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Subject:    Re: IE5 for Linux?
From:       bosco <bosco4 () home ! com>
Date:       2000-03-15 6:18:00
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But that's not to say that one can't be the other right?!



bosco().


"think about that!"


Rob Kaper wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 10:57:51PM -0600, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> > 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).
>
> All the lack of sleep does put me a in dangerous state of health.. and it's
> certainly exciting. ;-)
>
> For those of you who are seriously offended by the issue, go to
> www.jargon.org, read Appendix C and send a letter such as published there to
> the media.
>
> I did, and was surprised to get a nice reaction AND to read an article about
> breaking into computer systems the next week without the usage of the word
> hacker!
>
> Perhaps we'll have to make a nice educative game called Kracker to show the
> differences in a fun way. Might even be a cool game too.. one of those
> cheesy Larry alike adventures where you play a hacker. =)
>
> Rob
> --
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>           | "These are the people who proudly call themselves "hackers" --
>           | not as the term is now abused by journalists to mean a computer
>           | criminal, but in its true and original sense of an enthusiast,
>           | an artist, a tinkerer, a problem solver, an expert." -- ESR
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