"hackers"

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Tue Apr 30 19:23:47 UTC 2013


On 04/30/2013 12:11 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
> The line "I've been hacked" sounds like the author either doesn't know
> how to speak or ought to get out of computers because said person
> doesn't know how to code.

Language changes.  Either keep up, or find yourself unable to 
communicate.  Insisting that the term "hacker" means what it did thirty 
years ago, and nothing else, is going to have about as much effect as 
King Canute's attempts to hold back the tide.


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