Phrack Issue 68 was released in apirl 14th 2012

About 10 months ago, there were an announcement on Phrack's main page, which said to all dear phrackers, unsurprisingly delayed... again. For sake of the rule "quality first", Phrack staffs have been always keeping the "delay" tradition:-/ I just wanna say Thanks to Phrack authors. Without you guys contribution, there probably are not a such great ezine even exist on the planet. Does this mean will I farewell to this planet? Of course no(When I say goodbye, it's forever!), dude. There are still a lot of interesting fields I can hack with. Hacker is a type of person who are never stop to digging deeper the truth behind the surface in any specific fields.

Phrack Issue 68 brings many great papers to us. I can't understand every papers in every Phrack issues but I just know it's really worth to read/hack. Fortunately, I'm not a native English speaker but I can still read these great Phrack papers/articles. I was start to read the Issue 68 After I report the ezine released news on solidot(Chinese slashdot). The prologue is talk about Dennis Ritchie --- a great hacker. He left the physical world and there are a lot more legacies for younger generation hackers including C, Unix and...methodology.I wrote an article that discussing 5 hackers's life including those 3 who are left us: John McCarthy, Dennis Ritchie, Steve Jobs. If what Steve Jobs have done to us that's sort of "changed" the world, Dennis Ritchie was definitely make the world, and John McCarthy discovered the methodology that provided Dennis to make the world.

I also like "Dark Thoughts" in Issue 68's prologue. I was shocked that I never thought the event of Chinese driver murders would be show up in this issue. Wow, this is Phrack, isn't it? Phrack have always been talking about the truth, which behind the surface. I like that anonymous hacker's honest to said he is a coward. Honest, one of important property of Hacker, I think he got one. My fellow gears, I'm a anonymous coward too many times.

Yeah, I talked above very serious topics. Let's talk about the funny part --- Loopback. I love the Loopback very much. I have read through every Loopback in Phrack when I begun to read in Aug 2010. I like Phrack staff's sense of humor. That type of humor is my best fit.  I have read the Loopback of this issue while I was listening to a pastor's Sunday preaching. Sorry, my dear L0rd, the loopback is too much interesting:-) An guy from England wrote a poem for phrackers "Razor Tech Warrior":

Razor Tech Warrior

They told you that you were nothing
Just another name and number
They said you were dumb and dumber

But you stole
Their lives away
Network Nazi
Live to fight another day

    [ Network Nazi Live to fight another day <-- WTF ???? ]

Through the black
Of the nights metal sheets
In tower blocks and tenements
Cyber crime it breeds

The government will stomp you out
But burn their kernel
Lock it down
While others are still asleep.

    [ We are speechless. All we can say is: LOL. ]

 I like it very much, especially in "Network Nazi Live to fight another day". Wait a min, what the hell is Networking Nazi? Anyone can give me a hint? And there another interesting loopback:

From: LEGEND XEON 
Subject: Phrack 68th Issue Release

Hello mate,
I am very interested in upcoming 68th issue of phrack.
The whole world is counting on you!!

    [ The whole world? Not even the whole scene mate ;) ]

I just want to know when will be the release and can you give me a glimpse
of contents inside it.
I will be eagerly waiting for your reply.

    [ Hehe, hope you didn't wait too much. ]

~Legend_Xeon

Hello LEGEND XEON,  I have a similar feeling like you. Sometimes, I checked out the Phrack website every day.

 I'm a computer newbie(if compare to those real underground old school hackers) and the most Phrack papers are too hard for me. So I have a "coward solution" that it's read the non-tech papers at first. Sorry, I followed this path through the Happy Hacking ones. The author(damn, another anonymous) pointed out a big point. Should we working for live or just for fun? I resigned my job and already in Beijing for few days. I'm trying to get a job here(now I failed to 2 job interviews). But question is what kind of job? There probably are 2 options:

1, Get a job in security field.

2, Get a interesting day job and make the security hacking as night job.


I'm not sure this is gonna work well. But I'm really appreciate it for this paper's author(Hope you could know your paper is helping people, anonymous coward:-/). I have been guffing around(is this a reviews of Phrack Issue 68? You tell me) a lot but not technique yet. OK, I'm a tech coward although. I begun to read the paper Single Process Parasite. I learned some techniques like there are not all libs's address which can be injected the code and excuted on them after loaded and I looked into the usage of ptrace() system call, which is the cornerstone of GNU Debugger. I wrote a "hello world" program for ptrace here. Every Phrack papers are worth to read, but honestly I never read through tech ones. It's a shame! I will try to get rid of "newbie" title-_-

By community, for community!

May L0rd's hacking spirit guide us!


btw: I came to BJ while my wife went back to HK. Only a few days not together we both felt uncomfortable. I hope can get a proper job soon. Almighty L0rd, what do you want me to do?

Google..........

 Where I'm living for temp....

The Return of the Hacker Ethic

We can see more and more hackers to join the biology field today. There's a good brief about how the hacker ethic influences hackers on making the paradigm shift from computer hacking to biohacking in Weis's article Biohacking: The Beginning of the Biological Revolution". Hacker ethic was started in computer hacking at MIT in east coast of US in 1950s. Computer hackers created the revolution of electronical computer, and now the paradigm of "just for fun in garage" seems happenning in biology field, biohackers have been making the equipments by hands such as openPCR, which can copy and manipulate the DNA stuff, it only costs $500. Some biohacker's community(DIYbio, Genspace and ) are emerging in the east coast. Hacker ethic is now forming from yesterday's cyberpunk to today's biopunk, and today's biohackers will become tommorrow's technological leaders. Maybe the early computer hacker Bill Gates is right at this point:"Creating artificial life with DNA synthesis. That’s sort of the equivalent of machine-language programming...If you want to change the world in some big way, that’s where you should start — biological molecules...There are more opportunities now...But they’re different opportunities. They need the same type of crazy fanaticism of youthful genius that drove the PC industry — and can have the same impact on the human condition.”.

In the 20th century, the rapid development of Physics gave possibility of building computer hardware, and formal system had already became the stonecorner of computer software design. But, along with the high speed of the technology development increasing the complexity, which makes human beings like a fool. We have had to hack the new/unfamiliar methodology what we called wholism, which the opposite is reductionism. We've been getting a lot of experience about how to deal with complexity from the journey of computer hardware/software hacks since Unix system was born. Now we/hackers will take these experience on next hacking field --- biological field. May God of Technology bless the offspring of Alonzo Church, Alan Turing and John Von Neumann!

May L0rd's hacking spirit guide us!!!"

A & G trends II

一年前A & G trends的第一篇谈论了作为黑客今天所面临的世界环境，A ＆G trends第二篇则侧重于讨论黑客的生命的问题。本文章已经在DNFWAH Issue 2上发布。

sth0R@frolsak]$ MRJ
Requiescat in pace!

______________________________
|-----------------------------------|
|---Author: Shawn the R0ck----|
|---Date: Dec 31st, 2011---------|
|---Location: Chengdu,China--|
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--[ Contents

0. Introduction

1. The 3rd Apple

1.1 The creator of *prison*

2. Trinity model of Hacker's life

2.1 The King of Simplicity

2.2 (* (*) (*) )

2.2 The evanglist of freedom

2.3 Witness of Hacker ethics

3. They are all great hackers

3.1 But we all going to die

4. Eternality VS Temporality


--[ 0. Intro

如果把1946年2月ENIAC的诞生算作计算机科学正式进入工程领域,整个计算机领域的发展至今也不到70年,对于一个影响人类的分支科学已经算是非常的年轻;如果把1958年Lisp语言的出现看作是Lambda演算正式以形式化的方式进入计算机语言领域,至今也不到60年;如果把1969年到1973年出现的C语言和UNIX操作系统的诞生算作大型软件开发工程化的开始,至今40年左右;如果把1977年的Apple II个人电脑算作个人计算机的开始,至今也就34年;如果把1983年GNU项目算作黑客伦理通过自由软件这个载体开始向非计算机领域的渗透,至今也才28年;如果把1992年的Wolfenstein 3D算作现代3D游戏的开始,至今不到20年.

通过上面的一些"如果"式的技术进化的时间表,或许我们只能感叹进化的速度是越来越快了,但在信息井喷的今天,彻底影响我们生活方式却是少数人的哲学观决定的,今天Shawn不会过多的谈关于业界进化的历史,今天让我们把精力注视在几位伟大的黑客的生命上,正因为他们"正常"的人生哲学才会有今天的这篇文章,今天有一些早期的黑客已经离开了物质世界,他们去了哪里并不重要,重要的是他们经历了作为完备黑客的生命,他们用自己的生命诠释了黑客伦理.


--[ 1. 第三个苹果

世界上有三个著名的苹果,魔鬼使用第一个苹果在伊甸园诱惑了夏娃,从那时起,人类就和罪性捆绑在一起.第二个苹果砸醒了17世纪伟大的科学家,神学家(不要忘记但以理书的注释)Issac Newton(牛顿),从此人类对知识的饥渴是显而易见的.第三个苹果被Steve Jobs啃了一口后改变了世界,Apple公司成为了这个时代性背景下的代表.

2011年10月5日,第三苹果的缔造者Steve Jobs离开了物质世界,作为hacker而言,他去哪里不重要,重要的是他走完了作为伟大黑客的完备人生.Jobs的离开让这个星球上无数的人都感到叹息,人们都因为他的离开默哀.今天APPLE的ipod, iMac,iPhone, iPad, iTunes, iCloud改变了很多人的生活甚至是生命,就连Shawn认识的一些以前从未认识Jobs的中老年人因为读了Jobs经历而开始尝试使用Apple的产品,可见Steve的个人魅力!世界的态度是悼念这一位离我们而去的伟人.

一位教会的牧师讲道中谈到"Steve Jobs是一个一生赶着去死的人!“以此来让信徒们思考永恒性,Shawn则认为"一个一生赶着去死的人"对世界的影响都如此之大那整天都谈"永生"的宗教份子大多都在打着上帝的旗帜干着完全违背圣经总原则之事,和笛卡尔同时代的数学家,哲学家---Blaise Pascal曾经讲过:"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.(人们只有打着宗教的旗号才会做出如此彻底的邪恶之事而还感到愉快)".


----[ 1.1 "监狱"的缔造者 &^` Steve Jobs

世界对待Jobs的态度是时代性式考量,而教会则是永恒性式的辩驳.这都不是强两希社区的态度,当然他们也不可能傻到站出来讲出事实的真相,这也不是Shawn讨论的题目.Shawn只是想从Hacker的视角来看待Steve Jobs.

1976年,Steve Jobs和Steve Wozniak在车库里进行着他们认为有趣的hacking,这个有趣的hacking就是后来的APPLE系列个人电脑,这个阶段两位Steve进行着没日没夜的hacking,对技术狂热的追求和对未知世界的无限向往,这个阶段的Jobs是典型old school黑客的代表,当Apple发展壮大后由于诸多原因Jobs离开了公司,多年后又重回Apple这是大家都知道的,之后在Jobs的带领下创造了苹果奇迹,SteveJobs从一个old school黑客范式转移到了打包成new school风格的产品最终推向大众市场,在这个过程中不得不提的是BSD操作系统,后来苹果的产品的稳定性几乎是由BSD所带来的,但由于BSD许可证不注重公众自由的结果直接导致了APPLE在利益的诱导下开发出了完全封闭的工具链和应用软件,这个所导致的直接后过就是大
胡子所讲[]的"他建造了一个牢笼,用很酷的设计将傻瓜们与自由隔开".但不可否认凡是old school技术必须要转换成为new school的风格才会被大众所接受,Microsoft的Bill Gates也是这样的例子,即使世界上很难找出几个像Bill这样以程序设计语言起家的公司但他还是成功了,不是吗?这或许就是Martin Buber所
言的"在最世俗的世界中去实现那最神圣的远景.".但这里存在一个问题:如果你来自强两希的四大社区,无论你选择old or new都没有太大关系,因为你所在的社区有很多hacker同时具备old and new两种范式的能力,比如一个做android app的年轻人如果想要学习OS或者compiler等old school的哲学和技术会很快找到导师,而如果你成长于亚洲则没有那么幸运了.作为old school hacker,Shawn更欣赏在车库的那个Jobs而非今天的"乔帮主".

当大胡子讲出了对那段对Jobs的离开的评论[1]时很多人愤怒了,很多人不理解,需要注意的是我们所生活的这个星球以及一切在这个星球上的事物,包括人类，自然界,经济系统,etc...都是复杂系统,我们不可能以"非黑即白"的方式来评判周围发生的事情,但事实就是事实,Steve Jobs的确建造了一个看起来很酷的"监狱",这个监狱就是整个Apple公司的产品线,这个监狱让世界上绝大多数人在没有搞明白何
为"数字时代的自由"就已经让你变成了一个傻瓜,给自由的下定义是困难的,这里罗列一段6年前Shawn与哲学入门导师xXx的对话:

xXx: what is freedom?(什么是自由)

Shawn: It's able to do what you want to do.(自由就是相干什么就干什么)

xXx: No, freedom is able to do what you "should" to do.(不是,自由是你去做应该做的事情)

而"应该"的定义取决于您的哲学观,大胡子也强调"Your future is depend on your philosophy",这个"应该"的哲学是通过个体生命的hacking所产生的...&^*...Shawn没有能力让你改变你的想法,不管你所处在什么领域,你都应该尽可能的去思考这个领域的本质,这也是黑客伦理所认为是真理的方式,最近一位年轻的女性跟Shawn讲:"看了Food, Inc[2]让我更能理解RMS对Jobs的评论."


