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2010 Geek IQ Test
snydeq writes "Windows NT name size limits, network cabling and protocols, Linux printer daemon commands, AD&D character alignments — find out how much you know where it really counts by taking InfoWorld's 2010 Geek IQ Test."
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I know I'll ace it, because I'll open Google in another window.
And that, of course, is the correct answer, in 2010.
WTF kind of "Geek Cred" quiz has a question about Ally McBeal? And what's with all the Windows questions?
2 pop-ups blocked on every page, slow load times, intrusive flash ads all over, 1 question per page to force more ad views.
I didn't even get past question 6 before I closed it to come back here and complain.
"Windows NT name size limits .... find out how much you know where it really counts."
Unless it's multiple choice, and "who the fuck cares?" is an option, does not compute.
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Is this part of the test? Am I supposed to figure out how to make their servers display the text of the test for me? If so, I failed BIG TIME.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
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Was around long before Linux kids, its not the Linux printer daemon, its the line printer daemon.
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
Slashdot effect?
2010 Geek Quiz doesn't work in Google-Chrome, Konqueror or Firefox on my slackware box.
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I guess everyone is taking the test instead of commenting.
If this IQ test is like any other IQ test on the web than it's more than useless... I got a high score when I try them but if I select options at random I get average intelligence or slightly above. So I think their test implies that a laptop and a ferret in a dryer are smarter than the average human. Although I might be missing the point of this article since it's more entertainment oriented. I just get riled up about online IQ tests... :)
check out the Mp3 Garbler I built!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/quotes?qt0453844
The world is made by those who show up for the job.
I was going to do this for fun, but by question 10 I didn't care anymore.
Slow server (perhaps because of Slashdot), and too many questions = meh
Geek IQ?? Heck my son passed it and he wasnt even finished with lunch yet... http://phoenix.momslikeme.com/members/ScrapbookActions.aspx?g=2467703&m=15226262
Fire in the hands of the village idiot is no tool, but a weapon of mass destruction
And what's with all the Windows questions?
- A geek knows Windows inside and out.
- A true geek knows to how to live without Windows (-- that's probably where we fall, in our parents' basement)
- An übergeek knows life, the universe and everything, including Windows.
pop ups, having to stop blocking javascript all over the place.
Not sure if I've failed or just can't be bothered taking the test.
Waiting for an amusing sig.
That picture though, ROTF? "rolling on the floor" ? rofl maybe, but I at least have never heard of "rotf"...
Question 1: What does "httpd" stand for?
Correct Answer: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Daemon
Question 2: What is the primary use for the 224.0.1.24 IP address?
Correct Answer: It's the WINS server group address, used for the dynamic configuration of replication for WINS servers and auto-discovery
Question 3: How much RAM is supported in the 32-bit version of Windows Server 2008 R2?
Correct Answer: None
Question 4: The names Killing Horizon and Event Horizon are not related to:
Correct Answer: Two sci-fi movies from the '90s
Question 5: Which one of these will let you quickly look at the open ports on a machine?
Correct Answer: NETSTAT
Question 6: When the Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) protocol was popular, which of these was considered one of its primary advantages?
Correct Answer: Multiple tokens
Your Answer: Multiple tokens
Question 7: What does "GUID" stand for?
Correct Answer: Globally Unique Identifier
Your Answer: Globally Unique Identifier
I'm fairly proud of inventing "Group Unnamed Information Delivery" -- it sounds very authentic, though "Great Underwear Is Divine" is nearest a universal truth.
Question 8: A 10Base2 Ethernet network used what kind of cabling?
Correct Answer: Thinnet coaxial
Your Answer: Twisted pair
If some kid straight out of college is standing behind you asking, "What the hell is 10Base2?!" feel free to pretend you don't know the answer and choose HDMI. Old folks need to stick together.
Question 9: "Aero," the GUI introduced with Windows Vista, stands for which of the following?
Correct Answer: Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, and Open
Question 10: Which of these commands will install Windows 2000 Server?
Correct Answer: A and B
Question 11: Which of the following network protocols requires a terminator?
