06-15-2009, 11:11 AM
I'm not laughing at it like that. I'm laughing because of the fact that its a misnomer. Hardware firewalls are good things. Sorry for not being clear on that point 
My making that point now stems more from the fact that I recently went over this with a customer, and had a discussion about it with Syber too.
Like so many things in the computing industry these days, terms have been dumbed down and misused to placate the masses.
Like the term "hacker". Which in proper usage has nothing to do with what the media uses it to refer to. No, people who break into others' systems are not hackers, they are crackers. A hacker is just a coder in proper usage. It stems from the MIT teams using a DEC PDP-1 "hacking" their code together from random bits and pieces added by each person. And thats just the worst example of the butchering of computer terminology propagated by our stupid media. Yee Fucking Haw. "Assholes in the News" should be focused on the piles of shit doing the "reporting".
My making that point now stems more from the fact that I recently went over this with a customer, and had a discussion about it with Syber too.
Like so many things in the computing industry these days, terms have been dumbed down and misused to placate the masses.
Like the term "hacker". Which in proper usage has nothing to do with what the media uses it to refer to. No, people who break into others' systems are not hackers, they are crackers. A hacker is just a coder in proper usage. It stems from the MIT teams using a DEC PDP-1 "hacking" their code together from random bits and pieces added by each person. And thats just the worst example of the butchering of computer terminology propagated by our stupid media. Yee Fucking Haw. "Assholes in the News" should be focused on the piles of shit doing the "reporting".