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The Planet's Most Moronic Hacker

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the more-31337-than-31337 dept.

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. "

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  1. Re:News? by Vo0k · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, this is humor. Seen the foot icon?
    Check "humor" in topics you want filtered off in your prefs and stop complaining.

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  2. Before by kevin_conaway · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Before by jalefkowit · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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...

      Good point! Slashdot should run this joke every day from now on. After all, there may be some poor schmuck who hasn't seen it yet.

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  3. Please Rob, don't do this - OT to some extent by rathehun · · Score: 5, Insightful
    This is an open letter to Rob and the rest of the editors.

    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.

    1. Re:Please Rob, don't do this - OT to some extent by cowscows · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Grow up man.

      I thought the snail data transfer article was pretty damn amusing. This hacker one, less so, but humor is generally pretty hit or miss.

      Slashdot is about a lot of things, one of those being tech news, another being tech humor. There's icons for humor, there's big bold headlines giving you an idea what an article is about. Skim those, and skip what you don't like. That's how it has worked for years. YEARS!

      Having a little fun doesn't diminish the quality of the other articles. Go to any news source, they've always got quirky stories lying around somewhere. It doesn't devalue the rest of the content, it's just there because some people like to read it.

      Don't pretend like your time is so precious and scarce that you can't be bothered filtering out what you're not interested in. Slashdot is in no way an efficient way to get good news.

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  4. Word Use in Subcultures by Tony · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  5. Re:Life imitating art, possibly? by untaken_name · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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