OT: 'conduct unbecoming of a hacker'

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 02/11/2016 06:53 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote:
>
> I know some will disagree with me, but I will say it anyway: IT
> community, especially developers, are known for poor social skills...
> People tend to forget that...

There may be a certain *small* level of truth to that, but most of it is 
nothing more than decades of Hollywood's pejorative stereotyping. And 
people being naive enough to believe what they see in the fiction that 
was produced by people who have spent decades proving themselves to have 
zero comprehension of basic reality, let alone even a basic high-school 
level research ability.

It's the standard old Hollywood complete and total disconnect with 
reality - hell, look how they portray Tourette's a having a relationship 
to swearing (which is just plain bizarre to anyone actually capable of 
spending a mere one minute on a basic web search), or how cracking 
security always involves playing a 3D puzzle game. And then there's the 
oddity that any time a writer or director uses a computer in real life, 
the machine is clearly built to detect it's being used by Hollywood 
personnel, so all login systems automatically switch from the normal 
"Username and Password don't match \ Incorrect login \ Password was 
incorrect" to a flashing red "ACCESS DENIED". Because presumably they 
actually see this flashing red "ACCESS DENIED" when they actually do use 
a computer in real life, because they couldn't really be THAT dumb when 
producing a film, right? At least that's the only explanation I can come 
up with for its appearance in otherwise "realistic" movies, at least 
aside from LSD...which really could explain all the rest of their 
delusions too...hmm...

Hollywood mental flakes spend decades inventing and reinforcing their 
own myopic stereotypes, such as "technical ability == dorks with no 
social skills", most likely because they feel threatened by people with 
at least half a function brain (which most of them clearly lack), and 
then the masses believe it, and it becomes *cough* "fact". That's all 
there is to it.