Heh. That's not ranting. Trolling some, yeah. But you haven't seen me rant. I did not say I was a member of the hacker culture, but thank you for assuming I was.:-) And I don't have to get everyone to use 'hacker' correctly. Just one more person. TomG
Who owns the word, and who the majority is is irrelevant. The meaning is still the same. A hacker is not a computer criminal. This is not evolving language, this is perversion of language.
If slashdot doesn't stop linking to articles that says hackers are computer criminals, I'll stop reading slashdot. *sigh* Why? Because I expect Slashdot to link to truthful stories.
Hackers == A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. I'll act like an asshole if I like. And I _am_ dealing with it, and I will _not_ get over it.
Futility is irrelevant. And you assume I have to change everyone simultaneously. I don't. I only have to change one person. And then another. And then another.
Not only does Ziff Davis use 'hacker' incorrectly (expected), President Clinton use 'hack' incorrectly (thought he might know better). This fucking pisses me off. *ahem* *sigh*
At the federal (presidential?) level, 91 million dollars is pretty trivial.
TomG
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I did read the news. I hate it when companies/governments agencies ban things like GNU/Linux and SSH, so I hate it when they ban things like Windows 2000.
If China was banning GPG, what would your opinion be? A government ban on a software product is _wrong_. Doesn't matter if it's a ban on Windows, Back Orifice, GNU/Linux or PGP. This will do no one any good. But what do you expect out of a communist regime that has killed many millions?
Did the Australian government hire a bunch of crackers? Are they hiring crackers now? If they did, would we know about it? If the Australian government is allowed to break into computers, and the American military is looking for people with cracking skills, what are they both planning to do with it? Who is going to be the victim? To hackers, and crackers with some morals, I say: Don't work for big brother, you will not help anyone.
In the old days, television was a half hour long show with three-to-five minute breaks from the sponser, advertising some cigarette. Time passed and the advertising time became ten smaller commercials. Nowadays, people _pay_ for cable, and _buy_ the advertising. This is insane. It just goes to prove that 99% of north america thinks that watch advertising doesn't cost them anything (they are wrong). So now, we have ADSL being piped into our home without charge (like early TV) supported by ads. (And there are ads on many of the web pages too.) In two years they'll start charging for that too. 40 bucks a month for ADSL, one third of the screen has advertising on it all the time, and half the websites and e-mail you retrieve has spam. If spam is part of the bargain, it's not free! Don't pay for advertising!
If this offends the L0pht people, good. I browse the l0pht website. They have links to 'hacked' pages. Displayed very prominently. But they obviously mean 'cracked' pages. If the l0pht folks can't get 'hack' and 'crack' defined, they are _not_ hackers, they are more likely _crackers_. And I'm dissappointed that slashdot and many people do not recognize this. Is slashdot running low on suitable people to interview?
No, you have not been the first person to ring in the new millennium. You have not been the first person to scream happy new millenium. You have not been the first person to send new millennium e-mail. You weren't the first to check your phone line and your computers for millennium downtime. You didn't make the millennium's first fart. You didn't crack the first joke of the new millennium. You did _not_ make the first slashdot post of the new millennium. You were not the first of the new millenium to turn off the main power switch as a practical joke.
Been there. Done that. I have had the displeasure of meeting most of the members of 'Global Hell'. Let me describe them to you. It's a bunch of kids, and a bully. Very simple. Mosthated, who is the leader of the Global Hell, is the bully, and mostly everyone else is a kid. The kids hang around the bully because they _need_ the vindication of being cool, of having a peer group. These kids have no self esteem or self worth. The amount of control Mosthated shows over them is quite disgusting. He says something, they all agree. He laughs, they laugh. I did get the opportunity to tell Mosthated that he was more cracker than hacker, and he didn't agree. But he did...decide...that he'd better leave me alone. I guess even Global Hell fears common sense.
I propose slashdot stop linking to articles that use hack and hacker in terms of criminal activity. It would be irresponsible of slashdot promote innacuracy:):)
People have been preparing for years for this 2000 thing. The worst that is generally expected to happen is a power failure. Bleah. We don't need to worry about the two zeros in the date, it's the zeros that are people that will cause the trouble. After, during or before the 2000 party, there'll be riots. Maybe some not so bad, maybe some really bad ones. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if there was virtual anarchy in places like Rio de Janeiro. But over here in our comfortable North America, we are _still_ going to have a lot of over testosteroned kids who want to prove their...size and go and create havoc. Think devil's night multiplied by... 2000.
Quoting from the article: In the past week, under the supervision of U.S. Marshals, BSA carried out unannounced inspections of computer equipment at residences in Sacramento and Downey, CA, and in Troy and West Bloomfield, MI, seizing five computers. Under U.S. law, all twenty-five defendants named in the lawsuit are potentially liable for damages up to $100,000 per copyrighted work infringed. Now...unannounced searches? I don't read anything about a warrant! Hello, alarm bells! I think that everyone should have secure OSes and encrypted mass storage to discourage this kind of crap.
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Heh. That's not ranting. Trolling some, yeah. But you haven't seen me rant. I did not say I was a member of the hacker culture, but thank you for assuming I was. :-) And I don't have to get everyone to use 'hacker' correctly. Just one more person.
TomG
Importance and attitude is not relevant. The hacker culture means a lot to mean, and I'm not going to let people destroy it.
