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gizmoguy
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hacking
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Oct 3 15:40 UTC 2003 |
HACKING
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gizmoguy
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response 1 of 58:
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Oct 3 15:41 UTC 2003 |
talk and ask about hacking
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jp2
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response 2 of 58:
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Oct 3 15:49 UTC 2003 |
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remmers
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response 3 of 58:
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Oct 3 15:59 UTC 2003 |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913):
Hack \Hack\, v. i.
To ride or drive as one does with a hack horse; to ride at an
ordinary pace, or over the roads, as distinguished from
riding across country or in military fashion.
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cmcgee
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response 4 of 58:
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Oct 3 16:16 UTC 2003 |
I thought hacking was driving a taxi.
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albaugh
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response 5 of 58:
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Oct 3 17:19 UTC 2003 |
Start with the right kind of saw...
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scott
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response 6 of 58:
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Oct 3 18:00 UTC 2003 |
Hacking... yeah, that brings back last night's dream. I was fighting the
devil again, and he had his hands my throat, so I kept hacking and hacking
at him with the kitchen knife she gave me on our anniversary... oh shit, it
was one of *those* dreams again. Good thing the ground isn't too frozen for
digging yet.
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alexnn
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response 7 of 58:
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Oct 3 20:12 UTC 2003 |
What are you say?
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gelinas
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response 8 of 58:
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Oct 3 21:18 UTC 2003 |
My front yard could use some hacking; the prairie didn't work out quite the
way I had hoped.
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asddsa
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response 9 of 58:
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Oct 4 16:08 UTC 2003 |
gismoguy
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sj2
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response 10 of 58:
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Oct 5 10:14 UTC 2003 |
I will assume you mean hacking as in computer hacking. Hacking in the
computer world also has lots of meanings.
Traditionally it's meant, pouring over source code and making various
changes to it in order to see what you can make it do - improving,
finding bugs, bringing it to its knees etc. Hence the term "hacked the
code".
Breaking into other computers is probably better labelled as cracking
and not hacking. So you may want to start a thread called "cracking".
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slash
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response 11 of 58:
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Oct 5 15:13 UTC 2003 |
Man, I've been really sick as of late, all I've done for the past couple
nights is hack up a ton of crud, lemmie tell ya, it was GROSS.
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jep
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response 12 of 58:
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Oct 10 19:26 UTC 2003 |
I've been reading comments from people for 15 years at least, objecting
that "hacking" isn't something done by teenagers to break into
computers. About a day or two later, I subscribed to the idea that
words mean what they mean, not what a few specialists wish they mean.
Hacknig is what people think it is. Time for the experimental coders
to come up with a new label for themselves.
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dolgr
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response 13 of 58:
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Oct 10 19:27 UTC 2003 |
I guess "programmer" is out of the question, hey?
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murph
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response 14 of 58:
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Oct 11 14:45 UTC 2003 |
Can't agree with #12. There are at least a few ways to define a word: what
the people who invented it meant, what current experts in the field use it
to mean, and what it is people mean when they say it.
Generally, when people use a word to mean something other than what experts
or the people who originated it meant, it's considered to be either "slang"
or "wrong".
When the Washington Post starts discussing, "Saddam's 1337 forces", then we
can maybe consider that usage makes something right. Meanwhile, using
"hacker" as a criminal slur will continue to be incorrect, oeven if
unfortunately widespread.
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slynne
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response 15 of 58:
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Oct 11 14:48 UTC 2003 |
Not according to the American Heritage Dictionary...
hacker1
SYLLABICATION: hack er
PRONUNCIATION: AUDIO: hkr KEY
NOUN: Informal 1. One who is proficient at using or programming a
computer; a computer buff.
2. One who uses programming skills to gain illegal access to a computer
network or file.
3. One who enthusiastically pursues a game or sport: a weekend tennis
hacker.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps from hacker, amateurish or inept golfer or tennis
player (possibly from hack1), or perhaps from hack, practical joke,
clever scheme (from dialectal hack, to embarrass, confuse, play a trick
on).
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asddsa
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response 16 of 58:
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Oct 11 17:52 UTC 2003 |
You people have no life.
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tod
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response 17 of 58:
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Oct 11 19:20 UTC 2003 |
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slynne
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response 18 of 58:
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Oct 11 22:25 UTC 2003 |
Please, I dont need YOU to tell me I have no life ;)
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murph
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response 19 of 58:
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Oct 11 23:39 UTC 2003 |
Obviously. If I had a life, would I be grexxing?
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slynne
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response 20 of 58:
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Oct 12 01:27 UTC 2003 |
Hello. It is Saturday night and I am sitting at home alone with my
puppies listening to NPR while I work on my computer and occasionally
check in on grex. Yup. no life ;)
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dah
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response 21 of 58:
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Oct 12 02:00 UTC 2003 |
Me too, except my animal is a SPIDER which I saw crawl into my sheet over
there and I'm vaguely worried it'll, you know, bite me and cause necrosis and
stuff. I'm afraid to go to sleep.
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slynne
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response 22 of 58:
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Oct 12 02:18 UTC 2003 |
I have a cat who eats the spiders for me.
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tod
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response 23 of 58:
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Oct 12 16:27 UTC 2003 |
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asddsa
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response 24 of 58:
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Oct 16 22:46 UTC 2003 |
A Romanian delicacy.
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