Correct Answer: 10Base5
Question 12: An example of diametrically opposed alignments in AD&D would be:
Correct Answer: CE vs. LG
Your Answer: CE vs. LG
Paladins vs. anti-Paladins or maybe just snarky journalists. Don't feel bad if you didn’t get this -- it just means you were having sex in high school.
Question 13: On a Windows NT network, what is the maximum name size for a client computer?
Correct Answer: 15
Your Answer: 15
Question 14: To restart the printer daemon for a Linux printer, you’ll use the command:
Correct Answer: Restart [printer name]
Question 15: What is an Active Directory forest?
Correct Answer: A group of domains that share a common schema
Question 16: To which politician do we attribute the quote: "The Internet is a great way to get on the Net"?
Correct Answer: Bob Dole
Question 17: The Tombstone-Lifetime Attribute represents which of the following:
Correct Answer: The number of days before a deleted objected is removed from directory services
Your Answer: The number of days before a deleted objected is removed from directory services
Question 18: What early example of an Internet viral video phenom was used in the "Ally McBeal" TV series in 1998?
Correct Answer: The Dancing Baby
Your Answer: The Dancing Baby
Question 19: A MIB contains status information for which protocol?
Correct Answer: SNMP
Question 20: Which of the following has the best chance to protect your users' identities?
Correct Answer: Spyware detector
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
This is when "normal" people are sitting around drinking and one of them points out a beer bottle is brown cause it blocks sunlight, and the rest of them chide him or her for being a "geek". And then they have a hearty laugh when the newly labeled geek seems to have forgotten their otherwise inevitable pocket protector, because that is a hilarious joke to make about a geek.
That's what a normal person decomposes a geek into. That's the signal they get. The rest is noise. You're so lonely sitting there with your xterm flashing green text. No matter how bright you make your screen session, it will always be a jumble of Hollywood Hacker to the normal guy, sipping his domestic beer.
I encourage you, actual-geek, to hide in the noise that you will never be noticed in. For it is the curtain that masks you from the mundane torture that is experiencing a meal for the four remaining senses (you abused your rights to experience touch) -- a meal for the common man, pre-processed delicious monotony.
slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
Question 0: How do you set up a website to survive the Slashdot effect?
Looks like InfoWorld failed the Geek IQ test... Question 1. How much bandwidth do you need to avoid getting slashdotted?
"But hos and tricks." As you can see, their contributions are immensely valuable to modern culture.
...would increment the score several times, if you hit the Next button repeatedly. So I wrote a Selenium test to hammer it as many times as it could before the next page loaded.
I managed to get "1019% Geek".
Which sounds about right, come to thin of it...
Scoring high wont help with your Mensa application.
And if you don't know what Mensa is, you should probably avoid this trivia test.
... slashdotted?
I can see why they call it a "geek" test, what with geeks being the aspirational losers of the intellectual landscape, and this test mainly being about useless trivia. A "nerd" test would contain more substantive questions, you know, stuff that matters. Sure, many nerds would ace this geek trivia quiz, but the geeks would be lost on the nerd quiz.
... and then they built the supercollider.
My attempt at trying out the quiz failed miserably..
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I guess using Linux and pop-up blockers make me fail the quiz automatically..
Ok, this stuff is all new(er) than what I would put on a computer geek test. How about some pre-MS-DOS stuff (Linux is *NOT* pre MS-DOS!).
that knowledge does not equate to intelligence.
An übergeek knows life, the universe and everything, including Windows.
With the exception of the vagina. Being born through one doesn't count. Nor does a fleshlight.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Being able to recall a bunch of facts is not the same thing as the ability to make logical deductions, work out the answers to problems or make the link between cause and effect. All this test does is check a persons memory - which is less important these days with search engines and knowledge bases. What would make a better test would be to present a problem and see how people deduce the answer, not just discover how much time they waste reading industry publications.
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
Apparently missing this question
Q) If you have a website, and have a Geek test, and this gets slashdotted, what sort of increase in traffic would you expect, and how would you cope.
I cannot get to the quiz!
I unblocked each site listed in NoScript, one at a time, and still couldn't get the quiz.
I wasn't going to fuck with my ABP filters just to see a stupid quiz.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
A geek is a side show freak that eats live animals or non food objects as part of his/her act. I'm an IT Professional and didn't spend two decades in constant study and certification to be compared to a side show act.
