Nerd Word of the Day: Kiddiot

adultidiot also!!!! they have then too out there!!!

Finally got logged in, geez! :!:

Did you see those Russian kid hackers on 60 minutes, making $30,000 a day hacking into American bank accounts & then being treated as heroes in their home country?

well well: and to quote wordlover to Alec

Get your head out of your ass, squarehead or I’ll stick my steel-tipped boot in your fucking face!

i say that too, to hac.kers

I like this word. Yet it leaves something out. hummm.

Is a Kiddiot the child of the April Fool on the Hill?

Leaves something out, what? I’ll add it in.

Young or not, smart or not, hackers are a sorry bunch of sneaky, despitable spying bastards. Bottom line! End of story!

You are being much too kind!

Perhaps we can look at the gross etymology of the word. Kid, which we use to mean child + idiot, a severely mentally disabled person. An idiot is a an individual with extreme mental deficiency, generally with mental development retarded at around the “normal” 3-yr-old range.

I know that among this group of linguistic Mozarts, someone can come up with a term that more appropriately says what we want, without demeaning those who are mentally disabled.

Is that not the purpose of HotForWords? Unravel the meanings of words we use, often incorrectly, and improving our ability to say what we actually desire to say? :???:

MARINAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Sorry I overslept! It’s raining like crazy over here! (Rain makes me sleep alot, go figure…)

How about a hackhacker? That is, a second-rate hacker. Cheesy I know. But this is a tough one! :!:

Is that not the purpose of HotForWords? Unravel the meanings of words we use, often incorrectly, and improving our ability to say what we actually desire to say?

I think you’re looking for A Way With Words. Don’t worry, Marina, I’m not sending anybody away from you.

Away {from you}.
A way {with words}.

Sorry, got carried away(!) there… :oops:

Uhhh…. Sorry, I forgot to mention we like to have fun in here, too. That was okay, but our Lady brings the whole chimichanga to the breakfast nook. Am I setting the bar too high? Do I have such lofty expectations that not even Lady Marina can achieve the desired ends? :???:
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Nah! She can do it. :grin:

I take it you’ve had some bad experiences with A.W.W.W., amirite?

Oh no. Nothing like that. I checked it out, and it is okay. It is just audio, so I loose interest quickly, plus their “mini-casts” are several minutes long; the shows are an hour. HFW gives more focus to etymological origins, which I find very interesting. Three to four minutes works best for me. Lady M is simply a much more engaging hostess. She can have an extremely dry sense of humor, that occasionally slips out. She really tries to maintain her professionalism, but she is such a natural smart ass that her true colors invariably shine through. HFW has the educational content, and it is entertaining. All that in a few minutes; she’s hard to better.

Just audio???!!!

Sorry, that’s the composer in me speaking… :roll:

“Have you ever been the victim of a hacker?”

Laughing out loud! (aren’t you glad I didn’t type ‘lol’?)

What me a victim of a cracker? NEVER! For what everyone knows about my dark past, knows that this is true. Look up operation sundevil.

Funnest crack I ever saw was when a cracker took over this girls computer no matter which computer she was on. I was working at Sear at the time and I had her log into her AOL account at the store. Immediately her CD drive door started to open and close as if was being possessed. Found out this script-kiddie had uses a common script that access the open cd door command in windows 95. The script activated the door randomly whether or not the kiddiot script-idiot was there or not.

Notice I did not say hacker. Hackers are not Cracker as Black Hat Crackers are not script-kiddies. See a simple example:

Hacker: I just wrote my 30th module for the Linux kernel! Linus Torvalds emails me every day, he loves my code!

Script Kiddie: j0, ph00! I ju57 stolezored me a b0rkified wind0ze 3.1 b0xor. It r0x0rz my s0x0rz. I wundr if it g0tz Linux on it? Whutz Linux anywayz?

Hackers are really cool people. Script kiddies are morons.

Steve Wozniak was a well known hacker. Why is he not in jail then. Because he is a hacker and not a cracker. There is a difference people. Don’t listen to TV new media! They are the morons that messed up this term!

Grrrr. :wink:

I guess the act of using scripts. Kid and idiot doesn’t define the act of using script to make an attempt to look elite in the underground techo-culture.
I feel like someone substituted ‘What the £Ú¢|<‘ for ‘What the Fudge’ It just doesn’t fit.

I would submit to you script-kidiot. Yeah! That [fits the bill]. It’s puts scripting, kiddie, and idiot all in a nice little package.

Not only to hackers but to the global meanies at Google, etc. for making everything so mammon-infested! :evil:

A razor could cut the tape(splice) and make you say bad things….they did it to Nixon. Hear this…sample the JaMes of rIck :shock: smoke’m, if ya got’em…proper sKills :lol:

Many hackers — or “crackers,” as they now like to be called — route their calls through one long-distance service after another trying to make them more difficult to trace, criss-crossing MCI, Sprint and other services in one bewildering maze.