--[ 2. 伟大的黑客---(+ 哲学家,科学家,工程师) && (* 程序员 工程师 黑客)

何为伟大的黑客?非得精确的定义实在是很困难,但这并不代表我们不可以尝试从不同的方面来理解黑客.从<黑客伦理与信息时代精神>中Pekka给出的材料来看黑客应该属于对未知世界抱有强烈探索欲望的人类,所以黑客几乎涵盖了古代到今天的哲学家,科学家和工程师.轴心时代(Axial Era)开始了世界各地相继出现哲学思辩,犹太民族经历了痛苦的先知时代和怀疑的拉比时代;古希腊的哲学经历了早期的七圣时代,中期的苏格拉底,柏拉图,亚里士多德的全盛时期和后期的Epicurus(伊壁鸠鲁), Stoicism(斯多噶派)和怀疑论;中国先秦哲学出现了注重形而上的老子,中庸的孔子和"借术寻道"的墨子;古印度的原始佛教的佛陀.从广义上讲,他们都是黑客.随着哲学思辩的深入,特别是在希伯来的信仰和希腊的哲学产生了碰撞后,人们先是继续着神学和哲学的探讨,后来则逐渐经过了神哲学的研究和生命体验后进入了一个以建立数学模型进行科学研究的时代,这个时代是由伽利略和牛顿开创的,有了数学模型的哲学家和科学家就开始近一步的尝试把科学的研究成果工程化,他们很多人同时扮演着哲学家,科学家和工程师的多重角色,把
Why+What+How-to整合到了一起,从而实现了某种程度上的把"神圣的远景实现到世俗的世界中"的目的.

我们中的哲学家也谈到了关于黑客生命的三位一体模型:即Programmer(程序员),Engineer(工程师),Hacker(黑客).Programmer是只关注技术点,作为Programmer任何的新idea都打算自己来实现,性能+代码风格+美学则是Programmer最关注的统一;而Engineer则是更注重整体架构,Engineer会考虑哪些
技术点需要亲自实现(扮演Programmer的角色),而哪些模块是用自由软件或者使用自由软件的代码同时会进行优化,如果说Programmer是站在还原论(Reductionism)的视角,那Engineer则是站在整体论(Wholism)的视角来看待同一个事物;而在前两者的过程中都抱着一种黑客的态度去hacking,这里指的hacker attitude不仅仅是代表您读完了那本<黑客伦理与信息时代精神>[3]后而知道的知识,是
否对于你的生命和hacking领域的wired-in是更重要的方面.三者的合一就是完美hacker的生命!接下来我们会试着讨论几位比Steve Jobs更长久影响old school社区的黑客的生命.


----[ 2.1 KISS的胜利 =-= Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie

1941年9月9日,一位日后改变世界的黑客出生于美国纽约的撒克逊社区.DMR在哈佛大学学习物理学和应用数学毕业,1967年他进入贝尔实验室,生前是朗讯技术公司系统软件研究部门的领导人.1983年他与Ken Thompson一起获得了图灵奖,理由是他们"研究发展了通用的操作系统理论,尤其是实现了UNIX操作系统".1999年两人为发展C语言和Unix操作系统一起获得了美国国家技术奖章.C语言和UNIX操作系统
对世界的影响是很难估量的,从系统软件的层面上看几乎所有的现代操作系统都是用C语言实现的,比如BSD操作系统,GNU/Linux操作系统,Mac OSX系统,即使是Windows操作系统都是使用C语言实现的,最近10年嵌入式的发展突飞猛进,C语言则是嵌入式平台下使用频率最高的语言之一,在最核心和关键的模块必定是用C语言实现的,C语言对机器底层的抽象非常简洁,即使遇到汇编的使用场合old school黑客也可以通过诸如gcc内嵌GNU汇编的形式来实现,C语言是沿着Alan Turning的范式来看待了计算的本质,这和下面Shawn将介绍的Lisp语言刚好相反,Lisp是沿着Alozon Church的范式,从哲学上讲,本体都是一个,采用的方法论的不同导致知识论的差异化;UNIX则在设计哲学上影响了所有unix-like的OS的设计与实
现.KISS(Keep it simple, stupid)哲学影响了整个old school社区的黑客们,就正如DMR那句经典的描述:"UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity."(UNIX是非常简单的,但需要天才来明白它的简洁性).

2011年10月12日,DMR离开了物质世界[4],Shawn应该会在未来见到他的!


----[ 2.2 (* (*) (*) ) John McCarthy

1927年9月4日,JMC出生于波士顿的一个东欧犹太移民家庭,他很早就表现出了数学方面的天赋,青少年时期开始自学加州理工的大学数学教科书,使他能在进入加州理工学习时跳过前两年的数学学习.他于1951年在普林斯顿大学获得数学博士学位,是John Nash的同学.1955年,他提出了人工智能概念.1956年JMC组织了10名当时的顶级黑客(包括AI大师Marvin Minsky,信息论的Claude Shannon,Herbert Simon,Allen Newell)在Dartmouth进行了为期2个月的研讨会,此次会议上“AI”这个名词诞生了,JMC也成为了早期犹太科技兄弟会的发起人之一.

JMC相信人工智能需要交互.1958年,他发明了最早的高级语言之一Lisp,Lisp也是世界上第二古老的计算机高级语言,Lisp自从诞生之日就成为了AI研究最流行的语言,一直持续到1980年代的符号主义浪潮后才有其他计算机语言可以在AI领域和它匹敌.JMC和他的学生也因为当时很多人批评Lisp的效率没有汇编语言高而开发了分时系统;1959年的那篇名为Programs with Common Sense[5]的文章则成为了历
史上第一篇以逻辑的方法来论述AI实现和程序设计的论文,JMC把Alonzo Church的lambda演算完美的带入了Lisp,这一引入导致了至今所有的计算机语言都是基于lambda演算的形式化系统,lambda演算是个很有趣的hack而且和可计算性理论有很大的关系,据说当年AC最早发明lambda的灵感来源于一个再简单不过的数学表达式如下:

A,y=x^2+2x+1 B,y=(x+1)^2 A=B

从存在性的角度看以上正确,即A=B,但从构造性的角度观察却会出现问题,如下:

A,y=x*x+2*x+1
B,y=(x+1)*(x+1)

那么现在A!=B,所以以上的公式是有问题的,进过了很长时间的研究最终Alonzo Church发明了lambda演算.scheme中的lambda可以接受4中表达式现在轮到lambda表达式出场了:

lambda-exp ::= {constant} 常量
|{varibale} 变量
|{lambda-exp1} {lambda-exp2} 把表达式计算后传给第二个表达式
|lambda {variable} . {lambda-exp}

非常简单的四种范式就涵盖了计算机语言所需要处理的所有问题,这或许就是形式化系统的威力!JMC的贡献不仅仅在于技术本身,在犹太科技兄弟会的建设上他的影响也是不可估算的,1950年代开始的AI研讨会造就了一代又一代从硬科幻爱好者到科学家再到工程师的黑客,2011年10月24日,JMC离开了物质世界[6],他留给我们有太多的"礼物".


----[ 2.2 自由哲学的布道家 Richard Matthew Stallman

1953年3月16日,RMS出生于纽约的一个犹太家庭,他最早接触计算机是高中时在IBM的纽约科学中心,他在那年夏天受雇编写Fortran语言的数值分析程序,几个礼拜后RMS完成了这个程序之后整个夏天都在编写APL文本编辑器,在余下的高中时代RMS都在为运行在IBM System/360的PL/I语言编写预处理器.在这段时间中,RMS也是洛克菲勒大学生物系的实验室志愿者,虽然他当时的hacking正在转向到数学和物理领域,但洛克菲勒大学的教授仍然认为他会成为一名生物学家.1974年,RMS获得哈佛大学物理学士学位,之后作为研究生进入MIT人工只能实验室编写程序.1983年,由于RMS无法容忍软件版权对自由的限制正式发起了GNU计划,1984年,RMS从MIT人工智能实验室辞职,即使在经济拮据到没钱购买计算机时他仍然坚持晚上偷偷溜进实验室编写代码,RMS当时的GNU计划的目标是打造一套从操作系统到工具链(编译器,编辑器,etc)可以替代传统UNIX的平台,而这个平台则完全开放源代码给任何人,1985年的GNU宣言中谈到了自由软件运动的目的就是为了保证用户对软件二进制程序和源代码享有自由拷贝,自由阅读,自由修改和自由重新发布的权利,软件源代码的封闭就好比你想你的邻居索取一份可口食物的食谱,而你的邻居因为邪恶的版权而不能给你,这种道德困境的确是违反了"Love your neighbor as yourself(爱人如己)"的原则.

1989年,RMS和一群律师起草了GNU Public Licence从法律的层面保证了软件源代码的自由,自由软件GPL的模式如今已经从原有的软件领域渗透到开放硬件和艺术领域,产生了Creative Common(创造共享)的许可证来保证文档,音乐,电影和游戏的使用自由.今天的自由软件社区已经强大到坚不可摧的地步,GNU几乎影响到了很多领域,整个嵌入式领域几乎是以GNU toolchains(编译器gcc,调试器gdb,汇编器
as,伪装成编辑器的操作系统emacs,词法分析器flex,语法分析器bison,etc)和linux内核为基础,电视机里的软件,飞机上的控制系统,发手机短信要通过的服务器群集(这个可能solaris多一些)和你上网时产生的每一个byte经过的网络设备,etc...那些来自Apple和Google的产品的基础是那些对大众不可见的自由软件,但
自由软件至今对于大众来讲还是比较陌生的概念,不过这并不重要,正所谓"曲高和寡,去低和众".2009年,在北京和RMS有一次见面,一位朋友询问RMS关于早期遇到的困难有何感想,RMS的回答很轻松:to me, it's easy.这正是一位伟大黑客所具备的强势心理的特征-_-

从实用主义的角度看,RMS是对今天的商业公司影响最大的人,gcc和gdb几乎成为了大部分数据通讯领域和网络安全领域的必用的工具,gcc和gdb是基于GPL许可证的自由软件编译器和调试器.今天的gcc分为3个抽象层:

front-end:词法分析,语法分析,语义分析,etc传统计算机语言编译器都会涉及的部分,目前gcc前端支持的语言众多,C/C++, Fortran, Java,etc..

mid-end:将front-end分析的结果翻译成一种intermedia language,从中间语言的形态来看可以理解为lisp的brohter or a sexy/beautiful/amazing sister,至于她sexy/beautiful/amazing在什么地方,对于常常胡乱吹嘘神哲学的Shawn认为有两点:1,这种intermedia language就是lisp的改版(这不是bullshit吗) 2,GNU
compilers支持很多语言,比如c,cpp,java,fortran,etc,但在GNU compilers看来他们之间唯一的区别在于front-end,不管C还是java只要经过了front-end的处理就会形成同一中intermedia language,而做优化工作的hacker就可以直接通过hacking intermedia language来达到自己的目的.

back-end:这部分主要是把intermedia language翻译成特定CPU平台的汇编代码和最终的执行代码op-code,中端做算法上的优化,而后端则做机器特性的优化.

所以这样看来,mid-end是最sexy的,即方便了hacker们的工作(实用主义)又不失编译器的优雅(lisp),gcc虽然不是完全的标准C,但也算是"业界标准"了.linuxkernel的源代码中使用了很多gcc内嵌汇编的特性,所谓GNU/Linux本质上就说linux kernel被GNU给"绑架"了.今天大部分的嵌入式产品都是基于GNU/Linux开发的,只是很多公司并没有遵循GPL许可证,即没有对社区进行回馈,这种公司是被邪恶的贪婪所占据的.

RMS暂时没有离开物质世界,他的故事还在继续..........


----[ 2.3 黑客伦理的见证人 John Carmack

1970年8月20日出生于堪萨斯城,JC的传奇人生在Master Of DOOM(DOOM启世录)中已经有详细的描述,JC是id software的创始人,3D射击游戏之父,也是著名的DOOM和Quake系列游戏的缔造者,关于JC和id software的历史对于old school黑客都很熟悉,所以Shawn不打算在这里介绍.

