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how do I search for something specific like an emp for slot machines or vending machines
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why the search of hackaday isn't working?
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why the search bar of hackaday isn't working?
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try posting to #Feedback - Hackaday.io
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add me :) nice
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Branislav Santrač Први пут на овој веб страници. Где се налазите?
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why there isn't my project in newest project section?
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nice site . I like to know if there is spmeone here knows about LCD for TVs
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I have made many electronic projects, it is my passion and gradually I'll go up some
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i am new to social networking and my English is not very good but I think hckaday is fabulous and I really like
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how safe is it hackday?
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from memory : hacking is changing something from something to something that the author did not originally intend.
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hacking is inactivity the protect mechanism or using security hole.
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Hacking is not a perjorative term, its a functional description. It means using your understanding of the technology you're engaged with to make it do what you want. It's that simple.
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Are you confusing hackers and script kiddies ?
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fgs
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@Stuart Longland So 'Hacking' is a mindset, while 'Cracking' is something like a method?
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Oh, sorry, thank you very much.
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Hacking, cracking, or otherwise aren't 'mindsets', 'ideologies' or an otherwise subjective activity. To hack something is literally to break it down to basic components and fit it back together in a way that works differently to its original intention. 'cracking', if you're talking about cryptographic cracking, is finding a key that matches your md5 encrypted data to get something like this.
5ae9b7f211e23aac3df5f2b8f3b8eada / *KEY* for algorithm = "Crypto" (the ascii encrypted
5ae9b7f211e23aac3df5f2b8f3b8eada)
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please don't delete my account.However,this site is not enough of security to been hacked by another hackers.
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I respectfully disagree. It's very simple. Hacking is gaining access to information that one is not entitled to and cracking is gaining access to a product that one is not entitled to. Let's not elevate hacking and cracking to noble status. Besides being pretentious, it would take away all the fun...
Doing cool and legal things with technology is something that hackers and crackers also gravitate to, ergo the reason for this web site.
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In my youth hacking meant something different again. It was often as much hardware as software and referred to modifying, experimenting or using technology in novel ways. It didn't imply illegality or anti-social behaviour.
Over time the meaning of the term has morphed. Which I find sad because the word conjures for me images of activity that need to be celebrated - the art and skill and imagination of taking bits and pieces (and ideas) from one piece of technology, joining them together in ways no-one had really thought about, to do something clever or new or elegant. You hacked stuff together. You hacked a solution up to a problem. You hacked code or equipment (or both) to make it do something new. It could be individuals sitting at home, students at universtities or engineers employed by a company that hacked stuff.
That is how much of the mainstream technology we use today evolved and came about, by people hacking stuff. Think personal computers, radio, radio astronomy, the mouse and graphical interfaces (read the book "What the Dormouse Said"). They were all individuals or groups who were 'hacking' in the original sense of the word.
Long may the activity described by the original meaning of the word reign! :)
I feel this site pays homage to that meaning of the word.
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lol
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Is it me or somebody else noticed the recent surge in "stupid hacking" newbies/wannabes on this page ?
The first few are fun. Then it gets creepy.
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but these last days, it's getting out of hand.
Has a link to this page been posted on a "crackers" forum ?
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Kinda lost your street cred if you have to *ask* how to crack. What happens to self taught and know how to find the info on your own?
It is one of those if you have to ask, you don't and won't get it. That applies to *both* definitions. Thinking outside of the box isn't for everyone.
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I never did get the difference, could you please explain it to me?
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@shmueln Cracking is defeating (breaking) a system (or part thereof) of some sort in some way that you're not allowed to – usually security measures in the system (e.g. DRM) or the system itself (e.g. denial of service). Hacking on the other hand, while commonly used to mean the same thing, originates from (and is used here) for modifying a system (or part thereof) so that it does something other than what it was originally intended to do – often with plenty of rough edges, and usually in a way that you are allowed to do. I'm going to guess that cracking gets called hacking because "hacking" was in use first and there is some overlap between the definitions.
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Looking at the time frame for those questions, probably summer holidays for the school kiddies.
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Must be.
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On the bright side: the don't all have usernames that are just variants of 'Anonymous'.
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On the bright side: the don't all have usernames that are just variants of 'Anonymous'.
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Darn straight.... If you're gonna hack that way, gotta use a dull machete...
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This seems to be the place for this question. It seems thet anything goes. Lets say I wanted to cut all the way across a piece if electrical tape in about 10 seconds. What power laser would I need? Please don't suggest that scissors or an Xacto knife is quicker. B-)
I'm trying to get a feel for how powerful these things are. Could I focus a strong white LED light and do the same thing?
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100mW if focused really well. 250mW would be easier. And as for the white light... no, not really. Laser light really lends itself to focusing, while the light from bright LEDs isn't coherent - when you try to focus it, you still won't get such a tight spot.
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