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Originally Posted by Lance
Look it up, doofus. There exist a few valid definitions for the word 'hacker'.  |
Oh please, lance, you'd better not be trying to use that to stick up for them.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=hacker
Upon reading the whole page, i did indeed see various other definitions of "hacker". However, most of them were non-computer related, such as the thing about someone who's bad at golf. There were one or two ones that were like "someone who is 'buff' at computing" or something, listing a hacker to be somebody who is enthusiastic about computing and tries to learn more than the average computor - although this in itself connotes sinister activities, depending on how you look at it.
And then there's the very word itself. "Hack". It's almost onomatopoeic, and when you say "Hack" you're bound to think first of a rough swing of an axe or other blade at, say, a tree trunk, or a human. "He hacked away at the trunk" or "She hacked at his chest, screaming". The very word used to describe these people suggests a pernicious character, and you know full well, lance, that when these guys are saying "i hate those bastard hackers" they do mean the ones that
are evil or vindictive. Why on earth would they be saying they hate people who are bad at golf in a thread about computer hacker/crackers?