JC对技术的狂热超过了很多黑客,不管对游戏引擎设计,汽车改装和火箭都抱有无限的热情,JC对黑客伦理的坚持和对专利制度的痛恨是值得我们关注的,按照id software的传统,JC会定期的把以前的游戏源代码以GPL的形式公布,这样做的目的是帮助更多的社区开发者可以更好的开发游戏,目前(2011年12月)id software已经公布了Doom 3的源代码,JC甚至在QuakeCon 2011大会上还挑战其他游戏开发者开放以前的游戏的源代码.id玩家社区不同于其他任何游戏社区,几乎所有oldschool的技术社区都可以找到id玩家,id玩家是这个星球上最具创造性的一帮黑客,他们在DOOM和Quake世界里的death match的热情同样也发挥到了其他的领域.

对于JC,Shawn不打算更多介绍,他影响黑客们的更多的是生命而不是知识.


--[ 3. 他们都是伟大的黑客

如果说"摆地摊"的Steve Jobs(黑客们更欣赏那个在车库里hacking的Jobs)改变了世界,那Dennis Ritchie就创造了世界,而John McCarthy则是沿着他的老师Alonzo Church的道路给予了后来的黑客们创造世界的可能性.RMS缔造了一个庞大的系统工程,这个工程透过技术和哲学把世界上最愿意探索事物本质的黑客联系在了一起,JC则开创了3D游戏的时代和通过id文化继续影响着更多年轻的生命.如果说今天全世界有3亿人记得Steve Jobs的话,那后面的4位黑客能被人记住的总数可能连JObs的1%都不到,这里Shawn可以给你一个预测,24年以后记住Jobs的人可能会减少50%,36年以后能记住Jobs的可能只有今天的0.1%,但记住DMR,JMC,RMS,JC的人数在未来30年都不会有太大的变化,如果从稍远一点来看,Steve Jobs的影响在整
个历史的进化史上只是昙花一现,只不过是通过一些现在看起来比较酷的new school产品来吸引大众的目光,而DMR,JMC和RMS的影响不是仅仅是在实用的层面上,而更多的是在方法论的层面上;对于JC,他那独特的黑客生命即使在黑客圈里也是罕见,一旦被他影响的家伙就像是被solanum病毒传染了一样无法停止探索新的事物直到生命的结束.


----[ 3.1 但死亡却是我们的共同点

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--[ 4. 永恒性 Vs 时代性

Shawn一直在强调这个时代性的背景是科技,没有弄清楚时代精神的结果只能是被财团系统所奴役,这个世界的变化如次的快,昨天的enemy变成了今天的bitch,昨天的哲学成为了今天的技术,昨天的科学成为了今天的工程,昨天的old school变成为了今天的new school,在这种极具变化的过程中作为hacker的态度应该是什么样呢?

Keep hacking!这里Shawn列举两段强两希社区关于面对时代性变化的回答:

1, KK在What Technology Wants中引用了犹太教拉比Zalman Schachter-Shalomi的话:"There is more good than evil in the world--but not by much.(这个世界上善比恶要多一些,但多不了多少.)" --- 以此来说明我们拥抱新的技术是唯一的选择.

2, 希伯来旧约圣经以赛亚书43∶18-19: 耶 和 華 如 此 說,你們不要記念從前的事,也不要思想古時的事.看哪,我要作一件新事,如今要發現,你們豈不知道麼,我必在曠野開道路,在沙漠開江河.


如果以技术进化的轨迹来看,永恒性代表总原则,在总原则的引导下,在特定的时间刻度里具体实施阶段中的某个过程称为时代性,也就是说时代性是永恒性旨意的一个片段,要搞懂时代性就必须去永恒性那里寻找答案,世界各大宗教(包括启示宗教---犹太教,基督教,伊斯兰教)都在探讨关乎"永恒"的话题,从理性层面上看,能否验证永恒性原则带出的方法论是否是真理取决于时代性的背景的方法论.这个题目需要太多的时间去探讨,即使是face to face的philosophical conversation,Shawn也没有能力完全谈论清楚这个问题.

何为黑客的生命?一名黑客势必是非常清晰自己的人生意义,也就是说黑客知道为什么活着,一名真正的黑客的生命力甚至可以震撼哪些已经麻木的人,Shawn就是这么一名曾经"麻木"的人,在那些伟大的黑客的强有力的哲学观和生命力面前而表现的视而不见是可耻的行为.希望更多的中国年轻人能思考几个问题:

1,你的人生意义?
2,时代性的背景?
3,你的人生和这个时代有什么联系?

一旦你开始思考这3个问题,你找到黑客伦理只是时间的问题!

愿上帝赐福中国的年轻人!

May L0rd's hacking spirit guide us!!!

[1] 大胡子关于Steve Jobs离开的评论
http://solidot.org/articles/11/10/08/0610247.shtml

[2] Food Inc
http://movie.douban.com/subject/3564499/

[3] 黑客伦理与信息时代精神
http://book.douban.com/subject/1071093/

[4] DMR离开世界
http://developers.solidot.org/article.pl?sid=11/10/13/0236246

[5] Programs with Common Sense
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/mcc59.html

[6] JMC离开世界
http://developers.solidot.org/article.pl?sid=11/10/25/019206&threshold=-1

Summary 2011

Jan 26:
有几个中国年都没有回家，因为不打算跟酱缸教的忠实信徒浪费时间，还不如到处逛逛，这一天到达了深圳，和一个朋友进行了连续20个小时的philosophical conversation后休息了4个小时，之后又继续了15个小时左右，交谈的内容主要关于人生意义的探讨，自由软件哲学，复杂系统等话题，其实关于"人生意义"是个古老的题目，但这个题目人类谈论了2000多年还是没有"确切"的结论，虽然Shawn信稣哥，但这并不代表就可以以宗教作为借口来回避这一神圣而又永恒的话题。

Feb 4:
在HK为老婆购买了一台Macbook，也是Shawn第一次使用Macbook，苹果的产品很好的照顾了old school和new school黑客的需求，new school黑客可以直接使用xCode来完成对Mac OSX，iPhone，iPad应用程序的开发，old school黑客可以使用Traditional Unix Development Environment(包括GNU工具链)进行和在unix-like平台上一样的开发，其实Shawn为老婆买Macbook是因为一个教育计划，试想如果让她直接从习惯了N多年的WIN平台上转移到GNU系统上还是很困难，但Macbook可以作为一个buffer，Shawn建议她使用GIMP来替换以前在WIN平台下的PHOTOSHOP，GIMP是自由软件，所以也可以顺便谈谈自由软件运动的历史和哲学，最终到了10月份，老婆在思考了黑客生命，自由软件和她所在的行业(非计算机领域)的关系后决定，这台Macbook将是她的最后一台苹果产品，下一此买laptop肯定会装GNU/Linux。

Apr 29:
从2月到4月一直在思考技术的本质到底是什么，KK的What Technology Wants提供了很多参考，4月中旬辞职后开始快速的reviews最近几期的Phrack杂志，4月28日XX山上第一次攀岩后读到了关于利用SMM的rootkit，虽然不太能理解技术细节但至少确定了CPU也能中rootkit的可能性。这个月也发出了为一个old school的ezine---DNFWAH(DO NOT FUCK WITH A HACKER)编写文章的邀请，给Shawn所认识的computer hacker和generic hacker，虽然得到的回应不多，但总算是在5月份发布了Issue 1，发起这份ezine的目的很简单，就是提供一个old school风格分享生命的平台，你不一定需要在某个领域是所谓的"大牛"，但你的文章必须是你通过你的生命的一种体验hacking而成，这份ezine不是为了仅仅分享知识，把知识和生命的结合在一起的hacking才符合真正的黑客伦理。

May 3 --- Jul 27:
开始了新的工作，也是网络安全公司，之后的几个月的工作并不是太忙，闲暇时间继续着gaming的同时也总结了netfilter和NIC之间的关系，从4月份开始和cloud club的家伙们谈论云里雾里的"云计算"，关注这个的目的到不只是为了寻求商业机会，云计算作为一个大整合的平台就像黑洞一样吸收了几乎历史上所有的信息技术，Shawn认为云计算和另外的一个aha是有联系的：Ray Kurzweil的The Singularity is Near，科技的进化非常的迅猛，这个进化系统对于个人而言是什么？到底Shawn是仅仅感觉到恐惧就回避问题还是积极的拥抱新的技术，如果是前者那肯定不配做基督的门徒，因为这往往是酱缸教徒的选择，但如果是后者要做的选择更加的复杂，技术进化系统到今天已经非常庞大，而一个复杂系统仅仅了解其部分是根本无法搞明白本质的，但如果以所谓的整体论的方式来构建知识论的话，这已经远远超出了一个个体生命所能承载的极限，终极解决方案：社区。但如何构建强社区？神哲学，兄弟会，四层模型....太多的要素需要考虑，从Shawn懦弱的内心深处的提示是:give up。难道Shawn也应该和那个撒克逊的小朋友问同样一个问题：我是懦夫的原因是因为我的父亲是懦夫？难道该找一个借口：这么复杂的问题留给下一代?去他妈的，Shawn都无法办到的事情怎么好意思厚颜无耻的让下一代去完成...

Sept 5:
生活如果一天没有aha简直要让Shawn窒息，如果每时每刻都有aha的wired-in状态那该多好，往往日常生活乏味的出奇，随着对奇点的了解，好像每天如果不来点关于GNR的信息就浑身不自在，或许这是今年在solidot上发的新闻报道最多的一年的原因。9月也参加了软件自由日的成都站，来的人不是很多，但来的家伙都对自由软件充满了热情；软件自由日当天购买了Xbox 360和Kinect，之后的几个月的gaming几乎从PC平台搬到game console上了。2005年，M$发布Xbox 360的时候，Shawn当时预测Xbox360的下一代主机之后游戏的画质会变得更接近真实，这一代的游戏主机把大部分的硬件资源都消耗在图形处理上了，AI方面显得过于薄弱，今年的所有大作里Shawn只认为2部FPS游戏在画质上有质的飞跃:基于id tech 5的Rage和战地3。

Oct 3:
到达雪山脚下，hiking的路程并没有太远，更多的是和老婆一起享受大自然的阳光和雪景，当然还有在帐篷里读着那本"创业的过度:以色列的经济奇迹"，Shawn曾经向稣哥祷告过，这本书Shawn会拿出10%-part的那部分收入来购买70本送给陌生人，朋友和native hacker，Shawn一般不在公开场合用"十一奉献"这个词，TMD所有的收入都是来自稣哥，何谈"奉献"一说？整个10月份有三位伟大的黑客离开了我们:John McCarthy, Dennis Ritchie和Steve Jobs。如果说"摆地摊"的Steve Jobs(黑客们更欣赏那个在车库里hacking的Jobs)改变了世界，那Dennis Ritchie则创造了世界,而John McCarthy则是沿着他的老师Alonzo Church的道路给予了后来的黑客们创造世界的可能性。关于他们Shawn写了一篇A & G Trends II会在年底的dnfwah issue 2上发布，明年会发布到blog上。

Nov 12:
和某位对hard sci-fi热衷的家伙的几次讨论深入了一些有趣的题目，但这些题目比起可以即时体验的Kinect和PS3而言显得诱惑力不足，这个月的20号之后在忙一些公司的事情，小到移植应用软件，大到查找内核内存泄漏，繁杂到连个log系统也要亲手来实现，从规模和框架设计的角度，这个日志系统当然不能跟syslog/syslog-ng相比，客户不要求多线程，性能问题他们是打算通过增加硬件来解决，项目完后Shawn编写了一个GPLv3版的日志系统---netlog，功能不是很完善，只是把基础框架完成了，但别指望Shawn继续完善netlog,毕竟Shawn的比特总是从一个领域跳到另外一个领域；Shawn一直认为在亚洲的大部分软件公司只是把人当奴隶来使用，大部分的软件开发人员并没有通过这份工作进而帮助他们思考人生意义，一年的工作经验重复了十次当然可以在简历上写有10年的工作经验，别TM跟Shawn讲为什么Shawn不也是这样的吗，Shawn有自己的理由，但现在却不能分享这些理由，如果稣哥允许Shawn再拥有24年的生命，那Shawn会分享更多的经历的。

Dec 25:
2011年的圣诞节的到来意味着这一年的结束，在25日到元旦的这6天应该是反思这一年所做的事情和选择到底在多大程度上和人生意义的方向一直。去TM的圣诞老人，圣诞老人的来历其实是当年的大公教会的一名虔诚的信徒，也是主教，因为他的所作所为后来被教会封为圣徒。当然今天的圣诞节更多是酱缸教狂欢的日子。每年的这个时候Shawn总是恐惧颤惊，应付忽悠一下公司老板或者教会的自称基督徒的家伙们倒是很容易，但Shawn还没狂妄到去忽悠稣哥，每年这个时候除了祈祷，认罪，忏悔，感恩之外，真不知道还能做些什么。2011年的分享更多是跟神哲学没有直接的联系，但这并不代表Shawn停止了对形而上的思考，像Herman Bavinck的著作和宗教改革运动的资料在2011年仍然是hacking的部分，只是比重不如过去的3年。2011年的最大的aha是得益于神哲学的基础，感谢上帝，到了这个2011快要结束时Shawn终于确认了一些开始于2005年的事情，但要逆向工程第四级别的隐喻还得花一些时间，这个时间恐怕会超过7年。

