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Stig-Lennart S�rensen <sti...@stud.isv.uit.no> wrote:
>You tired of seeing hackers being criminalized by the state? This is your
>chance to tell your story to the world about hackers, the true story
>unaltered by media or goverment.

I'm tired of patents.  Write about the evilness of patents, and how someone
(IBM) managed to patent the use of xors to draw mouse pointers.  Write about
something important.

Or you could also write on how media over and over misuses the word hacker.
 
   :hacker: n.  [originally, someone who makes furniture with an
   axe] 1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable
   systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most
   users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary.  2. One who
   programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys
   programming rather than just theorizing about programming.  3. A
   person capable of appreciating {hack value}.  4. A person who is
   good at programming quickly.  5. An expert at a particular program,
   or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in a `Unix
   hacker'.  (Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who
   fit them congregate.)  6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind.  One
   might be an astronomy hacker, for example.  7. One who enjoys the
   intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing
   limitations.  8. [deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to
   discover sensitive information by poking around.  Hence `password
   hacker', `network hacker'.  The correct term for this sense is
   {cracker}.
   
And of course

   :cracker: n.  One who breaks security on a system.  Coined    ca.
   1985 by hackers in defense against journalistic misuse of    {hacker}
   (q.v., sense 8).  An earlier attempt to establish    `worm' in this
   
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