Why we continue to use this word to describe ourselves as professionals or accept it is beyond me. When confronted with it, I make a point of educating people who use it that it is offensive.
We really need to stop using this word. You wouldn't tell a friend you are going to refer him to your Plastic Surgery "Quack" or your Personal Injury "Shyster".
Question 10: Which of these commands will install Windows 2000 Server?
Correct Answer: A and B
*inserts Windows 2000 Server CD*
*Restarts computer*
*Waits for CD to boot*
*Types the letter A followed by return*
*Types the letter B followed by return*
*Waits*
*dies of old age*
..to crash the test?!!
*** Don't be dull.***
Question 11: Which of the following network protocols requires a terminator?
The protocol is extermination of all humans.
The "network" - if it can be called that - is Skynet.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
get over yourself... words evolve, so should we
The life, the universe and everything quesiton was asked in 2009 version.
How about a realdoll?
Never trust an atom. They make up everything.
And what's with all the Windows questions?
Trade magazine shilling for $$$ + abusive monopolist = lot's of free advertising and concocted credibility
Is the first part of the test to restart the web server?
Yea! Desktop wienie, sysad-ork or laptop schlep is much more appropriate than geek. I haven't seen an IT guy bite the head off of a live chicken or swallow live goldfish since 2003. That stereotype is long dead. Lets get with the times folks!
Don't kid yourself. It's the size of the regexp AND how you use it that counts.
Aw... go cry to your diaper-changing milk-secreter.
WOT (Waste of time)
Only because I don't have a personal surgon or a lawyer. Though I'm far more likely to use "shark" instead of "Shyster".
"Geek" is used because it's a pejorative word. It means it causes revulsion in normal people, just like the guy that bites the heads off chickens. Ie, glasses are taped up, elbows hit other people when dancing, eats boogers, etc. A "nerd" is someone who's obsessed with one subject, like an anime nerd, a star trek nerd, a math nerd, etc (obsessed with more than is normal or more than is necessary for a job).
If you took certificate tests, you probably are neither a nerd nor a geek. You're mainstream corporate. However, if you to make a point of educating people about it, thus abandoning social norms, then that brings you back into geekdom.
Of course, these terms are regional, both in space and time.
When you click the link it says "access denied you may need to register to access this content" Then it says "No new registrations" I just wasted 2 minutes of my life. :(
A person of your advanced age and wisdom, such as myself, should already know that oftentimes we take words which were originally intended to denigrate, hurt, insult and belittle and turn them into a quasi-badge of honor, of membership, of belonging to a group of people who are, on average, extremely intelligent, professional, and frankly make those peoples' little world go round.
I actually get more praise these days from acknowledging and reveling in my geekness and my nerditude than I ever get in derision.
"A government is a body of people usually -- notably -- ungoverned." -Shepherd Book
I was unable to take the test because it required me to enable javascript for websites that I do not trust. Heck, I don't really trust the main site either, but I was willing to for the sake of the test.
That's as far as my trust goes - sorry. I'm not THAT stupid.
Allow sharethis.com? no
Allow industrybrains.com? no
Allow dl-rms.com? no
Allow demandbase.com? no
Allow doubleclick.com? no
Allow googleadservices? no
Forbid inforworld? yes!
Wow, in true dork form you display your insecurities for everyone to see.
I'm guessing you're the type that goes nuts every time you're fired for incompetence.
It's called reappropriation.
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It was a question about viral videos and year 1998. With knowledge of those you could probably (didn't take the quiz myself so I don't know all the options... Just read the questions and the right answers from another post) answer the question... Though I guess that having actually know the Ally McBeal trivia could have earned geek cred (Not every TV series had popculture references to internet videos 12 years ago, so it could have been borderline interesting at the time)
Anyways... I was more put off by the "Computer (Windows) geek trivia quiz" being labeled as "IQ Test". A person who doesn't care about the distinction between IQ and the amount of trivia memorized isn't a geek by my standards.
The quiz fails because it fails to load with Firefox, using nosript and adblock. Hell even after "temporarily allow all scripts on this page" it failed to load and I saw that "firefox has blocked 2 popups." So the quiz procedure self selects rather aggressively against allowing geeks to take the quiz at all.
