Re: OT: Re: "Hacker" vs "Cracker" et al.

[Sylvia Sánchez]

El vie, 15-03-2013 a las 17:03 -0700, Richard Vickery escribió:
>  On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
>  <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  
>          On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 18:47 -0400, Doug wrote:
>          > On 03/15/2013 06:25 PM, Frank Murphy wrote:
>          > > On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:21:07 -0700
>          > > Richard Vickery <richard.vickeryrv(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>          > >
>          > >> Does this mean that you just let them adulterate the
>          term?
>          > > You would have to re-write current popular culture.
>          > > Language and it's use change, by it's very usage.
>          > >
>          > Language is fickle. Gay used to mean happy-go-lucky;
>          > nuke used to mean to drop an atom bomb on; transistor
>          > still is a three-wire device made (usually) of silicon, used
>          > for amplifiers and switches, but in common usage it means
>          > a radio; nice was once pejorative.  And we used to have
>          > "gotten" and, a little earlier, "shaven" but our verbs
> are
>          > regularizing themselves whether we like it or not.
>          > So whether you like it or not, hack usually connotes
>          > unlawful intrusion on a computer. Ce la vie!
>          
>          
>          
>          I think you mean "C'est la vie", ...
>          
>          Anyway, I still refer to talented programmers as hackers in a
>          non-perjorative sense because there isn't a good one-word
>          alternative.
>          Geeks doesn't cut it because there are lots of geeks who don't
>          program.
>          
>  
>  
>  If the lame ducks don't want to take back the term, that is their
>  problem. If you are going to let Bill Gates and the Microshit team
>  abuse the term after they abused end-users with a piece-of-crap OS
>  that didn't work in '98 and still doesn't work. I refuse to let it be.
>  I am a hacker, and if the police come up to me as some kind of
>  criminal, I will make sure that they know the difference between
>  someone who goes in to make a money transaction at a bank and one with
>  the intent to rob a bank and take lives. There is nothing wrong with
>  the term hacker; we all do it, and we have been hacking the kernel and
>  computers and helping each other with broken networks for 70 years. I
>  am not about to change just because some idiot dropped out of law
>  school, bought Windows, and decided to give us a bad name, and call us
>  all criminals, just because we tried to help him. 

Amen!