It really bothers me that a number of commenters on a TC article are still misinformed as to what the term "hacker" actually means. Thank you, mainstream media, for all of your misinformation and FUD. Regardless, I will still go about my days explaining to people that I'm a hacker for a living, and that it isn't a bad thing. I'll keep explaining that the term was derived from MIT's model railroad club and if possible, refer them to
http://tmrc.mit.edu/hackers-ref.html or tell them to google it; then maybe someday along with the help of awesome programs like CoderDojo, the general population will be a little less misinformed.