Hackers open core of Apple's iPhone

[peterchen]

A hacker makes your computer assplode, and a cracker is what you feed to Polly?

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[Dan Neely]

And I'm happy only paying $40/mo for my phone not $100 :laugh:

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[phannon86]

I'm not paying 100$, but £35 (~$70). A fairly typical monthly rate for new contracts with high end phones in the UK.

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[James R Twine]

I always use the term Hacker in the sense of 2600, or what is called "grey hat" hacking.  We hack to understand and/or improve.  In fact, IME, in order to have a successful hack, the item being hacked still needs to work afterwards!  :)  Homebrew hackers are good examples -- they hack in order to try to get their own software to run on a system.  In order to do that, they need to understand pretty much everything about that system, and they cannot brickify it in the process.    Crackers mess with things like protection systems in order to get around them, usually for nefarious purposes.  Take software crackers for example -- they do not hack to understand the complete internal workings of your product, just the copy protection parts and how to disable them.    Peace!

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[Oakman]

Those who eat crackers in bed, wake up with crumbs.

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[peterchen]

Hm. I assume in your corner of the world "Polly" is NOT the canonical name for a parrot? Or do you bed with your parrot?

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[Oakman]

peterchen wrote:

I assume in your corner of the world "Polly" is NOT the canonical name for a parrot

Y'know I have never seen nor heard of a parrot actually named Polly, but yes, I did recognize the reference.

peterchen wrote:

Or do you bed with your parrot?

Rough rule of thumb, never take an animate object outfitted with razor sharp edges into your bed. :-D But the operative word in this thread is cracker, right?

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[Joe Woodbury]

Crackers are white people, are hackers lumberjacks?

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke

[Steve Mayfield]

Hacker: Someone that jogs wearing a hockey mask and carrying a running chain saw... :rolleyes: Cracker: Something you give to your Parrot when its hungry... :-O

Steve

[Nitron]

Graham Bradshaw wrote:

One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations.

... in ways that are often poorly documented, not maintainable, highly coupled, unportable, and error-prone. :~

~Nitron.

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