Some virtual communities explicitly refer to the concept of cyberspace, for example Linden Lab calling their customers " Residents " of Second Life, while all such communities can be positioned " in cyberspace " for explanatory and comparative purposes ( as did Sterling in The Hacker Crackdown, followed by many journalists ), integrating the metaphor into a wider cyber-culture.

Kripke's version of Wittgenstein, although philosophically interesting, has been facetiously called Kripkenstein, with some scholars such as Gordon Baker and Peter Hacker, Colin McGinn, and John McDowell, seeing it as a radical misinterpretation of Wittgenstein's text.

American poets such as John Ashbery, Marilyn Hacker, Donald Justice (" Pantoum of the Great Depression "), Carolyn Kizer, and David Trinidad have done work in this form.

Kripke's book generated a large secondary literature, divided between those who find his skeptical problem interesting and perceptive, and others, such as Gordon Baker and Peter Hacker, who argue that his meaning skepticism is a pseudo-problem that stems from a confused, selective reading of Wittgenstein.

This tendency grew in parallel with the emerging electroclash scene and, as that scene started to decline, a number of artists associated with it, such as The Hacker, DJ Hell, Green Velvet, and Black Strobe, moved towards this techno / EBM crossover style.

Many of these were sponsored by the American Embassy in London, which paid for the band to tour British universities to perform before larger audiences with American poets such as Marilyn Hacker, Denis Boyles, and Louis Simpson.

Service and smaller high technology set-ups are generally found within the town centre or close to the centre at Wrexham Technology Park such as Grote, Moneypenny and UHY Hacker Young.

The Hacker took this opportunity to produce many new tracks released on vinyl, such as " The Beach " on Mental Groove and " Dance Industria " on Tiga's label Turbo.

A companion piece, Body Rework, featuring remixes from cutting edge contemporary techno artists such as Motor, Black Strobe, the Hacker, Derrick May, and Robag Wruhme, was also released.

He identified this Hacker Ethic to consist of key points such as that all information is free, and that this information should be used to “ change life for the better ”.

Windows Explorer ( explorer. exe ) is used by default in modern Windows systems to provide a panel and file manager, along with many functions of a window manager ; aspects of Windows can be modified through the provided configuration utilities, modifying the Windows registry or with 3rd party tools, such as WindowBlinds or Resource Hacker.

Also featured were presentations such as: " DIY Green Energy ", " Why Building Hacker Spaces is Necessary and How to Do It ", " Online Communities and the Politics of DDoS ", " Notageek: Technology and Everyone Else ", " 8 Dirty Secrets of the Security Industry ", and " Open Source Economic Development "

* Hacker slang includes a number of placeholders, such as frob, which may stand for any small piece of equipment.

The Digital DawgPound ( more commonly referred to as the " DDP ") is a group of hackers, best known for a series of articles in hacker magazines such as 2600: The Hacker Quarterly and Make, the longrunning webcast Binary Revolution Radio, and a very active set of forums with posts from high-profile hackers such as Strom Carlson, decoder, Phiber Optik and many more.

He was motivated by the fact that there had been other well-known Hacker Groups in the 1980s who had accomplished great things in the hacking world such as the LoD and the MoD.

Hacker believes it only important to the upper-class snobs ( such as Humphrey himself ), and several other " wet, long-haired, scruffy art lovers ", arguing that operas created by Italians and Germans are not representative of Britain's cultural heritage.

Simulation results are presented in Hacker ( 2010 ) which indicate that using an information criterion such as the Schwarz information criterion may be useful in determining unit root and trend status within a Dickey-Fuller framework.

Visitors from all over the world arrived at the Camp Ground including groups of such diversity as OpenBSD developers, the German Chaos Computer Club, members of the 2600: The Hacker Quarterly hackergroup, and numerous smaller groups and organisations in addition.

" In which the Hacker Tourist ventures forth across three continents, telling the story of the business and technology of undersea fiber-optic cables, as well as an account of the laying of the longest wire on Earth.

Nevertheless, in September 1951 Adorno returned to the United States for a six-week visit, during which he attended the opening of the Hacker Psychiatry Foundation in Beverly Hills, met Leo Lowenthal and Herbert Marcuse in New York and saw his mother for the last time.

