Manufacturing Consent -
The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky
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Sunday, 1 July 2018
quote [ “I mean, I wanted access to companies to read some source code, I wanted to learn, I wanted to see how far it could go—that was it. It was really just intellectual curiosity. I didn’t want money—if I wanted money, I would’ve taken all the money that was there. But, I mean, I get it—what it turned into, it’s regrettable.” ]
Spiralling hacker story. Similar to the Valve hacking incident.
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cb361 said @ 7:13am GMT on 2nd July
Yep. Even if Value doesn't Greenlight him.
Perhaps it's not the point of article, but it doesn't describe him as actually creating anything original from scratch. It's all tinkering or piggy-backing on what other people have made. And while related, the compulsion to spend sixteen hours a day coding and the compulsion to spend sixteen hours a day combing through LANs for text files with passwords are different compulsions. And probably mutually exclusive.
cb361 said @ 7:14am GMT on 2nd July
Yep. Even if Valve doesn't Greenlight him.
Perhaps it's not the point of article, but it doesn't describe him as actually creating anything original from scratch. It's all tinkering or piggy-backing on what other people have made. And while related, the compulsion to spend sixteen hours a day coding and the compulsion to spend sixteen hours a day combing through LANs for text files with passwords are different compulsions. And probably mutually exclusive.
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cb361 said @ 7:13am GMT on 2nd July [Score:2]
Yep. Even if Valve doesn't Greenlight him.
Perhaps it's not the point of article, but it doesn't describe him as actually creating anything original from scratch. It's all tinkering or piggy-backing on what other people have made. And while related, the compulsion to spend sixteen hours a day coding and the compulsion to spend sixteen hours a day combing through LANs for text files with passwords are different compulsions. And probably mutually exclusive.