But I pass because obviously the REAL test was this: if you are a genuine geek you won't even take the test because you can't stand to "temporarily allow doubleclick.com."
-- QED
42.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
Apparently the quiz is to rewrite their Quiz to be more scalable.
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An übergeek knows life, the universe and everything, including Windows.
With the exception of the vagina. Being born through one doesn't count. Nor does a fleshlight.
42.
"How many keys are on a Timex-Sinclair 1000 keyboard?" is a fair trivia question, but I'm not sure I'd use that to measure Donald Knuth's computer geek credentials. Windows-only questions are no different. You either have a job where you have to use Windows, or you don't.
Hey no need to insult sideshow performers regardless of your feelings about being associated with them in your mind by the term 'Geek'. I get the impression that you don't appreciate the hard work and training required for their profession
Infoworld == completely offline. Putting up a "geek test" is like dangling the red flag before a bull. Well done, /.
I dispute that. You do learn *something* from downloading all that porn!
10base2 requires terminators at each end of the coax. 50ohm I believe.
My sysadmin bit the head off a banana this morning...
Here's to hot beer, cold women, and Glaswegian kisses for all.
About your title...
G**k - Like N****r to me"
Really? You think those terms are comparable?
There are a small number of offensive slurs that are can legitimately be considered to be in the ball park of the infamous "N-Word".
There are a larger number of terms and slurs that I hear people *claim* are analagous to the infamous slur, even though I personally think they are overreacting. I usually let those slide, even if I think it's quite a stretch.
However, finding "geek" to be that offensive is just unfathomable. I see that said, "to me", to show that this may be merely your personal opinions. In a similar vein, anyone claiming that a word like "geek" is analogous to the N-Bomb seems like an over-sensitive prat, "to me".
"Geek" is used because it's a pejorative word. It means it causes revulsion in normal people, just like the guy that bites the heads off chickens. Ie, glasses are taped up, elbows hit other people when dancing, eats boogers, etc. A "nerd" is someone who's obsessed with one subject, like an anime nerd, a star trek nerd, a math nerd, etc (obsessed with more than is normal or more than is necessary for a job).
For the most part, "Nerd" and "Geek" are used as close to synonyms. In fact, I've seen the difference explained nearly exactly as you just did, but reversed the words associated with each group. Most, though perhaps not all, prefer "Geek" to "Nerd" when referring to themselves, and find the other more offensive, even though those who don't self-identify seem less likely not to care about any imagined distinction.
To think "Geek" is less desirable because of the origins is rather silly, since I'd wager that the vast majority of people who use the word are not even aware of the origin. Word meanings change. My experience has been that the word "geek" has lost a lot of it's baggage, and has even gained a certain air of respect from a growing subculture that self identifies as geeks, or at the very least will admit to an interest in certain things that they will describe as being geeky. Once in a while, you may even hear phrases like, "geek chic" being thrown around.
Words change. Sometimes so much that words that were originally merely literally descriptive become derogatory, or words that were derogatory can even become complimentary (or reverse).
An example that I like is the word "Nimrod." It was traditionally used as a non-derogatory term applied to hunters. However, due to the changes in usage (believed by some to be inspired by the ironic usage by Bugs Bunny), it turned into an insulting term.
question 19 is stupid -
> A MIB contains status information for which protocol?
the MIB file is the schema (like IDL for CORBA) for a set of related managed objects, it does not "contain" any "status"; anyways the managed objects can relate to any protocol, not just SNMP.
sheesh.
Memorizing facts alone does not reflect one's *intelligence* quotient.
The designers of this IQ test clearly had low IQs.
I guess the first question would be "what kind of infrastructure requirements are needed for an online resource that will be of immediate and sudden newsworthy interest to Nerds?"
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Yes I do think that they are "comparable" in the truest sense of the word. Both are terms that were used to slur and deride and were cause for personal pain. Both are words that were re-appropriated by those so labeled with the same excuses of 'taking it back'. And both are terms that are slowly be phased out by those same groups as they realize that 'taking them back' wasn't worth the degrading themselves in the process.
