A 'medic' was allegedly pulled over a barricade because he was holding Scissors; I'm not sure what happened with the other two. People were off the Sidewalk ALL day through 6pm EST without genuine interference by authorities, though when the main group split at one point there was rumor that a few more got picked up when they stayed behind at the White House and authorities weren't so overwhelmed by numbers. Otherwise, the protest was fairly benign as far as Police action until someone threw a foam ball over the fence at the White House shortly after dusk; The Police line began shoving a few protesters and throwing a camera or two on the ground while the bomb dogs checked the inside of the fence.
I understood it to mean 'Most attacks will be thwarted by the router setup,' as it is less likely that he was implying there would be a greater amount of physical or local threats.
The Pledge of Allegiance isn't part of the Naturalization Oath of Citizenship, though it is a shame though that a generic civil pride expression got hijacked by religion.
I dunno, that whole swearing to a monarchy in the Oath of Citizenship sounds pretty weird to me. I can see a pledge of allegiance to my wife, indoor plumbing, or Cheese, but a monarchy?
No such luck. The entirety of the collection was lost to the elements during Andrew in '92 (along with more Golden and Silver age comics than I like to recall). A tornado took out the end of the house in Cutler Ridge, Superman #202 the lone survivor of the collection because I happened to be reading it that night.
It takes different strokes.
Possibly you don't appreciate the story because you're not familiar with older plot lines from 30 years ago that are quietly addressed. Possibly you've never read any of the well written books from that time either. Possibly you like Mango Ice cream or Kardashian's when everyone else is going 'yuck.' It's television. If you don't get it, don't hurt your brain trying to figure it out. Some people simply have different tastes, and your perception of lame is someone else's uber. It's perfectly reasonable to hate the old black and white shows, specific Doctors, or the entirety of the show, but it's not a mathematical proof that can be explained to you in hopes that one day you'll understand (especially since you've already walked into the conversation with the idea that Dr. Who blows monkey chunks).
My Uncle has been taping the show since it's inception, and he owns every book that came out prior to 1992. He's hated every single Doctor since 8, and calls the current show all manner of names. He'd agree with you that everything currently playing is garbage, but then again, he thinks the only good think on TV these days is H20.
One advantage is that someone that isn't a quantum physics mega loser nerds gets to update the Wikipedia entry on Quantum Networking, thus creating self gratification in contribution to something Quantum.
I'd make some cocoa and lightly mourn the fact that you and so many other ignorant people resort to fear mongering to find fulfillment. Shoulda, coulda, woulda...I'm not going to live my life terrorized by the fact that your opinion can only be properly expressed when you live and rage Anonymously.
All the comments about Monsanto and bad practices by entities involved in GMO, I'm rather fond of the microRNA and the whole "You are what you eat" idea.
We've a good general idea of what is healthy and poisonous as far as food because we've been eating plants and animals for thousands of years. Now screw around with the genetics of these things, and we might not detect and observe catastrophic changes for several generations before it's too late.
Imagine someone coming up with a weaponized plant(s) that was programmed to slowly alter and eventually 'kill | sterilize | nefarious thing' a particular genetic subset of the human race. Now what if they did it by accident and didn't realize? Either way is rather scary.
As far as food goes, there are plenty of ways to grow food that don't involve mass producing GMO crops.
There are amazing Hydro/Aqua/Bioponic solutions that are easily constructed and deployed, some of them like Podponics (podponics.com) in Atlanta utilizing trailers to do indoor growing. By utilizing individually managed trailers in conjunction it is easier to grow crops while inhibiting and preventing spoilage from pests, disease and the inclements than traditional farming methods, be they monoculture or otherwise . Meanwhile there is plenty of underutilized roof space around the world, as well as places that can implement vertical gardening or see the re-purposing of facilities such as abandoned or extended public transit tunnels in larger cities. These things are easy to implement, they just need the funding and the desire, and big corporations aren't as beholden to 'helping out' as they are to seeing high market cap.
If the world starves, it's not because GMO was the only way.
If you have one or two very strong certifications, like CCIE, they'll help you. Not much, far less than a degree, but they're a positive factor. I'm not every employer, but I'll never turn someone away for lack of a technical certification.
On the other hand, if you have 10 weak certifications (CCNA, MCSE, A+, Security+, etc.) and you list them all, that's a big negative. Huge.