Dec 31:
北京时间5:15AM，DNFWAH的第二期发布，第一期发布后的40天左右下载量达到了200，原本预期第二期发布后的24小时下载量不会超过50，毕竟作为一份old school风格的中文ezine并不受太多人的关注，早上在solidot上报道了后70分钟内下载量达到83，Shawn看到后跟朋友讲今天的下载量大概会在200左右，可惜50分钟后下载量已经达到203，Shawn就一直跟朋友讲，或许今天第二期的下载量会突破300,400,500,600,700....到下午吃饭的时候已经突破900，TMD这不是稣哥耍我们吗？对于hacking on life/Purpose/Knowledge的old school中文ezine怎么可能会有这么多人关注？到现在(10:08PM)时已经突破1097下载了，也就是说DNFWAH Issue 2发布16个小时后下载量突破了1000，whatever...希望读者们能严肃的去思考自己的人生意义，这里Shawn必须感谢Phrack的作者们，如果没有他们就不可能有这份ezine，2011年的最后一天以这种方式结束还算是aha，也算给稣哥交帐了。

今年的总结有点乱，但大概是记录了生命的经历，下面是今年在solidot上发的报道:
DNFWAH第二期发布
Richard Resnick：欢迎进入基因革命时代
《科技想要什么》中文版上市
NVIDIA开放CUDA编译器源代码
程序外包真的省钱吗?
生物朋克宣言
IBM使用现有工具制造Racetrack存储器
黑客伦理的归来
Stephen Wolfram加入救生艇基金会下赌注--奇点
华为公司驻巴西员工过劳死
Doom 3源代码发布
Intel公布Xeon E5和Knights Corner众核处理器
异构计算的诱惑
黑客:计算机革命的英雄推出周年版
上海政府要建设100个黑客空间社区
开放硬件杂志第一期发布
Ivy Bridge已经开始批量生产
Android 4.0发布
Stuxnet之子的狂野之舞影响欧洲
Google改进语音翻译与Siri竞争
计算机能耗遵循Koomey定律
RAGE不是一个大错误
自由软件正则表达式引擎的对比
LulzSec和Anonymous的三名成员被捕
以色列加入CERN成为第一个非欧洲国家成员
软件自由日2011
超越基于OS的安全
Broadcom以37亿美元收购NetLogic
Happy Programmer's Day 2011(程序员节快乐)
AI vs AI--当AI与自己聊天
奇点会议2011
GNU黑客大会2011
Cosmos--基于C#的操作系统
只有蠢人才不会回馈自由软件社区
当领导者离去:苹果应该学习微软等的经验教训
杀出重围III中的cyborg技术
竞速下一代防火墙
为什么亚马逊的Kindle不能在美国制造
斯坦福大学开放更多计算课程
超过10,000名学生注册斯坦福开放课程
人类的大脑网络限制了多任务处理
你的同事正在杀死你吗?
Doom III源代码将会随Rage发售开源
Google前首席信息官建议"做愚蠢的事"
新血液测试可以检查出阿茲海默病
德克萨斯高中教科书---进化论的胜利
奇点将至:当人类超越生物
FPGA位元流加密漏洞
Rage公布发布日期
开放硬件游戏机---Uzebox
纳米磁铁可替代晶体管
MIT OCW开放量子复杂性理论课程
记念Alan Turning(阿兰.图灵)第99个生日
开放知识基金会2011年度会议
传统纸制书将要终结
IBM Waston震撼医生
AMD将在以色列新建研发中心
RMS取消以色列之行
商用量子计算机遭质疑
dnfwah Issue 1发布
Metasploit 3.7包含了Apple iOS漏洞利用
Google的秘密黑客空间
比FPGA更快更廉价的选择
Predator比Kinect更酷?
Michio Kaku的黑暗预言---摩尔定律将失效
社会工程学---剖析人类的艺术
开放硬件新书---Arduino: a Quick-Start Guide
武装的人道主义者
开放硬件1.0
Slashdot启用新的风格
用Kinect建造真实世界的3D地图
Phrack在25年的67期之后
为最符合你的风格的geek投票

Merry Christmas! Shalom, brothers and sisters!

May L0rd's hacking spirit guide us in 2012!

A Biopunk Manifesto(Chinese translation)

A Biopunk Manifesto是由现居比利时的美女生物黑客Meredith L. Patterson在2010年1月30日所写,这份Manifesto的内容对于计算机黑客而言很容易理解,黑客伦理影响的第一大领域当然是计算机领域,Creative Commons许可证作为类GPL在艺术领域的变种一直支撑着像Clearbits(当年的beta legal torrents)这样的艺术黑客社区的发展.但这个时代性的背景毋庸置疑的指向了科技,而能改变未来的三大科技就是AI, Biotechnology和Quantum Mechanics,如果非要用Singularitarian的术语:G(enetic), N(anotechnology), R(obtics);whatever,所有的技术的方向都是朝着Strong AI进军.当然这个过程会经历几个阶段,而这个阶段(2011--2022)则是生物科技商业化的最后预备阶段,难怪Bill Gates也在劝大家去研究molecular biology,生物黑客至今的影响力已经超过艺术黑客,成为黑客伦理直接影响下的第2大社区.

Shawn自从2010年11月开始hacking复杂系统,最近一年的业余hacking搞明白了为什么复杂系统的基础概念和跟奇点的联系,自然跟奇点(Shawn上次对奇点的总结:The Singularity is coming: A Monkey-coder's Perspective)有关的领域特别是那三大领域就特别关注,生物领域肯定是首当其冲,Shawn这次翻译这篇文章只是出于兴趣,也让更多的中国年轻人认识到世界的进化历程,对于翻译质量Shawn可没有什么保证.

btw: 犹太人必定言出必行!!!

这篇文章遵循创作共享协议3.0(Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License)

原文url: http://maradydd.livejournal.com/496085.html

作者: Meredith L. Patterson
译者: Shawn the R0ck

A Biopunk Manifesto
一名生物朋克的宣言

The following was delivered yesterday at the UCLA Center for Society and Genetics' symposium, "Outlaw Biology? Public Participation in the Age of Big Bio".
继续跟踪了昨天提交到UCLA(加州大学洛杉矶分校)中心的社会与基因学研讨会上的文章: "丧失公民公共参与的大生物学时代?"

It is inspired by, and deliberately follows the form of, "A Cypherpunk Manifesto" by Eric Hughes.
编写生物朋克宣言是受到了Eric Hughes的"一名电子朋克的宣言"的启发.

Scientific literacy is necessary for a functioning society in the modern age. Scientific literacy is not science education. A person educated in science can understand science; a scientifically literate person can *do* science. Scientific literacy empowers everyone who possesses it to be active contributors to their own health care, the quality of their food, water, and air, their very interactions with their own bodies and the complex world around them.
科学素养是一个健全的现代社会的必需元素.科学素养不是科学教育.一个受过科学教育的人可以明白科学;而一个具有科学素养的人则可以为科学"做"一些事情.科学素养可以让所有的人成为很多方面的积极贡献者比如关注他们自身的健康,食物,水和空气的质量以及一切身体与这个复杂世界交互的事情.

Society has made dramatic progress in the last hundred years toward the promotion of education, but at the same time, the prevalence of citizen science has fallen. Who are the twentieth-century equivalents of Benjamin Franklin, Edward Jenner, Marie Curie or Thomas Edison? Perhaps Steve Wozniak, Bill Hewlett, Dave Packard or Linus Torvalds -- but the scope of their work is far narrower than that of the natural philosophers who preceded them. Citizen science has suffered from a troubling decline in diversity, and it is this diversity that biohackers seek to reclaim. We reject the popular perception that science is only done in million-dollar university, government, or corporate labs; we assert that the right of freedom of inquiry, to do research and pursue understanding under one's own direction, is as fundamental a right as that of free speech or freedom of religion. We have no quarrel with Big Science; we merely recall that Small Science has always been just as critical to the development of the body of human knowledge, and we refuse to see it extinguished.
过去的几百年里神奇的社会进化历程让教育得到了普及,但同时,曾经盛行的公民科学已经濒临消亡.谁是20世纪的Benjamin Franklin, Edward Jenner, Marie Curie or Thomas Edison? 或许他们是Steve Wozniak, Bill Hewlett, Dave Packard or Linus Torvalds(Shawn:怎么能没有RMS, Linus只是个工程师, 而大胡子是真正的哲学家) --- 但他们的工作领域比起自然哲学家的确太过于狭窄.公民科学遭受了多元性的减少,而这样的多元性正是生物黑客所需要回归的本质.我们抛弃那些大众的错误观念:科学研究需要大学,政府和财团的实验室投入上百万的美刀才能完成.我们断言探究未知领域的权利就像言论自由和宗教自由一样是基本的权利.我们不是指需要大量人力财力投入的"大科学",而是指个人和小社区能够通过hacking完成的"小科学",我们拒绝看到它灭绝.

Research requires tools, and free inquiry requires that access to tools be unfettered. As engineers, we are developing low-cost laboratory equipment and off-the-shelf protocols that are accessible to the average citizen. As political actors, we support open journals, open collaboration, and free access to publicly-funded research, and we oppose laws that would criminalize the possession of research equipment or the private pursuit of inquiry.
自由的探索需要工具,自由的探索需要无拘无束的访问那些工具.作为工程师,我们开发低成本的实验室设备足以让公民可以支付的起.作为政治参与者,我们支持开放的杂志,开放的合作和开放的访问公共的研究资源,我们反对那些给拥有研究设备或者私人的自由探索权利贴上犯罪标签的法律.

Perhaps it seems strange that scientists and engineers would seek to involve themselves in the political world -- but biohackers have, by necessity, committed themselves to doing so. The lawmakers who wish to curtail individual freedom of inquiry do so out of ignorance and its evil twin, fear -- the natural prey and the natural predator of scientific investigation, respectively. If we can prevail against the former, we will dispel the latter. As biohackers it is our responsibility to act as emissaries of science, creating new scientists out of everyone we meet. We must communicate not only the value of our research, but the value of our methodology and motivation, if we are to drive ignorance and fear back into the darkness once and for all.
或许科学家和工程师参与政治世界的活动看起来很陌生 --- 但生物黑客必须这么做.由于"无知"和它的邪恶的双胞胎兄弟---从被掠食者和掠食者的科学研究中发现的"恐惧",制定法律的人希望尽力减少个体的自由探索.如果我们能成功组织前者,我们就能驱散后者.作为生物黑客,我们的责任是作为科学的使者去创造新的领域,这些领域是我们认识的科学家没有触及的.如果我们打算把无知和恐惧都一次性驱散回黑暗之中,我们必须不仅仅关注对研究直接价值的方面,也要关注我们的方法论和动机方面的价值.

We the biopunks are dedicated to putting the tools of scientific investigation into the hands of anyone who wants them. We are building an infrastructure of methodology, of communication, of automation, and of publicly available knowledge.
我们生物朋克献身于制造所有人都能得到用于科学研究的工具.我们正在构建方法论,通信,自动化和公共知识领域的架构.

Biopunks experiment. We have questions, and we don't see the point in waiting around for someone else to answer them. Armed with curiosity and the scientific method, we formulate and test hypotheses in order to find answers to the questions that keep us awake at night. We publish our protocols and equipment designs, and share our bench experience, so that our fellow biopunks may learn from and expand on our methods, as well as reproducing one another's experiments to confirm validity. To paraphrase Eric Hughes, "Our work is free for all to use, worldwide. We don't much care if you don't approve of our research topics." We are building on the work of the Cypherpunks who came before us to ensure that a widely dispersed research community cannot be shut down.
当生物朋克们在实验中遇到问题,我们不会等着其他人来解决.在好奇心和科学方法武装下,我们兴奋的整个晚上用公式来测试假设和寻找答案.我们会公布所有的草案和设备的设计,分享我们的经验,我们团契中的生物朋克可以学习和扩展我们的方法,就像重新产生了另外一次实验去验证有效性一样.Eric hughes所言,"我们的工作是让全世界都能自由的使用.我们不在乎你不赞同我们的研究题目.".我们正在构建一个像电子朋克那样渗透到诸多黑客社区的革命.

Biopunks deplore restrictions on independent research, for the right to arrive independently at an understanding of the world around oneself is a fundamental human right. Curiosity knows no ethnic, gender, age, or socioeconomic boundaries, but the opportunity to satisfy that curiosity all too often turns on economic opportunity, and we aim to break down that barrier. A thirteen-year-old kid in South Central Los Angeles has just as much of a right to investigate the world as does a university professor. If thermocyclers are too expensive to give one to every interested person, then we'll design cheaper ones and teach people how to build them.
生物朋克对于限制独立的研究感到悲伤,因为这是最基本的人类权利.好奇心并不在乎种族,性别,年龄或者经济情况,但是好奇心总是不断的创造出新的赚钱机会,我们会把技术门槛打破.一个生活在洛杉矶南区的13岁的小家伙有和大学教授一样的权利去探索未知的世界.如果温度循环器的价格对于每一个有兴趣的人太贵,那我们会设计一个更便宜的然后教人们如何去自己制造.

