[free-sklyarov] Hacker

[alfee cube]

i recently saw a pacbell commercial which i thought
was interesting:

it has a genxer at a laptop in a room with one way
glass with two lab rats on the other side giving him
system security challenges which he unrealistically
breaks with a keystroke or two.

the announcer then says we hire the "hackers" to test
the system before they test it themselves.


--- Michael Scottaline <nbhs2 at i-2000.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 14:48:45 -0700 (MST)
> Austin Hook
> <marvin at qubit.computershop.calgary.ab.ca>
> insightfully noted:
> 
> 
> AH>     So I think newspapers who use headlines
> "Hacker... Dmitry ..."
> AH> should
> AH> be threatened for suit for defamation, with
> sufficient remedy being to
> AH> publish either a retraction, or else a detailed
> explanation of how
> AH> "hacker" need not be interpreted as criminal. 
> This should not be
> AH> necessary for publications whose targeted
> readership already knows
> AH> this,
> AH> but for publications that are deliberately using
> the word "hacker",
> AH> knowing that their readership is ignorant of the
> fair meaning of
> AH> "hacker"
> AH> then, if they are not doing it to defame, they
> must provide sufficient
> AH> and
> AH> constant clarification to their readership what
> they mean by hacker,
> AH> sufficient that at least a majority of their
> readership knows that
> AH> they
> AH> are not implying that hacker=criminal, and why a
> hacker is not a
> AH> criminal
> AH> in general.
>
========================================================
> Hmm......, now it should be our turn to censor and
> violate a
> constitutional right?  If calling Dmitry a hacker is
> not blatant libel
> then I don't think the press can be stopped (nor
> should they) for using
> the term.  If calling Dmitry a "hacker" is clearly
> an untruth and done
> with "malicious intent" then perhaps you have a
> case.
> Mike
> 
> -- 
> "I decry the current tendency to seek patents on
> algorithms.  There are
> better ways to earn a living than to prevent other
> people from making
> use of one's contributions to computer science."
>                                 -- Donald E. Knuth,
> TAoCP vol 3
> 
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