The real squalor in Service work is drudgery such as ”the quarterlies,” traipsing out four times a year, year in, year out, to interview the various pathetic wretches, many of them in prisons and asylums, who have seen fit to threaten the President’s life.

traipse (v) : walk or tramp about [syn: shlep] – source: The Hacker Crackdown, Part Three

As we have seen, it was common practice in the digital underground to post purloined telephone codes on boards, for any phreak or hacker who cared to abuse them.

purloined (adj) : taken dishonestly [syn: stolen] – source: The Hacker Crackdown, Part Three

Goldstein is probably the best-known public representative of the hacker underground today, and certainly the best-hated. Police regard him as a Fagin, a corrupter of youth, and speak of him with untempered loathing. He is quite an accomplished gadfly.

gadfly (n) 1: a persistently annoying person [syn: pest, blighter, cuss, pesterer] 2: any of various large flies that annoy livestock – source: The Hacker Crackdown, Part Two

For their part, police publicly conflate all hacking crimes with robbing payphones with crowbars.

conflate (v) : mix together different elements [syn: blend, flux, mix, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge] – source: The Hacker Crackdown, Part Two

There are hackers today who fiercely and publicly resist any besmirching of the noble title of hacker.

besmirch (v) 1: charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone [syn: defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully] 2: smear so as to make dirty or stained [syn: smirch] – source: The Hacker Crackdown, Part Two

Hackers vary in their degree of hatred for authority and the violence of their rhetoric. But, at a bottom line, they are scofflaws.

scofflaw (n) : one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses – source: The Hacker Crackdown, Part Two

It came from the underground, from the outside, from the young and energetic and disenfranchised.

disenfranchised adj : deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote [syn: disfranchised, voteless] – source: Cyberpunk in the Nineties

The leather-clad figure behind the wheels of steel was DJ Double R, aka Rick Rubin, the hirsute co-founder of Def Jam, who later gave the world Slayer.

hirsute (adj) : having or covered with hair [syn: hairy] – source: Seven Years of Plenty, p. 155

By removing their primary (white) sources one step further from their original (black) inspirations, Blur seemed to be bleaching out pop history like a pair of old jeans; a cultural gesture which seemed rather inappropriate to the contemporary east-London reality of querulous ethnic co-existence.

querulous (adj) : 1. given to quarreling; quarrelsome. [Obs.] –land. 2. apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to murmur; as, a querulous man or people. 3. expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous tone of voice. – source: Seven Years of Plenty, p. 58

And nevertheless, from this point of view, I eliminate and annul, with maximum intransigence, any thing that I do not like from the shot.

intransigence (n) : the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise – source: Tarkovsky interviewed in 1979