the original set (”Now in Wood”) can just add to them; use the icons in the “New” folder. Now also in PNG.
Original set: Now in Wood: 32 icons for 23 Apps
Current set: Now Wooden: 19 icons for 15 Apps w/ revisions for apps in the original set
Applications:
Original:
⁃ 1Password
⁃ Activity Monitor
⁃ Address Book
⁃ BBEdit
⁃ Bowtie
⁃ Burn
⁃ Caffiene
⁃ Camino
⁃ Candybar
⁃ Disk Utility
⁃ DVD Player
⁃ Firefox
⁃ Google Earth
⁃ iChat
⁃ iTunes
⁃ Mercury
⁃ Numbers
⁃ Pages
⁃ Quicksilver
⁃ System Preferences
⁃ Terminal
⁃ Transmission
New:
⁃ Airport Utility
⁃ Bluetooth File Exchange
⁃ Console
⁃ Font Book
⁃ Microsoft Entourage
⁃ Microsoft Excel
⁃ Microsoft Messenger
⁃ Microsoft PowerPoint
⁃ Microsoft Word
⁃ Opera
⁃ Pixelmator
⁃ Quicktime Player
⁃ Stuffit Dropstuff
⁃ Stuffit Expander
⁃ Time Machine
PS. Please take a look at Thvg’s and kano89’s icons, they are just as awesome.
PPS. Yes, the icon set is quite inconsistent; I’ll improve on it when I have the time. (If you’re making derivations of it just make sure that you contact me.)
PPS. Anywayz enjoy. Any comments welcome.
Just minutes ago the verdict in the case of The Pirate Bay Four was announced. All four defendants were accused of ‘assisting in making copyright content available’. Peter Sunde: Guilty. Fredrik Neij: Guilty. Gottfrid Svartholm: Guilty. Carl Lundström: Guilty. The four receive 1 year in jail each and fines totaling $3,620,000.
via Torrentfreak
Now in Wood
32 icons inspired by wood-themed icons and sets by Thvg and kano89 of DeviantArt.
Wood-themed icons and sets:
Made of Wood ~by Thvg [link]
Wooden Slick Drives ~by Thvg [link]
Wooden Wall (wallpaper) ~by kano89 [link]
Wooden Finder ~by kano89 [link]
Wooden Dashboard ~by kano89 [link]
Wooden Safari ~by kano89 [link]
PS. This is my first icon set. Please understand that I didn’t have the time to spend hours after hours to do finish it; but hopefully I will get the time later to actually do more of this and actually finish it. *it should not be compared to those made by kano89 and Thvg; those are way, way better.*
PPS. Yes, the icon set is quite inconsistent; I’ll improve on it when I have the time.
PPS. Enjoy anywayz. Any comments welcome.
Looks like another list to add to the list of French defeats…
The entertainment industry managed to convince the French government to draft a law that will make it possible to disconnect people from the Internet, if they receive more than two copyright infringement warnings. Sadly, most of the politicians who plan to sign the law into action have no clue what they’re dealing with.
From Torrentfreak
Apple Inc. (APPL) has seen the brief leave of absence from it’s CEO, Steve Jobs. Founder, visionary, and the force behind Apple, the CEO and Chairman of the company found himself victim to health issues; his temporary departure from Apple has been seen by many as both a good—and bad—sign. This episode has been viewed by a lot of people as two sides of a coin; that Apple does have a successor in mind, and that Apple lets their top staff run the company for a while for more experience. It also helps to know that Steve Jobs can and will take time off the hook to regain his health should it get any worse.
However, without Jobs in charge Apple has lost something that had proven to be quite decisive in terms of competitiveness; Jobs’s charisma. Steve’s charm is one of the reasons that Apple exists today. The company has been one of the noisiest since Jobs’s return to Apple in 1996, making one achievement after another. From the first iMac in 1998 to the iPhone 3G released last year, this company has seized the industry’s attention through highly anticipated announcements.
Now what’s the problem? After Steve Jobs took his leave, Apple has released new, totally exceptional products—but without the pomp. Just to compare, take a look at the “Let’s Rock” event that Apple hosted in September of last year. This event saw the introduction of iTunes 8 (and the Genius functionality), iPod Nano 4th Generation(”Nano-chromatic”), a new iPod Touch (2nd Generation), new earbuds, and new iPhone software. While it is quite a hefty list, it is, in comparison to products released in Q1 2008, relatively insignificant. The new Mac Mini and iPod Shuffle, for example, would already deserve their own “Special Event”. And with the new Safari 4, new iMac, Mac Pro refresh, these definitely can be grouped into an “anticipated” special event that introduces them.
Then why didn’t they?
Steve Jobs ain’t there to stir up the crowd. (Strictly my opinion…)
But then what else can it be? Tim Cook or Phil Schiller not up to it?
