Back when the term "hackers" started to be misused by the press,
as in "scary teenage vandals breaking into computers",
my usual comment was that teenage computer hackers were really
no different from the teenage car hackers of our parents' generations.
They did a lot of tinkering with machinery an
Steve, you proposed that the deskhoes (congresshits, NASA managers)
take the risks that they put others into.
I mentioned this to my Dad and he reminded me that parachute
packers in the military were required to jump with the
chutes they packed at any time.
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Hackers don't work on their own br
