Would You Open Your Home To a Hacker – For Free?

coondoggie writes "What do you get when you mix access to Google's ultra-fast fiber network and old fashioned grass roots business ideas? Well, in this case you'd get someone living on your couch for free for three months. This week a group calling itself the 'Kansas City Hacker Homes' launched a program that calls on the good folks of Kansas City to open up their homes to entrepreneurs and developers who would live and work there for a period of three months, rent and utility free. They have to buy their own food."

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Hell no

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

This is the same pool you'd be drawing from:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57495650-83/sexism-and-the-single-hacker-defcons-feminist-moment/

In general its a bad idea to open your house for a stranger, but especially with this subgroup.

No. "Computer Enthusiast," Yes. "Hacker," No

[RobotRunAmok]

Sorry, proto-geeks: Language Evolves. "Hacker" now equals "Guy Who Does Bad Things With Computer." And really, no amount of slashdot user-submitted headlines and sympathetic editors is going to change that. You'd have better luck returning "geek" to it's original meaning. (Look it up.)