Wow! That's a pretty interesting..i actually never thought of it like that...that 'hacking' only extends to engineering type..examples: farming is hacking ecology..yoga is hacking breath..procreation is hacking mortality etc. to me..a hacker studies a secure well established and seemingly stable system for loop holes, enters it, breaks it down, creates chaos and redesigns it. As I understand it now..it is not necessarily about problem solving in technical parlance. But being a non technical person, I see 'hacking' as a diff way to solve problems as I understand it from a colloquial point of reference.