Employers/hiring manager/HR are all different in their methods and perceptions. I was hired for one of the best Corporate Tech gigs I've ever had in first interviews wearing jeans with holes ripped in the knee that were big enough for a plate. I've also been turned away from a tech job because I had a top button in a dress shirt undone once; These are superficial things. If there isn't any glaring issue in a Resume that shows a lack of time and review, I'm more likely to turn people away for objectionable content on their Facebook account than I am because of the lack/addition or structure of resume content.
With ~30,000 CCIE's out there, I think most employers with any form of large scale networking would take notice at seeing such a listing on a resume. When I see someone who has a CCNA I'm comfortable believing that whether they remember a trivial line for IP SSH Authentication retries off the top of their head or not, that within 2 weeks of being in the work environment they will have refreshed their memory on the things they've already been familiar with. They might not know anything about BGP besides its name, but they have a framework for future learning and can adapt since its obvious they have at least a base understanding of using the CLI.
Doers do. They rarely bother with certifications and even if they do they have far more important things to tell me to sacrifice the space on their resume to such trivia.
This probably has more to do with the fact that they're already comfortably employed. Nobody wants to go spend money and time on a cert that expires every few years if they're not likely to see a pay increase for doing what they normally do; This especially applies to people who are able to transition to new positions without a cert because they are reasonably able to demonstrate to a coworker/superior that they can XXXXX. I have expired certifications for various things that I will never renew, but their expiration hasn't stopped me from listing them when I've needed work in the past. Just like any other degree or cert, they're a sign that I can play the game while also giving someone a further impression of past experience.
Interviews that solely parallel proselytization by a religious fundamentalist with every obscure question and answer from their point of view covered are often a waste of time.
Jack Donaghy: Your magic jeans are from BDL? Oh Lemon, it's not hand-made in USA, it's pronounced Hand-made in Usa. The Hand people are a Vietnamese slave tribe and Usa is their island prison. They made your jeans. You know how they get the stitching so small?
[puts hands to mouth and whispers]
Jack Donaghy: orphans.
You're talking about Lionbridge. Leapforce isn't capped in the same way, but it has a lower rate of pay. Individual raters see limited hours at first, but as long as you perform well there is usually way more than 40+ hours.
This isn't news, as old versions of the General Guidelines have been leaked to the public before.
As someone who has spent $$ on the LoTR machine between New Orleans, Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Biloxi and Cherokee, I was outraged that it wasn't nearly as much fun as most of the Monopoly slot games. That said, it had familiar imagery, fun sounds, pretty lights, and multipliers that are saved through progressive play. (That means I can save my multiplier from city to city, with months in between play. When it comes to slot machines, that's pretty fucking awesome.)
I first read The Hobbit more than 25 years ago, and could be considered somewhat a fan of the body of related works since most people have a hard time reading through a book once, much less several times. I didn't enjoy the movies because my imagination is so much more brilliant than Peter Jackson could ever match, but I've no problem with a silly little game. It's a little pricey compared to 'Invaders from Planet Moo-lah,' but I don't mind spending $20 on it when I see it on a Casino floor.
I started reading this post and thought INTJ myself. Googling says Zuckerberg is an INTJ, Steve Jobs an ENTJ, with a whole lot of non-Mastermind opinion on what the President may be.
Personally I buy 2-5 of everything so I don't need to worry about changing my 'look.' It's obvious that I care about my 'look' since I took the time to determine what it was, but beyond initial determination I don't care. Having multiple copies of clothes enables the 'same' shirt or pants with regularity without resorting to wearing dirty clothes. Were I to wear a pair of shorts 2 days in a row at home, who the hell notices? It's not any different than choosing profile images or appearance of an Avatar; Aside from shaving and general cleanliness, I don't ever need to think about my look while being readily identifiable and presentable at all times.
It's not the clothes that I'm concerned about. There are far larger matters at stake every day of our lives as one day we will die, and the best that we can hope for is that we leave a better world for friends, family and other people to live in.
This area isn't so gray, nor is it of significant proportions such that there is a need to make a mountain out of a mole hill.
I can misuse gasoline (or a number of other things) as easily I could a firearm, but that doesn't mean we should prohibit the sale of fuel at the gas station because people can tap their credit card and go home to make dangerous/explosive materials.
Making guns illegal or difficult to access isn't going to stop anybody who is truly committed to atrocity. People are going to suck; Try to make the world a better place anyways.
I don't think it is fair to trivialize the earlier Cisco exams, as whether you think CCNA and CCNP are simplistic or not, the fact of the matter is that you still need to know what you're doing when you take the exam. I've seen numerous people cheat their way through CCNA prep courses only to bomb on an actual Cert exam because they were a fail on doing anything beyond reaching Global Config.
