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That religion also spawned the first Hacker culture. If you can circumvent god and men law with logic - you are a rabbi.
by LifeLiverTransp 9y ago
That religion also spawned the first Hacker culture. If you can circumvent god and men law with logic - you are a rabbi.
- bordercases 9y agoI'm not sure what legalistic hermeneutics has to do with hacker culture.
- LifeLiverTransp 9y agohttps://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30475 https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30475 I sometimes wonder too- but then i meet the language lawyers, talking with the drm-legal team about, undefined behaviour in todays society- and suddenly. Or if you sit with actual lawyers, and all they talk about is how you could get away with a crime, in a theoretical sense of course, if you used that trapdoor and lousy wording, and you realize, that is just exactly what you talked about the other day, with the database team over lunch. You are right though, that the word hacker-culture does not capture it- its a mindset bend on edge cases, always looking for ways to circumvent.
- kolpa 9y agoIt's not circumventing law, it's carefully sculpting it. In general, those hacker loopholes come from (1) over-broad policies made by ancestor rabbis to "build a wall around the Law", and (2) a desire to shrink the walled area, without (3) disrespecting the judgment of ancestors. Do you think the US Supreme Court circumvents the Constitution and laws?