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Originally Posted by Monkeyboy_McGee
Oh please, lance, you'd better not be trying to use that to stick up for them.
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listen, doofus, I'm not sticking up for anyone but common sense
shadowless noted that the word has other valid meanings
mister emily decided to post without thinking
i noted the problem with his awesome plan of attack
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http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=hacker
Upon reading the whole page, i did indeed see various other definitions of "hacker". However, most of them were non-computer related, such as the thing about someone who's bad at golf. There were one or two ones that were like "someone who is 'buff' at computing" or something, listing a hacker to be somebody who is enthusiastic about computing and tries to learn more than the average computor - although this in itself connotes sinister activities, depending on how you look at it.
And then there's the very word itself. "Hack". It's almost onomatopoeic, and when you say "Hack" you're bound to think first of a rough swing of an axe or other blade at, say, a tree trunk, or a human. "He hacked away at the trunk" or "She hacked at his chest, screaming". The very word used to describe these people suggests a pernicious character, and you know full well, lance, that when these guys are saying "i hate those bastard hackers" they do mean the ones that are evil or vindictive. Why on earth would they be saying they hate people who are bad at golf in a thread about computer hacker/crackers? 
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how about understanding that a hacker can simply mean one who improves upon code and reading my post instead of telling me not to stick up for some group of people who I was unaware I was sticking up for
better yet how about just reading the thread