<div dir="ltr">Similarly, if I take some existing command line tools out of the pantry and prepare them in a script with an existing language, to use on an existing computer platform, over existing networks, how is this not just another "code preparation method" under your definition of "preparation"?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Jamie Schwettmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jamie.schwettmann@gmail.com" target="_blank">jamie.schwettmann@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I don't think lasing sugar crystals or making edible batteries count as "preparation methods", but OK.</div>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Kevin Mitnick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin.mitnick@outlook.com" target="_blank">kevin.mitnick@outlook.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div dir="ltr">All you have described is a new process with working with foods. If I start to freeze curry, place it in a bag, vacuum seal it, and then cook it in boiling water without removing it from said bag, does it count as hacking? No. It just counts as a new preparation method.<div>
<br></div><div><br></div><div>The inability to differentiate between "food hacking" and "food preparation" here is astounding.<br><br><br>If I come up with a new method to wash clothes, does that make me a garment hacker?</div>
<div><br></div><div><div><br><br>Kevin Mitnick<br>(May or may not be the Kevin you think I am)<br><br></div><div><hr>Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:48:28 -0800<br>From: <a href="mailto:jamie.schwettmann@gmail.com" target="_blank">jamie.schwettmann@gmail.com</a><div>
<div><br>To: <a href="mailto:discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org" target="_blank">discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Let's end the unnecessary joining of the words "food" and "hacking"<br>
<br><div dir="ltr">A few food hacking possibilities:<div><br></div><div>Vacuum-extracted coffee. </div><div>Nitrous-extracted coffee. </div><div>Synthesized caffeine. </div><div>Polymerized chocolate.</div><div>Polymerized cheese.</div>
<div>Polymerized gluten chains.</div><div>Edible batteries.</div><div>Sugar candy prisms -- sugar candy lasers?</div><div><br></div><div>I dare you to explain how/whether any of these could arise without invoking substantial technical detail, or to make them without using entirely the "wrong" tools in a haphazardly equipped hackerspace kitchen, or without inventing more tools, and still accurately predict the spectral analysis results that indicate success. Then, I dare you to test your spectral analysis predictions without inventing something on the spot... and it still has to be safe to eat afterwards. ;)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Bonus points: make all of these psychoactive.</div><div><br></div><div>- Jamie</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>
<br><br><div>On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Kevin Mitnick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin.mitnick@outlook.com" target="_blank">kevin.mitnick@outlook.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr">In some places it's illegal to call yourself an engineer with certain exceptions.<br><br><div><br></div><div>As a result, I reserve the right to not permit yourself to label yourself as a hacker. I can label you as someone who has an inability to contribute to a conversation without any meaningful content. I am assuming you're responding to my remarks on this mailing list due to the malaise you may experience questioning what you have chosen to label yourself?</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Oh. The ego hacking that is being engaged in this thread. By the way, is engineering "hacking" too? Can I be a geotechnical hacker? A chemical hacker? A computer hac... oh wait.</div>
<div><div><br><br>Kevin Mitnick<br>(May or may not be the Kevin you think I am)<br><br></div><div>Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:45:19 -0800<br>From: <a href="mailto:rubin@starset.net" target="_blank">rubin@starset.net</a><div>
<br>To: <a href="mailto:discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org" target="_blank">discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Let's end the unnecessary joining of the words "food" and "hacking"<br>
<br></div><div><div><pre>Kevin Mitnick wrote, On 2014-01-27 17:59:<br>> You amazingly managed to write a whole paragraph without actually<br>> explaining anything about what food hacking is.<br> <br>Why do you feel the need to tell others they cannot label themselves as<br>
they wish?<br> <br>-- <br>Rubin<br><a href="mailto:rubin@starset.net" target="_blank">rubin@starset.net</a><br> <br></pre><br></div></div><div>_______________________________________________
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