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At Mark Zuckerberg's school I remember a story about him getting in trouble for PHP. The school had a zero tolerance drug policy and PHP was confused with PCP.



> The school had a zero tolerance drug policy and PHP was confused with PCP

This just shows that even a broken clock is right twice a day.


I got banned from our schools computers for installing "hacking tools." I had NetHack in my personal drive.

This is after I got in trouble for "plagiarism," for including a hyperlink in an essay.


I know some one in Northern Ireland who got into trouble using FTP :-)

FTP is common Protestant insult to Catholics.


In reverse, I wonder how well known Irish and British slang is in the USA: “Bumming” can mean to obtain or make use of something that belongs to someone else by begging; “fag” can mean cigarette; “for the craic” (“craic” pronounced “crack”) is “for fun”.

(And thanks to the very early part of my mother’s Alzheimer’s, I also know that an archaic meaning of “glory hole” is a cupboard for miscellaneous items, and the etymology of the sexual reference is that both are where you put your “junk”).


Bumming is pretty common here. We don’t say the other word.


The first time you heard her casual use of glory hole must have been alarming, and later hilarious.

(I’m sorry to hear about your mother, my condolences.)


Absolutely, and thank you.


Mark is actually an old school AOLer and AIMer and used to program CC chat programs and punters.

http://patorjk.com/blog/2013/04/09/was-mark-zuckerberg-an-ao...


A friend nearly got expelled from high school when the VP accused him of hacking grades.

His offense? He had a shortcut to Notepad in his shared folder, which was seen as a scripting tool.




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