"osx isn't a language, it's an operating system." Of course it isn't, I didn't mean for anyone to refer to OSX as a language. The software "written" for OSX is in an old language and easier to "hack" than it was 2 years ago. I figured you would know what I was saying when I wrote it.
My apologies. > > > Late-R wrote: > --------- > > I should probably rephrase and expound on my thoughts from the previous email: > > The definitions of "Hacker" and "Cracker" have taken a turn in the past 15 > > years or so with the onslaught of the true computer age. Now with the influx > > of Pirated software and every kid on the block having a computer on their > > desk, more and more people are gaining knowledge that was only privy to those > > few who were lucky and geeky enough to be around back when you were a star for > > serializing Quark and passing it around. > > you are correct, sadly languages tend to degenerate, particularly technical > language when adopted by the press and law enforcement. however, that's no > excuse for not trying to know better. aint may be in the dictionary, but it > aint a word i chose to use. i like to seperate, somewhat, legit hacking and > illegit cracking, as i am proud to have done the former, and hope to do more of > the former, but have little or no interest in using admittedly largely the same > >knowledge for illicit activities. i have no interest in breaking into banks, > via computer or otherwise. i do have allot of interest in modifying hardware > and software, as well as non-computer systems in ways which are personally > interesting and hopefully make them more useful to myself and others. i am a > hacker, i dislike being branded an outlaw by in ignorant press, and hence > society, which doesn't bother to learn the vocabulary before trying to use it. > then again, i'm delighted to know the origins of "foobar", and hence the popular > variables of "foo" and "bar". foobar tried to do the same thing programing as > the press does when they talk about technology, and was appropriately punished > for it, by a hacker! (the story goes that foobar would constantly get "illegal > instruction" errors, because he just made up nmenonics he thought the computer > should understand, and didn't bother to try and learn. apparently some clever > hacker rigged the computer room to flash all the room lights and display "foobar > >you goofed" on the monitor the next time it happened, which of course it did. > all this apparently at mit, on a truly stoneage machine, though it was solid > state so it wasn't that old. > > > > > Especially now, when OSX software is based on basically an old language, and > > DOS has been unchanged since the beginning of time, developers are finding > > more and more ways to catch the illegal pirated stuff (thanks to direct > > connections to the internet and information packets sent to the host), and > > more and more people have nothing better to do than to sit and figure out a > > way around it. > > osx isn't a language, it's an operating system. now it is loosely based on > english, which is an old language, and it is based on unix, which is a very old > but likely the first well thought out operating system, which is why it's been > reinvented constantly for over 20 years (and of course it encompasses a set of > commands which are a language, but that's the osx command set (or os x command > >language if you prefer)). that's the type of track record that is truly > encouraging. in fact, probably the only still popular software that old, is > software that runs under *nix! things like the classic "vi", or video editor, > back when a screen oriented editor was still a novelty and many were using truly > painful command line editors (which i've done, it's terrible!). > > i would say some vendors are trying to catch software pirates in new ways, and > as usual, are mostly aggravating the legitimate user, as has always been the > case with copy protection, going back at least to the apple II where copy > protected software didn't like to install off of other makers drives. > doubtless, they've caught a few home users of pirated stuff, well, in classic > terms, BFD, the real software piracy is done by international conglomerates, no > one ever gets caught, the pirates make obscene amounts of money, the software > vendors loose out, and international treaties are changed very little to stop > it. >it's well known that china is the major source for counterfeit microsoft > stuff, stuff sold to stores and consumers as legit (and even the stores often > don't know!). it works just like legit, unless you actually try to register it, > then you are out the software, the store may be harassed, but probably didn't > know, and even if they did it's probably not provable, and the pirate laughs all > the way to the bank! just like the secret service can't stop counterfeit money, > no one can stop counterfeit software, but they keep harassing the small time > thief since they can't stop what counts. frankly, it's more than a little > perverse, our "great" leaders certainly could greatly reduce intentional trade > in counterfeit software if they squeezed china and the like, but those countries > are far too valuable to other businesses to mess with, so we let them get away > with a little theft, and they let us benefit from slave labor, and everyone is > >happy (except the slaves of course, but that never seems to matter > historically). all this as we try to send the high schooler to jail for using a > pirated copy of word to write a term paper, it makes allot of sense, to some. > > > Basically, I think you would upset more than a few of the elite if you > > referred to them as a Cracker instead of a Hacker. And you would probably > > make the day of a few of the Crackers if you called them a Hacker. > > > > Again, just my 2�. =] > > well of course, just like enron execs don't want to be called thieves, they'd at > least like to be called embezzlers and "guilty of fraud", few want to be called > a criminal when they are, of course there are always those who know exactly what > they are and revel in it, good or bad, they at least have some honesty! > > ----------- > > -- > The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary > government, one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in > >America, but which historically has proved to be always possible." --Senator > Hubert H. Humphrey. 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