Does it bother anyone that this article compounds bad statistics with flagrant misunderstanding of the net?
For instance: If the web is *growing* and the portals are *growing*, then the smaller sites are garnering more hits and a larger audience as well!
Who would have thought we'd see the old rich-get-richer argument on the web? So what, they get an increasing percentage of eyeballs? Everyone else gets an increasing *number* of eyeballs, and the will continue as long as the "virtual economy" continues to expand. Must we create class divisions where none exists?
Did anyone look at NetRating's top ten? Seven of them are portals, and only Yahoo can make the claim that it's the only place you need go. This is akin to saying:
"Well yes, New York, gets more tourists then ever before, but look! 40% of them go to this one visitor information booth"! Geez, more people are looking for instructions on where else to go? Sounds like a crisis! Alert the media!
"Should this trend accelerate",... says some Xerox Parc researcher, looking up from his Mac II, "The web could contract into a superdense web of virtual fibers around Yahoo and its sattelites. Their mega-content model would then take on a very ironic twist as their web servers would then collapse into an embryonic black hole." Professor speilman paused, lost in thought. "Of course, this might affect their future streaming content, and possibly destroy California."
In other news, the DLA (Destroy Los Angeles) released a communique, threatening to leave their browsers on Yahoo until their demands are met. Local officials remain unruffled, saying that Los Angeles will remain the best city to live in in the nation, even if in a Black Hole. Mayor Chomsky declared a state of "mild alarm", and anticipating DLA's success, petitioned for a renaming of the city to "Philadelphia".
How about a combination of the existing words and... hmm, what's close to hacking... espionage!
So a White Hack (no er?) is benign or benenficial and a Black Hack is malignant. If you're a White Hack you do White Hacks. I personally believe that Hacker was originally one who "Hacks" through boundaries like red tape or proprietary code. Going back to WWII, "Cracker" meant password breaker. I personally like Code Monkey and Computer Geek, though none have that poetic meaning that hacker has. You need a phrase that distills the hacker need to break artificial walls. Something like;
Deprogrammer, Code Spy vs Code Demon, Prober vs Attacker, Ferret (ed) vs Dark Ferret, Passive Hacker vs Active Hacker (Active Xer? Xman?),
Ahacker? I tacker? Eyetacker? Eyeprober? Ghost hacker vs Demonizing (Possesing, possesor?) or Daemon... lots of possibilities (exorcize?), Geek of Darkness, (Grey, white, black) Infiltration, infiltrator, (GWB) Geek, Termite? Miscegnate? Deviate? Undermine? I say take back Cipher, but maybe that's too Matrixey.
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Does it bother anyone that this article compounds bad statistics with flagrant misunderstanding of the net?
For instance: If the web is *growing* and the portals are *growing*, then the smaller sites are garnering more hits and a larger audience as well!
Who would have thought we'd see the old rich-get-richer argument on the web? So what, they get an increasing percentage of eyeballs? Everyone else gets an increasing *number* of eyeballs, and the will continue as long as the "virtual economy" continues to expand. Must we create class divisions where none exists?
Did anyone look at NetRating's top ten? Seven of them are portals, and only Yahoo can make the claim that it's the only place you need go. This is akin to saying:
"Well yes, New York, gets more tourists then ever before, but look! 40% of them go to this one visitor information booth"! Geez, more people are looking for instructions on where else to go? Sounds like a crisis! Alert the media!
"Should this trend accelerate",... says some Xerox Parc researcher, looking up from his Mac II, "The web could contract into a superdense web of virtual fibers around Yahoo and its sattelites. Their mega-content model would then take on a very ironic twist as their web servers would then collapse into an embryonic black hole." Professor speilman paused, lost in thought. "Of course, this might affect their future streaming content, and possibly destroy California."
In other news, the DLA (Destroy Los Angeles) released a communique, threatening to leave their browsers on Yahoo until their demands are met. Local officials remain unruffled, saying that Los Angeles will remain the best city to live in in the nation, even if in a Black Hole. Mayor Chomsky declared a state of "mild alarm", and anticipating DLA's success, petitioned for a renaming of the city to "Philadelphia".
So a White Hack (no er?) is benign or benenficial and a Black Hack is malignant. If you're a White Hack you do White Hacks. I personally believe that Hacker was originally one who "Hacks" through boundaries like red tape or proprietary code. Going back to WWII, "Cracker" meant password breaker. I personally like Code Monkey and Computer Geek, though none have that poetic meaning that hacker has. You need a phrase that distills the hacker need to break artificial walls. Something like;
Deprogrammer, Code Spy vs Code Demon, Prober vs Attacker, Ferret (ed) vs Dark Ferret, Passive Hacker vs Active Hacker (Active Xer? Xman?),
Ahacker? I tacker? Eyetacker? Eyeprober? Ghost hacker vs Demonizing (Possesing, possesor?) or Daemon ... lots of possibilities (exorcize?), Geek of Darkness, (Grey, white, black) Infiltration, infiltrator, (GWB) Geek, Termite? Miscegnate? Deviate? Undermine? I say take back Cipher, but maybe that's too Matrixey.