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Hackers Hall of Fame
An anonymous reader writes "tlc.discovery.com has a nice feature called Hackers Hall of Fame. They have included 15 bios of modern and not so modern hackers and crackers. " Definitely a few names that probably don't deserve to be on the list, but for the most part this is a good list.
I'm waiting to see the "repost" notice next.
Helevius
Thats right.
However the rest of the world use "hacker" the way the Jargon File defines cracker. For the common man hacker = cracker. So having a "hackers and crackers" list might make sense if they think crackers and hackers are the same.
Though they messed this list completly up. Stallman and Dennis Ritchie are not "crackers" and does defintly not belong in the same list as crackers.
Aleph - Supposedly Dennis Ritchie favourite language
so what? it's not like unix was the first command-line driven OS.
No it isn't. ESR should not be in that list. The only reason he is, is because he made the list himself. Read the fine print at the bottom. Also he didn't create the Hackers Dictionary as is claimed in his bio, but thats a completely different rant.
It's just nerd semantics. Only on Slashdot is there suddenly some sort of big issue between the usage of "hacker" and "cracker." The entire rest of the world uses "hacker."
It's like a recent post I wrote (check my history). It was a tongue-in-cheek list of the reasons nerds don't get laid--it was originally +5, then suddenly plummeted to 1 when someone pointed out I confused "geek" and "nerd."
It was insane--one of the points I had written was that geeks get overly concerned about pointless definitions and facts that nobody else even acknowledges. And here was someone who completely missed that and actually replied to criticize a joke post, thereby proving it true.
It's stupid to expect everyone to accept our little definition of "hacker" and "cracker" and get all bent out of shape when 90% of the world continues to use the definition they all already agreed on. Actually, it's a bit self-absorbed.