CCIE? That's an expensive item to keep current, and those with the capability probably wouldn't be paying for that renewal themselves. A CCNA is much easier on the pocket for the individual, and due to the degree of difficulty/knowledge required I can probably rely on anyone with an active cert to have a clue or seven.
Whether the Trauma of FGM is a billion times worse than Male Circumcision is irrelevant, they're both forms of amputation. Cutting off a part of my body without my consent falls under my personal opinion of mutilation, and I will always feel a slight resentment towards my parents for making that choice with my body.
Saying that the US allowed Assanage to leave Sweden is like saying the US allowed Roman Polanski 30 years to board a different plane or leave the airport whenever he saw a US security detail waiting to pick him up.
As for conspiracies, why would the UK threaten to raid an Embassy, raising future doubt over the sovereignty of other Embassy situations? The UK is potentially willing to damage relations with Ecuador and other countries by violating the sanctity of an Embassy to pursue a rape case that disregards content from the original police incident reports. I'm not going to quantify the weight of the evils of rape versus other injustice, but given the circumstances, this is a pretty weak reason to cause an international scene. Neither of the alleged victims behaved much like a victim for the initial police reports, and as adults who consented to at least most of their evening & partying with Assanage, this is a far cry from taking advantage of an underage girl (child) as in Polanski's case.
So why the red notice from Interpol? Is Assanage a ranking member of a drug cartel, an arms dealer, or a sex Trafficker?
"Who decides that Julian Assanage is harmful?" It seems to be the US Government...
The real question should be is this a useful tool for education...Are tablets a good thing? Time will tell.
I am a full time student who also works 40+ hours a week, entirely by computer. Due to the nature of my work my arm is often physically exhausted from the amount of utilization of my mouse on a daily basis, decreasing my desire to use a computer for studying or personal time. I find that I am able to save myself a lot of physical frustration as well as find convenience in mobility by instead utilizing my tablet to read School books and other documents. I can hold it in whatever position I need to view it comfortably, navigating with ease in nearly any location I like with simple finger swipes; I can't say the same for my laptop or desktops.
My situation isn't atypical, either in supply of hardware to have such options or in the nature of work/life for most people, but that doesn't mean that it won't become the norm as the technology becomes more affordable and available. It might not be for everyone due to a number of factors, but I am able to accomplish a lot more reading on a daily basis due to the versatility/mobility provided by a tablet.
A proctor is irrelevant if students have crammed most of the answers in their heads such as you might find for CCNA course work. Most of the answers are the same for each test all throughout the course, the Final Exam for each portion being randomized from a bank of questions that are easily found via search engine.
The saving grace for something like that however is when the students go to take the actual Cisco cert and can't pass the practical portion because they can't remember anything past getting to Global Config.
You're erroneously linking interest in athletics to interest in colleges. While there are those who base their college choices on sports teams, for many people it is still about the Education and the Experience.
My freshman year at USF was also the inaugural year of our football team. I remember the commentary going around the campus newspaper about the money we were being offered by UF and FSU to play their football teams (not a prayer of winning). The whole thing would have been an embarrassment to our school for losing all season if we'd accepted offers like those, and looking back I still don't think that being offered the equivalent of 1/3rd of UF's CS department so that they could've won one more game in a season was a valid expenditure on their part, even for advertising "Look at us, we're the Gators! We aren't computer literate but we stomped all over that first year newb football team. They use computers, look what good it did them!"
I haven't read a fresh copy of 2600 in a very long time, but in picking up a random copy off the shelf (Fall 1998) there is an article on page 15 called 'Back Orifice Tutorial.' The article went on to describe basic social engineering skills and methodology for operating this software. There were are also several other articles of interest such as 'Screwing with Moviefone' and 'Screwing with Radio Shack & Compaq' in the particular issue, all of which seemed like they were aimed at script kiddies. As you mentioned, there are articles about undocumented functions of electronics and old school technical breakdowns, but by and large those articles probably aren't what were driving 2600 sales numbers. (After all, Emmanuel Goldstein did get name dropped by Cereal Killer in Hackers, and there was never a cooler movie than Hackers)
As far as the typical definition of hacker, things change, then CISCO makes it course material so that the next generation believes it.
