While I don't know you from Adam/Eve, I'll say this:

If a 'newbie' comes on here and asks a questions like "How do I hack hotmail?" or "Where can I download (insert name of trojan/backdoor/etc program here)?" then you can't possibly expect the people that actually know how things work to be A: happy at yet another post by another newbie for another hotmail/etc hack, B: patient with said newbie, or C: willing to be patient enough to try to tell them that this isn't the place to be.

Newbies, as I've run into, don't care to listen about learning more on any particular subject pertaining to computer/technology education. When trying to explain TCP/IP vs. UDP to a n00b once because they *asked* for differences, they interrupted by saying halfway through 'I know all that already, now how can I use this to hack something?'. My response was 'OH really? Well can you tell me ... (list of difference questions)' to which the newbie couldn't answer, got pissed off, yelled and flamed me out, and then "put me on the dreaded ignore list (oooooo)" as I "didn't know what the fsck I was talking about" (the fsck is my own interpretation, they don't know what fsck is .

What does this tell me? It tells me, those new to computers and such are becoming more and more dumber as the years progress. What happened to figuring out how things ran, blowing shite up either accidentally or on purpose for "just because" reasons, or other things like that? Now it's a day and age of "point and click and laugh at the poor slob who's a "systems administrator"". Where do these idiots get off by saying that? As a unix admin, I get TIRED of the countless attempts on my linux box, ranging from brute force password attacks to anonymous ftp overflows to CodeRed checks for installs and cmd.exe execution...
And don't even get me going on the "programmers" coming out of college now...that's a riot right there. (This is a majority I've known...not ragging on those that actually know what they're doing).

Anyways, I digress, but the truth of the matter is, AO is not the place for idiot newbies that download the latest hacks from various sites to come ask questions on how said crack/hack works. Don't expect any sympathy from me or others that have to defend against things like that as all it does is 'awake the sleeping giants'.

Maybe if they tried to educate themselves a bit more, they'd find that hacking/cracking/phreaking isn't quite what they thought...but then again, I could be entirely wrong.