Hi, --- On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Karthikeyan A K <[email protected]> wrote: | No one has a official authority to define hacking. \--
Truth is always bitter? You can continue to reply for the sake of replying, without reading the documentation, or giving any reference. But, I am afraid, it doesn't add anything to your credibility. Another experience of the actual hacker culture was given by Guy L. Steele, Jr., in a Foreword he had written [1]: "I also enjoyed, in that summer of 1972, reading a brand-new MIT research memo called HAKMEM, a bizarre and eclectic potpourri of technical trivia. Why “HAKMEM”? Short for “hacks memo”; one 36-bit PDP-10 word could hold six 6-bit characters, so a lot of the names PDP-10 hackers worked with were limited to six characters. We were used to glancing at a six-character abbreviated name and instantly decoding the contractions. So naming the memo “HAKMEM” made sense at the time—at least to the hackers." You can either read history and learn from it, or you can accept facts and reality. The choice is yours. We have nothing to lose. With due respect to the patience of the list members, I'll stop here. Period. SK [1] Foreword. http://www.hackersdelight.org/foreword.pdf -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