I can understand your finding it unfathomable, because you may not have experienced the same emotions associated with them, or may not have had to endure endless taunting. Just like as a Caucasian, I can never fully understand how it may feel to be called the N-word. But it doesn't repulse me any less to hear it. If understanding that makes me an over-sensitive prat, so be it - especially since it's only "to you".
Nowhere did I insult or demean sideshow performers. Like any performer, it takes training and skills.
what about quad CCIE's
I was born via c-section, you insensitive clod.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
A person of your advanced age and wisdom would have understood that you did that in SPITE of the usage, not because of it. You learned that you were good with who you were. I have too, to a certain point, but I still find the terms geek and nerd offensive and think that we should know better than to use them ourselves. It hasn't worked with other derisive terms, why should these be any different.
Evolving would be preferable. Evolving would be not using derisive terms to refer to oneself. He if you want to be referred to as a nerd or a geek - go right ahead, by all means.
Despite illusions in the media and hollywood to the contrary. Sideshow performers don't like to be called freaks, or to be lumped together under two small aspects of their varied performances. Just like I would think not all IT Professionals like to have their careers truncated by someone saying their job is "computer programming".
I apologize if I read more vehemence in your statement than had been intended.
- A geek knows Windows inside and out.
That might be true up to 95 or so, and only if said geek is old enough to have experienced these times. Later, GNU/Linux became so ubiquitous in geekdom that knowing the answers for this test is actually a hint that you are not a real geek. Personally, I find the old Geek Quiz much more entertaining.
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It is back up so i looked to see what would happen if it was aced. Pretty funny regarding your love life..
You got 20 of 20 correct.
Your score: 100%
Geek guru: You don't need energy drinks, the Cheetos have grown into your beard, and you no longer worry about the opposite sex because that's in meatspace.
The truth shall set you free!
http://www.oneplusyou.com/bb/geek?score=1337 my score
The quiz linked to by the parent requires you to register with a singles site to get the answers.
A geek is a side show freak that eats live animals or non food objects as part of his/her act.
It takes an etymology geek to know such a thing. ;-)
Side-track tangent: "Villain" was originally a word meaning, "Servant". (In the stories told among the privileged long ago, the bad guys were the powerless who got fed up being slaves and attempt to usurp the land owners and property holders who effectively own them. -Which makes Superman a tool and Batman a hypocrite).
Language evolves, and opposing it is like trying to fight the wind.
-FL
Intelligence Elite did the following: "During the last two years people from all over the world took the MV2G IQ test of Intelligent Elite. The test consists of 315 questions of different difficulty and different types (Verbal, logical, mathematical & visual). The test could be taken as a Facebook application, a Twitter application or on the website of IntelligentElite.com. For each test taker the country, the specialization, the age, the gender, the operating system and the browser used was recorded. Thus the IQ obtained could be aggregated and correlated to the information collected. One of the most interesting statistics that is visible is the differences between Apple and PC users." The resulting IQ rankings by platform:
1. IPad users
2. Linux users
3. Apple users
4. Windows users
http://www.intelligentelite.com/blog/it-is-finally-proven-apple-users-are-more-intelligent-than-pc-users/ [intelligentelite.com]
I deny that I have not avoided attaining the opposite of that which I do not want.
It felt like the quiz was given by comic book guy fresh out of MCSE school with a sarcastic, spitty, snorting laugh coupled spastic eye-roll after each incorrect answer to an obscure MS buzzword soup test. Ok, fine, I admit it, I only got 35% but I'm not bitter.
!hoD
And I apologize if I wasn't clearer. As a fan of Penn and Teller; who have done quite a bit to prmote classic sideshow acts, I didn't mean to offend.
Stupid quiz is stupid.
ROTFLMAO. Only if you're shallow enough to believe that your choice of OS's determines if you are a geek or not. Actual Real Geeks, laugh at such pretenders.
Well, in my opinion, I think it has worked with these terms. I have a fourteen year old daughter and I kinda keep track of her and her friends on Facebook; by doing so, I get a little more insight on what that generation views people who are called nerds and geeks and with my daughter and amongst her friends and other people I knew from previous jobs and so on, the terms are used with very little negative connotation.
I didn't mean to sound condescending towards you, I hope you didn't interpret it that way, BTW.
