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Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)

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Re: Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)

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Post by 310260 »

endominus wrote: post #53
dangus wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A billionaire is a single unelected person. Only a pure dictatorship is less representative than that. I’d take a flawed government with some semblance of an electoral process and representative taxation over dependence on a benevolent individual. For every Bill Gates there is a Charles Koch.

The other, important, difference being that I am not required to fund the billionaire. If I object to the actions of a billionaire, it's not my money that's being misused.

>I am not required to fund the billionaire.

Except, of course, when whatever elaborate mousetrap they used to gain their billions becomes a monopoly and also critical infrastructure.

Re: Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)

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Post by wincy »

bamey wrote: post #27

>If your son has requested a new "processor" from a company called "AMD", this is genuine cause for alarm. AMD is a third-world based company who make inferior, "knock-off" copies of American processor chips. They use child labor extensively in their third world sweatshops, and they deliberately disable the security features that American processor makers, such as Intel, use to prevent hacking. AMD chips are never so…

Hah my first computer that I built myself as a teenager was an AMD Duron, right around 2001. Which to be fair, I guess I am a hacker as far as my mother is concerned, so they were right!

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Post by aasasd »

My only lament with this is that the link prominently has ‘humor’ in it, so I can't subject unsuspecting friends to the text. Guess I'm off to one of the ‘archive’ sites, with more cryptic urls.

Edit: here it is https://archive.is/e0diF

Or https://web.archive.org/web/20040612092245/http://www.adequa...

Re: Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)

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Post by geocrasher »

aasasd wrote: post #43
coward76 wrote: post #33

Is your son or daughter safe from the Russian menace "Tetris"? Some common symptoms include them attempting to organize their room into well fitting shapes such as neatly fitting boxes. True Hackers use Compuserve or Prodigy.

You laugh, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect

I had this when I played Minecraft a lot. My wife and I (who both played for hours on end almost daily, running servers together) both started the see the world as blocks. It changed our perception quite a bit. It didn't bother us, we thought it was cool. It didn't interfere with anything. We maintained our understanding of reality vs game. Until a creeper blew up our house IRL. That was unusual.

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Post by TehShrike »

cosmodisk wrote: post #19

The first few sentences were okay-ish, but the more I read,the more it sounded just plain absurd,border line controlling behaviour+ lots of silly assumptions. Going back to the topic itself, the vast majority of parents wouldn't even know where to start, not even mentioning if a kid has really became a haxor of sorts. Taking away computers, sending them out to the church,or doing others 'let's fix this quickly the ad…

I actually went and searched for some of the text in this comment because it reminded me so strongly of real responses I saw to this article 20 years ago

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Post by nickstinemates »

cosmodisk wrote: post #19

The first few sentences were okay-ish, but the more I read,the more it sounded just plain absurd,border line controlling behaviour+ lots of silly assumptions. Going back to the topic itself, the vast majority of parents wouldn't even know where to start, not even mentioning if a kid has really became a haxor of sorts. Taking away computers, sending them out to the church,or doing others 'let's fix this quickly the ad…

This was copypasta before the term existed. This and bash.org were staples of early internet 'hacker culture'

Re: Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)

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Post by larrydag »

Alternate questionnaire.

Does your child have interests outside of sports and video games? Does your child work independently on projects? Does your child look outside the box and solves difficult challenges? Does your child question the status quo and seeks to find answers outside of their domain?

If you answered Yes to any of these questions then you are a good parent. Just make sure they aren't doing anything illegal and they will turn out okay.

Re: Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)

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Post by emidln »

derrikcurran wrote: post #26
swagtricker wrote: post #9

Even better - you can now troll Bill Gates by reminding him that Linux was both more successful than and outlasted his marriage:)

I come to Hacker News to avoid garbage like this.

This reminds me of prime Slashdot commentary. My recall isn't good enough to have an intuition if this would have been negative or +5.
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