The Top 9 Ways to Annoy a Hacker

9> Use a Mac.

8> Ask him to program that #%@^& universal remote.

7> Don’t follow the rule, “1 before 3, except after (”.

6> Password? “Password”

5> Replace all the “l”s in his code with “1″s.

4> Tell him you opened an enticing email attachment on his computer yesterday.

3> While he’s trying to hack into the Pentagon servers, keep asking him, “C’mon, I’ve seen them do this in the movies. How hard can it be?”

2> “Pardon me, good sir, but it seems that as you were defacing my web site, every time you attempted to type ‘owned’ it appeared as ‘pwned’. Were I you, I should look into purchasing a new keyboard.”

and the Number 1 Way to Annoy a Hacker…

1> Completely spell out every acronym. Laugh out loud.

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Credits:

Selected from 33 submissions from 11 contributors.
This week’s list authors are:

Matt Van Opens, Watertown, WI — 1, 2, 3 (Hat trick!)
Brandon Hunt, Braintree, MA — 3, 5
Larry Hollister, Concord, CA — 4
Peter Casper, Brisbane, Australia — 6
Mark Zinck, Grand Rapids, MI — 7
Douglas Frank, Crosby, TX — 8
Rabbi Crut, McComb, OH — 9
Allen Evans, Cedar Rapids, IA — Topic
Kim Moser, New York, NY — List Moderator