TomG
Who owns the word, and who the majority is is irrelevant. The meaning is still the same. A hacker is not a computer criminal. This is not evolving language, this is perversion of language.
If slashdot doesn't stop linking to articles that says hackers are computer criminals, I'll stop reading slashdot. *sigh* Why? Because I expect Slashdot to link to truthful stories.
TomG
And I don't see what all the fuss is about.
Hackers == A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. I'll act like an asshole if I like. And I _am_ dealing with it, and I will _not_ get over it.
TomG
Futility is irrelevant. And you assume I have to change everyone simultaneously. I don't. I only have to change one person. And then another. And then another.
TomG
No. :-)
I don't care about the sublties between _incorrect_ definitions of hacker and cracker.
I'm an asshole technical elitist who would be extremely complimented if someone called him a 'hacker'.
No.
Not only does Ziff Davis use 'hacker' incorrectly (expected), President Clinton use 'hack' incorrectly (thought he might know better). This fucking pisses me off. *ahem* *sigh*
TomG
At the federal (presidential?) level, 91 million dollars is pretty trivial.
TomG
I did read the news. I hate it when companies/governments agencies ban things like GNU/Linux and SSH, so I hate it when they ban things like Windows 2000.
TomG
If China was banning GPG, what would your opinion be? A government ban on a software product is _wrong_. Doesn't matter if it's a ban on Windows, Back Orifice, GNU/Linux or PGP. This will do no one any good. But what do you expect out of a communist regime that has killed many millions?
TomG
Did the Australian government hire a bunch of
crackers? Are they hiring crackers now? If they
did, would we know about it? If the Australian
government is allowed to break into computers,
and the American military is looking for people
with cracking skills, what are they both
planning to do with it? Who is going to be the
victim? To hackers, and crackers with some
morals, I say: Don't work for big brother,
you will not help anyone.
TomG
In the old days, television was a half hour long show with three-to-five minute breaks from the sponser, advertising some cigarette. Time passed and the advertising time became ten smaller commercials. Nowadays, people _pay_ for cable, and _buy_ the advertising. This is insane. It just goes to prove that 99% of north america thinks that watch advertising doesn't cost them anything (they are wrong). So now, we have ADSL being piped into our home without charge (like early TV) supported by ads. (And there are ads on many of the web pages too.) In two years they'll start charging for that too. 40 bucks a month for ADSL, one third of the screen has advertising on it all the time, and half the websites and e-mail you retrieve has spam. If spam is part of the bargain, it's not free! Don't pay for advertising!
If this offends the L0pht people, good. I browse the l0pht website. They have links to 'hacked' pages. Displayed very prominently. But they obviously mean 'cracked' pages. If the l0pht folks can't get 'hack' and 'crack' defined, they are _not_ hackers, they are more likely _crackers_. And I'm dissappointed that slashdot and many people do not recognize this. Is slashdot running low on suitable people to interview?
No, you have not been the first person to ring in the new millennium.
You have not been the first person to scream happy new millenium.
You have not been the first person to send new millennium e-mail.
You weren't the first to check your phone line and your computers for millennium downtime.
You didn't make the millennium's first fart.
You didn't crack the first joke of the new millennium.
You did _not_ make the first slashdot post of the new millennium.
You were not the first of the new millenium to turn off the main power switch as a practical joke.
TomG
Been there. Done that. I have had the displeasure of meeting most of the members of 'Global Hell'. Let me describe them to you. It's a bunch of kids, and a bully. Very simple. Mosthated, who is the leader of the Global Hell, is the bully, and mostly everyone else is a kid. The kids hang around the bully because they _need_ the vindication of being cool, of having a peer group. These kids have no self esteem or self worth. The amount of control Mosthated shows over them is quite disgusting. He says something, they all agree. He laughs, they laugh. I did get the opportunity to tell Mosthated that he was more cracker than hacker, and he didn't agree. But he did...decide...that he'd better leave me alone. I guess even Global Hell fears common sense.
I propose slashdot stop linking to articles that use hack and hacker in terms of criminal activity. It would be irresponsible of slashdot promote innacuracy :) :)
Amazing how you had months of therapy between yesterday and today, isn't it? Hopefully the judge won't notice that little descrepancy. :)
We all know that Microsoft has billions in the bank, but a refund for every sold copy of Windows 95/98 would bankrupt the company.
I'm trying to feel pity....trying....failing...
People have been preparing for years for this 2000 thing. The worst that is generally expected to happen is a power failure. Bleah. We don't need to worry about the two zeros in the date, it's the zeros that are people that will cause the trouble. After, during or before the 2000 party, there'll be riots. Maybe some not so bad, maybe some really bad ones. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if there was virtual anarchy in places like Rio de Janeiro. But over here in our comfortable North America, we are _still_ going to have a lot of over testosteroned kids who want to prove their...size and go and create havoc. Think devil's night multiplied by... 2000.
Quoting from the article:
In the past week, under the supervision of U.S. Marshals, BSA
carried out unannounced inspections of computer equipment at
residences in Sacramento and Downey, CA, and in Troy and West
Bloomfield, MI, seizing five computers. Under U.S. law, all
twenty-five defendants named in the lawsuit are potentially liable
for damages up to $100,000 per copyrighted work infringed.
Now...unannounced searches? I don't read anything about a warrant! Hello, alarm bells!
I think that everyone should have secure OSes and encrypted mass storage to discourage this kind of crap.