On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 04:35:16PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
> David Pastern wrote:
>
> > Is your son obsessed with "Lunix"?
> >
> > BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker
> > operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos
> > Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. [...]
>
> That was a lovely bit of satire, wasn't it. It was originally published
> on the currently-defunct site Adequacy.org a year or so back. The
> article was entitled something like "Is Your Son a Hacker?" and was a
> parody of all the old "Is Your Child a Drug User?" scare-pamphlets of
> years past, in which various common symptoms of adolescence were
> described as "danger signs".
IMO the funniest part of that was the wild replies from people who
didn't get it.
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Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
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