"A government is a body of people usually -- notably -- ungoverned." -Shepherd Book
said I owned an iPhone.
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Well, I'd definitely have to concede that it may well be generational, and I'd also have to say that in that aspect, the comparison I made doesn't hold up. Certainly, your daughter and her friends wouldn't be likely to be using the the n-word with the same intent. (BTW, thanks for your clarification - though I'd didn't take it that way, it's nice of you to make sure. And while we're on the love fest thing, that is an awesome sig!)
thanks... so stop telling people it offends everyone.. becuase it doesnt.. if it offends you, tell them it offends you... don't try and place a social stigma on it, by comparing it to a racial epithet.
Whats next, getting the ACLU on Slashdot, since it sais "news for nerds"? I here Jesse Jackson isn't busy right now... or would Urkle be your spokesperson?
Seems to be mostly "Sys Admin Geek IQ Test".
Fucking Windows, how does it work?
Let me tell you ... I don't care.
Agreed, choose the right tool for the job.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Just a bunch of windows network protocol questions. Apparently us hardware engineers are equivalent to pom pom wielding cheerleaders.
Being born through one doesn't count.
I was a c-section you insensitive clod!
Uh uh - villain and villein both come from villa, it's true, but it's the latter that was a category of feudal tenant land lessee (usually obliged to provide some hours of work or some measure of produce to the feudal lord lessor, and bound to the estate for the length of the lease, but otherwise free) while villain is used in the sense of someone living in a villa -- a boorish rustic person.
Uh uh - villain and villein both come from villa, it's true, but it's the latter that was a category of feudal tenant land lessee (usually obliged to provide some hours of work or some measure of produce to the feudal lord lessor, and bound to the estate for the length of the lease, but otherwise free) while villain is used in the sense of someone living in a villa -- a boorish rustic person.
Heck, I was just quoting trivia which was shared with me by another language geek, so I'm afraid I'm not informed enough to do anything but say, "Really? Interesting! From one perspective that actually makes more sense. I figured it would have been the peasantry who would have been telling myths and stories about evil guys with thin mustaches, and why would they cast themselves in the role?"
But the point is that somebody responded with something interesting. Being a geek is FUN because it's about really getting into a subject, largely for the sheer fascination value of it.
"Geek" is a great word!
I wonder what Wayne and Stark would have to say?
-FL
91% Geek And no, you don't have to register on that site, just click "No Thanks". Who blindly clicks on stuff, and does signing up lower your score?
Rustic peasants may have been telling stories about annoying urbanites, sure, but they weren't writing things down nearly as much as the urbanites were. It was city people who called country bumpkins -- and in particular the lord of the villa (or estate or manor) -- "villains" as a pejorative.
This sort of prejudice carries on to the present with respect to the class of people who own extensive properties, live in old huge houses, who might be rich, and yet are interested in nothing other than shooting animals and riding horses (or both simultaneously) and so are woefully ignorant of the wider world to the extent that urban people expect things like a casual racism brought on by having no (or very little) experience of people with different skin tones. Acting on those racist assumptions would be "villainy", even today, right?
Wow, living up to your nym, aren't you?
Just in caese your short term memory is affected, try reading the title of the post. Which part of that says it offends everyone?
Since your argument seems to be limited to ad hominem attacks, I think I'll move on to a more reasoned discussion.
Correlation. Not Causation. You know, there's a difference.
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Why we continue to use this word to describe ourselves as professionals or accept it is beyond me. When confronted with it, I make a point of educating people who use it that it is offensive.
See, it seems to me you are talking about a group, not just yourself.. but I digress, it was a slow day at the office, and slashdot didn't provide me with entertainment. So I decided to make my own by finding a comment I didn't agree with. You happened to be the last comment posted.
Yes, I am talking about a group - no I am not so egotistical to think that I am speaking for the entire population of technical people all over the world. I'll spell that out; if it wasn't clear to you, I hope this recitfies that.
A number of posts in this thread agreed in some way with what I said. Those would be the 'we' I am referring to. Since there were posts on the other side of the coin, you have your 'we' as well.
I also understand that some people come here purely for entertainment purposes; I do sometimes myself, but when I do I do so with an obvious punchline or humorous reference. If I missed yours, I'm sorry.