Biopunks take responsibility for their research. We keep in mind that our subjects of interest are living organisms worthy of respect and good treatment, and we are acutely aware that our research has the potential to affect those around us. But we reject outright the admonishments of the precautionary principle, which is nothing more than a paternalistic attempt to silence researchers by inspiring fear of the unknown. When we work, it is with the betterment of the community in mind -- and that includes our community, your community, and the communities of people that we may never meet. We welcome your questions, and we desire nothing more than to empower you to discover the answers to them yourselves.
生物朋克对他们的研究负责.我们时刻提醒自己那些有趣的研究主题都关乎值得尊重的活的有机体,我们敏锐的察觉到我们的研究对它们会有潜在的影响.但我们拒绝像家长式作风般地对未知领域的恐惧所产生的草率的预防警告原则.我们的工作是对社区的改造 --- 包括我们的社区,你们的社区和那些素未谋面的生物黑客社区.我们欢迎任何提问,我们渴望你能够去探索那些你想要知道答案的领域.

The biopunks are actively engaged in making the world a place that everyone can understand. Come, let us research together.
生物朋克致力于创造一个每个人都能够明白的世界.来吧,让我们一起研究吧.

Shawn the Shi* living like a dog

Holy shi*, it's hard to share about what the fuc* of my life in 2011. After thinking in a long night I just can say I was living like a dog this year. I have spent a lot of time for really boring job, repeat again and again. It would be suck to a hacker, right? Where the frenk'in of my creative and passions? I felt like it's all gone in past few months. I hate wasting life on boring work. Only the coward would do complain the "unfair" world and keep finding excuses but the truth is I was playing a coward this year. I want hacking/hiking/gaming like a real hacker. I want to startup again, and I will use free software solution this time. When? It's still planning... The Creator of Universe, help a coward to become a real warrior. May your will be done but not mine!

Yes, I'm living like a dog. But I'm still have to share the philosophy of free software to friends, I gave a free speech( downloadable slide) on Software Freedom Day 2011 in Chengdu Linux User Group. Only few enthusiasts came:

hiking on the trail:

the 2nd day we hiking into the montain:

beatiful snow views:

vampyre?

Thank to my beautiful wife has been always supporting my path which is subculture:

dude, we need to across the yak's territory:

Do not look at the middle:

Camping:


I love this book:Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle. I presented 15 copies of Chinese version to those people I met in seminar and trip. I will present another 55 copies to Chinese native speaker hackers. I don't why I think I'm duty share the oldest religion and the cutting-edge technology where comes from Israel, to hackers.

Burning stuff:

Ashes, looks like in inferno. Hhh... If God takes those nominal Christians who are greedy hypocrites to heaven, I would prefer inferno-_-

The morning of the 3rd day:

hello, dog:

The Singularity is coming: A Monkey-coder's Perspective

I would like to introduce a great genius futurist hacker---Ray Kurzweil. You can google him then you will get a lot of information. He discussed how technology has been changing our future in his book "The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology". He gave examples from different fields, such as quantum mechanic, nanotechnology, AI, biotechnology, etc. One of the interesting things is that Kurzweil made a list of predictions including the time frame:

1, 2020s---Personal computers will have the same processing power as human brains. Human will build the non-linear math model of the brain by reversing engineering. Machine will pass the turning test in 2029 that will be the start of Strong AI.

2, 2030s---Billions of nanobots will enter into human body to antiage and against disease. Today's sci-fi's mind uploading will become possible.

3, 2040s---1000USD buys a computer a billion times more powerful than the human brain. Human body 3.0(as Kurzweil calls it) come into existence. We will become Cyborg. The human-machine civilization will be emerged from the merge process of the biological evolution and the technological evolution. Human beings as the high-level intelligence creatures will not feel lonely anymore.

And, Kurzweil splited evolving universe into 6 epochs:



Epoch 1. Physics and Chemistry

This epoch starts at the beginning of the universe. In this epoch, information is mostly held in subatomic structures such as particles and atoms. That is, the most complicated stable objects in the universe do not exceed the molecular scale in size or complexity.

Epoch 2. Biology and DNA

This epoch starts with the beginning of life on Earth, suddenly giving rise to more complicated, yet stable, organisms that are capable of growth and self-sustainment. However, in this epoch organisms do not change within their lifetimes as evolution takes thousands of generations. Moreoever, in this stage, genetic information is stored in DNA molecules.

Epoch 3. Brains

The evolution of life gradually produced more and more complex organisms, necessitating the need for fast central control and thus giving rise to the evolution of brains. With brains, organisms can now change their behavior dynamically to suit changes in the environment and can also learn from past experiences. Evolutionary information is, in this stage, stored in neural patterns.

Epoch 4. Technology

Evolution of brains culminates with the evolution of humans, which possess the ability to create technology. In this stage, technological designs are also subject to evolution and information is held in hardware and software designs.

Epoch 5. The Merger of Human Technology with Human Intelligence

This epoch, which Kurzweil argues we are in the process of entering, is where technology reaches a level of sophistication and fine-structuring comparable with that of biology, allowing the two to merge to create higher forms of life and intelligence.

Epoch 6. The Universe Wakes Up

After mastering the methods of technology and biology, Kurzweil predicts that human/machine civilization will expand its frontiers into the universe, gradually (or perhaps explosively) consuming the contents of the cosmos until the universe reaches a 'saturated' state where all inanimate matter has been converted to substrates for computation and intelligence, and a truly universal super-intelligence takes form.


This book was published by Viking press(Same publishing as KK's What Technology Wants) in 2005. It's one of the best-seller book in Amazon. This book is still Top-10 sales of Kindle version in 2011. It's definetely influencing on the world view of younger generations. But it does not mean Kurzweil's philosophy is an absolute standard. There are two critical articles "The Singularity is Far: A Neuroscientist's View" which argued about reverse engineering the brain is harder than Kurzweil's approach and Is The Singularity Near Or Far? It's A Software Problem which questioned some of Kurzweil's predictions are too optimistically.

Before I've read Kurzweil's book. I have been hacking a bunch of things, such as philosophy, technology, traditional religion, metaphors of mythology(The Lord of the Rings and DND are my old testament, Foundation series and The Last Question are my new testament). I noticed that these fields have a philosophical fundamental elements: Unity and Diversity. In technological level, I tried to put them into the cloud which I talked about on my last article. The concept of cloud is merging every fields of information technology into a complex system. You(hackers, amateurs, commercial company) have to concern many issues(hardware system, Operating System, optimization, data communication, security, openAPI, etc) if you want to build a cloud. According to wired magazine and some sources of information, we must cross 3 stages to reach the singularity at least.

2011---2022, the whole complex system will be formed by merging information technology.

2022---2034, the paradigm of "design" shift to "evolve".

2034---2046, fuc*~hacker(you might calls "singularitarian") know what's going to be happend---singularity.

I do believe that there are 4 singularities in the evolution of the history of the universe. And we are getting closer to the 5th one:

-[ 1st, The Singularity of Universe:

Most hydrogen atoms were born at the beginning of time. They are as old as time itself. They were created in the fires of the big bang and dispersed into the universe as a uniform warm mist. Thereafter, each atom has been on a lonely journey.

-[ 2nd, The Singularity of Biology:

Cambrian explosion, around 530 millions years ago. Most of species we have already know today are heritance from the evlution tree of after-cambrian.

-[ 3rd, The Singularity of Human:

I agree with KK's view: The creation of language was the first singularity for human 50,000 years ago. It changed everything after language-creation and the language accelerates hacking the new things. And it provided a effective way to spread the knowledge out.

-[ 4th, The Singularity of Modern Human civilization:

The collision of Hebrew religion and Greek philosophy from BC 180 to AC 90. The result of the collision was not just about Christian religion. It was about a strong paradigm that merged the theological philosophy and philosophical theology, which still have influence today. Those 4 strong communities we can see today: Jew, Anglo-Saxon, German, Slav. I really don't want to talk about this one here. But I did.....

-[ 5th, The Singularity of Human-Machine civilization:



When machine process capability beyond the human brains in 2040s. I'm thinking what if the singularity will come in 2046 that must be a joke or metaphor which from SOMEONE. Don't you remember ENIAC was produced in 1946. A bunch of barries are still out there which stuck us to reach the strong AI, we need a breakthrough. I would like to cite Marvin Minsky's philosophy here:" If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. This is because, if something goes wrong, you get stuck with a thought that just sits in your mind with nowhere to go. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all the other things we know. This is why, when someone learns "by rote," we say that they don't really understand. However, if you have several different representations then, when one approach fails you can try another. Of course, making too many indiscriminate connections will turn a mind to mush. But well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that's what we mean by thinking!".

We are getting closer to the singularity today. The model of "Sci-fi(theology,philosophy) --> Science--> engineering" is still keeping running at exponential growth rate. Kurzweil gives a definition of Singularitarian is "someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life." and the 6th epoch is the wake up of the Universe which implying another type of god. Seems familiar if you have read the Issac Asimov's book(Foundation series and The Last Question). Don't give me wrong, singularitarian is different from a sort of artificial religion reffered to as Scientism in Foundations. The stage of wake up of the Universe is very similar to the final type of Strong AI in "The Last Question".

Singularity is coming! What would a christian hacker do? KK cited a sentence from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi:"There is more good than evil in the world--but not by much.". Even if the positive part of technology is only 0.1 percent greater than negative part, we still have to embrace it. Find your faith and position in this era, and go through with your sacred vision into the secular world.

May L0rd's hacking spirit guide us!!!

Hacking the wholism of GNU/Linux net*

hi guys,
I have written an article[1] for newbies who are willing to learn networking stuff in linux kernel. I hope this introduction-level article can help you understand the mechanism of netfilter and NIC driver.

For this article, any critical comments are welcomed!


[1] http://hfg-resources.googlecode.com/files/hacking_the_wholism_of_linux_net.txt

cloud,cloud,cloud---we will be one~WTH

Technology is changing our lives. And, it will not wait for those who don't want to learn the new hacks. After keeping thinking in past 8 months then I have to say: to embrace the technology is my only option. This world doesn't care my purpose of life but I do care. There must be some reasons that I was born in 1986 nor 1968. And there are also some reasons that I was born in this era. Yes, I have HOPE for eternal world. It doesn't mean I'm going to wait for death. Because I want to know more about this world, so I have to deal with complex system. Why? It's the 21st century-:)

wait, What the hell is Complex System? I don't want a kind of bullshit answer that includes a bunch of words I never heard. Unfortunately, I have to learn these new stuff if I need to understand what the hell of the CS(not computer science-_-) really is. I heard the term "complex system" at first time in KK's old book(Out of Control). And, one of friends told me about it's an amazing field because it was born in a fresh'en air of the cross fields. Then I started to read books about CS and try to find out a type of technology philosophy for myself:
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World, COMPLEXITY: THE EMERGING SCIENCE AT THE EDGE OF ORDER AND CHAOS, Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity, What Technology Wants and The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex

These books are really fascinating. Some of ideas drives me into some kind of deeper thinking. Is this world designed by SOMEONE or it just evolved for billions of years until now? Or the evolve mechanism has been designed and then it follows the seed principle? How can God design a "imperfect" human brain that it get used to process the "static" paradigms(simplicity) which the informations come from a "dynamic" world(complexity)? Is 1+1+1=3 means a linear paradigm(reductionism?) and 1*1*1=1 means a non-linear paradigm(wholism?)? Will biological creatures have advantages over the mechanical ones? I don't have answers yet. I'm going to keep hacking on CS fields. I think the current epochal characters are science and technology. And the CS is one of the keys(important one) to open the gate of truth for this century.

Cloud computing is definitely a complex system which was born not long ago.Cloud will integrate all information technologies into one. Network systems, server security, mobile, entertainment,etc. I splited the cloud users into some catagories:

--[ 1 As a normal user, each android or iphone users have a great experience of how wonderful service in cloud. Eg: gaming, watching tv, import your user from gmail into android,etc...

--[ 2 As a enterprise user, you can build bunch of management systems(sales, stores, financial,etc) into one where running on the cloud servers. You don't need to care about security or backup stuffs. You can hire someone(force.com?) to build your own apps.And you also could do the data analyze when you have enough data.

--[ 3 As a system administrator, using free softwares to build up a big cloud that it's possible. And dive into hardware hacking level is a good idea too. Eg, Google using cheap x86 platform build a great system, skynet?

--[ 4 As a security hacker, you have to face the evolving of the server-end. The most changes are about virtualization. You have to get used to it. Virtualizations making server stronger and flexibility to defend crackers. Remember that clound have powerful computing resources which means apply some kind of AI is possible.

