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I feel so lonely

Author:

FriendlyHacker

Topic:

Diaries

Posted:

Mar 14, 2002

Comments:

Mine is a solitary life. I write lines of code for the Redhat operating system. And that is all I really do. I don't have many friends since I had to move in order to find someone who would employ me. I haven't had a girlfriend in over four years. I even miss milking the various breeds of animals on my parent's farm. I feel I've found some kindred spirits at Adequacy.

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I hope I'll make some new friends at this new websight! I can't believe I've found a site that speaks to me on so many levels! A sight that welcomes people who are shunned by society, but yet shares my views on religion, entertainment, homosexuals and other sexual deviancy that is threatening the harmony of modern society. May God bless you and keep you safe.

	Hi! (1.00 / 1) (#1)
	by PotatoError on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 06:42:10 AM PST

	surely your taking the piss a bit right? <<JUMP! POGO POGO POGO BOUNCE! POGO POGO POGO>>

	I'll be honest... (none / 0) (#2)
	by budlite on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 07:42:56 AM PST

	I don't think you'll find many kindred spirits here. There's probably a few hiding in the (rotting) woodwork, but be prepared to be flamed from all angles...

	it's time to for all of us... (none / 0) (#3)
	by astrix on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 09:18:44 AM PST

	to hold hands and say "I'm lonely to". God bless! "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" --Thomas Jefferson

	Welcome, I give you teh benefit of a doubt (none / 0) (#4)
	by Adam Rightmann on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 09:58:00 AM PST

	despite your provocative name, having had this webpage go down for weeks on end due to hackers, we don't think much of them. And, of course, RedHat makes a wonderful inexpensive server, I run it myself as an adjunct to our Solaris heavy iron. A. Rightmann

	uhm.. (none / 0) (#5)
	by aMUSiC on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 12:50:25 PM PST

	I suppose you haven't found the joy of smoking ballpoint pens just yet =) Anyhow.. hackers are respectable people who seek after knowledge. Someone who brings a site down, or defaces it is not a hacker, but simply put a person of malicious intent (commonly refered as -by the scene savvy people- script kiddie)

	Who are you talking to? (none / 0) (#17)
	by Slobodan Milosevic on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 04:24:11 PM PST

	The well respected Mr. Rightman, or the (cracker) author of this diary entry?

	Wrong (none / 0) (#6)
	by budlite on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 01:13:37 PM PST

	Crackers. Not hackers. Hackers are people who explore what they can do with their own computers, for fun and very often to benefit others than exploring ways to deny other people the use of their own computers.

	The English language is not C (5.00 / 1) (#7)
	by Adam Rightmann on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 01:30:34 PM PST

	Just because in C you can do litle tricks like this: # define cracker hacker #define hacker knowledge_seeker does not mean you can apply the same rule to the English language. I'm quite aware of Eric Stallman Raymond's Jargon web page which attempts to have separate definitions of hacker and cracker, but in the popular and most correct parlance, a hacker is a computer criminal. A. Rightmann

	From when... (none / 0) (#13)
	by The Mad Scientist on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 03:18:27 PM PST

	...does "popular" equal "the most correct"? Will we next time allow the Mob to determine even things like the value of Pi?

	Well... (none / 0) (#14)
	by budlite on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 03:36:17 PM PST

	It could be better than allowing whatever US state tried to force schools to teach that Pi is exactly 3....

	source please. (none / 0) (#16)
	by nathan on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 04:21:56 PM PST

	Or else I'll be forced to assume this is malicious anti-USian gossip! Nathan -- Li'l Sis: Yo, that's a real grey area. Even by my lax standards.

	Ie, here... (none / 0) (#18)
	by The Mad Scientist on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 04:38:41 PM PST

	here, or here, or here... The bill hadn't became a law, but is still hanging in the air in the Indiana senate, postponed indefinitely. Sometimes the Lawmakers are even more stupid than they appear to be. Never EVER let politicians talk into purely technical matters!

	read closer. (none / 0) (#21)
	by nathan on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 05:47:34 PM PST

	From your first link: * Who was the author of this benighted bill? The bill was written and pushed by Dr. Edwin Goodwin, a physician. He claims -- in the text of the bill itself (lines 27-28) -- to have trisected the angle, duplicated the cube, and squared the circle; and that his solutions had already been accepted by the American Mathematical Monthly (they hadn't.) I'm not sure if doctors qualify as "technical people" or not, but if they do, it looks as though a money-grubbing Technical Person (see third link,) rather than an idiot Lawmaker, caused the ruckus in question. Nathan -- Li'l Sis: Yo, that's a real grey area. Even by my lax standards.

