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[Brian Kelsay]

As always, Gerald puts it succinctly.  "I like the way you talk." (Slingblade)
But I find it hard to not agree with Brian and for once with Jonathan Hutchins.  I didn't see that one coming.  I guess on natural language processing he and I find some common ground.  Now if we could just get him to read some manuals.  :-)  j/k

Gerald, don't forget the band/singer "Uncle Cracker," my 7 yr. old son's current favorite.  I'm gonna raise that boy up right.

See you guys at Johnny Dare's in Westport around noon if you have the guts.

Brian Kelsay

>>> Gerald Combs <> 03/16/05 10:37PM >>>
Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> The term "hacker" includes the concept of "cracker", unless the latter is 
> being used to distinguish a subset of the former.  "Hacker" and it's meaning 
> pre-date computers.

The term "cracker" is next to useless.  I'd venture to guess that for
most people the definition of "cracker" is a way, far-off distant fifth
behind:

  The flat bread-food
  A Caucasian
  Something that separates chemical compounds, and
  The alterno-college-rock band

Most people simply don't associate it with computing.