Definitions
Here are the meanings of some words that are a bit different from the dictionary. These may or may not be the standard meanings but I think of them as written here.
- Cracker
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A cracker is a person who breaks into or otherwise violates the system integrity of remote machines, with malicious intent. Crackers, having gained unauthorized access, destroy vital data, deny legitimate users service, or basically cause problems for their targets. Crackers can easily be identified because their actions are malicious.
- Hacker
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This is the most misused word I know. People often relate this word with the person who breaches the security whence the real meaning of hacker is:-
A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary.
Actually breaching the system security has never been a fascinating job for hackers. What fascinate hackers is beating the crackers by making invincible & robust security systems like PGP. The most useful gift that hackers gave to the world is the TCP/IP Internet.
- Impossible
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Somebody told me the meaning of Impossible is "I'm possible" but I think it is being a bit overconfident. In my view impossible is something which is either logically contradictory or something which is going to eat up much more resources and time than the benefits of its output. See also My Notes
- Pragya
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In one phrase it means "The Intellectual Intelligence". In general 'Pragya' means 'Intelligence' but let us go into the details. The word 'Pragya' is made up by adding a prefix 'Pra' to the root word 'Gya'.
- Pra - In Advance, Ahead of, Forward
- Gya - To know, Knowledge, Intelligence
In this way the meaning of 'Pragya' is the intelligence which can work beyond normal logical way of finding the truth. You can tell it "Spiritual Intelligence" but that would would be a rather religious term so I prefer to say it "The Intellectual Intelligence".