>There you go - a hacker in sheeple's clothing, LOL! You're certainly >no slave, MM. I wonder if the real slaves aren't the people at the >top of the ladder, the ones who think they're in control - such as >Kenneth Lay, hopeless failures at life, what a waste.
thx, and an interesting take on Lay. >Hack: >http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/hack.html > >Hacker: >http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/hacker.html I see a problem here that I did not see before. The term "cracker", which is what hackers are recommending we use when we wish to connote "hacker gone to the dark side" or some such, has some slight built-in vernacular ambiguities. Is one talking about a safe cracker? Is one trying to connote drug use? ("Crack cocaine"). Is there some sort of racist ambiguity? (I'm not sure why but I seem to recall "cracker" being some sort of racial epithet from one of the races to another). Maybe there could be a new term for a malicious hacker. Or maybe just get better at using cracker. Yeah, that sounds ok now that I think it through a little. We'll see. > >Hacking's similar to fettling - all the old factories used to have a >fettler, when the machines broke he'd come and do a quick-fix so >they'd work and production could continue until the engineers could >get around to doing a proper repair job. A good fettler was highly >skilled and very ingenious. I had some tailoring done this week, and it just reminded me of how certain occupations are terribly useful and may well be with us even a million years from now. One thing is it reminded me that even on Star Trek they have Tailors 300 years into the future (though no barbers prominently featured that I saw anyway). >When I first went to Hong Kong the newspapers were obsequeous. >Reporters would be summonsed to a "press conference" where some >overblown tycoon would announce his latest depradation. I've never verified with you that your background might be British, but it is interesting how a twist toward describing going to Honk Kong results in a sentence with some strikingly British-seeming ways of discussing things (including spelling choices). >I once sent two girl reporters to find one of the poor old women who >scrape a living out of recycling, often to be found pushing a heavy >trolley laden high with folded cartons up a steep hill, in rich Hong >Kong where Confucians are supposed to honour the old. I heard an old-time news guy here comment recently, on the topic of what has changed in reporting over the last 50 years or so, that when they started out and were young, their basic attitude had something to do with being angry and taking it for granted that they were sort of there to change things. Now, if I recall, he thinks there's somewhat less willingness to take this unfettered go-get-em go-up-against-the-establishment attitude, particularly as the establishment has more control over paying their salaries. >Spin of the day - a must-read: >http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.asp?id=254 Thx, that was awesome. "When he tried to converse with some of the farmers about their pro-GM T-shirts, "They smiled shyly; none of them could speak or read English." " I love it. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