Maybe there are more types of users who are using cloud service. I can't list them all here. The matter I want to emphasize that the cloud has already a complete eco-system and it will bring more convenient(cheap) services in the future. Every apps and users are affecting each other and co-evolution is happening. A single user is like a unconscious molecule cell in a group of people(tissues). A group of people as a unconscious tissue in a upper-level maybe it's organ. You can see more diversities in a higher level abstraction. The most important thing is "emergent property". Eg, like a unconscious cell, a neuron is nothing to do with free will. But free will and consciousness will show up when 100 billions of neurons built a trillions of connections. Dahhh, sorry about that I should not use these ecology terms with my nonfluent english. Do you really know what I am talking about? I'm doubting that, because I have no idea what i am talking about-_-

Guffing around my thought is fun. About the answers, I hope you can drop me a line if you want. The conversation is always welcomed in my philosophy!

may L0rd's hacking spirit guide us!!!

rock climbing --- a type of hack

I made a list which is a hacking plan in June 2009. It's almost 2 years for now. My hacking is still running by the list. Let's make a short version of that list. There are 3 stages that I have to finish on the road of old school hacking.

1, (2010)Learning GNU/Linux and start doing with a real engineering project which related to data-communication fields, such as developing the product of switch, router, etc.

2, (2011)Start to hack the security part of data-communication field. I'm on this stage now. So I need to get a job like that. Perhaps I'm going to work for a local the biggest security next week.

3, (2013)When above 2 stages done. I will spend my hacking time on server security that means the world of the art of exploits will be open up to me.

It's a not very long plan. It only cost 3--5 years of my life. I looked into the ezine at first time in 2004. But I have no idea what was it talking about. The technique and philosophy are so hard to me. Thank God, I got phrack ezine again last Aug. These high quality papaers might help a lot in my hacking journey.

I resigned my prev job 2 weeks ago. I don't work for money. That would be terrified to those managers who just want to hire a good monkey-coders by a good salary. I think that money as a only reason for work is a stupid of life. Think about that, 40 percents (maybe more) of your life are going to cost by work. What would hacker do? (another version of WWJD?-_-) You tell me.

Today, another "aha" was that I have my first experienced on rock-climbing. Matt (he is a ROR programmer) as a ranger that he lead the way and I followed. I was feeling real great in that 2 hrs of rock-climbing. We have been hacking stuffs (programming and more) on mountain for days. I'm hacking on a paper about SMM rootkit from the 65th issues of phrack mag. Maybe I could share about it in the future.

May LORD's hacking spirit guide us!!!

got "What Technology Wants"

before I was started this trip,I googled the mainstream bookstore in hk about KK's new book-What Technology Wants but the final result was no inventory.I was upset and started to think a question,if i should just break my current paradigm(pay for cash) to pay online for this book at once.sound like a dinosaur still living on the planet,right?but thank GOD,my wife finally found this book in the city.What Technology Wants would give you a precise way of explaining that how technology have been affecting our history and the future.The whole history of technological things is run by a kind of organic co-evolution system.That kind of system would never be stopped or influenced by personal human's willing.I think KK's world view is going to bring me into a world which can get closer to the type of world view in planetary.I just finished the 1st chapter of the book reading.At the end of the 1st chapter ,KK mentioned about autonomy's definition.That was really interesting.It reminds me another stuff that our conversation going to be fucked if we dont have a accurate terms.

Met friends in person,watched the video of sci-fi science,and walked down the seaside with my beautiful wife and enjoyed delicious food(sushi,seafood,of course my favorite beef),that's all I have done in past 9 days vacation.

btw:Im writting this blog with my 1st macbook.Dont blame me,dude!Im not RMS or kind of person who are enthusiasm in pure free software.This macbook is for my wife's daily use in most time.I just take a while and look into the macintosh sometimes.To me,GNU/Linux is still my favorite platform.Amen!

This is my precious!


hello,kitty...

Does uncle Mario has something to do with namco?WHT~~~

But I love Uncle Mario.Plumber probably was the most famous occupation of the kids's dream.

Did I become a experimental object of namco?daahhh...

How do we deal with A&G trends

这曾经是一篇non-disclosure的文章,但您可以看到这里说明已经是disclosure状态了:-) 希望给热衷于黑客伦理的hacker们在hacking之路上有一份参考的material.From community,for community!!!
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My fellow gears,
最近quakecon 2010上id software的创始人John Carmack在iphone上演示[1]了新一代的id tech 5引擎---Rage.通常来讲走old school路线的hacker对苹果公司的是嗤之以鼻的,作为一名从1994年就开始玩id出产的每一部游戏的玩家看到了这个演示肯定会兴奋起来.关于面对Apple和Google对新一代的digital natives的影响之大也是我们在未来的社区开放教育和家庭教育中必须去面对的问题.很早之前就想谈谈关于这个话题,今天借这次id准备在iphone平台上的展示作为引题和HFG成员讨论一下.

1.我们所处的时代性背景的环境?
Unix诞生(1969)到现在也就41年,关于这段历史背景可以去google,早期的UNix社区的hacker都是对硬件,软件,数学,哲学甚至艺术,神学有着想当的功底的家伙,比如berkeley的spice就是一帮怪人花了10多年的时间完成了电路所有可能性的情况的数学模型到计算模型的转换,也就是实现成了code.而Alonzo Church本人也是数学家,但不太清楚他的哲学模型的来源,但肯定和两希的方法论有关系.从工程层面,简洁的讲,老牌UNIX社区的hacker几乎是走的软硬结合的路线.但到了1989年之后,情况发生了变化,个人电脑的兴起导致了很多商业公司也需要各种各样的定制系统,这些需求也就成为了MIS和ERP的原型,个人电脑的兴起让hacker们开始对行业系统相关的领域开始关注,他们一部分人进入了银行,证卷,工业系统的开发当中.而随着1990年万维网(www)发明之后的快速增长让在此期间成长起来的hacker进入了Web开发领域,但在90年代这帮hacker的软硬件水平还是相对比较高,之后由于微软, APPLE在各自的平台上开发出了极为简化的开发工具直接让大批量的成长于1998年之后的程序员可以很方便的写程序,也就是说他们的软硬件水平已经不如之前的来自Unix社区的hacker们.2006年,Web已经成为生活在这个星球上的人们必不可少的一部分,相应的所谓Web 2.0的潮流更注重个性化,blog之类的东东由此而来,blog= web log,这可不是什么"博客"的语境能体会其真实意义的,在70年代后期和80年代,hacker们都在终端机上连接到大型机进行工作,而他们都习惯于建立一个自己的log文件用于记录每天的心得,这个log文件会随着时间的流逝变得越来越大.而blog的意思就是说把log放到web上.2006的web开发已成为整个应用的主流,工业用的ERP系统,商业使用的MIS和个人的GTD系统都基于web进行实现,这一时期的LAMP(GNU/Linux+Apache+Mysql+php)和Ror(ruby on rails)比起之前的开发框架大大的加速了开发效率,当然这和个人电脑的价格低廉有很大的关系,web框架为了让开发迅速,所以使用了很多解释型语言的特性相对效率会变得低下,不过比起高性能的廉价个人电脑这点牺牲也算不得什么.

上面一堆废话还是不能详细的描述整个历史的进程,还是建议大家去google吧....2006之后的情况变得更加的复杂,大部分hacker们的知识结构比起1990年发生了很大的变化,hacker不在关注软硬件的本身,而更多的是去关注上层应用的问题,新一代的hacker们把hacking转化成为了generic hacking的形式,也就是说只要follow黑客伦理在任何领域都可以进行hacking,当然这也不是什么新鲜的事情,早在Phrack的1990年代的杂志就已经提到过hacking在general层面上的意义,更早的话可以追述到1980年代的一个hacker的发言(如果没记错,应该是Steve Wozinak):你可以在任何领域成为黑客而不光是在计算机领域,只要你专注于你所专注的创造,木匠黑客也成为可能,etc...黑客伦理对各个领域的渗透在1990年代最早关注和应用的是在犹太社区,当然这几乎是underground的,2000年之后越来越多的hacker在诸多领域兴起比如法律,金融,艺术,教育,etc.关于这一点可以参考以前的那篇threads[2].

1.1 只能亲自体验的生命---隐喻
2001年开始,以2位来自犹太社区的hacker为代表的阵营完成了对早期软硬结合hacking精神到应用程序开发的hacking的范式的转移,这2个家伙你们或许已经非常熟悉---Paul Graham and Joel Sposky.早期的老派Unix黑客的精神延续到了新生代的hacker群体里,但有一点需要关注的是,在新一代应用级别的hacker的代表人物都对两希范式的哲学部分有不浅的了解,而且大多数hacker对软硬结合的知识不比前辈们逊色,写OS和compiler的家伙也不是个例,当然生长在4大社区(犹太,撒克逊,日尔曼,斯拉夫)之外的digital natives相对来讲就没有那么幸运了,直接被应用开发的大潮冲进了大流之中.但这里有一个很关键应该也是很多年轻hacker关心的问题:facebook也是应用的开发,为什么没有诞生在犹太社区以外?Shawn个人觉得这个是很正常的事情,Mark E.Zuckerberg很年轻,请认真的看看有关他创建facebook的访谈,今年纽约时报的一位有名记者写了一本书关于他的书,Mark不是把web开发仅仅当成web开发,而把整个过程看作为有机系统的形成,这是很关键的一点,Shawn只能也只有能力谈到这里,剩下的内容太庞杂涉及4层模型,凡是涉及4层模型本身的Shawn尽量选择面对面的交流.

2.1 Apple的艺术革命
一定要谈谈G和A,今天的主角其实是他们.这2个都是犹太财团在计算机领域的7巨(MS,IBM,G,A,ORACLE,INTEL,FSF)之列,但跟其他几个巨头不太一样的是他们的名气是最大的,为什么很多人都喜欢使用A的产品,Macbook,ipad,iphone,itouch,etc...因为A一直都在给用户宣称你买一台Macbook买的不仅仅是一台机器,而是一种社会标识,意味着你已经在参与艺术普及化的运动之中,这是一场革命,而你深处其中,这样的世界观难道不能深入有识之士的年轻人的内心吗?随便走进一个开放研讨会,如果您使用的是MS-Windows那只会被hacker们不屑一顾的眼光渺上一眼,当然computer/video game LAN-PARTY除外.

2.2 Google的paradigm shift
那G呢?每天我们都在使用google web search,gmail,google group,google buzz,etc...G最牛的也是HFG必须注意的地方是她完整的把原本"曲高和寡"的Unix old-school风格转化(transformed into)成了"世界公民"的日常用品.看看google group的功能,把usenet,mailing list,bbs都完备而简洁的结合到了一起.把最高的愿景实现到最世俗化的世界的程度是两希范式的特点之一,7巨头都有这种能力,但G已经把这种能力发挥到了极致.这里Shawn还可以具一个例子:P-buffers.P-buffers是一款用于把不通的网络协议以自定义的方式存放到数据结构的一个中间层软件,这个东东用途非常广,几乎很多数通产品都会使用类似的软件,你想想?从软件工程看,数据通讯行业是世界上排名在top 5和底层有关系的应用,G把PB的语法弄的很像C和Lisp的结合,这是一个新的尝试,G厉害就厉害在通过这样一个尝试(a try)把世界上跟底层打交道相关的开发者的头脑往G所指的方向上去.G的强大自然不用Shawn来多谈,7巨头中都是软硬结合有机性玩的最酷的也应该是G了,从GNU/Linux kernel,web server,gcc,protocols related stuffs,etc全部是自己定制,但最终的性能超过了很多专业定制的厂商比如RedHat.

3.HFG如何来面对这一切?
HFG的成员目前都来自中国,也就是说我们的生长环境是在亚洲,这意味着我们没有人会在14岁前完成Torah(律法书)的基础学习,Shawn希望我们的下一代可以从家庭教育中完成我们本应该完成但当时没有完成的律法课程,从最高的信仰->哲学->数学->计算机科学(CS)->计算机工程(CE).关于家庭教育这是另外一个话题,虽和今天这个话题有着有机的联系但今天我们还是把重心放到讨论A和G的上面.

