Surely a Cunting Gaylord is a contradiction in terms?
Oh, and as Cnut said "Eww, My feet are getting wet!"
An innocuous El Reg story about Russian web miscreants provoked an entirely unexpected reaction when an offended cyberpunk took it upon himself to tell us how the headline hurt his feelings. The sensitive individual - who used the cock.li mail service - took objection to a piece entitled Oh deer.io: Cyberpunks using one-stop …
King Cnut's grandfather was one King Harald Bluetooth, after whom the short range wireless protocol is named. The Bluetooth logo is made up of the runes of his initials.
There's your IT angle right there.
They're pretty useless at swearing in French too. All I ever hear at work is oh putaiiiiiiiiiiin!!!, or for the polite ones oh la vache! (which usually has me giggling). It just isn't quite the same degree of finesse as, say, this: http://youtu.be/pDWzGm1W0WY
Cyberpunk is a "genre" so not sure if El Reggies should be using it to describe an individual or individuals. Now a cyber-punk would be an apt description of the thieving geek scum in question. If you take offence to my use of the term geek,....well you can Fdisk /mbr off and connect to 127.0.0.1!
Falling standards, yes, it's been creeping in, has anybody been keeping tabs when it'll reach idiocracy levels or are we there already, 'and I've just been too wrapped up in myself to notice?' as Arthur Dent once put it.
As to 'cyberpunk', does seem light on the cyber, or was he just too 'punk' to bother about the capslock issue? Certainly not 'cyber' enough to take note of his spellchecker.
What, you missed the reference to bulk boxes? Over here in the colonies they're commonly called gaylords. Makes the rest of the statement more uncomfortable...
I have a sneaking sympathy for our foul mouthed flamer.
Cyberpunk is a literary genre and should not be confused with cyber crooks. Although, come to think of it, the stories do feature a lot of (often unsuccessful) cyber crooks.
O.K. carry on as you were.
Mine's the one with the copy of Pattern Recognition in the pocket ->
With one or two exceptions, ALL of William Gibson's books and stories were about cyber crime and the term is directly associated with his works though it seems he did not coin the term.
A quick search shows:
"Bruce Bethke was actually the first one to put the word in ink with his 1980 short story titled, fittingly enough, “Cyberpunk”. The story was first printed in the November 1983 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories"
It also shows:
"Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a future setting that tends to focus on the society ... Primary exponents of the cyberpunk field include William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Bruce Bethke, Pat Cadigan, Rudy Rucker, ..."
Most of them also wrote about cyber crime and social dysfunction and dystopia.
So little pissy britches can just STFU and learn how to use the Internet that they are so keen to be experts of. Then they can just fuck right off. Preferable up their own asshole. They might find the Pokeman monsters there as well.
The Internet is not so old that these concepts have the haze of romanticism around them yet. We are living with the problems right now and it has serious consequences.
"The Internet is not so old that these concepts have the haze of romanticism around them yet."
Are you sure about that? I have two words for you: ka9q and dialup. The Internet was a nicer place back then because the technical barrier in getting the damn thing working (no Google to look for help on, no Google period) precluded, well, pretty much everybody.
Then along came AOL and there went the neighbourhood, as they say.
Agree with all the rest though.
Of course, the distinction between the punks and the "legitimate" authorities was blurred in most of those dystopian cyberpunk tomes as the authorities themselves were as bad if not worse than the cyber criminals depicted, so much so that you found yourself on the side of the lesser of two evils.
For another good example of the genre, try Chris Moriarty's Spin books. Even the protagonist loses her moral compass at the end.
Hackers/cyberpunks have come to realize how irrelevant they are in the real world. Instead of just letting go, they are now looking for enemies everywhere. Just look at the rat's nest the once reputable german hacker club ccc has become as of late, slinging propaganda about their former allies to cement their own believe in their self-rightous holiness. Supporting psychopaths (hi jake) that crush all opposition in a way that makes Hitler look like a kitten.
Just go and die, self-claimed saviours but hopelessly ineffective hacker losers. The world really doesn't need your whining and infighting.