On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 17:40:05 Philip S Tellis wrote:

well, unfortunately, it's been wrongly used for so long, that it has now become mainstream, and is in the dictionary as well.

How about a world-wide awareness tour for this? Better still, let's make a movie out of it. Then the dictionaries might even say something like "... a sandal-wearing geek who eats software bugs for breakfast... ". And if we're able to show how a hacker saves the US of A from a dark evil cracker (a Cyborg will be cool), we might be able to do what Lagaan couldn't!

Who's funding? Aamir, are you game?

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