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Re:Jailbreaking Is Not A Crime by nitrogen on Thursday January 26, 2012 @01:43AM (#3513143)
To some extent, geeks' choice of terminology is a deliberate statement of rebellion against the manipulation of language often seen in politics. In that context, the goal of using names and terms like "jailbreaking," "hacker," "pois0n," etc. is to deflate the knee-jerk emotional reaction people have to the trigger words used by the media.
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Re:Jailbreaking Is Not A Crime by Confusion on Thursday January 26, 2012 @02:28AM (#3513227)
Well, it doesn't work. These 'people' that they are trying to convince still have the same knee-jerk emotional reactions to the words, only now to our disadvantage.

As the parent says: for a bunch of smart guys, we keep doing stupid things. Stubbornly, with the excuse that it 'should work'. It doesn't. It's preaching to the quire.

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Re:Jailbreaking Is Not A Crime by ordinary on Thursday January 26, 2012 @03:02AM (#3513288)
The saying is "preaching to the choir"[0]. :)

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[0] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/choir#Noun

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Re:Jailbreaking Is Not A Crime by Moschops on Thursday January 26, 2012 @07:36AM (#3513830)
The saying is also "preaching to the quire"[0]. :)

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[0]http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quire#Noun_2

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Re:Jailbreaking Is Not A Crime by Confusion on Thursday January 26, 2012 @07:20AM (#3513777)
Ah, thanks. For the longest time I used 'maby' instead of 'maybe' in Usenet posts, before someone pointed out it was wrong.
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