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Look. Establish your credentials or STFU. There are lots of us here who are pros at this stuff. Your definitions are incomplete and ludicrous. Hackers want to beware of coming anywhere near my work.

Who died and made you boss? In case you’re a newbie or just happened to have been raised by wolves, you don’t get to tell people to STFU here. You STFU, you phony! What are you, some thread nanny type who lost her way from lucianne.com?

And just because I showed you up on another thread, doesn’t give you the right to throw a temper tantrum here.

Now that we’ve got your etiquette lesson out of the way, I notice that you already used “hacker” the same way I did (“Hackers want to beware…”), so you’ll have to tell yourself to STFU. And then you’ll have to tell Texaggie79 the same thing.

Bellowing about your “abilities,” and trying to intimidate people into silence may impress some people. You’ve been made.

Oh, and while you’re at it, you need to write the people at dictionary.com, and tell them to STFU, too.

“Hacker” at dictionary.com.

hack·er¹

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n. Informal

One who is proficient at using or programming a computer; a computer buff.
One who uses programming skills to gain illegal access to a computer network or file.
One who enthusiastically pursues a game or sport: a weekend tennis hacker.

[Perhaps from hacker, amateurish or inept golfer or tennis player (possibly from hack¹), or perhaps from hack, practical joke, clever scheme (from dialectal hack, to embarrass, confuse, play a trick on).]

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hacker

n 1: someone who plays golf poorly 2: a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism [syn: cyber-terrorist, cyberpunk] 3: a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm; "true hackers subscribe to a code of ethics and look down upon crackers" 4: one who works hard at boring tasks [syn: hack, drudge]