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- insllvn, on 11/19/2008, -0/+86You bought a house without doors? That was a poor choice.
- Tonydelkisgood, on 11/19/2008, -3/+69I'll be impressed when he turns his garage door remote into a phone.
- loconet, on 11/19/2008, -0/+46Actually, that's precisely what he is. It seems to me he is a person who enjoys tinkering with technology and pushing it in unexpected ways. Opening a garage door with custom code on his Android is a nice hack (even he knows that - see tags in article). He is a hacker.
- bmw112208, on 11/19/2008, -1/+44I just call my wife and tell her to open the damn garage door.
- arma, on 11/19/2008, -1/+29They said Ultimate Windows would be enough!
- StigNordas, on 11/18/2008, -11/+35I for one would not want to be locked out of the garage if my web server crashed.
- Jerk, on 11/19/2008, -1/+24Then use Apache instead of IIS.
- YodaJones, on 11/18/2008, -2/+20Cool idea. Nice job.
- regularsteven, on 11/19/2008, -0/+16i thought the salesman was really yanking my chain when he tried to add on a webserver...
- paul292paul, on 11/18/2008, -2/+17Seen this earlier, soon we will all be couch potatoes. Android will do everything!
- weizbox, on 11/19/2008, -22/+35Pretty old news... and hacker != programmer. Even he knows that :)
- insllvn, on 11/19/2008, -2/+15I was considering getting an iPhone, but lately the news about them has all been limitations, not limitations of the hardware or software, but limitations imposed by Apple. An open platform is looking increasingly attractive. I can't wait until decent handsets begin to show up with Android. Has anyone heard of plans for something a bit more, well, robust than the HTC G1?
- clinko, on 11/19/2008, -0/+12Open doors AND protects his virginity!
- scruffles, on 11/19/2008, -0/+12He is a hacker according the original definition of the word. According to main stream media he is not. On Slashdot he's still a hacker. On Digg, CNN and Martha Steward magazine, he's not:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(computing)#Ha ... - regularsteven, on 11/19/2008, -0/+12What do you want a video of? A door opening with someone not around?
- lxevolution, on 11/19/2008, -1/+13I did the same exact thing with my iTouch. Once I'm within my home network range, I press a bookmark which pulls up a webpage hosted on my home server which runs the "eject" command which ejects the CD tray which presses a makeshift switch connected to the garage door opener. This is a clearly superior way to do this.
- seinman, on 11/19/2008, -1/+12Oh yeah, I forgot how easy it is to make a web server open a garage door. My bad.
- CaviMike, on 11/19/2008, -1/+11Call? The bitch better know when I get home from my girlfr...from work in the first place.
- SniperGX1, on 11/19/2008, -1/+8Coincidentally your iPhone can also send a request to a webserver.
- Hegemony, on 11/19/2008, -1/+7That's great... if your garage door has a webserver. I mean, who has that?
Also... isn't that the guy that started LiveJournal? - dgendreau, on 11/19/2008, -1/+7A talentless ***** who vandalizes technology is not the original meaning for the word hacker. Those dicks stole the word from the real hackers, people who play with technology and treat it as an expressive artform.
- bmw112208, on 11/19/2008, -1/+7I have an outdated model, early 1970's technology, not enough memory to perform complex, automated tasks.
- bluechild, on 11/19/2008, -1/+7I think a lot of people don't know what they're talking about. The term "hacker" originally meant someone who liked tinkering with technology in original and perhaps unexpected ways. So, people, it's the quite the opposite of what you're saying here.
- bluechild, on 11/19/2008, -0/+5You "hack" it as in you "mess around" with it.
- mrroarke, on 11/19/2008, -0/+4For his next trick, maybe he can wire up an IR transmitter to his TV's webserver, and then when he wants to channel surf, all he'll have to do is whip out his phone, call up the app, press "Channel up," and a magic http request will be sent, causing his TV to send an IR signal to turn the channel!
- regularsteven, on 11/19/2008, -0/+4i love the 'pics / videos or it didn't happen' crowed. GOOD CALL, cause you are very right!
- bradleyland, on 11/19/2008, -0/+4Look in to the history of the term "hacking". Hacking didn't used to mean script kiddies defacing web pages, it referred to someone who had an interest in computers and created interesting combinations of hardware and software to accomplish a task. Guys like Steve Wozniak were the original hackers.
- czarr, on 11/19/2008, -0/+4LOL you didnt' even read the description??
- inactive, on 11/19/2008, -1/+5Has anyone heard of a way to search the internet? Like a website you can go to or something?
You lazy *****. - iblaine, on 11/19/2008, -0/+4Anyone else get fooled by the headline into thinking the android phone could communicate directly with the garage door? It's impossible but that's what the title implies.
- arma, on 11/19/2008, -0/+3Garache Web Server
- xBloBx, on 11/19/2008, -4/+7Maybe he can tune it to open my girlfriend's legs?
- ngomong, on 11/19/2008, -0/+3A hacker comes up with innovative uses of technology at-hand. ("It's a bit of a hack, but it works...")
A cracker gains unauthorized access into computer systems. ("I cracked the algorithm...")
The media hijacked the word "hacker" and made it malicious. End of story. - DaviDTC, on 11/19/2008, -0/+3At least we know who lives in their parents garage.
- quidpro, on 11/19/2008, -0/+3I haven't heard anything specific. But I can only imagine that the HTC G1 will be a caveman relative to the Android based phones to come...
- scully32, on 11/19/2008, -3/+5A better hack would be to turn your garage door opener into an android phone.
- BrokenVisage, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2Whew, at least he's not one of those 'cyber' hackers.
- dellegazze, on 11/19/2008, -2/+4Is it just me or is it a bad idea to have your garage door accessible via the internet?
- theducks, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2Ye, he started Livejournal (it could be argued he is also the father of blogging too, since LJ dates from about 1999) and also developed OpenID (as well as memchached, used by a lot of sites on the internets)
- herbiehancock00, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2I just lift my arm and press a button on the remote.
- inactive, on 11/19/2008, -1/+3video?
- GiggleStick, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2A midget and a Shetland pony. Oh yeah, and some jelly beans.
- phishneslo, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1one, it is what people say. and two, i want a garage door opening with a dude driving into it, then the video ending. is that too much to ask?
- bean1975, on 11/19/2008, -1/+2It's interesting noone pointed out that this is Brad Fitzpatrick, creator of Livejournal, memcached and whatnot. This is not even a blip on his resume :)
- inactive, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1Right on. But in my point of view the term goes further than that. A hacker is someone who understands how something work and can make it do thing it's not supposed to. A guy who can rewire a guitar amp to get a completely different sound out of it is a hacker. Mechanics that can tweak cars to get better horse power are hackers. The plumber that can make a toilet work without all the parts is a hacker. I'm not a master of how guitar amps, cars or toilets work, but when I see someone who knows the in and outs of something modify it to do what they want, it's badass, computers or not.
- bradleyland, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1Right about now, the woman who wrote about misogyny on Digg, well... Her head asplode.
- Krissam, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1Oh i see what you did there!
- insllvn, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1Wow, you sure showed me. Just think, appealing with an honest question to a community of nerds in an area of technical interest, what a dick I am!
I remember time when the digg community could answer a specific technology or industry question as well or better than google. *sigh* I guess I should just go back to /. - lowdose, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1I would be more impressed if he turned his garage door remote into an Android phone...
- gamben0, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1digging me down is not hacking
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