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I'd use ASCII art to show my empathy levels here but couldn't think of a good representation of 0K.

I find that Figure 1 works fine.

I wish ESR would stop writing entirely. I don't like to see him being given a platform here. Not only does he have a history of being a racist fuckwit, but he also has a nasty habit of appropriating bits of Unix culture. I don't know if this article quite counts, but the video game he released recently certainly does. "Here's the source code for this old game! I just rewrote it in C98." And the damning one is the Jargon File, which he took and 'improved' it into something unrecognizable. Generally, he's an attention-seeking twat who has done as much damage as good for Open Source, and I don't think that Slashdot should be promoting his writing any longer. His days of relevancy are long since past.

Or, as some people spell the word, a kludge.

Also known as literate people.

So, some random site decided to grab the URL of "oxford dictionaries", I assume to mislead people into thinking that this is the Oxford English Dictionary

Don't slashdotters know about the Jargon File anymore? (here or here or here.) It's sad how classic hacker history is so quickly forgotten.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/htm... : kludge

  1. /kluhj/ n. Incorrect (though regrettably common) spelling of kluge (US). These two words have been confused in American usage since the early 1960s, and widely confounded in Great Britain since the end of World War II.

In English, the soft "g" is pronounced as if it has a "d" in front of it. Kluge rhymes with huge. Kludge, on the other hand, would rhyme with sludge or judge.

Ahh citing Arkell v. Pressdram, I see.

related - see figure 1 -- This should really be properly codified via the RFC process

So Venmo thinks it is acceptable to take someone's money away on arbitrary suspicion of wrongdoing without explanation?

No. They can see Figure 1.

It's hard to take seriously an article claiming New York is the most wasteful megacity when they don't even mention Los Angeles. New York metro is 20 million. Los Angeles metro is 18 million.

The PNAS paper to which the article attempts to refer (with a file: link, so the link is completely worthless) does mention LA, and, if you see Figure 1[1], LA is behind NY for total energy use, water use including line losses, and total solid waste production. The caption says "Values shown are for the megacity populations scaled on a per capita basis from recorded data for the study area population"; I don't know whether that means "we scaled the values based on the population sizes", so that they represent per capita consumption, or whether they represent total consumption.

[1]Yes, you did see what I did there. :-)

> But we already HAD a word for that and it was not "hackers" it was con artists..

I think the distinction is in your last three words, "hacking a system".

A con man or fraudster will get a _person_ to hand over their property.
A hacker manipulates a _system_ to have it do something other than what it's supposed to do.
TFA says:

"The group was able to change the DNS records managed by Network Solutions for a number of security companies".

They did a number of companies by exploiting NetSol's SYSTEM, not simply tricking one person, but exploiting
holes in the system that the person what was part of. If you can fairly reliably exploit the system, it's a hack in my opinion whether that's a TCP/IP system, a phone system, a traffic light control system, or system that includes both
computers and human.

However, see also the Jargon File for original meanings of the term:
http://www.dourish.com/goodies/jargon.html
http://www.outpost9.com/reference/jargon/jargon_23.html#SEC30

Please do not bother us with your petty problems and See Figure 1...

I couldn't help but notice that the last line of the linked article was, "Love VMS or leave it, but don't complain."

I guess we all got tired of being told to see Figure 1 and just left VMS... I haven't logged into a VMS machine in over 15 years.

as if any programmer ever wants to do that

Got that right!

Face up to the fact that no matter how awesome your software is, it's going to fail.

As any good programmer knows, failure is not an option. If software fails it is because of misuse, foreign (read "anyone who isn't me") programming staff, or failure to RTFM. Please do not bother us with your petty problems and See Figure 1. Understand this and your life as an admin will be forever simpler.

XOX,

Your most awesome programming staff

Right... and if his district was chock full of pedophiles, then it would basically be his job to propose legislation lowering the age of consent to 2, right? Yes, if the system works, the rest of Washington state's congresscritters SHOULD tell him to see figure 1

Is this the original?

Governments provide services. Those receiving the services must be taxed to pay for those services. If you purchase something from a company without operations in your state, then the company should not be taxed, as they have received no services from your state. However, you DO receive services from your state, and you CAN be taxed. This amounts to a luxury tax on all purchases made by residents of your state. The only question is, does your state or local government have any right to force an external entity to collect it's luxury taxes for it? Amazon's response to this question is See figure 1

Dude, education is so overrated.
You can just 'feel' something about pokemon and have a PhD in "Pokemon Studies", anymore.
See http://www.dourish.com/goodies/decon.html

Linux Developers Urge Nokia to see figure 1.

My wife was an English lit major in college. We had lot of arguments about the validity of feminist interpretations of various books and movies. When she came out of class one day convinced that there was a global male conspiracy to disenfranchise women I just about lost it. I mean honestly, its tough enough to get more than 4 guys to agree on anything more complex than which football game to watch, and that is not a trivial task in and of itself on some Sundays.

Anyway, years later I stumbled onto this link http://www.dourish.com/goodies/decon.html online. It pretty much summarizes how to deconstruct any book or movie and then turn it around to make it fit whatever interpretation you are looking for.

I don't see any more validity to folks who look for blantantly feminist themes in games, movies, book, etc...than I do with folks who always look at things with an intent to overlay racial overtones. In the end they will find what they are looking for, or at least make it appear as if they do.

See Figure 1.

everyone and his brother's probably read this by now, but How to Deconstruct Almost Anything by Chip Morningstar is about the funniest techie answer to the field. (the *only* techie answer?)

however, when the jokes (and they are good!) are done, he goes on to offer a helpful reading list for the interested

The pre-Raymond version of the Jargon File - the Hacker's Dictionary - is available here:

The Original Hacker's Dictionary.

This is more a historical work than anything else, as it documents the language of what Levy calls the "first generation hackers", the ones who worked in the AI labs at Stanford and MIT. Those communities died during in the 80s (which was, of course, the event that provided the impetus for the GNU project.) The Hacker's Dictionary has a genuine and honest flavor that the modern Jargon File lacks, which is probably inevitable, since the Jargon File covers the modern internet-based "hacker" community - a vaguely-defined entity that has even become confused over the meaning of the word "hacker". It's therefore not surprising that ESR feels he can get away with sprinkling the Jargon File with Raymondisms.

Actually, he didn't write the book; he stole it.

Yup, already been done. Coincidentally dourish has a tale about Neilsen and spam.

Yup, already been done. Coincidentally dourish has a tale about Neilsen and spam.