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A 'medic' was allegedly pulled over a barricade because he was holding Scissors; I'm not sure what happened with the other two. People were off the Sidewalk ALL day through 6pm EST without genuine interference by authorities, though when the main group split at one point there was rumor that a few more got picked up when they stayed behind at the White House and authorities weren't so overwhelmed by numbers. Otherwise, the protest was fairly benign as far as Police action until someone threw a foam ball over the fence at the White House shortly after dusk; The Police line began shoving a few protesters and throwing a camera or two on the ground while the bomb dogs checked the inside of the fence.
I understood it to mean 'Most attacks will be thwarted by the router setup,' as it is less likely that he was implying there would be a greater amount of physical or local threats.
The Pledge of Allegiance isn't part of the Naturalization Oath of Citizenship, though it is a shame though that a generic civil pride expression got hijacked by religion.
I dunno, that whole swearing to a monarchy in the Oath of Citizenship sounds pretty weird to me. I can see a pledge of allegiance to my wife, indoor plumbing, or Cheese, but a monarchy?
No such luck. The entirety of the collection was lost to the elements during Andrew in '92 (along with more Golden and Silver age comics than I like to recall). A tornado took out the end of the house in Cutler Ridge, Superman #202 the lone survivor of the collection because I happened to be reading it that night.
It takes different strokes. Possibly you don't appreciate the story because you're not familiar with older plot lines from 30 years ago that are quietly addressed. Possibly you've never read any of the well written books from that time either. Possibly you like Mango Ice cream or Kardashian's when everyone else is going 'yuck.' It's television. If you don't get it, don't hurt your brain trying to figure it out. Some people simply have different tastes, and your perception of lame is someone else's uber. It's perfectly reasonable to hate the old black and white shows, specific Doctors, or the entirety of the show, but it's not a mathematical proof that can be explained to you in hopes that one day you'll understand (especially since you've already walked into the conversation with the idea that Dr. Who blows monkey chunks).
My Uncle has been taping the show since it's inception, and he owns every book that came out prior to 1992. He's hated every single Doctor since 8, and calls the current show all manner of names. He'd agree with you that everything currently playing is garbage, but then again, he thinks the only good think on TV these days is H20.
One advantage is that someone that isn't a quantum physics mega loser nerds gets to update the Wikipedia entry on Quantum Networking, thus creating self gratification in contribution to something Quantum.
I'd make some cocoa and lightly mourn the fact that you and so many other ignorant people resort to fear mongering to find fulfillment. Shoulda, coulda, woulda...I'm not going to live my life terrorized by the fact that your opinion can only be properly expressed when you live and rage Anonymously.
All the comments about Monsanto and bad practices by entities involved in GMO, I'm rather fond of the microRNA and the whole "You are what you eat" idea.
We've a good general idea of what is healthy and poisonous as far as food because we've been eating plants and animals for thousands of years. Now screw around with the genetics of these things, and we might not detect and observe catastrophic changes for several generations before it's too late.
Imagine someone coming up with a weaponized plant(s) that was programmed to slowly alter and eventually 'kill | sterilize | nefarious thing' a particular genetic subset of the human race. Now what if they did it by accident and didn't realize? Either way is rather scary.
As far as food goes, there are plenty of ways to grow food that don't involve mass producing GMO crops. There are amazing Hydro/Aqua/Bioponic solutions that are easily constructed and deployed, some of them like Podponics (podponics.com) in Atlanta utilizing trailers to do indoor growing. By utilizing individually managed trailers in conjunction it is easier to grow crops while inhibiting and preventing spoilage from pests, disease and the inclements than traditional farming methods, be they monoculture or otherwise . Meanwhile there is plenty of underutilized roof space around the world, as well as places that can implement vertical gardening or see the re-purposing of facilities such as abandoned or extended public transit tunnels in larger cities. These things are easy to implement, they just need the funding and the desire, and big corporations aren't as beholden to 'helping out' as they are to seeing high market cap.
If the world starves, it's not because GMO was the only way.
If you have one or two very strong certifications, like CCIE, they'll help you. Not much, far less than a degree, but they're a positive factor. I'm not every employer, but I'll never turn someone away for lack of a technical certification.
On the other hand, if you have 10 weak certifications (CCNA, MCSE, A+, Security+, etc.) and you list them all, that's a big negative. Huge.
Employers/hiring manager/HR are all different in their methods and perceptions. I was hired for one of the best Corporate Tech gigs I've ever had in first interviews wearing jeans with holes ripped in the knee that were big enough for a plate. I've also been turned away from a tech job because I had a top button in a dress shirt undone once; These are superficial things. If there isn't any glaring issue in a Resume that shows a lack of time and review, I'm more likely to turn people away for objectionable content on their Facebook account than I am because of the lack/addition or structure of resume content.
