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	Hacking Matter -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Hacking Matter is a 2003 book by (additional info and facts about Wil McCarthy) Wil McCarthy, in which he predicts that programmable matter will someday change our lives as much as any invention ever has.
		He predicts that we will have the ability to program matter itself - to change it, with the click of a cursor, from hard to soft, from paper to stone, from fluorescent to super-reflective to invisible.
		Wil McCarthy visits the laboratories of major companies and talks with the researchers who are developing this extraordinary technology; describes how they are learning to control its electronic, optical, thermal, magnetic, and mechanical properties; and tells us where all this will lead.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/hacking_matter.htm (140 words)

	deseretnews.com \| 'We love him no matter what'
		He wanted, Lance Hacking said, to let Mark know that he is still loved and that the shared decision he and brother Scott Hacking had made to reveal Mark's confession was intended as an act of love.
		Mark Hacking is accused of shooting his wife, Lori, in the head with a.22-caliber rifle as she slept during the early morning hours of July 19.
		Lance Hacking said that the days since July 19 have been some of the most difficult his family has experienced, and those feelings are complicated by what the family feels is the double loss of Mark and Lori.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595084166,00.html (952 words)

	KSL News: Deadline Approaches for Charges in Hacking Case
		Whether Lori Hacking was five weeks' pregnant, as she reportedly told friends before being reported missing July 19, is one element of that charge.
		Yocom was supposed to file the charges three days after Hacking's arrest, but a judge granted an extension as prosecutors prepare their case.
		The Hacking case has drawn inevitable comparisons to the Scott Peterson trial -- a lying husband, a pregnant missing wife and a fishy alibi.
	tv.ksl.com /index.php?sid=111616&nid=5 (944 words)

	Review of Hacking Matter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Presented as if it were written in 2100, the author looks back at the century of programmable matter.
		At the flick of a switch, "a wall becomes a window becomes a hologram generator." Sure, right...
		But his explanation is compelling: wellstone, based on silicone, allows matter to change at the atomic level, as "tiny quantum wave packets take precedence over their behavior as particles".
	www.techsoc.com /hackingmatter.htm (545 words)

	KSL News: Mark Hacking Pleads Not Guilty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The innocent plea infuriated Lori Hacking's family -- her brother had urged Hacking to "be a man" and accept punishment, and her mother said she felt outrage for Lori and her unborn child.
		Scott Hacking: “It seems to most of us that by just saying "guilty" and getting it over with is the right thing to do.
		Hacking's plea came after the victim's brother, Paul Soares, appealed to Hacking to "take responsibility for your actions" and plead guilty to her murder.
	tv.ksl.com /index.php?nid=5&sid=129293 (563 words)

	Palette Hacking - Practical Hacking
		If we use the dropper tool to look at the colors used in making this image look the way it does, we find that palette entry 131 is used exclusively to draw the number, and palette entry 218 is the grey that surrounds it on all sides.
		This is the hack - by changing the color of the pixels in the positions illustrated to those we have chosen from the unused section of the palette we are making a change as to how it shall be recognised by the computer for display purposes.
		If you wait until you have edited the palette the computer will paste the wrong data, and if you only have the hacking done on the undamaged image then as soon as you crash your editing will revert to what is on the other deltas.
	azz.gouranga.com /jh4cguide/hack.html (2210 words)

	Programmable Matter FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Wellstone-like programmable matter, using quantum dots incorporated into fibers, is under explicit investigation at The Programmable Matter Corporation, a subsidiary of Galileo Shipyards LLC.
		The term "programmable matter" does not rule out such materials, but more typically refers to substances whose properties can be adjusted in the solid state, with no moving parts other than photons and electrons.
		However, Wil McCarthy was the first to use the term "programmable matter" in connection with quantum dots, and to propose a mechanism for the precise, 3D control of large numbers of quantum dots inside a bulk material.
	www.wilmccarthy.com /pmfaq.htm (2500 words)

	InfoSatellite.com - Dark matter seismography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It was said that it couldn't be proved that this was strange quark matter, but that is the only explanation that has been offered so far.
		He explains that the so-called strange quark matter is so dense that a piece the size of a human cell would weigh a ton.
		There is some evidence that strange quark matter does exist in the cosmos.
	www.infosatellite.com /news/2002/11/p271102darkmatter.html (567 words)

	Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Sol... - Security Worm
		Hacking Exposed follows a consistent format in covering areas subject to misuse and attack.
		Admittedly, a number of these areas (such as hacking Unix or Windows) could easily be made into a whole separate book (and in most cases, they have been).
		Hacking Exposed gives me that "reasonable level", and it's greatly appreciated.
	www.securityworm.com /books/Hacking-books-0072227427.html (540 words)

	Powell's Books - Hacking Matter: Levitating Chairs, Quantum Mirages, and the Infinite Weirdness of Programmable Atoms ...
		Programmable matter is probably not the next technological revolution, nor even perhaps the one after that.
		Imagine being able to program matter itself--to change it, with the click of a cursor, from hard to soft, from paper to stone, from fluorescent to super-reflective to invisible.
		The benefits of "programmable matter" are revealed in a fascinating expose of the next great technological leap forward for humankind that discusses the diverse applications of the innovative technology.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=27576&cgi=product&isbn=0465044298 (214 words)