—William D. Marbach et al., “The Phoniest Phone Bills,” Newsweek, March 26, 1984

If this word, “Hypocrite” was not wrote; I would not had understood the singing.***(Bubble Gang) Spoiled Brat 1 :smile:

Yes

Again, I WANT MY OWN COLORED BOX!!!!!!!!!!! :mad:

americans without wanting work…wierd ways with words, alWays****an aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanswer :lol:

You’re weird if you spell “weird” like “wierd”! :razz:

I think you should get one. Send her a message with what color you want.

Via twitter?

What’s not often mentioned is when these kiddiots go into these sites for h.script most are unaware that a half minute stay could leave their hard drives open for being turned into jello pudding goo.

I have been a victim of computer viruses (three times?) but have managed to clean up my PC using resources from the internet within 2 to 6 hours of knowing that the system was infected.

kiddyidiots…hear kitty,kitty :???: :?: y

:cry: boxed chocolates…dark stuff from Milwaukee… :roll: spelled :wink: colored :cry:

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.” – Carl Sagan

Thank you :smile:

[ :???: STRAnge]

Get your head out of your ass, squarehead or I’ll stick my steel-tipped boot in your fucking face!

that scares me HotForWords, mostly, because it seems that you reward that speak

..WOW :twisted:

look at me I’m writing and you all are reading….Marina…[REDNECK]

The victim of a real hacker you mean?
I tried to attack myself, to test some things.
But I failed, because of my own security setup.
A real hacker (I mean one that knows how to bypass normal to complex security systems) will always get into YOUR computer.
So have no doubt about that, and don’t stress about it.

Have anything truly important? Do it like in the movies.
Put it on a DVD! Portable media aren’t hackable, if their not connected in any way to the net.
Most kiddiots are harmless really. I don’t think they can do more than to annoy you at some point.
Though I wouldn’t go and call a guy with a professional hacking software a kid or an idiot. I wouldn’t want to piss the kiddiot off! :-)

Oh yeah, I got notice of that warning last week from Windows and they just told me to make sure I had my automatic updates on prior.

If you’re hosting a show, to see who is smarter than a bunch of kids… youuuuuu might be a redneck! :mrgreen:

The clean boots of [Rednecks]…silly reds :grin: Now Read Out Loud G i p funny(spell pig backwords..and say FUNNY} a little fake latin for pigs

Have you gone over the term [cracker] (as it relates to ‘hacker’)? I think I kinda did, but the work needs your guiding wisdom to annotize it!

Thank You :grin:

First of all, lol at the toaster pseudo-code (looks a bit like VB…quite appropriate really…)

Now, I’m writing this on a Linux box.
No antivirus installed.
No antimalware programs installed.
Built in firewall enabled (FWIW).

OK, so hardly anybody writes viruses for Linux, but that’s not only because it’s market share is only a few percent. It’s also because it’s a lot harder to crack than Windoze, having been designed from the start to only allow administrative-level users writable access to programs and system data. Microsoft finally realised this was a good idea with the release of Vista, but trying to shoehorn UAC onto the existing system, whereby many applications expect to be able to update files in the Program Files or Windows folder hierarchy, and/or write willy-nilly to the system registry, was a rather stupendous oversight.

Additionally, although Microsoft are fairly efficient at patching security holes as they arise, I get the impression from media reports that many of the high profile malware infestations exploit a security hole that was patched some months previously. Which indicates that many people don’t have automatic updates turned on. Individuals may disable AU either because they hate the inevitable prompt to reboot (IIRC the prompt can be disabled via a registry hack) or because they’re running a black market version of Windows.

Many corporate users don’t have AU running because their sysadmins have disabled it (presumably to cut back on network usage).

If Microsoft thought a bit more about how users (both expert and novice) experienced Windows, they might be able to code solutions. In the individual case, an easily accessible dialog box to control AU reboots and reboot reminders. In the corporate case, a server:client tool to download a single copy of the updates onto the server, then propagate it to the clients.

Meanwhile, back on my Linux box, updates trickle through to both system components and the majority of applications I have installed – and nothing short of an OS upgrade will demand I reboot or even log out. (Mandriva 2008.1 –> 2009.0 upgrade came over the inbuilt updater, and once set in motion required no further user action apart from a single reboot at the end.)
Obviously, Linux isn’t suitable for everyone, as on most versions you will occasionally need to open a terminal window (equivalent of a DOS prompt) to do some configuring or to compile software from source; but on the whole it’s stable, fast, and with Wine installed will even run most Windoze applications (apart from .NET – the MONO project hasn’t caught up yet), including full screen Direct X games. There may be no official telephone / email support channels, but there are plenty of forums if you’re prepared to wait a day or two for the answer.

yea ive been hacked, that was effed up