	The Mob??!? (none / 0) (#19)
	by nx01 on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 04:52:39 PM PST

	Dear God no. We would never let the Mob handle anything so important. It's the Mafia's job to decide on the value of Pi. "Every time I look at the X window system, it's so fucking stupid; and part of me feels responsible for the worst parts of it." -- James Gosling

	The mafia suck at Pi (none / 0) (#20)
	by Ben Reid on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 05:15:29 PM PST

	I'd suggest carrotrope's pet goldfish.

	Oh my God!!! (none / 0) (#23)
	by Anonymous Reader on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 08:53:16 PM PST

	Mr. Rightmann is hanging out with hackers!!!! I'll go to a church inmediatly to pray for your soul!!. Please Mr. Rightmann forget about that "C" tool of the devil and embrace VB or FORTRAN the way God intended to. Truly yours, V. S.

	Script kiddies are cool. (none / 0) (#8)
	by The Mad Scientist on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 01:36:14 PM PST

	Because of their threat, I already sold and installed a couple of firewalls. Easy money.

	Say, you're not the guy... (none / 0) (#9)
	by jvance on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 01:40:09 PM PST

	...who put a brick through my windshield, wrapped in an advertisement for a windshield replacement service? -- Adequacy has turned into a cesspool consisting of ... blubbering, superstitious fools arguing with smug, pseudointellectual assholes. -AR

	No, that was me (none / 0) (#10)
	by Ben Reid on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 02:41:54 PM PST

	Did ya read the note properly? Hi sir! I break your windshield to highlight lack of security, no need to thank me. Please upgrade your windshield security to protect against evil brick throwers!. Your pal, Ben

	No need to. (none / 0) (#11)
	by The Mad Scientist on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 02:54:49 PM PST

	Normal statistical incidence of break-ins and other mishaps is enough for yielding me a comfortable side income. Every time a new virus appears, I write off free time and go to the field service. Sometimes for money, sometimes for a cup of tea and a chat about news, sometimes for other perks - a copy of CD, a DivX movie, a xerocopy of an otherwise unobtainable service manual... If I'd attempt to push the thin balance of what commonly happens, I'd get from a busy-but-comfortable life to a mad rat race. No, money are nice thing but I am too lazy to actively pursue them. They come on their own in the amount that is good enough for me.

	You're Wrong (none / 0) (#12)
	by Anonymous Reader on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 03:12:55 PM PST

	A "Hacker" is someone who breaks into other people's computers through their network security. You may find him reading your mail, or stealing your credit card off of an e-commerce site, or trying to crash Yahoo!. A "Cracker", on the other hand, is someone who breaks through software security on his home machine. You may find plenty of proud and noble "crackers" copying DVDs to grainy, low-quality Video CDs, putting their own names in the title screen of popular video games, or staying up all night with a disassembler to remove the registration code scheme from a $20 shareware program. Unlike most amateur entymologists, I'm not making this shit up. People who break into other people's machines over the network DO call themselves HACKERS, no matter what open-source lunatics may say. And stolen video games almost ALWAYS say CRACKED BY on the title screen. So Hacker and Cracker actually MEAN things, and it's time to stop making up stupid stories about what these words DON'T mean.

	Staying up all night... (none / 0) (#15)
	by The Mad Scientist on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 04:20:15 PM PST

	...with a disassembler to remove the registration code scheme from a $20 shareware program is an activity that marks many beginnings of what evolved to successful IT careers. Sometimes crime pays.

	Hmmm... (5.00 / 1) (#22)
	by Anonymous Reader on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 08:48:20 PM PST

	So illegal activities like this (which threaten the developers' ability to feed their children) are encouraged by the "Open-Source community", however breaking the conditions of the GPL should be punishable by death?