目前的世界中还是得化分为2种使用同样的3logies方法论但又在具体形而下的表现形式上完全不通的hacker范式:1,Unix老派hacker 2,generic hacker.这2者在方法论上都来自两希范式,但不同的是展现给世界的形式.
1,undergroud的聚会 2,公开化聚会
1,注重哲学层面的思辨 2,注重技术本身
1,偏旧哥特斯拉夫式的地下室风格 2,典型的新纪元运动中典型美式风格
1,注重各种hacking领域的本质 2,针对相对表面级别的hacking
代表杂志:1,Phrack[4] 2,hackerMonthly[5]

Phrack杂志创办于1985年,目前已经有25年的历史,一帮来自地下的技术精湛的hacker在phrack上写了非常多的高质量文章,在phrack的underground式的语境下,hacking通常指信息安全相关的技术,phracking则是结合无线电通信的一种hacking.phrack代表了old school的hacker的风格,即使到今天他们大多数人仍然喜欢低调的风格,没有大规模的研讨会,甚至业内很多技术得参照phrack的公布来制定相应的安全产品策略,但人们还是不知道到底是哪些人在写这些文章.因为phrack的hacker们大多喜欢使用在irc或者mailinglist里的名字(当然不是真名).phrack还有一个特点是underground的风格让hacker们看起来有无政府主义的倾向,他们热衷于追求某个领域的hacking(信息安全相关技术占30%以上),phrack上的文章您还可以找到教你如何制作炸药包和突击步枪,phracker们对自由和创造性的热衷恐怕是世界上少有的族类,但他们严格的遵守着黑客伦理以至于他们几乎不会去cracking非财团系统的服务器.他们是信息革命的先锋,他们是这场革命的缔造者,但这群世界最顶级的hacker直到今天仍然选择了underground.这是值得我们思考的,如果没有phrack恐怕HFG在的兄弟会(社区)改造上会花上更多的精力,phrack给了我们太多的思考和形而下的资源库.

hackermonthly和phrack相反,走的是disclosure路线,把黑客伦理渗透到各个领域,hackermonthly更关注的是startup(创业),VC(风险投资),技术创业,iphone平台的应用开发,web 2.0,SOA之类的和人们生活息息相关的领域,至少在表面上看起来这些"流行"的技术是这样,这里Shawn完全没有贬低第2种范式hacker的意思,而是必须强调第2种范式来源于第1种范式.Paul Graham和Joel Sposky这2位第2范式的代表在软硬结合的技术方面是非常厉害的,Paul自己开发lisp的方言,在1990年代Paul就是使用common lisp开发的最早一批的电子商务平台,而Joel对SICP的热衷已经在他的Joel on software里谈了很多次.这种范式相比不需要过多介绍.

以上几点是比较明显的2种hacker不同的范式,我们可以来问问自己更适合于哪一种?对于Shawn而言,比例大概是6:4,而有些HFG的gears则完全推崇第一种范式.ok,介绍完了这个现在可以谈谈A和G了,A的产品比如Macbook,iphone,ipad,Shawn从未想过会考虑购买A的产品,A虽然很酷,但对于A在BSD上的偷盗行为相信很多old school hacker还是耿耿于怀,但这次可是id software的游戏跑在iphone上,将来或许还会运行在ipad上,A的影响是巨大的,G的产品gmail,groups,android,etc...G的产品也很有aha,email系统大家都认为不会有太大的创新,但gmail让我们都眼前一亮改变了我们的生活方式,groups结合了ml和bbs,让old school的东东可以容易的让new school接受,android..........如果不仔细hacking一番恐怕很难找到第一种范式的影子,为什么呢?generic式的hacking渗透到了很多非计算机的领域,但不要忘了黑客伦理诞生于计算机领域,而第一种范式则是黑客伦理的发源地(当然这里所谈的hacker ethic是相对狭义的,也就是说没有直接涉入形而上的基础.如Pekka所言,广义的黑客伦理应该追述到柏拉图的学院派和圣奥古斯丁的时期甚至更早).第2种范式是建立在第1种范式的基础上的,上面已经谈到过了两希范式的其中一大原则是在世俗的世界当中去实现那神圣的愿景,A和G的hacker们都知道如果赤裸裸的把一套东东拿出来是没办法来征服世界的,所以必须进行转化(transform into)成世俗能接受的,而macbook和android之类的产品就属于此类最形而下形式的表现.

那对于HFG来讲,处于在这个特定时代性的背景下,如何能尽力站在永恒性的postion出发善用两希范式是一个严肃的问题.phrack式和hackermonthly式的范式我们必须认真来思考,我们今天的哲学观决定了我们的未来!这个话题还有太多的内容要探讨,但有一点在这里必须谈谈,就是有机性(organic)的问题,这个问题关乎有机性的生命(one organic life),即一个生命的个体在处理4大关系(对上帝,对自己,对人,对物质)中使用方法论的耦合度问题.eg:比如一个基督徒礼拜天去教堂作礼拜向上帝忏悔,或许他因为需要心理安慰或者教会的人比较有爱心所以他才去,因为从礼拜一到礼拜六他最亲近的人都觉得他"不算"是个基督徒.Shawn告诉你,这种基督徒非常多,这种基督徒不等同于基督教,不等同于归正神学,更不能等同于基督.这样一种信仰状态说的好听一点叫做生命不成熟,讲的直接点就是精神分裂.看看我们今天中国的互联网环境就知道,很多人写"博客"(不是blog)的内容和他的生命绝对不会匹配(match).这里Shawn可以和你打个赌:如果您可以在Shawn的blog上找到一篇内容和现实生活中的Shawn没有match的,我可以请您吃一个月的方便面:-) 在犹太基督教影响的地区,人们写blog不会精神分裂.

理性思辨所带来的哲学有很多,但关于生命的哲学只有在圣经才有可能找到,基督讲"我就是道路,真理与生命".这里可以作一个类比,即道路-methodology,真理-ontology,生命-epistemology.如果logy的最终没有使生命得益处那恐怕也会输掉人生的博弈游戏.这篇thread涉及的话题诸多,之后还得split into difference topics去细节性的探讨.

May Lord's hacking spirit guide us!!!
愿基督的真理之光洗礼HFG gears们堕落的理性!!!

[1]http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/08/13/007227/id-Software-Demos-Rage-On-iPhone-Releases-Source-Code-For-Two-Games

[2]http://book.douban.com/review/3048297/

[3]http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/overview.html

[4]phrack
http://www.phrack.org/

[5]hackermonthly
http://hackermonthly.com/

summary 2010

aha,2010 going to be a history and 2011 is coming.It's pretty exciting to embrace the new year's come.Im feeling never strong than now.That's a good sign for 2011.

I want to write some shit down here.it's all about my memorable history:
The first job(in IYAKASA) I got after graduated that it's roll to write the automobile detection system in MFC code.I hate mfc,always.ditry framework and ugly macro-reflection was tortured me for 4 months.Then I got my second job in Just In Mobile.I worked for JIM even not much longer than IYAKASA(only 3 months).I felt better in JIM because I could written C code with UNIX platform out there at least.

Then,I was started a startup with 2 guys which the company's name is od software which focus on developing customized system for specific-industry.This Business is good in local but I think there's something inside of my heart I need to follow:try to figure out the truth of computer field.So I have to ask help for Computer Sicence,math,and philosophy.We closed the od after worked together for 18 months.Then I was travel to many places in China for tech seminars and hiking.After more than 6 months traveling around I got back in Feb.Now Im working for a local data-communication company.porting stuff from x86 to other architecture is my majority work now.It's a sleepy job for living at least can work with GNU/Linux.

I sponsored a open-seminar with few guys in mid-2008.And we are going to start a open-hacks with few MIT OCW(practical-c-programming,ose,CLP,etc) next January.We provided room,of course and Chinese tea:-) We hate the traditional teacher-student model.We would like to use DND model instead of traditional one which means:
1,we need a leader as if a dungeon master guide us a direction of the hack that described in OCW's lecture pdf when a group of guys hacking a specific open course
2,teacher(teacher) is a student,student is a teacher.

HOpe can bring more hacker spirit to those who will be hacking the open courses with us.

Another aha about the Kevin Kelly(KK).I would like to let you know a great book(in CHinese version) from KK has already been published for few days.I have read the first 3 chapters.the quality of the translation is always most-care thing we have.According to the first 3 chapters I think it's ok to read.Go,get the book.paper-version in Chinese or electronic in original(english).

KK's world view should be the high-prio task which we need to push it into our "queue".To me(and few hackers),magical literature like as Tanach(Old Testament) and science-fiction like as New Testament Bible in the level of mythology.It's hard to believe that KK was started writt the Out of Control about 20 years ago.Those ideas he talked about in the book is not expired for nowadays.How can a geek do
that?because of his Jerusalem trip or biking 4000 miles?or what...I dont know.But I definitely make sure that it's worth to read.Out of Control and KK's new book-What tech wants.A few months ago,a sister gave me a msg said"hey SHawn,you must be heard of KK".Wowo,If you points KK the wired I certainly Knew.Then we have start a open-seminar to discussed about KK's world views in Oct.

wowo...I bullshit a lot.And I really want to share more aha here.maybe next time~

Last thing,the articles I posted on solidot(Chinese slashdot) in 2010 lists:
钢筋水泥真的如此重要？
科幻电影能让儿童成为未来的科学家
智慧设计论禁令
KK的新书<技术到底想要什么>出版
视频游戏增强视觉注意力
Happy Programmer's Day(程序员节日快乐)
Burning Man上使用的开源电话系统
quakecon 2010的John Carmack的有趣演讲
华裔女医生Karen Woo在阿富汗被塔利班枪杀
黑客杂志的魅力
入侵检测自由软件项目Snort停止开发了
Mark Zuckerberg改变世界的方式
风险投资者们开始反对软件专利
俄罗斯hacker精神的体现--一个人造地铁
2010的OPLC XO-3原型机
开放硬件可以赚大钱
印度bangalore自由软件年会II
guile-1.9.10发布了
DIY图灵机
Dr. Beat Richner的故事
30年前开始的计算机公司
印度bangalore自由软件年会
Nvidia放弃对开源驱动的支持
编程到底出了什么问题
春节假期的建议--向周围朋友分享MIT OCW


This is new year or just another fight?
God bless China and Israel in 2011!!!

thanksgiving in 2010

I have to say something to thank to those who are deserved to gratitude!

to Lord Christ:
主啊,感谢您创造了这个充满奇妙的宇宙,感谢您赐予这个宇宙无限的可能性,每一个人所经历的每一件事情都是在粒子随机碰撞的偶然性中的必然性的结果,不论试炼,苦难,得胜--都是您赐予人类的宝贵礼物.主啊,感谢您是爱的本体,这样的属性让您作出了伟大的救赎.对您的感恩太多太多,Shawn想即使是使用希伯来文也很难精准的表达,向您把kavanah和两希范式赐予一个原本粗劣的亚洲人而献上感恩.

to Snake:
Snake,Shawn必须感谢你像亲兄弟一般的不断提醒着Shawn对形而上重构的必要性,虽然你也曾让Shawn陷入极端怀疑论的地步,但这或许是主的美意之一.感谢你在过去7年当中的帮助.

to Charles:
Charles,您是Shawn见过的第一个如天使一般人,当时(2004)已经70岁的你却不断鼓励Shawn"keep your dream,S*".感谢您,Shawn亲爱的弟兄!您对Shawn的影响是决定性的.

to Ev:
亲爱的Evin,谢谢你过去的3年里跟Shawn一起度过了很多美好时光,对你的感谢就不在这里多讲了.

to 老爸老妈:
老爸老妈,谢谢你们在物质上养育了Shawn近21年,虽然这是你们应当尽的责任,但Shawn还是感谢你们在这些年的辛苦,同时也感谢你们对Shawn关于道德律方面的教导,在这个酱缸的环境下你们还是给足了Shawn自由成长的空间.

to Chris G and Leah:
Chris,您可能是过去7年当中对Shawn影响最重要的人,您是Shawn人生当中除了上帝之外唯一的一位哲学导师,感谢你在那两年中耐性的教导关于圣经和Tolkien神话学的内容,成长于日尔曼社区的您恐怕当时教导愚蠢的Shawn真是一件痛苦的事情,在你的身上Shawn第一次看到了中国先秦哲学的伟大,从此作为中国人不敢再轻视中国先秦哲学,当然也因为这种认知的缘故让Shawn更加的痛恨酱缸教,也感谢您的妻子Leah所提供的美好食物,这让Shawn更加的热爱牛肉,也感谢上帝让Shawn从你们的婚姻当中看到了圣经的诚实.如果当时遇到的不是你而是之后遇到的大多数基督徒的话,让Shawn变得痛恨基督教也可能成为现实,感谢上帝的完美设计.

to Scott:
Scott,在第一次去基督徒团契时,Shawn认为那里应该有很多像Shawn一样深受自由文化运动感染的有趣家伙,但坚持去了几次后发现除了无聊还是无聊,直到遇到你的那一天,感谢你和Shawn一起讨论punk rock所花的时间,你也是少数的对文化使命有责任感的基督徒,感谢上帝设计的我们有趣的相识过程.

to Jim L:
Jim,感谢上帝在Shawn还处于最愚昧的状态时遇到了你,也感谢你慷慨的给予了Shawn和你单独交流的时间,你让Shawn看到了所谓的conspiracy theory里的真实的一面,但也让Shawn明白了在错综复杂的博弈当中仍然可以看到上帝的荣耀,只是这荣耀需要具备破解隐喻之能力才能明白.从见到你直到今天,Shawn再也没有face to face见过来自有机系统的家伙了,或许那次见面是上帝的特别设计吧,再次感谢您的真诚和智慧的人生!

