Eric S. Raymond, self-proclaimed Hacker and keeper of the Jargon file. What a dork. It's a shame that he's local - the less I can be associated with this guy, the better.
This guy is totally fronting. It's funny. The Jargon file wasn't something he started. It's something he glommed on to and 0wn3d, in the same way that those reprehensible script-kiddies 0wn j00.
He thinks he knows what hacking is and he's written papers on the subject. Worse yet is that people started siting him as an actual creditable source for what hacking is, and he has probably started the movement that made it so difficult to determine what a hacker really truly is.
A hacker isn't someone who "hacks their way through a problem". A hacker, in computer teminology, is a person who hacks systems. Who enters systems illegally. Let there be no false definitions.
If you take the work "Hacker" and use it to sound cool in front of your friends, and then contort it to mean something lame that it never meant (Oh, sure, those MIT guys were hacking non-computer problems. Yeah, come to terms with your lameness, dude.), then you're fronting and you need to step. You're the lamest of the lame and you have no idea what you're talking about.
Not only that, but Eric S. Raymond is your king. Bow down before the man who stole, compiled, and mutilated hacker jargon from the likes of classic hacker/phreak works such as the mythic blue book, and then took it to the man to run off on a press. He created a logo for hackers to use. A logo!!
Just look at his picture! What a happy doofus!
Man, some weird things get me riled now and then, you know? I promise that there will be worthwhile Halloween pictures and comments after the festivities occur.
In the meantime, relax. Mr. Raymond won't leap out of the internet to strangle you, like he does in my dark Halloween nightmares.
