Hacker is a term that has been used to mean a variety of different things in computing.

* What is a Hacker ?, Brian Harvey

* " What is a Hacker?

Hacker ethic is a term for the moral values and philosophy that are standard in the hacker community.

" It is believed he was the intended target of the Yes, Minister joke where Jim Hacker, upon being asked for the political implications of becoming an E. U. commissioner, replies: " you're reduced to forming a new party if you ever want to get back in ".

** Hacker Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI and charged with penetrating some of the United States ' most " secure " computer systems.

Kripke's book generated a large secondary literature, divided between those who find his skeptical problem interesting and perceptive, and others, such as Gordon Baker and Peter Hacker, who argue that his meaning skepticism is a pseudo-problem that stems from a confused, selective reading of Wittgenstein.

In the prologue of the book The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age ( 2001 ) Torvalds introduces his " Linus's Law ", which is that every motivation that makes a man do something can be classified under " survival ", " social life " and " entertainment.

Woolley is sympathetic towards Hacker but as Appleby reminds him, his civil servant superiors will have much to say about the course of his future career, while ministers do not usually stay long in one department.

The episode, where Hacker is kept in the dark by the Foreign Office but can make an informed decision thanks to a conversation with the Israeli ambassador, is partly based on an actual incident narrated to Lynn by his uncle Abba Eban.

Hacker ( it must be argued, reasonably ) thought the Church of England to be a Christian institution, but Sir Humphrey informed him that most of the Anglican bishops do not believe in God and that a theologian's job is partly to explain why an agnostic or atheist can be a Church leader.

In the first scene of the first episode, " Open Government ", Hacker is shown at the declaration of his constituency result wearing a white rosette, with other candidates sporting the red and blue rosettes associated with the two leading British parties.

This is particularly evident in the episode " The Ministerial Broadcast ", in which Hacker is advised on the effects of his clothes and surroundings.

Hacker received his degree from the London School of Economics ( graduating with a Third ), for which he is often derided by the Oxford-educated Sir Humphrey ( who attended the fictitious Baillie College graduating with a First in Classics ).

Throughout Yes Minister Hacker is regularly portrayed as a publicity-mad bungler who is incapable of making a firm decision, prone to make potentially embarrassing blunders, and a frequent target of criticism from the press and stern lectures from the Chief Whip.

While he is theoretically responsible to Hacker personally, it is Sir Humphrey who writes his performance reviews and influences Bernard's Civil Service career.

" Iannucci suggests that Bernard is essential to the structure of the show because both Hacker and Appleby confide in him, " which means we get to find out what they're plotting next.

This often irritates Hacker who, when he asks George where the information came from, is usually told that it is common knowledge among the Whitehall drivers.

His bored genius sidekick Caulfield, girlfriend Jane Plainwell, friend James Burke, boss Mr. Spaetzle, discordant teacher Mrs. Olsen, and athletic adversary Coach Hacker all reside in Rodney, and are ( except for Caulfield, who is a student ,) staff at the fictional " Bryson Elemetary School.

Some virtual communities explicitly refer to the concept of cyberspace, for example Linden Lab calling their customers " Residents " of Second Life, while all such communities can be positioned " in cyberspace " for explanatory and comparative purposes ( as did Sterling in The Hacker Crackdown, followed by many journalists ), integrating the metaphor into a wider cyber-culture.

The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder On the Electronic Frontier.

Hacker and M. R.

" Hacker " can therefore be seen as a shibboleth, identifying those who use the technically-oriented sense ( as opposed to the exclusively intrusion-oriented sense ) as members of the computing community.

These moral conflicts are expressed in The Mentor's " The Hacker Manifesto ", published 1986 in Phrack.

Use of the term hacker meaning computer criminal was also advanced by the title " Stalking the Wily Hacker ", an article by Clifford Stoll in the May 1988 issue of the Communications of the ACM.

A Hacker Emblem proposed by Eric S. Raymond.