to 老梁:
老梁,你是Shawn见过的最为循规蹈矩的家伙,但你对信仰的坚持是Shawn在很少的基督徒身上能看到的,感谢你让Shawn看到了从对上帝敬虔动机的世界观.

to Spring:
老姐啊,Shawn到现在也记得你说即使是面对一个名义上的基督徒我们仍然应该去尝试爱他,因为你坚信上帝是爱他的,但老实讲,Shawn现在也做不到,在你的生命中Shawn看到了上帝之爱的影子,谢谢您,这是Shawn最需要的属性之一.

to Hommer:
Hommer,感谢您和Shawn在大学期间度过了无数个论道之夜,记得在那些迷人的夜晚在某个小房间里Shawn一根接着一根的smoking跟您谈着科普物理,而您则慢慢的讲述着某个数学流派的哲学观,感谢您帮助Shawn从最纯粹的数学的视角看到了那么一点点数学的本质.

to Sarah:
Sarah,即使到今天Shawn仍然极端的认为您把基督徒的beautiful inside推进到了一个极端的地步,这给Shawn很多的震撼和思考,你对小朋友的耐心,你对NGO的坚持,你对生命的热爱...这些都是Shawn很难reach到的领域,感谢您教会了Shawn很多在互联网上所无法获得的东东---这个东东不是来自知识,而是有机生命.谢谢您,亲爱的姐妹.

to Jared:
Jared,感谢您的音乐,特别是那首Kindron of Valley简直是您在以色列旅行的完美之作,还有好几次的concert您都说那首写于九寨沟的This life is beautiful是为Shawn来演奏,真是让Shawn激动不已,您的音乐就是您有机生命的一部分,感谢您,好弟兄.

to Larry D:
Larry,感谢您完成了Shawn孩提时代的梦想之一,也感谢您的耐性解答Shawn关于西点的疑问.

to 老江:
老江,您对德国古典哲学,现代数学,巴洛克到浪漫主义时代音乐的基础的确是最棒的,没错,是最棒的,感谢您愿意花时间在过去的几年中无数的超过7小时的长谈.

to 老猪:
老猪,感谢您让Shawn最落魄的时候在你那里睡地板,也感谢从您那里见识了杂乱无章的哲学观居然有奏效的时候.

to 老刚:
老刚,战友---这应该是对你最为恰当的描述,与战士同行是Shawn的荣耀!

to ginrut,小猫:
记得我们4个人第一次见面就进行了超过9个小时的长谈,那时你们都不是基督徒,Shawn也不打算给你们传教,但我们就方法论本身的问题进行了超过1年的讨论,感谢你们对真理的坚定追求超过了许多有宗教信仰的人,感谢上帝你们现在居然都信主了,这或许是上帝最奇妙的安排之一吧.

to others:
其实最近几年还有无数的人都给予了Shawn极其大的帮助,还有那些Shawn从未某面的hacker们,你们都是在这个特定的时代性背景下有可能会触及永恒的人,不管你们是否是基督徒,Shawn在你们的有机生命中的确看到了上帝的荣耀.

discussion on "How Computer Nerds Describe God"

congratulations to KK has already published his new book - What Technology Wants(The CHinese report here) last month.I dont have read it yet but Im damn sure that would bring us a great ideas for this era.We have a conversation about world view of KK and his old interview in 2002 that I want to share you guys what we have been discussed.Hope can bring something wondering for you.

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evening,my fellow gears,
How you doing these days?We dont have a new thread for few weeks.Is there anything made you feeling that want to start a new thread but something inside never stop telling you it's not about time?wow...that's how I felt.I get used to thinking of rush to start a new thread going to ruin the quality of our conversations.really?part of,at least.

We've had to accept the truth that we still living and existing in a suck but wondering world.Informations around us every second moment in our life even though we dont want to receive the piece of shit but our brain still having suck it all,passively.New technology keep up with high-speed growth that never care about what's the purpose of human beings.It might not calling "man" not far in the future by using the term "humanoid" instead of it.New Tech going to crushing our current ideas just like Internet did to us in which compared to past 15 years.

I as pathetic humanoid,stand before the great universe.The only thing I can do is to praise how wonderful creation I see.Anything else?What if I was lived in fertile cresent 3000 years ago?Life as simplicity.We dont have much choices back then.Now,I want to know what exactly am I and what exactly the world I living in beings.We can explain the world of creation(or you could said "evolution") by philosophy?physical?or what?We need a explanation but it still cant help us figure out what's the life meaning.that's not only concerning about knowledge(of course we all hackers hungering for knowledges),this is about life.Jesus Christ said"I am the way(methodology),I am the truth(ontology),I am the life(epist)".Should I believe his proclaim?dont judge too fast.

bullshit a lot,right?I would like to introduce a great man to you gears---Kevin Kelly.This interview[1] by Christianity Today in 2002.Im not going to telling how important to reinterpret God himself.Im alway trying to focus on organic system.We need to build it up as a open education system running on someday in the future:-)

may LORD's hacking spirit guide us!!!

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CT:Have you seen an increase in the intersection of science and religion?

KK:I think there has been a minimal formal interaction between those spheres, but I detect an increase in frustration that there is not more.

I think my meager attempts to bridge those [through writing] are done slightly against the grain in the sense that there are not a lot of other attempts to do it. It is difficult to do because technology is seen as almost the antithesis of spirituality. Science is cast as the rational vs. the irrational of belief. It is a huge gap to overcome.

Shawn:Did I mentioned about 4-layers model?theology->philosophical
think->math->doing...

firstable,We need a absolute standard that called theology level.In this level,reason is not most important one.Build your faith is more important than anything else.eg,"I dont believed God is exist until you can prove it to me" implying that he(or she) believed that only the reasoning proven can make them to believe that God is exist.Everyone has their own absolute standard.For me,it's reformed theology and something from Judaism.

Then we can go to do philosophical thinking under those absolute standards.This is philosophy level.one of most important attributes of man is to reasoning.Just like as Aristotle thought that the most differ between human and animal is that man can reason.We have to philosophical thinking for life meaning,Love and so on.

It's not good enough when we got a philosophy model.We still need to precisionize what we got from generic consequence of ideas.That's why we need math to solve problem.

after those 3 levels,you can hacking in any fields you want.art,law,computer,etc.........

CT:With such a gap, how have you balanced faith with science in your own life?

KK:My interest in science came first. I was science nerd in high school. The way I have reconciled it is that I see my mission as to talk about it, to explore the two, and to talk about faith using the vocabulary and logic of science.

I don't feel a division in terms of emotion. I recognize it is a division in the logic. My attempt is to articulate why science and religion are really talking about the same thing or how they can talk about the same thing.

Shawn:of course he didnt feel a division.One organic life,remember?

CT:What does your Wired article "God is the Machine" say about the
identity of God?

KK:There was part of that piece cut out in which I was stressing that every age reinterprets God with their own metaphor. God doesn't change, but our metaphors do. The current reigning metaphor that is very unacknowledged in our culture right now is the computational metaphor. It permeates everything and we don't even know it.

What I was suggesting was that one could use this completely universal and accepted metaphor to describe God. It isn't necessarily truer than other metaphors, but it is only truer to the age. It may be no more valid than past metaphors, but it makes a lot more sense to people 30 years and under. It is an attempt to use a current language and syntax and perspective and metaphor to describe an eternal thing.

In your 1999 paper "Nerd Theology"[2] you use another computer concept, information, as a metaphor for God. How does that apply?

The public at large's acceptance of the notion of information actually gives us ways to understand God. First of all, what is information? The kinds of ways you would describe it are the ways we would describe God: there's no material, it's a force, it has a power.

We can use concepts of information to describe God. It is not fair to say they are equal because obviously a bit on a CD is not God. When I talk about the universality of computation as something that is shared and fundamental I am not suggesting that God is computation other than to say that computation is one way we can think about God.

Shawn:interesting part~seems he mentioned about few important principles of reformed theology.
1,God doesnt change,but our metaphor do.
2,reinterpreter God is the tough tasks of in every age.different ages had corresponding metaphors.

And KK talked about computational metaphor permeates everything today.Ok,Im not a extreme computerist.But I think the computation itself as old as world creation.

CT:From where have you learned the most about God?

KK:I came to my belief fairly late in life, so my influences actually came from spending huge amounts of time in other religions in Asia. As a photographer there, I spent inordinate amounts of time hanging out at temples, mosques, monasteries, etc. That has a lot of influence.

Science fiction also played a critical role, because it seemed to me that science-fiction authors are actually the theologians of our age.They grapple with the "what ifs." They look at how technology changes our lives and changes our minds.

Theologians employed in academia seem to be far more remote and not engaged with actual changes occurring. I would guess that Star Trek and Gene Roddenberry have much more of an effect. People actually listen and pay attention to their theological musings, which is a lot of what science fiction is. What do we do when we meet other intelligence? What does it mean to be a human? These questions are much better addressed by science fiction.

I would say that the influence of other religions in practice and science fiction was as influential for me as Bible studies and sermons. In that sense, I am probably not alone.

Shawn:why theologians(normal ones) cant make a great world view just like as Star Trek and starcraft in average case?What's your first ideas come out when you hear the words "priest preaching"?kind of boring,right?I hate almost of Christian preachers I met.But I knew a few of "I-hate" preachers still are good at speak God's words,literally.whatever I like or not that I have to go BIble study.Because I knew truth out there.

Warning:almost of preachers I knew just guffing around on the stage.God will shut them down...

CT:How did these influences lead up to what happened in Jerusalem on Easter morning, 1979?

KK:That's a story I don't think I could tell any better than the one I told on NPR. I simply couldn't tell it any better. But what happened is something I don't really have a good explanation for. I would call it a surrender or an acceptance.

I think you can make two models of the universe: you can make an entirely logical argument that there is no God, [or you could make an] equally logical argument of a genesis and a creation of the world. In the end, it comes down to a decision that one makes. You go down one road and within that road, everything makes complete sense.

I think that is sort of what I did. It took going to Jerusalem on Easter morning out to the empty tombs to really trigger an acceptance of this alternative view. Once I accepted it, there is a logic, comfort, leverage that I have because of that view.

Shawn:this part is about his personal experience.no comment!

CT:Why did it take this experience to convince you?

I don't have a good explanation. I was older, and I was a reluctant convert. I am sort of an intellectual type. I don't know why Jerusalem, but that's what it took.

I have no idea why I fell in love with my wife. Why her? She is probably the least likely. I could have spent years and years trying to imagine who I would marry and never come up with her. So why?

It is really strange why these things happen. I am not sure it is important if there is a logical explanation. I think I am a person who likes to see things in action and to have first-hand experience. I am more interested in basing things on my experiences rather than just what someone told me.

CT:You are currently writing a new book, what is it about?

KK:A major theme is that technology is not some lesser evil that we just have to put up with, nor is it a neutral tool that can be used for good or bad. Instead, I suggest that technology is actually a divine phenomenon that is a reflection of God.

Technology expands life's possibilities. It also brings other views of God. I think that the human intellect alone simply can't come close to apprehending God. It will require all the intellects in the universe,including any artificial intellects we make, if we are to approach even the slightest glimmer of who God is.

The reason why we want more technology is that every individual human has a certain God-given set of talents that require things like technology in order to be expressed.

Imagine Beethoven being born 2,000 years ago when there was no orchestra or piano. What a loss that would have been. He of course would have made the best music he could have with whatever he found, but we would not have the glorious work that he did. Same with George Lucas and film.

There are people born today that will never really be able to develop their full set of talents God has given them because technology does not exist yet. We have a moral obligation to increase the amount of technology in the world.

Shawn:God gaves his citizens specific missions in the correspond ages.The principle is still:Given much more,require more."But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.Luke." 12:48

CT:What can computer nerds or sci-fi writers teach theologians about God?

KK:One of the great things about C. S. Lewis was that he was both.That is one of his strengths and why people are attracted to his work.He was basically a science-fiction theologian.

Someone once said that Earth is either the only intelligent life in the universe or it is just one of millions. Either statement is an astounding, amazing fact. Let's say the second is correct and there are a lot of other civilizations all around the universe. The question is, do they have a Jesus?

That's a question most theologians are not addressing. But it is certainly the kind of question science-fiction writers will address. I think by addressing it, they quickly come to grappling some pretty interesting and powerful things. I think science fiction can get you to that point a lot sooner than traditional theology studies.

Shawn:C.S.Lewis and JR Tolkien are 2 of greatest world view designers in 20th century.Especially,Tolkien's The Lord of The rings and The Silmarillion gave you a new way of thinking to describe the Christian's world view that created a reflection of Bible to a mid-earth world.The game aint over yet.Thank KK gave us a gift.This
interview is useful to build a organic system through 4-layers model.

ok.You gears must be sleepy.That's why I dared guffing a lot tonight!We are going to discuss some details of it.Hope can see you tomorrow!

May Lord's hacking spirit guide us!!!

[1] How Computer Nerds Describe God
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2002/novemberweb-only/11-18-31.0.html

[2] nerd theology
http://www.kk.org/nerd_theology.PDF