Re: Badly worded motion
But 'hacker" does have a single meaning in the context of computers and networking, and technology in general. If the terminally lazy and ignorant hacks in the Mass Media had used it properly in the first place, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Besides, we already have a word to use instead of perverting hacker: Cracker.
Shirley using two words, the meanings of which already exist, to describe two different things, is vastly preferred to overloading an already overloaded word to describe two concepts that are in many ways diametrically opposed? Just for clarity, if nothing else.
El Reg should be leading this correct usage, not following the ignorant. It's not as if the editors don't know any better, and are incapable of making the change ... article by article, if needs be.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
