El vie, 15-03-2013 a las 17:03 -0700, Richard Vickery escribió: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 18:47 -0400, Doug wrote: > > On 03/15/2013 06:25 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > > > On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:21:07 -0700 > > > Richard Vickery <richard.vicker...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> Does this mean that you just let them adulterate the > term? > > > You would have to re-write current popular culture. > > > Language and it's use change, by it's very usage. > > > > > Language is fickle. Gay used to mean happy-go-lucky; > > nuke used to mean to drop an atom bomb on; transistor > > still is a three-wire device made (usually) of silicon, used > > for amplifiers and switches, but in common usage it means > > a radio; nice was once pejorative. And we used to have > > "gotten" and, a little earlier, "shaven" but our verbs are > > regularizing themselves whether we like it or not. > > So whether you like it or not, hack usually connotes > > unlawful intrusion on a computer. Ce la vie! > > > > I think you mean "C'est la vie", ... > > Anyway, I still refer to talented programmers as hackers in a > non-perjorative sense because there isn't a good one-word > alternative. > Geeks doesn't cut it because there are lots of geeks who don't > program. > > > > If the lame ducks don't want to take back the term, that is their > problem. If you are going to let Bill Gates and the Microshit team > abuse the term after they abused end-users with a piece-of-crap OS > that didn't work in '98 and still doesn't work. I refuse to let it be. > I am a hacker, and if the police come up to me as some kind of > criminal, I will make sure that they know the difference between > someone who goes in to make a money transaction at a bank and one with > the intent to rob a bank and take lives. There is nothing wrong with > the term hacker; we all do it, and we have been hacking the kernel and > computers and helping each other with broken networks for 70 years. I > am not about to change just because some idiot dropped out of law > school, bought Windows, and decided to give us a bad name, and call us > all criminals, just because we tried to help him.
Amen!
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