On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:39:53 -0700, John Smith
wrote:

On 8/4/2010 3:30 PM, Registered User wrote:


Not quite. Journalism isn't the only field where hack writers can be
found. Quick and dirty code is often referred to by the author as a
being a quick hack. It's an acknowledgement that the code is not
particularly elegant or robust, just a temporary solution to resolve
an issue or answer a question.

If a computer professional describes them self as a hacker today
(without using the word hat), it's an admission their skills and
training could be better. Calling any computer professional a hack is
a insult.


Absolutely could not disagree with you more. I do all computer
languages (Assembly, Cobol, Snobal, BASIC, C/C++, Pascal, etc., etc.),
but prefer assembly and C/C++.

You "do" all languages huh? Maybe I should be impressed but I'm not.
Reeling off a list of programming languages (with one mis-spelled)
says little about depth of knowledge and corresponding skillsets. The
list does suggest most if not all of what you do involves procedural
programming.

Only hackers (doctorates) work within my
circle. We all enjoy being called hackers, we worked hard to win that
title. Anyone in disagreement works for some corporation practicing
security though obscurity, i.e. part of the security are dumb-ed down
software engineers. Or, is a member of the joe-blow-six-pack club which
watches the 11 P.M. news.

Once again you make grand assumptions, your little circle is correct
and everyone else is wrong, wrong, wrong. AFA working with a bunch of
doctorates, what should be inferred? Both the top and bottom of a
graduating class get the same piece of paper. All the document means
is the course of study has been successfully completed, nothing more.

Given CAD software has been around for almost fifty years, it appears
you're disagreeing with yourself WRT computer dongles.


Let me cut to the chase, there are four types of dongles, in the context
we are discussing. One will plug into a computer port, the other is in
my pants, the third type is obsolete, the forth is walking around with
similar characteristics to the one in my pants. ROFLOL!


It's good you're able to keep yourself amused.

I'm not the one who wrote

- quote -

It is time to end the stone age of electronics!

- end quote -

and then offered USB devices as the path to enlightenment.

I did no such thing.

Funny thing, the written record appears to disagree.

Make a computer a cell phone ... or any damn other
thing you wish. USB dongles are the quickest/cheapest route.

Re-read what you've written previously and consider the differences
between the "is a" and "has a" relationships.

It takes too much time to keep correcting your errors in text, thinking,
etc. Go play with someone else not ...


Like where I wrote the term dongle was coined in the early seventies
and existed before CAD applications? Oh wait you wrote that and I
pointed out that the generally-acknowledged first CAD application was
produced in the early sixties.

I'll give up and will concede that you are indeed a hack programmer.
Wear the title well.