| Morgan Wajda-Levie on Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:55 -0400 (EDT) |
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On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 10:50:11AM -0400, Jason S. wrote: > This argument irritates me to no end. Its right up there with the > war on drugs. Its over. We lost. Get over it and move on. :) > > It pretty much depends on syntax. > > Hacking == What you do to make hiding the body easier. > > Cracking == What the tricks do down on tioga on friday nights. > > Its silly, I think anyone who cares enough to make the distinction, > can tell by the syntax. Everyone else.... well... everytime I'd tried > to explain it to them, they'd look at me, blink, and say something > like "Uhh... yeah, but where can I get porn on the internet? I hear > there's a lot of naked people... " > Maybe we lost with the media and non-computer people, but internally you should still use the proper terminology. Hacker is a much nicer term than "expert" or "guru", and there's no associated verb with those. To say "I was up all night hacking on my device driver" is much more respectable than "I was up all night working on my device driver". Also, IMHO, hacking is not just programming. You can also hack config files, such as sendmail config files. -- Morgan Wajda-Levie http://www.worldaxes.com/wajdalev PGP fingerprint: A353 C750 660E D8B6 5616 F4D8 7771 DD21 7BF6 221C http://www.worldaxes.com/wajdalev/public.asc for PGP key encrypted mail preferred Attachment:
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