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53fee52 Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again. humour idiots computers hacker-folklore it Charles Stross
8a94e90 I'm proud of it. Apart from marking the first occasion when I used my talent on behalf of other people without being asked and without caring whether I was rewarded--which was a major breakthrough in itself--the job was a pure masterpiece. Working on it, I realized in my guts how an artist or an author can get high on the creative act. The poker who wrote Precipice's original tapeworm was pretty good, but you could theoretically have killed it without shutting down the net--that is, at the cost of losing thirty or forty billion bits of data. Which I gather they were just about prepared to do when I showed up. But mine...Ho, no! That, I cross my heart, cannot be killed without DISMANTLING the net. computers first-hacktivist hacker-folklore hackers hacking hacktivism John Brunner