Cyberchase
So my 4 year old Niece watches this TV show on PBS called "Cyberchase." Couple of kids running around using their math skills to save the world from the evil henchman called Hacker. She's telling me about how Hackers is evil, etc.
WTF? Not so long ago, the word hacker had a thoroughly positive connotation. Then the media grabbed hold of it as a catchall phrase to describe cyberpunks, script kiddies, and other miscellaneous blackhat shitheads. Now they've raised the bar to include James Bond-esque supervillains and are force-feeding this stereotype to children? |
What happened to Rugrats and Rocket Power?
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gay used to mean "happy"
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fag used to mean gay.
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I thought a fag was still a square.
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Originally Posted by sbkcocker499
(Post 479202)
What happened to Rugrats and Rocket Power?
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Originally Posted by gospeed81
(Post 479285)
I thought a fag was still a square.
a fag is a small stick or cigarette |
Anyone that has seen the latest episode of South Park knows that Fag means a biker dude with a loud ass harley.
And yes I watch South Park. Haters can eat my shit. |
Originally Posted by 18psi
(Post 479307)
Anyone that has seen the latest episode of South Park knows that Fag means a biker dude with a loud ass harley.
And yes I watch South Park. Haters can eat my shit. "And all you damn hippie freaks that don't like it can get the hell out of town." http://media.southparkstudios.com/me...ed_cartman.gif Yeah so back to the OP stereotyping the hacker thing as 'evil' is pretty weak. Just the media picking the low-hanging fruit. I mean, after all, it can turn out to be a career path to an honest six-figure IT job in corporate computer security. Many examples of companies hiring the hackers that broke into their computers to consult on their network security and what not. |
Originally Posted by y8s
(Post 479304)
a fag is a small stick or cigarette
eg. "smoke a square" I heard this a lot growing up. Just a play on entymology. EDIT: err.....etymology |
When I was younger, I used to correct people if they used the word 'hacker' where they should have used 'cracker'. Then I realized I was being somewhat silly.
I think the word 'hacker' to describe a troublemaker really started back in the day of phone phreaking and blue boxing, with the likes of John Draper, Woz, Jobs, et al - since they were also hackers (in the traditional sense), the media and other outsiders used the same word to describe the phreakers, and the "crackers" that came afterwards. |
I knew someone *ahem* that built one of the boxes that replicated the sound the payphones made when you dropped in a nickel. All it took from what he told me :giggle: was about $20 and a quick trip to Radio Shack. It worked great. He demonstrated it for me :bowrofl: while making long distance phone calls from a payphone (when they were still around).
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All the red box needed was a sound recorder. Nothing more. Capt Crunch and phreaking days were the coolest. Didn't Capt Crunch get his name from the Capt Crunch ceral toy whistle that made a perfect 2600 hz? Too bad it's all obsolete now.
I made a green box too. I think it was suppose to send a tone that the operator would give if you needed a refund. It didn't work, but I think by the time I got into it, the green box was already obsolete. |
Originally Posted by kenzo42
(Post 479396)
All the red box needed was a sound recorder. Nothing more. Capt Crunch and phreaking days were the coolest. Didn't Capt Crunch get his name from the Capt Crunch ceral toy whistle that made a perfect 2600 hz? Too bad it's all obsolete now.
When I was in high school (early '90s) there was a payphone outside the gym. Only one on campus, IIRC. Despite the fact that it was a modern DTMF unit, we discovered that the Lightman Hack actually worked on it. This was cool shit in the days before everybody had a cell phone. |
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