Hak.5 is educating people!

[Aupajo]

Hi guys,

I know I haven't posted here in a long time, been really busy this year with school.

I just want to say that last Wednesday I taught my first class, the Class of 1337, at my school. In part, it was an idea sparked partly by Hak.5, and so the first lesson was about IPTV. It was so sweet! I showed some Pure Pwnage, some Broken, some From the Shadows and of course Hak.5 (the PSP hack in ep 9, to be specific).

I just wanted to say, thanks for making such a great show - some of what you do is now being passed down in my class.

You guys rock!

[Darren Kitchen]

That is awesome. We've kept this in mind with season two and will no longer be drinking on camera (but trust me there's plenty off camera). That way it's more viable as educational videos.

[rFayjW98ciLoNQLDZmFRKD]

Augh! there goes half the fun! :-)

[RobotChild]

In my opinion the lack of drinking on camera, and more educational step, is a little bit of reassurance that Hak.5 wont go down the drain like Attack of the Show! Which started out as The Screen Savers, (Awesome show, by the way) than G4 bought Tech TV and turned that into Attack of the Show! Which was good at first, though it had drifted from to tech to more video-games. After the departure of Brendan Moran and Sarah Lane then show went to hell. No disscussions on tech, a few rare segments on video games, and alot "pop culture" subjects. Seriously, do we need an "In your pants" segment?

Oh well, still getting "Call for Help" up in here in Canada. Along with a few other awesome tech shows.

[CaveMan]

That is awesome. We've kept this in mind with season two and will no longer be drinking on camera (but trust me there's plenty off camera). That way it's more viable as educational videos.

but the drinking makes it so entertaining, because as you drink you get funnier to watch :P

and how are you going to explain packet overflow?

[RobotChild]

That is awesome. We've kept this in mind with season two and will no longer be drinking on camera (but trust me there's plenty off camera). That way it's more viable as educational videos.

but the drinking makes it so entertaining, because as you drink you get funnier to watch :P

and how are you going to explain packet overflow?

Haha, that was interesting, and entertaining. Especially the bloopers, "From a hacker's point of view, our objective is to..."

[Brokenman]

wish we had a school as open to such classes as that. Or maybe even some teachers like that. Cool to see some places opening up though.

[gbjazzman]

That is awesome. We've kept this in mind with season two and will no longer be drinking on camera (but trust me there's plenty off camera). That way it's more viable as educational videos.

but the drinking makes it so entertaining, because as you drink you get funnier to watch :P

and how are you going to explain packet overflow?

That Packet overflow, in my oppinion, is the single funniest thing Hak5 has ever done.

That being said, I'm glad to see you guys are taking steps in the right direction.

[Phoenix]

i wish my school was that cool, I <3'd the Screensaver then AOTS was ok at 1st then went to hell :( no i watch only Xplay and IPTV :P

[FrihD]

Hello guys, i didn't want to open a new thread. But i can say this show is cool for french geeks like so I can train my ears without need to listen at the BBC boring news. Hak.5 also teach English with awesome stuff !

Thanks men :).

[VaKo]

I love the way this show has spread over the world, welcome to the forums!

[FrihD]

Thank you for the welcome message. I'll do some buzz around this show. In September i'll be in a geek-cursus : "communicating systems engineering". I hope i'll find some hacky tricks and send it ther ;) .

hak.5 forums also improve my english skills, because i took around 5minutes to write 2 lines, i'm ashamed :oops:

[VaKo]

I know of people who's familys have lived in england for generations yet they still cannot write english as well as you appear to...

[CaveMan]

time and practice will get you better with english, it is a hard language to learn

[Sparda]

and the poeple that have English as there first language tend to be ignorent and only speak English. :P

[VaKo]

and the poeple that have English as there first language tend to be ignorent and only speak English. :P

????

[Sparda]

but is English your first language?

[Sparda]

Google can't translate arabic... which is why I can't :P

Edit: I must be going mad... of corse Google can translate arrabic

[VaKo]

yes, thats arabic for "true"

or

??? ? ??? ????? ? ????

but seriously i'd love to learn arabic for real, mandarin, spanish, arabic and english are the future

[moonlit]

I'd love to learn Spanish properly... I have a good knowledge of the basics (kinda) but I'd like a larger Spanish vocab...

I'd also like to learn Japanese but I found that's quite hard...

[Sparda]

I'd love to learn a language where it's very easy to say things and explain things. I guess thats either Chines or Japanes, and both a very difficult to learn.

[moonlit]

I believe Chinese is harder then Japanese though...

Personally though I prefer Japanese...

[VaKo]

I'm just going on what languages will be useful.

[harrison]

Having a girlfriend that speaks Mandarin is a reason to learn Chinese. Makes it easier too.

[gbjazzman]

Having a girlfriend that speaks Mandarin is a reason to learn Chinese. Makes it easier too.

Learning a langauge is always easier when you have someone who you can talk to in that language on a daily basis.