"hackers"

[Richard Vickery]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
The lines that you have deleted, Joe, read that I would drop it so long as
you use the term respectfully, especially in here among hackers. Did you
miss this?
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