Whodini - Friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRn2VQWNkgA

You may find yourself sitting in a corner . . .

Yeah, that's fine: I'm only here for any interesting problems, I don't really want any social interaction

EDIT: damn pagination...

golinux wrote:

HOAS you are the odd man out here.

That's the way I like it, baby.

You may find yourself sitting in a corner . . .

HOAS you are the odd man out here.

That's the way I like it, baby.

you said "genuine hackers" - not "hackers"

Yes, OK, fine, I admit it: I didn't know that the "correct" term for a person who maliciously infiltrates computer systems was "cracker" and that "hacker" is in fact an old term used by computer nerds. What an idiot I am

I've never read Eric S. Raymond's seminal How to Become a Hacker text and I certainly didn't get my avatar from his site here: http://www.catb.org/hacker-emblem/

So will you please stfu about this now and stop dragging this thread off topic? Thanks!

You are aware that words can have more than one meaning, right?

Anyway, I think we're begging the question here — language is fluid and meanings shift over time.

What's bullshit?

"Cracker" is used as a derogatory term for Caucasians, as my Wikipedia link shows and also as you yourself commented.

Wikipedia is bullshit.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1983

ToxicExMachina wrote:

It seems you don't know who genuine hackers are.

Panopticon wrote:

and no a cracker is not that white skinned person in a black skinned neighborhood!

Yes, I'm aware that I used the terminology incorrectly but only because to me a "cracker" is exactly what Panopticon's quote describes so I just used the lazy, inaccurate term.

The fact: you said "genuine hackers" - not "hackers". Do you want to continue the nonsense you doing?

No ...
Providing April's Fool pranks are something you are sufficiently acquainted with to understand what they are about.
If not, just like you (apparently sufficiently acquainted), people who are not (a great many others) will also be fooled.
And therefore rightly alarmed.

Enough to send an Admin a mail, like I did.

I would ask you to consider that sufficiently acquainted actually entails knowing where necessary limits lay.
ie: what can be considered an April's Fool joke and what ends up being a stupid prank reflecting in the worse possible manner on its author.

Becasue with respect to humour, a basic sense of oportunity, grasp of context and timing are what make the difference between being funny or an utter dick-head. 

I certainly did not find it funny and am really very dissapointed to have seen this happen here.

Of course, YMMV.

A.

ChuangTzu wrote:

Why would anyone want to pretend their website was hacked, and then go on for several hours via social media, irc and the forum, pretending and reinforcing that it was hacked?

Because they were laughing at the clueless idiots, perhaps?

Case in point, many others on that "other" forum.

I remember Zuckerburg having this frame mind??

Panopticon wrote:

Its a made up pejorative word

Erm, aren't all words made up?

Anyway, think whatever you want, I really couldn't give a crap

As i said its bullshit, only for stupid people like you.

Its a made up pejorative word

Erm, aren't all words made up?

Anyway, think whatever you want, I really couldn't give a crap