* How To Become A Hacker by Eric S. Raymond, open source perspective

* The Hacker Community and Ethics: An interview with Richard M. Stallman, 2002

Steven Mizrach, who identifies himself with CyberAnthropologist studies, compared Levy's " Old Hacker Ethic " with the " New Hacker Ethic " prevalent in the computer security hacking community.

" he makes the controversial claim that the " New Hacker Ethic " has continuously evolved out of the older one, though having undergone a radical shift.

Himanen explained these ideas in a book, The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age, with a prologue contributed by Linus Torvalds and an epilogue by Manuel Castells.

The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age.

* Hacker, Marilyn.

James Harrington, Mr. James Challoner, Mr. John Phelps, Mr. John Carew, Mr. Hugh Peters, Mr. Gregory Clement, Colonel Adrian Scroop, Col. Francis Hacker, Col. Daniel Axtel.

When we consider the disorganized state of the world community, and the legacy of predispositions adversely directed against all who are identified as Jews, it is obvious that the struggle for the minds and muscles of men needs to be prosecuted with increasing vigor and skill.

These are, if the research is done with subtlety and skill, researchable topics, but the research is missing.

Sensibility is a vague word, covering an area of meaning rather than any precise talent, quality, or skill.

Both the extent to which this is true and the limits of the field of perceptual skill involved should be acknowledged.

Its truth is illustrated by the skill, sensitivity, and general expertise of the English professor with whom one attends the theatre.

One of the greatest obstacles to the achievement of this goal is the lack of trained men and women with the skill to teach the young and assist in the operation of development projects -- men and women with the capacity to cope with the demands of swiftly evolving economics, and with the dedication to put that capacity to work in the villages, the mountains, the towns and the factories of dozens of struggling nations.

Though there is obviously nothing new about these techniques, they do challenge the worker's skill to articulate them precisely on the spot and on the basis of quick and accurate diagnostic assessments.

Furthermore, there is a cautious conservatism on the part of those making local skill surveys.

The ninth century was in its artistic work `` the spiritually freest and most self-sufficient between past and future '', and the loving skill spent by its artists upon their products is a testimonial to their sense that what they were doing was important and was appreciated.

The preparation of such products is not new, but the systems heretofore employed in polymerizations have commanded considerable experimental skill and starting materials of a high purity.

However, skill is required on the part of an operator to level a platform to any degree of accuracy.

Since the psychiatric interview, like any other interview, depends on communication, it is significant to note that the therapist in this interview was a man of marked skill and long experience.

Similarly, a girl who graduates with a good working knowledge of stenography and the use of clerical machines and who is able to get a job at once may wish to improve her skill and knowledge by a year or two of further study in a community college or secretarial school.

Of course, it can be argued that an ability to write English correctly and with some degree of elegance is a marketable skill.

Today many college bound students try to take a course in personal typing, as they feel a certain degree of mastery of this skill is almost essential for one who proposes to do academic work in college and a professional school.

In a hotly contested auction, such as for the important attribute of warfare, the most valuable skill is the ability to force one's opponents to back down.

The word art is derived from the Latin " ars ", which, although literally defined means, " skill method " or " technique ", holds a connotation of beauty.

Alfred appears as a character in the twelfth-or thirteenth-century poem The Owl and the Nightingale, where his wisdom and skill with proverbs is praised.

Archery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow, from Latin arcus.

* Isolation Aphasia, also known as Mixed Transcortical Aphasia, is a type of disturbance in language skill that causes the inability to comprehend what is being said to you or the difficulty in creating speech with meaning without affecting the ability to recite what has been said and to acquire newly presented words.

St. Bonaventure ’ s “ Retracing the Arts to Theology ”, a primary example of this method, discusses the skills of the artisan as gifts given by God for the purpose of disclosing God to mankind, which purpose is achieved through four lights: the light of skill in mechanical arts which discloses the world of artifacts ; which light is guided by the light of sense perception which discloses the world of natural forms ; which light, consequently, is guided by the light of philosophy which discloses the world of intellectual truth ; finally, this light is guided by the light of divine wisdom which discloses the world of saving truth.