With ~30,000 CCIE's out there, I think most employers with any form of large scale networking would take notice at seeing such a listing on a resume. When I see someone who has a CCNA I'm comfortable believing that whether they remember a trivial line for IP SSH Authentication retries off the top of their head or not, that within 2 weeks of being in the work environment they will have refreshed their memory on the things they've already been familiar with. They might not know anything about BGP besides its name, but they have a framework for future learning and can adapt since its obvious they have at least a base understanding of using the CLI.
Doers do. They rarely bother with certifications and even if they do they have far more important things to tell me to sacrifice the space on their resume to such trivia.
This probably has more to do with the fact that they're already comfortably employed. Nobody wants to go spend money and time on a cert that expires every few years if they're not likely to see a pay increase for doing what they normally do; This especially applies to people who are able to transition to new positions without a cert because they are reasonably able to demonstrate to a coworker/superior that they can XXXXX. I have expired certifications for various things that I will never renew, but their expiration hasn't stopped me from listing them when I've needed work in the past. Just like any other degree or cert, they're a sign that I can play the game while also giving someone a further impression of past experience.
Interviews that solely parallel proselytization by a religious fundamentalist with every obscure question and answer from their point of view covered are often a waste of time.
Department of the Army Technical Manual TM 31-210, Improvised Munitions Book.
The 12 Gauge made from scratch starts on page 100 under Section 3, Number 2.
Jack Donaghy: Your magic jeans are from BDL? Oh Lemon, it's not hand-made in USA, it's pronounced Hand-made in Usa. The Hand people are a Vietnamese slave tribe and Usa is their island prison. They made your jeans. You know how they get the stitching so small?
[puts hands to mouth and whispers]
Jack Donaghy: orphans.
You're talking about Lionbridge.
Leapforce isn't capped in the same way, but it has a lower rate of pay. Individual raters see limited hours at first, but as long as you perform well there is usually way more than 40+ hours.
This isn't news, as old versions of the General Guidelines have been leaked to the public before.
As someone who has spent $$ on the LoTR machine between New Orleans, Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Biloxi and Cherokee, I was outraged that it wasn't nearly as much fun as most of the Monopoly slot games. That said, it had familiar imagery, fun sounds, pretty lights, and multipliers that are saved through progressive play. (That means I can save my multiplier from city to city, with months in between play. When it comes to slot machines, that's pretty fucking awesome.)
I first read The Hobbit more than 25 years ago, and could be considered somewhat a fan of the body of related works since most people have a hard time reading through a book once, much less several times. I didn't enjoy the movies because my imagination is so much more brilliant than Peter Jackson could ever match, but I've no problem with a silly little game. It's a little pricey compared to 'Invaders from Planet Moo-lah,' but I don't mind spending $20 on it when I see it on a Casino floor.
I started reading this post and thought INTJ myself. Googling says Zuckerberg is an INTJ, Steve Jobs an ENTJ, with a whole lot of non-Mastermind opinion on what the President may be.
Personally I buy 2-5 of everything so I don't need to worry about changing my 'look.' It's obvious that I care about my 'look' since I took the time to determine what it was, but beyond initial determination I don't care. Having multiple copies of clothes enables the 'same' shirt or pants with regularity without resorting to wearing dirty clothes. Were I to wear a pair of shorts 2 days in a row at home, who the hell notices? It's not any different than choosing profile images or appearance of an Avatar; Aside from shaving and general cleanliness, I don't ever need to think about my look while being readily identifiable and presentable at all times.
It's not the clothes that I'm concerned about. There are far larger matters at stake every day of our lives as one day we will die, and the best that we can hope for is that we leave a better world for friends, family and other people to live in.
This area isn't so gray, nor is it of significant proportions such that there is a need to make a mountain out of a mole hill.
I can misuse gasoline (or a number of other things) as easily I could a firearm, but that doesn't mean we should prohibit the sale of fuel at the gas station because people can tap their credit card and go home to make dangerous/explosive materials.
Making guns illegal or difficult to access isn't going to stop anybody who is truly committed to atrocity. People are going to suck; Try to make the world a better place anyways.
