10 Signs that your son is a hacker.

[Cynette]

Ok. Some of you people are scaring me. I can't believe you are correcting spelling errors and rebutting some of the points. The article is satire 100%, just like the DaVinci Code is fiction! (oh drat... 114Klutz just posted on the satire part)

I'm guessing the spelling errors are intentional to avoid any copyright or libel concerns.

Who wants to do the CD version of the Article- "10 signs your teenager is addicted to Chief Delphi?" Hurry the internet shuts down for the night in 1 hour and 24 minutes!

Cynette

[114Klutz]

Originally Posted by mocat1530

Ok. Some of you people are scaring me. I can't believe you are correcting spelling errors and rebutting some of the points. The article is satire 100%, just like the DaVinci Code is fiction! (oh drat... 114Klutz just posted on the satire part)

I'm guessing the spelling errors are intentional to avoid any copyright or libel concerns.

Who wants to do the CD version of the Article- "10 signs your teenager is addicted to Chief Delphi?" Hurry the internet shuts down for the night in 1 hour and 24 minutes!

Cynette

Already working on the FIRST one

[Cynette]

Thanks for sharing that! My son must be a hacker! And I have hacker tendencies!

The usage of "Lunix" was just too much!!!

Cynette

[Greg Needel]

OK so i read the article and agree with the ridiculousness of it, although there is one fact that i think you all should see.

Author:T Reginald Gibbons
Topic:Internet Idiocy
Postedec 02, 2001

yes thats right, it was posted in 2001. Think back to that time, and alot of the things in the article would seem more legit. Alot of the things in the article like Linux, leaving AOL, were common place things. for example broadband connections were first getting popular, and at that time AOL still had a limited "hours per month." While Linux was gaining popularity there was nowhere near the level of national acceptance that there is now.

I still think there is a good chance that this is a satire but if you look at it from a national historical aspect some things make more sense then today.

[Tim Baird]

Thank you, Greg!

I was starting to think that I was the only one who noticed that it was labeled as "internet idiocy".

[Matt Krass]

2001? I remember when this first went up.

Wow. I feel old. (How much flack am I going to get for saying that Mr. Tyler? )

Anyways, I think it actually was serious at the time, but it's since been realized to be little more use than humor as it's fairly...well...wrong

[KarenH]

Well, I be a hacker according to this article (already spent many hours online this morning -- er, afternoon). 'Cept I'm a daughter, so I can't be.

Clues, folks, check out the clues....

I dunno wut AMD is, I don't remember names of any real hackers, but I wuz goin nuts readin an article littered with links like land mines.

So I went to work clicking those links. Most of the ones that are still good go to "relevant" book titles on Amazon (chuckle). One went straight to a porno picture (yuck!).

Even if a parent didn't know much of the "geek-speak" in the article, or what the current fashions are, the links alone reveal the satiric intent of the writer. No father with real fears about this subject would take the time to pepper his article with 2 or 3 links per sentence, let alone porn.

No way is this guy serious!

But the poll, of course, is right on -- they smell terrible!

[Kristian Calhoun]

Originally Posted by KarenH

I dunno wut AMD is, I don't remember names of any real hackers, but I wuz goin nuts readin an article littered with links like land mines.

So I went to work clicking those links. Most of the ones that are still good go to "relevant" book titles on Amazon (chuckle). One went straight to a porno picture (yuck!).

Even if a parent didn't know much of the "geek-speak" in the article, or what the current fashions are, the links alone reveal the satiric intent of the writer. No father with real fears about this subject would take the time to pepper his article with 2 or 3 links per sentence, let alone porn.

No way is this guy serious!

But the poll, of course, is right on -- they smell terrible!

I think it's quite obvious by now that the entire article was a satire. But to answer your question, AMD is a company that makes computer processors, (like intel). And for some future advice, always try to hover a link before you click on it to see where it might lead you to.

And if a poll with 11015 votes says that hackers smell bad, then it must be pretty darn accurate.

[Morgan Gillespie]

Originally Posted by calhounian

And for some future advice, always try to hover a link before you click on it to see where it might lead you to.

Chris knows this now.

