[rescue] Script Kiddies (Was: FW: Sun Microsystems...)

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mcguire at neurotica.com writes:

>  It seems common that someone who knows a little Perl and can reinstall
>Windows all by him/herself is considered to be a "computer expert"
>these days.

>  Worse yet, these people are considered by many to "know how
>computers work"...which precious few of them actually do.

>  It is a sad state of affairs.

I've given up arguing a few things that used to annoy me: people
refering to a PC-based server as "the mainframe", modern usage
of the term "hacker", etc. Most things like that I just shrug and 
ignore these days.

However - I still go ballistic on people that refer to run-of-the-mill
programming as "software engineering". The term "engineering" means
a *lot*, and 99% of the work out there does *not* qualify.


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