	SS > NF reviews > Wil McCarthy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Hacking Matter: levitating chairs, quantum mirages, and the infinite weirdness of programmable atoms.
		Matter could change its transparency, thermal and electrical conductivity, stiffness, colour, texture, whatever, effectively instantaneously.
		However, the ideas here, no matter how briefly described, are mind-boggling enough, and so very close on the horizon, that anyone with an interest in just how magical advanced technology can look should read it.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/bib/nf/m/mccarthy.htm (406 words)

	PalmInfocenter.com: Poll Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		To be hacked more than once reflects badly on the site operators, but can't be blamed on Microsoft simply for being the most popular system on the block.
		It is safe to assume that those who agreed hacking is good did just that, they know how to take advantage of a poorly developed system, just as this website was hacked due to someone not keping up with software vulnerabilities.
		I would not say that a site deserves to be hacked or should be hacked, that is unethical if not immoral, but the VP of Operations deserves to be kicked in the butt for not engaging in due dilligence.
	www.palminfocenter.com /pollresult.asp?ID=7 (2718 words)

	O'Reilly Network: Quantum Dots and Programmable Matter
		If you'd like to learn more about this "programmable matter," Wil plans to explore the social and technological implications of the quantum dot (a device capable of trapping electrons in a space so small that they form "artificial atoms" that can be controlled in real time) in his upcoming session at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference.
		Historically, the properties of matter are determined at the time of manufacture, through careful mixing and processing.
		Technically speaking, "programmable matter" is any bulk substance whose physical properties can be adjusted in real time through the application of light, voltage, electric or magnetic fields, and so forth.
	www.oreillynet.com /pub/a/network/2004/01/09/quantumdots.html (1459 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		If programmable matter can be made to work, not only is it a powerful technology in its own right, providing hypercomputers and dazzling optics and an unimaginable wealth of new materials—it also has an “instant gratification” quality that eliminates many of the inconveniences of today’s world.
		That’s Wil McCarthy, discussing the mind-boggling potential of quantum dots and other forms of programmable matter in his recently published book, Hacking Matter.
		McCarthy points out that in a world of programmable matter, new materials can be invented and examined at any time, without the need to mine or manufacture or calculate anything.
	commonsensewonder.com /mtarchives/004645.shtml (479 words)

	KUTV: Claim of Early Pregnancy Adds Legal Twist to Hacking Saga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Hacking case has drawn inevitable comparisons to the Scott Peterson trial: a lying husband, a pregnant missing wife and a fishy alibi.
		For years Mark Hacking lied to his wife, family and friends about his education and career plans, deceptions that began to unravel after he reported his wife missing.
		Four days before she vanished, Lori Hacking told friends she was five weeks' pregnant.
	kutv.com /topstories/local_story_220171208.html (931 words)

	Diablo 2 Expansion Hack List - The #1 source for Diablo 2 and Diablo 2 Expansion hacks. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The first one is the identify hack that has been converted to be a working module for.
		The Hardcore hack and the Identify hack are both upgraded to work with the newest version on D2X.
		They now have all the current working hacks on them including the new ones such as PVP and Rune as well as a few others and the MAP Hack is also up for download.
	www.cheatlist.net /diablo2 (1464 words)

	Why Scripting Languages Matter
		When we interviewed programmers, the main thing we cared about was what kind of software they wrote in their spare time.
		They learn to hack by writing programs of their own at age thirteen.
		I'd estimate that maybe the top 5% of programmers (and I am not arrogant enough to say that I am one of them) are good enough to "hack" and actually produce readable, maintainable, working code.
	www.oreillynet.com /pub/wlg/3190 (1891 words)

	Anywherebb_internal_frame
		For me, it was just a matter of "hacking" into my subconscious and tweaking around in there.
		I don't need to crack my brain, or even hack some effiency out of it...I think that might be the problem I might need a few floating point operations in there.
		No, as a matter of fact, I have not seen Ghost in the Shell (either the movie or SAC or both, take yer pick).
	anywherebb.com /postline/posts.php?f=10&t=991&p=1 (606 words)

	Amazon.com: Hacking Matter: Levitating Chairs, Quantum Mirages, and the Infinite Weirdness of Programmable Atoms: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Eventually, he predicts, matter will be made programmable--easily changed from hard to soft, for instance-- by "quantum dots." Readers who are barely on nodding terms with Einstein need not be deterred.
		I found it a casual, yet enjoyable read; it threads gently through the prerequisite background, glossing over the specific details to keep the primary focus of the book intact; as it turned out, this didn't affect my enjoyment at all, while providing lots of jumping-off points for the interested observer to research further.
		It's a shame that some deeper understanding of the subject matter did not rub off on McCarthy while he was busy interviewing the half-dozen-or-so physicists upon whose research the book is loosely based.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/046504428X?v=glance (2172 words)

	root.cellar
		The thing that really amazed me, though, was that the obvious application - programmable matter or "wellstone" - seemed to have been overlooked by everyone involved in the actual research.
		Soon it will be possible not only to engineer into solid matter such unnatural properties as variable magnetism, programmable flavors, or exotic chemical bonds, but also to change these properties at will.
		Wil McCarthy visits the laboratories and talks with the researchers who are developing this extraordinary technology; describes how they are learning to control its electronic, optical, thermal, magnetic, and mechanical properties; and tells us where all this will lead.
	radio.weblogs.com /0123486/2003/11/08.html (743 words)

