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The Planet's Most Moronic Hacker
RawGutts writes "This is the story of "bitchchecker" (the hacker) a user who lost it because he thought he had been kicked of an IRC channel by "Elch". The hacker comes back on the channel threatening to hack and ruin Elch's machine, and dares Elch to give his IP address.
The address given was 127.0.0.1. "
so that I can remove it in my preferences.
REM Old programmers don't die. They just GOSUB without RETURN.
No, this is humor. Seen the foot icon?
Check "humor" in topics you want filtered off in your prefs and stop complaining.
Anagram("United States of America") == "Dine out, taste a Mac, fries"
All you clowns start bitching about how this isn't news or this has been around for a while, I've got one word (well really a contraction) for you: Don't.
Not everyone has seen it and even if you have, its a joke, its funny, laugh. Most of us are at work and its nice to get some humor in the day.
Please do NOT let the site change into bash.org. I enjoy reading bash.org for certain things, and I enjoy reading slashdot for somethings. If I want bash, I'll go there. If I want slashdot, I point my browser to slashdot.org.
Now - please look at the stories submitted here. There is one about a fucking snail being faster than an aDSL line. Then there is a 12 year old story about a 127.0.0.1 hacker.
I realise that you guys are now owned by the OSDL. I realise that you now have ads on. However, don't let the compulsion to feed your advertising revenue overcome your editorial standards. By keeping slashdot focused on actual tech stories, about "Stuff that Matters", you attract a class of reader who is more likely to actually buy the server or the linux product that your advertiser is offering, enabling you to increase the rates that you charge.
Now I like a good laugh as much as the next person, but this is just lame. On slashdot, the stories themselves don't need to be funny, it's the people who post who make it funny. Granted, the beowulf cluster jokes are getting a bit old.
C'mon guys, be strong, stand up to your sponsors.
R.
No one ever went bankrupt overestimating the stupidity of the American public.
:)
The moment you use the rationale "People aren't that stupid" to say why something can't happen, they you've already lost the argument.
People buy things from Spam and give out their personal details in response to bulk e-mail. I'm sorry, but many people are dumb as rocks.
Besides, we already know what 127.0.0.1 is, but how's a novice to know this, if all they know of computers is what they've picked up in a few weeks of experimenting?
I don't find this implausible at all. Even the fact that the "hacker" never made the connection between their hack attempts and being disconnected is consistent with what I've seen of human nature. I used to have an employee who blew five fuses on her UPS and didn't realize that it happened every time she plugged her space heater into the UPS!
I had her plug the Space Heater into the wall, and the UPS stopped blowing fuses.
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
Language is defined by the useage over time. Societies collectively define words. Many words you use every day started out with very different meanings. Deal with it, find a new word for "hackers" and move on.
Physicists still use the word "velocity" to mean both speed and direction, while the mainstream uses it to just mean speed. All scientists use the word "theory" to mean a tested hypothesis, while most people use it synonymously with hyptohesis.
I could go on with similar examples. We don't have to give up our name "hacker" to mean a coding guru, and cracker to mean a malicious coder. We are a subculture, and it is perfectly acceptible for us to use very tightly-defined words that the rest of socieity misuses. We do not have to accept their definitions just because everyone else uses it that way.
We do not have to participate in consensual stupidity.
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
Sorry, while I do disagree with the negative connotation that has been atrributed to "hacker," I have to say that "cracker" is, putting it mildly, extremely lame. Rather than trying to force 99% of the population to conform to your vocabulary, just think of a new word for what you call hacker. Please don't make it rhyme.
Actually, this just makes you sound like a dick.
There is nothing remotely funny or challenging about giving a new user an unfamiliar command to wipe his disk clean.
This example differs from TFA, as the user was the one instigating the hostile action, and therefore was receving poetic justice. However, in your example, you've just been unecessarily obnoxious. And now you come onto a geek wesbite to brag about it. Wow!
I'd suggest you put all that energy into trying to get laid instead.
Sunday you're Thinking Different, Monday you're a huge tool, paying too much and waiting to think like everyone else.
Heh - sorry that you think its real. Thinking its reals says that you beleive there are programs that for some reason slowly erase drives, counting from the highest to lowest "35% of files on your G drive are gone" counting down until he logs out. Its a dramatic effect leading to a punchline, but its not really how things work :)
Its a funny little fiction, written by someone who knows enough to know that 127.0.0.1 is a loopback, but who maybe doesn't know enough to make his story more plausible... if thats what he is going for. I don't think he really was, and its more meant as a good funny chunk of internet lore/fable, on a situation many of us common to IRC have seen.
I agree completely, reading User Friendly is like biting down really hard on an ass sandwich.
Two questions:
1.) Why would you read User Friendly if it's that bad?
2.) How the bloody hell do you know what an ass sandwich tastes like?
Note: I don't read User Friendly. If you like it, read it. If you don't like it, don't read it. No need to engage in hyperbole to try and convince others that your opinion should be theirs. Let the individual read it and form his own opinion.
http://xkcd.com/386/
Sure, everybody has. But how many times has said kid actually gone through with it and nuked his damn box? Assuming story is true, of course.
Other problems with your post:
This kind of shit gets posted, when so many good articles get shitcanned? What the fuck barbeque?
If you expect good articles on slashdot, you're in the wrong damned place. This is where self-righteous losers come to discuss the latest Apple MHz bump, or how some administrative oversight is proof of America's descent into totalitarianism, or the latest shitty Star Trek/Wars/Buffy show. Oh, and trolls like me who like to screw with them.
So why the hell are you here? Nice post, by the way.