Hacking The Everyday - All Comments

re: PSA: Folding @ Home

Juno — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:45:36 GMT

I thought a place like Blogiversity, with it's large academia audience, would be interested in such a thing. There are other distributed-computing programs out there, such as Dimes or Seti@Home, but I thought this would have the highest chance for returning a serious benefit to mankind and improving longevity. I can easily imagine a future in which we have replaced the human body with artificial parts that can be replaced and repaired indefinitely, leaving the brain to function without deterioration. Whether humanity will advance this far is another story, but it is amazing to watch these new discoveries being made every day.

re: PSA: Folding @ Home

mike — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:30:36 GMT

That's quite an amazing program they have going. It's a real breakthrough innovation for science as a whole. Science has grown in leaps and bounds because the internet allowed them to share information and ideas all over the world. Now we can share computer processing power between hundreds of thousands of computers, rather than relying on massive supercomputers that are only available to the top scientists. Thanks for telling us about this. It's a great cause and a great use of that latent cpu power that so few of us fully utilize.

re: HOW TO: 9V Battery Safe

mike — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:07:47 GMT

Wow that is really cool. I don't think anyone would dream of checking in a battery for someone's hard earned cash. You could even put the battery in an appliance to be sure no one would search for it. Anyone would think to crack a traditional safe but if they don't know where to look, how would anyone find it?

I had a friend growing up who had a huge stuffed gorilla. One of the guys finally turned to it and said, oh I just can't help it, and reached into its mouth... and his hand came out with about 100 dollars in loose bills. I think the battery safe is a much better idea.

re: HOW TO: 9V Battery Safe

Krazy_Koala — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:12:50 GMT

THIS IS AMAZING! I'm really stoked.. definitely doing this!

re: And so it begins...

Krazy_Koala — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:19:50 GMT

ahem.... I'm waiting. :)

re: Your Biggest Threat

mike — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:54:43 GMT

I love those emails you get from "paypal" or a bank saying you have had a security breach on your nonexistent account, and asking you to verify your information. It amazes me to think those things really work. I'd say the most clever one I've seen was on Myspace. You get a message from someone asking to add you, and their profile takes you to an exact replica of the sign in page. You assume you have been logged out and enter the account info and password. Before you know it, you're spamming your friends with ads.

re: And so it begins...

mike — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:32:32 GMT

I'm so glad you're finally getting a chance to post in your blog. I can't wait to hear what you bring to the table. I'd also love to see some of the software and tools you find that are useful for various things.

It seems most people see the term "Hacker" as someone who breaks into government computers and steals everyone's money. It's going to be interesting to learn from someone who hacks to improve the lives of those around you.