	The Happy Hacker -- It Sucks to Be Me! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Hacking no matter for good, is a crime and this bring conflict us into conflict with Law Enforcement.
		Vigilantism and the criminal justice system are mutually exclusive, as one is rightly-so bound by the rule of law, and the other is not.
		If you can hack into a military system and get me some launch codes then I would be very grateful!
	www.happyhacker.org /sucks/sucks3-23-01.shtml (366 words)

	Wellstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Wellstone is a theoretical substance envisioned as a kind of programmable matter.
		In the summer of 1998, In a discussion on artificial atoms and programmable matter, Wil McCarthy and Gary E. Snyder of Pioneer Astronautics coined the term "quantum wellstone" (or simply "wellstone") to describe this hypothetical but plausible form of programmable matter.
		The concept includes the ability to program matter itself - to change it, with the click of a cursor, from hard to soft, from paper to stone, from fluorescent to super-reflective to invisible.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/W/Wellstone.htm (245 words)

	Wil McCarthy - TheBestLinks.com - Science fiction, 2001, Wired Magazine, Hacking Matter (book), ...
		Wil McCarthy, Science fiction, 2001, Wired Magazine, Hacking Matter (book)...
		Wil McCarthy is a science fiction novelist, Chief Technology Officer for Galileo Shipyards (an aerospace research corporation), and the science columnist for the Sci Fi Channel (United States) (example below).
		Hacking Matter is an expansion of an article that appeared in Wired Magazine in October 2001.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Wil_McCarthy.html (115 words)

	Conspiracy with Valve and hacking: Read - Halflife2.net
		Think about it, counterstrike has an unending amount of hacks available to it and there is NOTHING you can do to ever stop the flow of hacking no matter how much security you implant because
		I really think Valve isn't AS upset about the source being stolen because now, there will be hacks in CS:S just like CS and valve can't do a thing about it.
		Valve have people dedicated to working on anti cheat for the good of the community, as soon as VAC for source gets released they should be able to update it quick enough to stop any hacks.
	www.halflife2.net /forums/showthread.php?t=39763 (266 words)

	Future Salon : Hacking Matter using Quantum Dots
		It is all a matter of getting the manufacturing precise and granular enough.
		When he started to look into it five six years ago, he thought that it would be 50 years out before it would be feasible, but the advances in manufacturing absolutely amaze him.
		Check out his book Hacking Matter and the FAQ on his web page.
	www.futuresalon.org /2004/02/hacking_matter_.html (661 words)

	[No title]
		The main reason he got busted WASN'T because he was using the codes, it was because he was hacking and the company had to change the codes every single day until they got him.
		They even knew how long he was hacking the night before he got busted.
		I got busted for the hacking as well as the use, so whoever said that you couldnt get busted for hacking, you were wrong.
	public.planetmirror.com /pub/textfiles/phreak/codes (8019 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Hatch's handling of hacking decried
		Another memo showed that staffers for Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., sought to delay confirmation of two nominees to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals specifically to ensure that court would still have a liberal majority when it heard a key Michigan affirmative action case.
		When the leaks emerged, Kennedy and Dick Durbin, D-N.Y., howled that the only way such information could have gone to the press would be if someone had hacked into their Judiciary Committee computer files to get it.
		Other conservatives who have attacked Hatch on the hacking matter range from the Law Enforcement Alliance of America to national radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,590041677,00.html (816 words)

	IT Conversations: Wil McCarthy - Voices in Your Head
		'Programmable matter', known as Quantum dots, is what Wil talks of the most.
		The technology works by herding electrons into artificial patterns that form new atomic structures, which opens the door for an enormous number of applications which allow materials to change, or rather reshape, to enable us to do things which we only could think of.
		Wil is the Chief Technology Officer for Galileo Shipyards, which somewhat participates in the study of in Quantom dots, "programmable matter" as described above, and is most known for authoring books such as 'Hacking Matter'.
	www.itconversations.com /shows/detail535.html (396 words)

	Boing Boing: Wil McCarthy's Quantum Dot books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The first is called Hacking Matter: Levitating Chairs, Quantum Mirages, and the Infinite Weirdness of Programmable Atoms.
		It's an exploration of a technology called Quantum Wells (and secondarily of other quantum technologies), which are tiny cages in which subatomic particles are arranged in quantities and geometries that mimic both natural and artifical atoms.
		In this way, you can create "programmable matter," which can be reconfigured to take on the properties of (nearly) any material, going from rigid to limp, relflective to dark, opaque to transparent, magnetic to inert, all at the flip of a nanoscale switch.
	www.boingboing.net /2003/07/23/wil_mccarthys_quantu.html (308 words)

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