I don't think it is fair to trivialize the earlier Cisco exams, as whether you think CCNA and CCNP are simplistic or not, the fact of the matter is that you still need to know what you're doing when you take the exam. I've seen numerous people cheat their way through CCNA prep courses only to bomb on an actual Cert exam because they were a fail on doing anything beyond reaching Global Config.
CCIE? That's an expensive item to keep current, and those with the capability probably wouldn't be paying for that renewal themselves. A CCNA is much easier on the pocket for the individual, and due to the degree of difficulty/knowledge required I can probably rely on anyone with an active cert to have a clue or seven.
Whether the Trauma of FGM is a billion times worse than Male Circumcision is irrelevant, they're both forms of amputation. Cutting off a part of my body without my consent falls under my personal opinion of mutilation, and I will always feel a slight resentment towards my parents for making that choice with my body.
Saying that the US allowed Assanage to leave Sweden is like saying the US allowed Roman Polanski 30 years to board a different plane or leave the airport whenever he saw a US security detail waiting to pick him up.
As for conspiracies, why would the UK threaten to raid an Embassy, raising future doubt over the sovereignty of other Embassy situations? The UK is potentially willing to damage relations with Ecuador and other countries by violating the sanctity of an Embassy to pursue a rape case that disregards content from the original police incident reports. I'm not going to quantify the weight of the evils of rape versus other injustice, but given the circumstances, this is a pretty weak reason to cause an international scene. Neither of the alleged victims behaved much like a victim for the initial police reports, and as adults who consented to at least most of their evening & partying with Assanage, this is a far cry from taking advantage of an underage girl (child) as in Polanski's case.
So why the red notice from Interpol? Is Assanage a ranking member of a drug cartel, an arms dealer, or a sex Trafficker?
"Who decides that Julian Assanage is harmful?"
It seems to be the US Government...
Don't get caught.
I think a more important question is "Will I be able to keep my APM up in Starcraft 2?"
The real question should be is this a useful tool for education...Are tablets a good thing? Time will tell.
I am a full time student who also works 40+ hours a week, entirely by computer. Due to the nature of my work my arm is often physically exhausted from the amount of utilization of my mouse on a daily basis, decreasing my desire to use a computer for studying or personal time. I find that I am able to save myself a lot of physical frustration as well as find convenience in mobility by instead utilizing my tablet to read School books and other documents. I can hold it in whatever position I need to view it comfortably, navigating with ease in nearly any location I like with simple finger swipes; I can't say the same for my laptop or desktops.
My situation isn't atypical, either in supply of hardware to have such options or in the nature of work/life for most people, but that doesn't mean that it won't become the norm as the technology becomes more affordable and available. It might not be for everyone due to a number of factors, but I am able to accomplish a lot more reading on a daily basis due to the versatility/mobility provided by a tablet.
A proctor is irrelevant if students have crammed most of the answers in their heads such as you might find for CCNA course work. Most of the answers are the same for each test all throughout the course, the Final Exam for each portion being randomized from a bank of questions that are easily found via search engine.
The saving grace for something like that however is when the students go to take the actual Cisco cert and can't pass the practical portion because they can't remember anything past getting to Global Config.
You're erroneously linking interest in athletics to interest in colleges. While there are those who base their college choices on sports teams, for many people it is still about the Education and the Experience.
My freshman year at USF was also the inaugural year of our football team. I remember the commentary going around the campus newspaper about the money we were being offered by UF and FSU to play their football teams (not a prayer of winning). The whole thing would have been an embarrassment to our school for losing all season if we'd accepted offers like those, and looking back I still don't think that being offered the equivalent of 1/3rd of UF's CS department so that they could've won one more game in a season was a valid expenditure on their part, even for advertising "Look at us, we're the Gators! We aren't computer literate but we stomped all over that first year newb football team. They use computers, look what good it did them!"
I haven't read a fresh copy of 2600 in a very long time, but in picking up a random copy off the shelf (Fall 1998) there is an article on page 15 called 'Back Orifice Tutorial.' The article went on to describe basic social engineering skills and methodology for operating this software. There were are also several other articles of interest such as 'Screwing with Moviefone' and 'Screwing with Radio Shack & Compaq' in the particular issue, all of which seemed like they were aimed at script kiddies. As you mentioned, there are articles about undocumented functions of electronics and old school technical breakdowns, but by and large those articles probably aren't what were driving 2600 sales numbers. (After all, Emmanuel Goldstein did get name dropped by Cereal Killer in Hackers, and there was never a cooler movie than Hackers)
As far as the typical definition of hacker, things change, then CISCO makes it course material so that the next generation believes it.