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List:       kde
Subject:    RE: IE5 for Linux?
From:       "Timothy R. Butler" <kde () uninetsolutions ! com>
Date:       2000-03-15 4:57:51
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Why did the local paper say IOMEGA was a startup when the Zip drive came
out? Why did the media scare everyone way too much about Y2K? :-) I think it
sounds better, and makes things more interesting. If you say cracker, people
think food; if you say hacker, it sounds dangerous and exciting (IMO).

 -Tim

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: kde-request@lists.netcentral.net
> [mailto:kde-request@lists.netcentral.net]On Behalf Of Tom Cruickshank
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 10:47 PM
> To: KDE general mailing list
> Subject: Re: IE5 for Linux?
>
>
> Understood and acknowledged. And yes to both questions. Would you happen
> to know why movies and the TV shows have incorrectly dubbed cracking
> as hacking? Ignorance?
>
> And thanks for the info.
>
> Tom
>
>
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Terry wrote:
> > Wellllllll  have you at some point modified someone else's
> source code or
> > perhaps created your own?  That might qualify you as a "hacker".  What
> > movies and TV shows portray as hacking is in fact more correctly dubbed
> > "cracking".
> >
> > On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Tom Cruickshank wrote:
> > > Just out of curiousity, how do you know when you've become a hacker?
> > >
> > > A few friends of mine tell me I'm one but I have no basis to
> base it on.
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
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