Other popular fictional works that use the concept of virtual reality include William Gibson's Neuromancer which defined the concept of cyberspace, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, in which he made extensive reference to the term avatar to describe one's representation in a virtual world, and Rudy Rucker's The Hacker and the Ants, in which programmer Jerzy Rugby uses VR for robot design and testing.

In the prologue of the book The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age ( 2001 ) Torvalds introduces his " Linus's Law ", which is that every motivation that makes a man do something can be classified under " survival ", " social life " and " entertainment.

The series commences in the wake of a general election in which the incumbents have been defeated by the opposition to which Jim Hacker MP belongs.

The Prime Minister offers Hacker the position of Minister of Administrative Affairs, which he accepts.

Many of the episodes revolve around proposals backed by Hacker but frustrated by Appleby, and others revolve around proposals promoted by the latter but rejected by Hacker, which Sir Humphrey attempts by all means necessary to persuade Hacker to accept.

" However, the episode The Compassionate Society does feature an audio recording of ' Yesterday in Parliament ' in which Hacker speaks in the House of Commons, and other episodes include scenes in the Foreign Secretary's House of Commons office ( The Writing on the Wall ) and a Committee room ( A Question of Loyalty ).

Even there, Humphrey does not reveal which party Jim Hacker represents.

This is particularly evident in the episode " The Ministerial Broadcast ", in which Hacker is advised on the effects of his clothes and surroundings.

The episode entitled " The Moral Dimension ", in which Hacker and his staff engage in the scheme of secretly consuming alcohol on a trade mission to the fictional Islamic state of Qumran, was based on a real incident that took place in Pakistan, involving Callaghan and Donoughue, the latter of whom informed Jay and Lynn about the incident.

Hacker received his degree from the London School of Economics ( graduating with a Third ), for which he is often derided by the Oxford-educated Sir Humphrey ( who attended the fictitious Baillie College graduating with a First in Classics ).

" Iannucci suggests that Bernard is essential to the structure of the show because both Hacker and Appleby confide in him, " which means we get to find out what they're plotting next.

The less scrupulous Hacker eventually found him rather tiresome ( and Mrs. Hacker wondered why he " just move in ") and he was sent on a worldwide fact-finding assignment from which he did not return to the cast.

Certain software techniques were used by some programmers to thwart the copying of their disks, but even these were circumvented by certain unlicensed FDS programs like Disk Hacker ( versions include 1. 1, 1. 2, 1. 3, and II ), Kosodate Gokko, Copy Master, Disk Keeper, and others, which facilitated the copying of disks.

Frank Hacker of Netscape discusses the events leading up to Netscape's executives releasing the source code for Netscape's browser, one of the signal events which made open source a force to be reckoned with by business executives, the mainstream media, and the public at large.

Nonetheless there remain a few notable exceptions, perhaps most famously the Hacker Boat Company, the oldest motor-boat builder in the world which continues to produce magnificent mahogany boats on the shores of Lake George, New York.

Two days later, on August 4, another portion of the boat chase using Hacker Craft sport boats, was filmed at Tilbury Docks in Essex.

* Mouse – A freelance Hacker who originally was mentioned briefly, then worked for Megabyte in a one-shot early in the season, but then later switched sides and joined Dot and Enzo to defend Mainframe when Bob was trapped in " The Web.

Rudy later drew from his experience at Autodesk, in Silicon Valley, for his novel The Hacker and the Ants where one of the characters is loosely based on John Walker.

Three years later, The Hacker founded his own label, Goodlife Records ( named from a classic track from Inner City ) with his friends Oxia and Alex Reynaud.

* After the geek media section, there was a schedule of rotating extra items, including " Confectionery Theory " ( reviewing new sweets upon their arrival in the UK, later outsourced to snackspot. org. uk ), " feebdack " ( as a form of letters page ; the title referring to a coinage in Rudy Rucker's The Hacker and the Ants ), " boners " ( correction of errors in NTK itself ), and an occasional music review section.

In a later strip, hoever, Coach Hacker is described as having been an all-conference defensive end for fictional " Southern State ", and having played in the Cherry Bowl.

) Although the series itself ends with Hacker still Prime Minister, this obituary mentions his later career as a member of the House of Lords.