On 04/23/2013 10:42 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
Does anyone care to help me change the negative connotation that the
outside world has of this term, one step at a time? The CBC just used
the term with a negative frame on the Tuesday, 23 April 2013 30-minute
radio news at about the half-way point. Everyone ought to go to this
link and suggest that they should quit abusing the term.
http://www.cbc.ca/w6/contact/
to listen to her abuse of the term, go to the link with "contact"
removed / deleted - before Wednesday, 25 April at UTC 01:00 (PDT 18:00,
in case I did the math wrong).
Of course, the media are infamous for abusing scientific terms, such as
calling the Higgs boson the god particle - a term scientists loathe - so
I out not lose too much sleep over it.
regards,
Richard
I've been interviewed a couple of times by CBC and other media. Each
time I explain what "hackers" means, and it doesn't really go anywhere.
The way I see it, we just need more positive "hacker" and maker stories
than there are bad ones. In the mean time, don't let it get to you. Just
go do good stuff.
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