how can people think this is real when one of the links on the sidebar is 'writing satire for a technical audience'?
and a poll like:
I'm scared of hackers because...
They hack into NASA
5%
They steal things
4%
They are violent sociopaths
4%
They use amphetamines and speed
7%
They help Osama Bin Laden
14%
They're un-American
5%
They smell bad
cmon people... common sense...
matt
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If your child is becoming a hacker, one of his first steps will be to request a change to a more hacker friendly provider.
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and if you read the comments under: 'writing satire for a technical' audience, you'll find this:
This article was what I put up after, on mIRC, the whole channel I frequent was up in arms absolutely agast at the "Is your son a computer hacker?" article. They were amazed at its stupidity (the hacker article, not this) and didn't even consider it might be a joke until someone pasted someone's comment which was basically, "Uhh. This is clearly a good joke, people" into the channel. Then I had poked my head in and noted how it's under the heading of "internet idocity" and then pasted the link to this article. I felt it was rather well placed.
I think the reason it's hard to tell these are jokes are because the internet is so vast. There's so many people who actually <b>mean</b> this stuff! It's hard to tell what is a joke and what is not, and most "geeks" as they're regarded in this have really heard it all.
By far the funniest thing about this, however, isn't the fact that this is a joke but rather that it's a joke about people not getting the joke... and then people treat it like it is not a joke. ^^; I will agree with one man who posted on here, not nearly as funny as the article that scored over 4000 comments, "Is your son a computer hacker?" but still has a point. Bah, geeks get so uptight. *Goes off to play D&D and insists that she's cooler than anime fans that call anime japanamation like the geek heirarchy says*