[lukevanoort]

Weirdly enough, the satirist (is that a word?) is semi-right about AMD, although they were never third world, for a while they did just about copy intel processors (interfaces at least), stopped doing that, then pretty much dominated them with the K6.

[jkoci]

Originally Posted by Tim Baird

I was starting to think that I was the only one who noticed that it was labeled as "internet idiocy".

according to the comments on the site, not many people caught it. at first i thought it was serious, then i saw the Internet idiocy.

[Matt Royek]

Argh, I read this article (with cody c, Kyle A and Brian) and laughed and yelled at it's utter lack of comprehension, compilation and common sense.

My spot list:
I use more than 30 min online almost daily.

I use Linux.

Lunix=Linux. Linux was made by Linus Torvalds, a native of Helsinki, Finland and Linux was made in 1991, which was modeled after Minix, which was modeled after Unix, which was made by AT&T.

AMD is an American company. And Intel is just as Un-american as them, because they both have their processors made in Indonesia.

I ask for new parts all the time, and parts from the manufacturer are just if not more so suspect than parts you can buy off of TigerDirect or Newegg. Which, might I add, are both are certified secure by the Better Business Bureau.

Quake? Quake is a Video.Game. Not a portal for your little Jimmy to be corrupted by the hacker elite. And quake happens to have been made in the late 90's, and is by today's terms obsolete. Fun, nonetheless .

Bright colored clothes and baggy pants. Oh snap, I'm a hacker! I wear baggy cargo pants and my shirts all have illusions to popular internet culture! Oh snap, call the FBI!!! Not. It's how people dress that makes them different, not related to a certain archetype. Such identifying people by how they dress and in turn denying them things is called prejudice.

Gets beligerrant and argumentative. Isn't that a part of the wonderful process called growing up? That the hormones in the body may make people a little more surly? Oh nope, that's called hacker syndrome.

AOL? AOL? Please, AOL has to be, hands down, the worst ISP in the business, and not cause of privacy filter. Most, if not all services have the same capabilities, and I use Verizon online DSL, which is much better (albeit not perfect).

That's about all I saw, and that's my basic rant.

[Timothy D. Ginn]

For those who haven't caught on yet (some people still seem to be posting rants about it) the article is a satire. My personal favourite example of satire is A Modest Proposal (via Project Gutenberg) by Johnathan Swift.

The mission statement for Adequacy.org is pretty cool (read the whole thing).

Originally Posted by http://www.adequacy.org/special/mission.html

There are a number of people who have opinions that don't quite fit the norm. Because of this, they aren't welcome in many places. This is where they exercise their right to speak, where the dreams of tomorrow take flight today.

This site is aimed at middle class white male professionals - the sort of people who have been sadly sidelined by today's victim culture, and the domination of homosexuals, geeks, amputees, racial minorities and Canadians, who have all risen up with their discrimination laws and 'equality' to sadly control the media agenda.

These people are not welcome here. This is where we make a stand. This is where we fight back.

This site is also squarely aimed at the marginalised of society -- homosexuals, geeks, amputees, racial minorities and Canadians, who remain in a state of oppression, kept down by the dominant white male patriarchy and by insufficiently rigorous 'discrimination' laws and the corporate media.

These people are welcome here. This is where we make a stand. This is where we fight back.

[Gabe]

There is a serious danger that has not been mentioned, and that is SOMEONE WILL TAKE THIS ARTICLE SERIOUSLY.
If you read this entire thread you realize that it took a lot of thinking before someone pointed out that this was a JOKE. If took this many intelligent individuals at ChiefDelphi, then what will happen if a parent goes around the Internet and comes across this article? Imagine what the thoughts going through his or her mind:

"Oh, no! What have I done to Jimmy's young mind?! I must burn his laptop or else its the electric chair!!! What kind of parent am I, to do this to my own son?!!"

Ma'am, you're just insane.

The problem with satire is that sometimes its humor is a little too subtle.

[Matt Royek]

Really......hmm.....


Well, I'm mostly speechless. I did not really notice this was satire until it was pointed out, and I agree, in this particular case, the line was microbe thin. Now that I know that it's satire, I can probably attribute those mistakes to an attempt at a flame war.

One thing I know: I will never visit Adequacy.org site for anything again. I'll stick to my /. and Digg.