	Heh! (none / 0) (#33)
	by The Mad Scientist on Fri Mar 15th, 2002 at 06:35:46 AM PST

	So illegal activities like this (which threaten the developers' ability to feed their children) are encouraged by the "Open-Source community", however breaking the conditions of the GPL should be punishable by death? I don't speak for any community. I never felt belonging much to any. However, I speak for myself. Considering that the most basic computer knowledge I possess was acquired illegally - from unlicenced Borland Pascal (and later C) to xerocopies of otherwise prohibitively expensive manuals and books to cracking programs and an attempt to write a DOS virus (stopped after solving the stealth part (employing trick with timer interrupt and self-modifying code - a way through every existing heuristics engine back then), after which it wasn't interesting anymore - the infectors themselves never got finished) - I am a living proof that it's a cheap and low-risk way to hightech career. I'll bet that over 90% of hightech careers started similar way. Regarding licences, I never cared much; my main worry was always if/how something works (or to make it work as I want and keep it that way), not how legal it is - I never had enough money nor time to ask such questions. The only case I'd be willing to throw the stones is if Microsoft would be the culprit - but I am prejudiced here and have some personal gripes with them, and will have as long as they will continue poisoning the world with incompatible file formats and so make me problems. (They will not do so anyway - if they'd do, a lot of more caring folks would swarm at them. Instead they will just buy and assimilate the whole company together with their rights, or rewrite it from scratch with undocumented extensions. Microsoft Borg.)

	Which is way more important than ever getting laid (none / 0) (#24)
	by elenchos on Thu Mar 14th, 2002 at 10:51:37 PM PST

	I can tell by reading the K5 diaries. I do, I do, I do --Bikini Kill

	Exactly. (none / 0) (#25)
	by tkatchev on Fri Mar 15th, 2002 at 12:23:55 AM PST

	The last thing this world needs is more moronic adolescents beginning sexual lives before graduation. Sex is a tremendous responsibility, not a fun way to pass time. -- Peace and much love...

	You must really knock 'em dead at parties. (none / 0) (#26)
	by elenchos on Fri Mar 15th, 2002 at 12:35:45 AM PST

	(nt) I do, I do, I do --Bikini Kill

	Apparently, (5.00 / 1) (#27)
	by tkatchev on Fri Mar 15th, 2002 at 12:51:33 AM PST

	you are 14 years old. Otherwise, you'd know that for real people "parties" involve more than binge-drinking piss-poor beer and having drunken sex with a first hunk of meat with a hole. -- Peace and much love...

	I'm 16, you bastard. (5.00 / 1) (#28)
	by elenchos on Fri Mar 15th, 2002 at 02:04:52 AM PST

	And anyone who denegrates the joys of recreational sex with ugly phrases like "hunk of meat with a hole" must really hate being a human being. Sorry. I do, I do, I do --Bikini Kill

	But that's exactly... (5.00 / 1) (#29)
	by because it isnt on Fri Mar 15th, 2002 at 02:23:22 AM PST

	what sex without love is. adequacy.org -- because it isn't

	Shh. (5.00 / 1) (#30)
	by tkatchev on Fri Mar 15th, 2002 at 02:35:33 AM PST

	Don't spoil the joys of coming-of-age for elenchos. He probably still thinks it's a wonderful miracle whenever he gets an erection. P.S. Why the preoccupation with impotence in adolescents? I'd think that teenagers would be the social class least affected by such problems. -- Peace and much love...

	Impotence. (none / 0) (#31)
	by hauntedattics on Fri Mar 15th, 2002 at 05:52:27 AM PST

	Why the preoccupation with impotence in adolescents? Perhaps because they've bought into the notion that if they're not horny/having sex/thinking about sex/trying to get sex at any given time, there's something seriously wrong with them. I blame the media, of course.

	Not the media. (none / 0) (#32)
	by tkatchev on Fri Mar 15th, 2002 at 06:06:16 AM PST

	The liberalist hegemony, of course. -- Peace and much love...

	Hegemony... (none / 0) (#34)
	by derek3000 on Fri Mar 15th, 2002 at 07:02:22 AM PST

	is a nice word. But is the liberal hegemony a cultural one or a social one? Or both? My guess would be cultural, since it's more ubiquitous and pervasive. ---------------- "Feel me when I bring it!" --Gay Jamie

	Liberalist, not liberal. (none / 0) (#35)
	by tkatchev on Fri Mar 15th, 2002 at 08:10:21 AM PST

	I don't think that anything would change if the Republicans came into power. To be honest, I don't see much difference between "communalist" liberalism (Bill Klinton) and "individualist" liberalism (Ayn Rand). In aswer to your question, though -- the liberalist hegemony is so powerful because it is all in your head. The liberalists have succeeded in persuading everyone that liberalism doesn't exist[1], even though to anybody with even a modicum of education the difference between e.g. 17th century France and Charlemagne's Empire is obvious, not only in a social and historical sense, but also in a deeply spiritual and ideological sense. [1] This, as we all know, is an old trick of the devil. Just one more little tidbit that proves the connection between liberalism and Satan. (Insert reference to masonic witchcraft here, if you're into that sort of thing.) -- Peace and much love...

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